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MoViNG iMAGe SERIES ISSN: 2045-3302 Moving Image publishes cutting-edge work on any aspect of film and screen media from europe and Latin America. studies of European-language cinemas from other continents, and of diasporic and intercultural cinemas (with some relation to europe or its languages), are also encompassed. The series seeks to reflect a diversity of theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary approaches to the moving image, and includes projects comparing screen media with other art forms. Research monographs and collected volumes will be considered (but not studies of a single film). As innovation is a priority for the series, volumes should predominantly consist of previously unpublished material. Proposals should be sent with one or two sample chapters to the editor, Professor emma wilson, corpus christi college, cambridge cB2 1RH, uK. (efw1000@cam.ac.uk). Africa's Lost Classics New Histories of African Cinema edited by Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy movinG imaGe 5 Until recently, the story of African film was marked by a series of truncated histories: many outstanding films from earlier decades were virtually inaccessible and thus often excluded from critical accounts. However, various conservation projects since the turn of the century have now begun to make many of these films available to critics and audiences in a way that was unimaginable just a decade ago. in this accessible and lively collection of essays, Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy draw together the best scholarship on the diverse and fragmented strands of African film history. Their volume recovers over 30 'lost' African classic films from 1920–2010 in order to provide a more complex genealogy and begin to trace new histories of African filmmaking: from 1920s egyptian melodramas through lost gems from apartheid south Africa to neglected works by great Francophone directors, the full diversity of African cinema will be revealed. ISBN: 978 1 907975 51 6 November 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 Holocaust Intersections Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium edited by Axel Bangert, Robert s c Gordon and Libby saxton movinG imaGe 4 Recent representations of the Holocaust have increasingly required us to think beyond rigid demarcations of nation and history, medium and genre. Holocaust Intersections sets out to investigate the many points of conjunction between these categories in recent images of genocide. the book examines transnational constellations in Holocaust cinema and television in Europe, disclosing instances of bordercrossing and boundary-troubling at levels of production, distribution and reception. it highlights intersections between film genres, through intertextuality and pastiche, and the deployment of audiovisual Holocaust memory and testimony. Finally, the volume addresses connections between the Holocaust and other histories of genocide in the visual culture of the new millennium, engaging with the questions of transhistoricity and intercultural perspective. Drawing on a wide variety of different media — from cinema and television to installation art and the internet — and on the most recent scholarship on responses to the Holocaust, the volume aims to update our understanding of how visual culture looks at the Holocaust and genocide today. ISBN: 978 1 907975 02 8 June 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 Cinema’s Inter-Sensory Encounters Krzysztof Kieślowski and Claire Denis Georgina evans movinG imaGe 3 Sound cinema realised long-standing dreams of a synaesthetic art form, uniting image and sound with a success never achieved by earlier experiments. At the same time, this union cemented cinema’s future as a primarily narrative art form, seemingly pushing to one side the ambitions of abstraction. A closer look reveals, however, that it is through complex relationships among senses that fiction film strikes many of its deepest chords. the celebrated Polish and French directors Krzysztof Kie´slowski (1941–96) and Claire Denis (1948–) create films which unfurl subtle narratives through such inter-sensory encounters. close analysis opens wider questions about cinema and synaesthesia, selective attention, smell, pain and visceral feeling. How does the changing balance between one sense and another sway our responses? How can cinema, a medium which captures exterior forms, communicate the private inner world of pain and visceral sensation? evans explores the mysterious ways in which cinema moves us. ISBN: 978 1 907975 43 1 2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 12 Cinema and Contact The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis Laura McMahon movinG imaGe 2 Drawing on the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, Cinema and Contact investigates the aesthetics and politics of touch in the cinema of three of the most prominent and distinctive filmmakers to have emerged in France during the last fifty years: Robert Bresson, Marguerite Duras and claire Denis. countering the dominant critical account of touch elaborated by recent models of embodied spectatorship, Laura McMahon argues that cinema offers a privileged space for understanding touch in terms of spacing and withdrawal rather than immediacy and continuity. such a deconstructive configuration of touch is shown here to have far-reaching implications, inviting an innovative rethinking of politics, aesthetics and theology via the textures of cinema. The first study to bring the thought of Nancy into sustained dialogue with a series of detailed analyses of films, Cinema and Contact also forges new interpretative perspectives on Bresson, Duras and Denis, tracing a compelling two-way exchange between cinema and philosophy throughout. ISBN: 978 1 907975 03 5 June 2012 • 188 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 Spanish Practices Literature, Cinema, Television Paul Julian smith movinG imaGe 1 This book is the first to explore the interaction of three media in contemporary spain. Focusing on some of the best known and most important books, feature films, and television series in the country (including novelist Antonio Muñoz Molina, director Pedro Almodóvar, and the spanish version of telenovela Ugly Betty), it addresses three pairs of linked issues central to Hispanic studies and beyond: history and memory, authority and society, and genre and transitivity. Much of the material is very recent and thus as yet unstudied. the book also focuses on the representation of gender, sexuality, and transnationalism in these texts. Drawing on approaches from both the humanities and social sciences, it combines close readings of key texts with the analysis of production processes, media institutions, audiences, and reception. ISBN: 978 1 907975 04 2 June 2012 • 176 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 Visit the Moving Image series page at www.legendabooks.com/series/mi
