Film & Media Studies (June 2014)

Gazelle Academic Film & Media Studies New Titles - June 2014 Aalborg University Press Georg Olms Verlag AG ibidem-Verlag Museum Tusculanum Press Nordic Academic Press Nova Science Schiffer Sussex Academic Press University of Alberta Press University of Regina Press Wilfrid Laurier University Press LISTED TITLES AVAILABLE TO ORDER FROM ALL GOOD BOOKSELLERS & UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SUPPLIERS CONTENTS AALBORG UNIVERSITY PRESS 1 GEORG OLMS VERLAG AG 2 IBIDEM-VERLAG 2 MUSEUM TUSCULANUM PRESS 4 NORDIC ACADEMIC PRESS 6 NOVA SCIENCE 6 SCHIFFER 9 SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS 10 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESS 10 UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS 11 WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS 11 AALBORG UNIVERSITY PRESS TERMINUS The End in Literature, Media & Culture Edited by Brian Russell Graham, Robert W Rix In Roman religion, Terminus was an agrarian god who protected boundary markers. Stones were often used to provide an effective means for marking these boundaries, although a stump or a tree sometimes served to demarcate adjacent properties. The need to demarcate boundaries and define ends continues to shape our way of thinking at the most fundamental level. The articles in this book investigate among other things developments in literature, film, historiography and new digital entertainment to see how they reflect cultural anxieties about 'the end' and/or how they are determined by the need to mark boundaries. The contributions in the present volume are organised so that they reflect thematic, national and chronological perspectives. But they also show that it is possible to identify several threads of continuity in the way that 'the end' has been conceptualised. A collection of essays on terminus is to make a beginning. By examining ideas of culmination, conclusion, closure, finale and termination from the perspective of a number of various genres, cultural formations and historical contexts, the purpose is to discuss how endings are carriers of meaning in social and cultural contexts. PB 9788771121193 £29.00 December 2013 Aalborg University Press 216 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 1 GEORG OLMS VERLAG AG THE SOUNDTRACK OF CONFLICT The Role of Music in Radio Broadcasting in Wartime & in Conflict Situations M. J. Grant Since the early twentieth century, radio has been one of the most important media both generally and in the specific context of armed conflict. Relatively cheap and with the ability to transmit over long ranges - and over international borders - radio has become central to the wartime strategies of governments and guerrilla groups alike. The role of music on radio in wartime and in conflict situations has, however, only rarely been the focus of scholarly attention, despite the central role that music plays in this medium. The essays in this volume offer case studies spanning over eighty years and five continents. They explore the many important roles that music broadcast on radio can play in wartime and in conflict situations - as a means of information (and misinformation), as a communication medium by those separated by and yet connected through the fighting, and as an aid to managing the complex emotions that are experienced. Moreover, the essays demonstrate that music is not just a soundtrack to conflict, but can also influence the very course that a conflict takes. In the range of examples discussed and the theoretical issues raised, the volume presents a significant contribution to the musicological study of war and conflict. PB 9783487150598 £36.99 November 2013 Georg Olms Verlag AG 254 pages IBIDEM-VERLAG Now Available in the UK FILMING THE UNFILMABLE Casper Wrede`s 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' Ben Hellman & Andrei Rogachevskii Series edited by Andreas Umland In this amply illustrated book, Hellman and Rogachevskii tell the fascinating story behind the screen adaptation of one of the most impactful novels of all times. Despite its huge global success, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn refused all offers to have his One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich turned into a movie for many years for artistic reasons. It took the full resolve and commitment of the Finnish director Caspar Wrede to bring this challenging project to fruition, eight years after the novel had been published. This second, expanded edition of Filming the `Unfilmable` offers an all-encompassing account of the movie`s production, reception and impact. Filled with little-known facts, it also gives unique and valuable insights into Solzhenitsyn`s complex relationship with the art of filmmaking. