AFTRS Library New Titles. On display 8th June to 22nd June 2018: New Books

This book explores the intersection between adaptation studies and what James F. English has called the "economy of prestige," which includes formal prize culture as well as less tangible expressions such as canon formation, fandom, authorship, and performance. The chapters explore how prestige can affect many facets of the adaptation process, including selection, approach, and reception.

Cristi Puiu's black comedy 'The Death of Mr. Lazarescu' announced the arrival of the New Romanian Cinema as a force on the global film stage. As critics and festival audiences embraced the new movement, Puiu emerged as its lodestar and critical voice. Monica Filimon explores the works of an artist dedicated to truth not as an abstract concept, but as the ephemeral revelation of the fuller, ungraspable world beyond the screen.

When a film is acclaimed, the director usually gets the lion's share of the credit. Yet the movie director's job - especially the collaborations and compromises it involves - remains little understood. The latest volume in the Behind the Silver Screen series, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of how directing, as both an art and profession, has evolved in tandem with changing film industry practices.

This book, like its twin volume Female Authorship and Documentary Strategies, centres on pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemporary documentary practices. Addressing the politics of representation and authorship both behind and in front of the camera, a range of international scholars now expand the theoretical and practical framework informing the current scholarship on documentary cinema, which has so far neglected questions of gender.

Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Geneviève Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinema's formative years, from 1957 to 1962.

From the beginning of the history of cinema to the present day, from Lubitsch to Jeunet, Montmartre has always been a favored setting for films by French and foreign directors alike who are working in Paris. This book evokes the various preferred locations for these films in Montmartre, its atypical scenes and its residents.

Photography and the Art of Seeing provides techniques and innovative exercises for breaking with traditional concepts of design, enabling the photographer to develop a keen awareness of subject matter and a direction for composing the picture.

Slow Writing is a collection of articles by Thom Andersen that reflect on the avant-garde, Hollywood feature films, and contemporary cinema. His critiques of artists and filmmakers as diverse as Yasujiro Ozu, Nicholas Ray, Andy Warhol, and Christian Marclay locate their work within the broader spheres of popular culture, politics, history, architecture, and the urban landscape.

Styles of Radical Will is Sontag's acclaimed second collection of a collection of non-fiction essays, first published in 1969. Among the subjects discussed are film, literature, politics, and pornography.

Before becoming the critically acclaimed filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick spent five years as a photographer for Look magazine. The Bronx native joined the staff in 1945, when he was only 17 years old, and shot humanist slice-of-life features that celebrate and expose New York City and its inhabitants. This book reveals the keen and evocative vision of a burgeoning creative genius.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai investigates the prolific career of an acclaimed leading man of Hong Kong and Chinese film and television. Attentive to Leung's position in both East Asian and global screen cultures, this unique study illuminates challenges and opportunities for Chinese screen actors in local, regional and global cultural and industrial contexts.

From the beloved and wildly popular podcast WTF with Marc Maron comes a book of conversations with some of the funniest, and most important people in the world like you've never heard them before. Each chapter covers a different topic: parenting, childhood, relationships, sexuality, success, failures and others.