RussiAN, ceNtRAL & eAsteRN euRoPeAN LiteRAtuRe After Reception Theory Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain, 1869–1935 Lucia Aiello More often than not, monographs on the reception of an author are either detailed, chronologically organized accounts of the reputation of that author, or studies in literary influence. This study adopts neither of those approaches and deals with the reception of Fedor Dostoevskii in Britain from a double perspective. the detailed analysis of primary sources such as reviews, essays and monographs on Dostoevskii is associated here with a critical investigation of the dynamics of the reception process. on the one hand, the available sources are examined with the intention of exposing their underlying ideological tensions and impact on British literary circles. on the other hand, Fedor Dostoevskii's novels are shown to function as a prism, through which significant aspects of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British intellectual life are refracted. In the final analysis, by using Dostoevskii as an exemplary case study, this book develops both a methodology that aims at clarifying what we mean when we refer to 'reception' and a theoretical alternative to prevalent notions of reception. ISBN: 978 1 907975 44 8 August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 Chicago of the Balkans Budapest in Hungarian Literature 1900–1939 Gwen Jones At the point of its creation in 1873, Budapest was intended to be a pleasant rallying point of orderliness, high culture and elevated social principles: the jewel in the national crown. From the turn of the century to world war ii, however, the Hungarian capital was described, variously, as: Judapest, the sinful city, not in Hungary, and the chicago of the Balkans. this is the first English-language study of competing metropolitan narratives in Hungarian literature that spans both the liberal late Habsburg and post-liberal, ‘Christian-national’ eras, at the same time as the ‘Jewish Question’ became increasingly inseparable from representations of the city. works by writers from a wide variety of backgrounds are discussed, from Jewish satirists to icons of the radical Right, representatives of conservative national schools, and modernist, avant-garde and ‘peasantist’ authors. ISBN: 978 1 907975 57 8 March 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 See more Legenda books in Russian literature at www.legendabooks.com/russian stuDies iN YiDDisH SERIES ISSN: 1474-2543 studies in Yiddish is the only scholarly series in english that is dedicated to Yiddish, a transnational language whose interesting, if sometimes tragic, history spans more than a thousand years. its high and low literary and non-literary texts and practices have been of central importance not only to Jewish existence and history but also to the wider cultural and creative life in central and eastern europe, israel and the New world. the series regularly publishes the proceedings of the international Mendel Friedman conference, which is convened every two years at the university of oxford. in addition, the series includes monographs and edited volumes on all aspects of Yiddish language and culture, and proposals for new publications are welcomed. Proposals should be sent to Dr Graham Nelson (graham.nelson@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk). Uncovering the Hidden The Works and Life of Der Nister edited by Gennady estraikh, Kerstin Hoge and Mikhail Krutikov studies in Yiddish 12 Der Nister (Pinkhes Kahanovitsh, 1884–1950) is widely regarded as the most enigmatic author in modern Yiddish literature. His pseudonym, which translates as ‘the Hidden one’, is as puzzling as his diverse body of works, which range from mystical symbolist poetry and dark expressionist tales to realist historical epic. Although part of the Kiev Group of Yiddish writers, which also included David Bergelson and Peretz Markish (who are the focus of the sixth and ninth volumes in the studies in Yiddish series), Der Nister remained at the margins of the Yiddish literary world throughout his life, mainstream success eluding him both in and outside the soviet union. Yet, to judge from the quantity of recent research and translation work, Der Nister is today one of the best remembered Yiddish modernists. the present collection of twelve original articles by international scholars re-examines Der Nister’s cultural and literary legacy, bringing to light new aspects of his life and creative output. ISBN: 978 1 907975 84 4 November 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 13 Joseph Opatoshu A Yiddish Writer between Europe and America edited by sabine Koller, Gennady estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov studies in Yiddish 11 At the turn of the twentieth century east european Jews underwent a radical cultural transformation, which turned a traditional religious community into a modern nation, struggling to find its place in the world. An important figure in this ‘Jewish Renaissance’ was the American- Yiddish writer and activist Joseph opatoshu (1886–1954). Born into a Hassidic family, he spent his early childhood in a forest in central Poland, was educated in Russia and studied engineering in France and America. in New York, where he emigrated in 1907, he joined the revitalizing modernist group Di yunge — the Young. His early novels painted a vivid picture of social turmoil and inner psychological conflict, using modernist devices of multiple voices and mixed linguistic idioms. He acquired international fame by his historical novels about the Polish uprising of 1863 and the expulsion of Jews from Regensburg in 1519. though he was translated into several languages, Yiddish writing always fostered his ideas and ideals of Jewish identity. Although he occupied a key position in the transnational Jewish culture during his lifetime, opatoshu has until recently been neglected by scholars. this volume brings together literary specialists and historians working in Jewish and slavic studies, who analyse opatoshu's quest for modern Jewish identity from different perspectives. ISBN: 978 1 907975 60 8 August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 Translating Sholem Aleichem History, Politics and Art edited by Gennady estraikh, Jordan Finkin, Kerstin Hoge and Mikhail Krutikov studies in Yiddish 10 sholem Aleichem, whose 150th anniversary was commemorated in March 2009, remains one of the most popular Yiddish authors. But few people today are able to read him in the original. since the 1920s, however, Aleichem’s works have been known to a wider international audience through numerous translations, and through film and theatre adaptations, most famously Fiddler on the Roof. this volume examines those translations published in europe, with the aim of investigating how the specific European contexts might have shaped translations of Yiddish literature. ISBN: 978 1 907975 00 4 June 2012 • 232 pages • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50 See more Legenda books in Yiddish studies at www.legendabooks.com/series/siy
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