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 94 REVIEWS: "Hellman and Rogachevskii's book can be a valuable resource for scholars who study either Wrede's films or Solzhenitsyn's literary text. It is a well-researched case study of a film adaptation based on a controversial literary text." Slavic and East European Journal, 56.2 (Summer 2012) PB 9783838200446 £29.90 February 2014 ibidem-Verlag 260 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 2 Now Available in the UK POPULAR IS NOT ENOUGH: THE POLITICAL VOICE OF JOAN BAEZ A Case Study In The Biographical Method Markus Jäger In his study, Markus Jäger explores the coalescence of Joan Baez's work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavors as a political activist throughout the last fifty years. He illustrates an American popular singer's significance as a political activist - for her audiences and for her opponents as well as for those victims of politically organized violence who have profited from her work. Mingling popular culture with political activism can turn into a helpful means when it comes to a non-violent progress of society. Joan Baez's work offers an excellent example for this hypothesis. REVIEWS: "If we are to deepen our understanding of art and resistance, we need to address hard questions about protest music and popular culture and the importance of community in organizing against war." American Studies PB 9783838201061 £29.90 April 2010 ibidem-Verlag 230 pages Now Available in the UK ROCKING ST. PETERSBURG Transcultural Flows and Identity Politics in Post-Soviet Popular Music David-Emil Wickström In this remarkable book, David-Emil Wickström traces the transcultural flow of popular music production emanating from St. Petersburg, a central hub of the Russian music scene. With a specific focus on the post-Soviet emigrant community in Germany and their event `Russendisko`, Wickström - himself a trumpet player in two local bands - explores St. Petersburg`s vibrant music scene, which provides an electrifying platform for musical exchange. The findings shed a new light on Soviet and post-Soviet popular music history and even Russia`s relationship to Ukraine. Wickström demonstrates the filtering processes embedded in transcultural flows and how music is attributed new meanings within new contexts. This innovative book not only promotes a deeper understanding of the role of popular music in society, it also enables a better comprehension of cultural processes in the second decade after the fall of the Soviet Union. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 101 PB 9783838201009 £33.90 May 2014 ibidem-Verlag 374 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 3 MUSEUM TUSCULANUM PRESS THE POWER OF SONG Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution Guntis Smidchens The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic "Singing Revolution". When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent force, singing Balts maintained faith in nonviolent political action. As an inspiration to all nations, the nonviolent Baltic independence movement revolutionized each country through singing and smiling. The "Singing Revolution" is indeed the essence of the Baltic way, and began in 1987 as a public revolt against Soviet restrictions on free speech and assembly. The revolutions and following elections in 1990 resulted in three separate governments and a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union. The Power of Song seeks to answer questions such as why the struggle for Baltic independence came to be called the Singing Revolution? What did they sing? And what role did singing play in the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian campaigns of political mobilization and nonviolent action? Furthermore, and uniquely for this publication, it explores, in great depth, the songs that gave the revolution its name, translating and interpreting more than 110 choral, rock, and folk songs in their poetic, cultural, and historical context. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Guntis Smidchens is the Kazickas Family Endowed Professor in Baltic Studies in the Scandinavian Studies Department at the University of Washington. REVIEWS: “The Power of Song serves not only as the quintessential study of what constitutes the heart of the remarkable and inspiring movements of the Baltic people, it will stand as a distinct contribution to the study of civil resistance movements overall.” Peter Ackerman, founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and coauthor of Strategic Nonviolent Conflict and A Force More Powerful PB 9788763541480 £38.99 February 2014 Museum Tusculanum Press 456 pages THOMAS VINTERBERG'S FESTEN (THE CELEBRATION) Claire Thomson Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen ("The Celebration") was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable. Adhering to Dogme's cinematic purity-no artificial lighting, no superficial action, no credit for the director, and only handheld cameras for equipment-Festen was a commercial and critical success, winning the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1998 and garnering worldwide attention. The film is set at the sixtieth birthday party of Helge, the wealthy patriarch of a large Danish family. The birthday festivities take a turn when Helge's son Christian raises a toast and denounces Helge for having raped and abused him as a child, along with his twin sister, who recently committed suicide. The film explores the escalating consequences of Christian's announcement, from the stunned dinner party's collective denial, to violence, to an unexpected catharsis. AUTHOR INFORMATION: C. Claire Thomson's study examines the history and context of the film, setting it within the Danish cultural and sociopolitical milieu. It examines the place of the film as a work of national cinema and examines its pioneering role as an experiment in digital cinema. PB 9788763541138 £23.50 January 2014 Museum Tusculanum Press 232 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 4 VISIONS & REVISIONS Performance, Memory, Trauma Edited by Bryoni Tresize, Caroline Wake In 1983 US president Ronald Reagan told the Israeli Prime Minister that he, as a photographer during World War II, had documented the atrocities of the concentration camps on film. The story was later exposed as a fraud as it was revealed that Reagan had resided in Hollywood during the entire war. Does this mean that Reagan was simply an amoral liar or that he established a connection to the Holocaust that can be said to have evolved from the intersection between “real” and “reel”? Visions and Revisions. Performance, Memory, Trauma brings the fields of performance studies and trauma studies together in conversation in order to investigate how these two fields both “envision” and “revision” one another in relation to crucial themes such as trauma, testimony, witness, and spectatorship. According to Peggy Phelan, a leading performance studies scholar, performance provides a unique model for witnessing events that are both unbearably real and beyond reason’s ability to grasp – traumatic events like the Holocaust. While Reagan’s claim is obviously both paradoxical and problematic, it opens up a space in which the potential insights that performance studies and trauma studies might bring to one another become particularly visible. The first half of the anthology focuses on issues of spectatorship, specifically its ethics and the possibility of witnessing. The second half widens the discussion to include memory more broadly, shifting the emphasis from sight to site, and particularly to site-specific works and the embodied encounters they model, enable and enact. The contributors here fill a critical gap, raising questions about how popular and mediatized performances that memoralize trauma might be viewed through performance theory. They also look at how performance studies might shift its focus from the visual to the sensorial and material and in doing so, they offer a fresh perspective on both performance and trauma studies. Writing from different disciplinary vantages and drawing on multiple case studies from South Africa, the former Soviet Union, Lebanon and Thailand, among others, the contributors decolonize trauma studies and make us question, how and where our own eyes and bodies are positioned as we revision the scenes before us. Contributors: Laurie Beth Clark/Helena Grehan/Geraldine Harris/ Chris Hudson/Petra Kuppers/Adrian Lahoud/Sam Spurr/Christine Stoddard/Bryoni Trezise/Maria Tumarkin/Caroline Wake. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Bryoni Trezise is a lecturer in theatre and performance studies at the University of New South Wales, where Caroline Wake is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia. PB 9788763540704 £39.99 December 2013 Museum Tusculanum Press 233 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 5 NORDIC ACADEMIC PRESS RE-MAPPING LAGERLOF Performance, Intermediality, and European Transmissions Edited by Helena Forsås-Scott, Lisbeth Stenberg, Bjarne Thorup Thomsen For the first time ever, cutting-edge research about the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf and her work is made available to a world-wide audience in one comprehensive volume. Written by an international group of scholars, Re-Mapping Lagerlöf highlights the interdisciplinarity of current Lagerlöf research which frequently cuts across genres, media and disciplines. The structure of the book, with sections dedicated to performance, film and intermediality, transnational narratives and European transmissions, is reinforced by the extensive introductory portal. The authors explore themes such as Lagerlöf in and political contexts, her involvement in the women’s movement, the construction of her celebrity persona, her role for early Swedish film, the transnationality of her work and its impact in international contexts. The volume includes a number of illustrations that are rarely reproduced, and the detailed bibliographical section will contribute to making Re-Mapping Lagerlöf an indispensable platform for Lagerlöf scholarship for years to come. It also offers a model for interdisciplinary research in the arts and humanities. HB 9789187351211 £35.95 May 2014 Nordic Academic Press 351 pages NOVA SCIENCE ADVANCES IN COMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA RESEARCH Volume 9 Edited by Anthony V. Stavros The papers collected in this book constitute some of today's leading analyses of the information industry. Together, these essays represent a needed foundation for understanding the present state and future development of the mass media. Current trends in communications as well as media impact on public opinion are studied and reported on. Topics include successful migration of EPON to WDM EPON; Kony 2012 and the invisible children's challenge of social media campaigning and digital activism; the process of liberalisation of the telecommunications market in the Republic of Serbia; wavelength multiplexing for super resolved imaging and spatial data compression; social media challenges for professional writers; transmission behaviour in ad hoc networks; and WSM dispersion-managed soliton transmission systems. HB 9781628082371 £124.99 September 2013 Nova Science 217 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 6 CIGARETTES & SMOKELESS TOBACCO Sales & Advertising Statistics & Trends Edited by Ronald Markowitz, Jennifer Galucci This book examines the latest reports in a series on cigarette and smokeless tobacco sales, advertising, and promotion that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has prepared since 1967. The statistical tables appended provide information on domestic sales and advertising and promotional activity by the five largest U.S. cigarette and smokeless tobacco manufacturers. PB 9781628084481 £43.50 September 2013 Nova Science 62 pages SOCIAL NETWORKING Recent Trends, Emerging Issues & Future Outlook Edited by Xin Ming Tu, Ann Marie White, Naiji Lu Social networking focuses on social relationships (eg: friendships) diagrammed as nodes (points) and links (ties or edges between points). Social network analysis (SNA) examines features of such relationships within a social networking system, including how such social interactions change over time. SNA can measure and map "connectedness" or "flow" (eg: information, resources, etc.) within and across individuals, groups, and organisations. SNA can examine these ties in virtual- or geo-temporal spaces - yielding rich mixed methods possibilities and wide application to a host of scientific phenomena. The advent of social media established a cultural meme that carries social network concepts to broader public audiences, and that reinforces SNA’s path to be a powerful interdisciplinary approach. Google Ngram viewer shows the use of “social network analysis” in the corpus of books burgeoned in the late 1960s, and has continued to grow exponentially since the 1990s. The conceptual and methodological reach now extends both widely - across scientific disciplines - and deeply - as field advances arise with the rapid pace of new inquiries. Facing this tremendous promulgation and diversification of SNA, this book distills essential frontiers across fields. Introducing emerging issues in the application of social network theory and SNA, and how these can or will be addressed, each chapter illuminates new trends or applications of a social network approach that can have wide potential impact in other disciplines. Conceptual advances (eg: applying the concepts of social networks such as peer influence on disease management and treatment adherence), as well as novel analytic approaches for studying properties of social networks are highlighted. HB 9781628085297 £124.99 September 2013 Nova Science 216 pages ADVERTISING Types of Methods, Perceptions & Impact on Consumer Behavior Edited by Lucas Barreau In this book, the authors present current research in the study of advertising methods and perceptions and their impact on consumer behaviour. Topics discussed include the use of tourism distribution channels for advertising a religious "imagined community" in Arcadia, Greece; investing in culture and intercultural relations for advertising and sustainable development of the contemporary European city with the framework of international city branding; a social psychological perspective of marketing strategies appealing to the consumers' uniqueness; social media advertising and its important role in representing and influencing consumer choices; cultural characteristics and how they moderate consumer response to positive and negative feeling advertisements; and consumers and brand loyalty. HB 9781629486123 £79.50 March 2014 Nova Science 143 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 7 BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN INDIAN COUNTRY Federal Efforts Edited by Reid Louton, Jude Sullivan The lack of communications services in Indian Country - be it high speed internet or “broadband”, traditional wireline phone service, mobile service, radio broadcast, or TV broadcast service - is well known. As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has observed previously, “by virtually any measure, communities on Tribal lands have historically had less access to telecommunications services than any other segment of the population". The lack of robust communications services presents serious impediments to Tribal Nations’ efforts to preserve their cultures and build their internal structures for self-governance, economic opportunity, health, education, public safety, and welfare. This book examines federal efforts to bridge the digital divide in Indian country with a focus on the internet infrastructure in native communities and equal access to e-commerce, jobs and the global marketplace. HB 9781629481708 £91.99 December 2013 Nova Science 160 pages COPYRIGHT & CREATIVITY IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY Balancing Policy, Protection & Innovation Edited by Matthew Newman, Noel Oliver Copyright law’s history is one of continuous evolution in the face of technological change. But arguably no prior technological change has impacted copyright with a magnitude comparable to the development of the Internet. Never before has there been such widespread and immediate access to such a broad array of creative works; never before have content creators – ranging from individuals to large corporations - been able to reach a global audience so effortlessly and inexpensively; and never before has it been possible for members of the public to create, transform or distribute multiple perfect copies of works seamlessly, without regard to national borders. How to retain a meaningful copyright system that continues to drive the production of creative works while at the same time preserving the innovative power of the Internet and the free flow of information are questions at the forefront of today’s policy debate. As a broadening array of creators continue to express themselves and share their valuable works with the world, and as the Internet continues to grow in economic, social and cultural relevance, the importance of these questions will only be heightened. The industries that rely on copyright are today an integral part of the U.S. economy, accounting for millions of jobs and contributing billions of dollars to the GDP Moreover, the creative content they produce contributes to the development of the broader Internet economy, spurring the creation and adoption of innovative distribution technologies. Not only do these industries make important economic contributions, they are at the core of our cultural expression and heritage. It is no exaggeration to say that U.S. music, movies, television shows, computer software, games, writings and works of art have changed the world. This book provides a lens through which to assess current policy related to copyright and the Internet, identifying important issues that are being addressed by the courts and those that are ripe for further discussion and development of solutions. HB 9781629481890 £91.99 December 2013 Nova Science 143 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 8 VIDEO PROGRAMMING & THE DISTRIBUTION MARKETPLACE Competition, Developments & Analyses Edited by Jennifer Mack, Carl T. Swanson Video provided through subscription video services, such as cable and satellite television, is a central source of news and entertainment for the majority of U.S. households. Technological advances have ushered in a wave of new products and services, bringing online distribution of video to consumers. Federal laws and regulations have sought to foster competition in the video programming and distribution marketplace, but many such laws were adopted prior to the emergence of these advances. This book examines (1) how competition has changed since 2005; (2) the increased choices that consumers have in acquiring video programming and content; and (3) stakeholders’ views on how the government’s regulations, reports, and other activities have kept pace with changes in the industry. HB 9781629481630 £162.50 December 2013 Nova Science 246 pages SCHIFFER ALTERNATIVE MOVIE POSTERS Film Art from the Underground Matthew Chojnacki Over the years the motion picture industry has (sadly) gravitated to generating poorly cropped and heavily airbrushed posters that rely far too often on celebrity head shots. Thankfully, an underground network of graphic designers and artists has reinvigorated the art of the movie poster, crafting stunning pieces for classic and cult films. Here is the first comprehensive look at the movement, presenting this eclectic and dynamic medium through more than 200 eyepopping posters from over 100 cutting-edge artists, coupled with fascinating commentary and behind-the-scenes information. These new, underground posters have quickly become the most coveted by ardent moviegoers; they are typically produced in very limited runs, sell out within minutes, and command upwards of several hundred dollars each. With a smart, fresh visual perspective, alternative movie posters celebrate classics like Star Wars, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining as well as cult favorites: The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner, and Pink Flamingos. HB 9780764345661 £28.99 October 2013 Schiffer 207 pages WORLD GONE WILD A Survivor's Guide to Post-Apocalyptic Movies David J. Moore A loving ode to a universal genre of film. An entire subculture of end-of-the-world themes was spawned from films like The Road Warrior, Escape From New York, and The Terminator. While those films are still being emulated today, film makers all around the world continue to produce radically unique films with startling perspectives of humanity facing the end of all things. This book offers pointers and a frame of reference on how the characters behaved when their worlds were on the brink of desolation. It covers the genre's biggest blockbusters like The Hunger Games, I Am Legend, Oblivion, and World War Z, while devoting equal time and attention to smaller, more obscure films that really deserve to be discovered. Containing over 800 movie reviews, 60 exclusive interviews with filmmakers and actors who've made films in the genre, and a vast subgenre index, World Gone Wild is a chronicle of humanity's struggles through nuclear war, global natural disasters, and the zombie apocalypse in film. HB 9780764345876 £28.99 April 2014 Schiffer 427 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 9 SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS Now Available in Paperback A SOCIETY IN DISTRESS The Image of the Czech Republic in Contemporary Czech Feature Film Jan Čulík REVIEWS: “Jan Čulík’s book is an excellent, well-organized, thoughtful, informative, illuminating and thoroughly scholarly work. It is also easily accessible to the general readership. I fully recommend it.” Josef Škvorecký, Novelist. The Late Professor Emeritus of English and Film, University of Toronto “This is a remarkable contribution to the analysis of the value system disseminated by contemporary Czech cinema within Czech society.” Professor Jiří Holý, Charles University, Prague “Jan Čulík, in A Society in Distress: The Image of the Czech Republic in Contemporary Czech Feature Film, confers coherence on his potentially intractable subject by focusing on how modern Czech cinema depicts Czech society and identity. For Čulík, the Czech self-image as evident in cinema is caught between inflated pride and intense excoriation. Čulík’s book is invaluable as a source of information on a national cinema that has long since receded from visibility. Čulík’s analysis is admirably rigorous, pungent and direct.” Slavonic & East European Review PB 9781845196301 £35.00 January 2014 Sussex Academic Press 340 pages UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESS AT THE LIMIT OF BREATH Poems on the Films of Jean-Luc Godard Stephen Scobie "I wanted this to be a narrative. So finally Jean-Luc went all the way: every line in the script a quotation from somewhere else. Every blessed line. Love doesn’t die. It’s people who die. Love just goes away.” from NOUVELLE VAGUE / New Wave (1990) Stephen Scobie celebrates “the greatest film director of his age” with poetry exploring 44 of Godard’s films. Subtle yet profound unities play from poem to poem. Characters, locations, images, and the generous use of quotation jump-cut and recur to send the imagination reeling through the larger works of both artists. Readers will be seduced to linger within the writing and encouraged to seek beyond, to Godard's own oeuvre. The book is sharply envisioned and carefully cadenced so as to delight readers who may not be familiar with Godard's films. Those already acquainted with Godard's work will find At the limit of breath a most rewarding experience. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Stephen Scobie was born in Scotland, and has lived in Canada since 1965, teaching at the Universities of Alberta and Victoria. A widely published poet, he won the Governor General's Award in 1980 for McAlmon's Chinese Opera. He has also published extensively in the criticism of Canadian literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Stephen Scobie lives in Victoria. PB 9780888646712 £16.99 August 2013 University of Alberta Press 104 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 10 UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS ART OF IMMERSIVE SOUNDSCAPES Edited by Pauline Minevich, Ellen Waterman What is an immersive soundscape? It can be as simple as a recording made in a forest: leaves crunching underfoot, birds chirping, a squirrel chattering. Or it can be as complex as a movie soundtrack, which involves music but also uses many other sounds—to set the mood for the action and to literally put the viewer in the picture. Sound art defies categorization, and artists using this medium describe their work in many different ways: as sound installations, audio art, radio art, and music. The Art of Immersive Soundscapes provides a fascinating tour of contemporary sound art practices that comprises scholarly essays, artists’ statements, and a DVD with sonic and visual examples. Included are perspectives from soundscape composition and performance, sitespecific sound installation, recording, and festival curation. The book and accompanying DVD will appeal to a broad audience interested in music, sound, installation art, the environment, digital culture, and media arts. Importantly, it recognizes the pioneering place of Canadian sound artists within this international field. PB 9780889772588 £33.50 December 2013 University of Regina Press 240 pages WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS DETECTING CANADA Essays on Canadian Detective Fiction, Film & Television Edited by Jeanette Sloniowski & Marilyn Rose The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The book looks critically at the esteemed sixties’ television show Wojeck, as well as the more recent series Da Vinci’s Inquest, Da Vinci’s City Hall, and Intelligence, and the controversial Durham County, a critically acclaimed but violent television series that ran successfully in both Canada and the United States. The essays in Detecting Canada look at texts from a variety of perspectives, including postcolonial studies, gender and queer studies, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, and critical race and class studies. Crime fiction, enjoyed by so many around the world, speaks to all of us about justice, citizenship, and important social issues in an uncertain world. PB 9781554589265 £33.50 March 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 290 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 11 THE LEGACIES OF JEAN-LUC GODARD Edited by Douglas Morrey, Christina Stojanova, Nicole Côté The artistic impact of Jean-Luc Godard, whose career in cinema has spanned over fifty years and yielded a hundred or more discrete works in different media cannot be overestimated, not only on French and other world cinemas, but on fields as diverse as television, video art, gallery installation, philosophy, music, literature, and dance. The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard marks an initial attempt to map the range and diversity of Godard’s impact across these different fields. It contains reassessments of key films like Vivre sa vie and Passion as well as considerations of Godard’s influence over directors like Christophe Honoré. Contributors look at Godard’s relation to philosophy and influence over film philosophy through reference to Wittgenstein, Deleuze, and Cavell, and show how Godard’s work in cinema interacts with other arts, such as painting, music, and dance. They suggest that Godard’s late work makes important contributions to debates in memory and Holocaust Studies. The volume will appeal to a non-specialist audience with its discussions of canonical films and treatment of themes popular within film studies programs such as cinema and ethics. But it will also attract academic specialists on Godard with its chapters on recent works, including Dans le noir du temps (2002) and Voyage(s) en utopie (2006), interventions in long-running academic debates (Godard, the Holocaust, and anti- Semitism), and treatment of rarely discussed areas of Godard’s work (choreographed movement). PB 9781554589203 £40.99 January 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 235 pages THE MEMORY EFFECT The Remediation of Memory in Literature & Film Russell Kilbourn The Memory Effect is a collection of essays on the status of memory - individual and collective, cultural and transcultural - in contemporary literature, film, and other visual media. Contributors look at memory’s representation, adaptation, translation, and appropriation, as well as its mediation and remediation. Memory’s irreducibly constructed nature is explored, even as its status is reaffirmed as the basis of both individual and collective identity. The book begins with an overview of the field, with an emphasis on the question of subjectivity. Under the section title Memory Studies: Theories, Changes, and Challenges, these chapters lay the theoretical groundwork for the volume. Section 2, Literature and the Power of Cultural Memory/Memorializing, focuses on the relation between literature and cultural memory. Section 3, Recuperating Lives: Memory and Life Writing, shifts the focus from literature to autobiography and life writing, especially those lives shaped by trauma and forgotten by history. Section 4, Cinematic Remediations: Memory and History, examines specific films in an effort to account for cinema’s intimate and mutually constitutive relationship with memory and history. The final section, Multi-Media Interventions: Television, Video, and Collective Memory, considers individual and collective memory in the context of contemporary visual texts, at the crossroads of popular and avant-garde cultures. HB 9781554589142 £70.99 December 2013 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 342 pages Gazelle Book Services Ltd /+44(0) 1524 68765 / [email protected] / www.gazellebookservices.co.uk 12 PARALLEL ENCOUNTERS Culture at the Canada-US Border Edited by Gillian Roberts, David Stirrup The essays collected in offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contributors focus on a range of regional sites along the border and examine a rich variety of expressive forms, including poetry, fiction, drama, visual art, television, and cinema produced on both sides of the 49th parallel. The field of border studies has hitherto neglected the Canada–US border as a site of cultural interest, tending to examine only its role in transnational policy, economic cycles, and legal and political frameworks. Border studies has long been rooted in the US–Mexico divide; shifting the locus of that discussion north to the 49th parallel, the contributors ask what added complications a site-specific analysis of culture at the Canada–US border can bring to the conversation. In so doing, this collection responds to the demands of Hemispheric American Studies to broaden considerations of the significance of American culture to the Americas as a whole - bringing Canadian Studies into dialogue with the dominantly US-centric critical theory in questions of citizenship, globalization, Indigenous mobilization, hemispheric exchange, and transnationalism. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Gillian Roberts is a lecturer in North American Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is co-investigator of the Leverhulme Trust–funded Culture and the Canada–US Border international research network. She recently completed a monograph on cultural representations of the Canada–US border. David Stirrup is a senior lecturer in American literature at the University of Kent. He is the principal investigator of the Leverhulme Trust–funded Culture and the Canada–US Border international research network. PB 9781554589845 £40.99 November 2013 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 314 pages TWO BICYCLES The Work of Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Mieville Jerry White Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville are among the most important postwar filmmakers; they have worked across forms, across media, and across countries. This book, the first to be devoted specifically to the work they did together, examines the way they expanded the possibilities of cinema by using cutting-edge video equipment in a constant search for a new kind of filmmaking. Two Bicycles examines all of the films, videos, and television works that the two did together, and moves slowly across France and Switzerland, with detours in Quebec, Mozambique, and Palestine. Their amazingly varied body of work includes a twelve-hour television series, some experimental videos, an acclaimed feature film with Isabelle Huppert, a cigarette commercial, and much else. Overall the book shows the degree to which this work departs radically from the legacy of the French New Wave, and in many ways shows signs of having been formed by the distinct culture of Switzerland, to which Godard and Miéville returned in the 1970s to set up their “atelier,” Sonimage. Two Bicycles offers a chance to explore a body of work that is as unique and demanding as it is rich and revelatory. Godard and Miéville have worked together for four decades but have never seemed more relevant. 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