To celebrate the 14th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival taking place this week at the Virginia Theater in Champaign, our New Books section is highlighting the four latest titles in our […]
Category: film
Q&A with John Sayles author David Shumway
On March 26, 2012 the University of Illinois Press published John Sayles, a new book in the Contemporary Film Directors series. Author David Shumway comments on the filmmaker’s independence and reveals his favorite […]
Book signing at MoMA’s Philip Kaufman film exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art in New York will host a Philip Kaufman film retrospective April 11-16, which will feature five of the director’s films including The Right Stuff and The Unbearable […]
Q&A with Jacques Rivette author Mary Wiles
Mary Wiles, a lecturer in cinema studies at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, is the author of Jacques Rivette, the latest volume in our Contemporary Film Directors series. […]
Q&A with Scripting Hitchcock authors Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick
Following Scripting Hitchcock‘s nomination for an Edgar Award, authors Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick discuss their interest in Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, and reveal their favorite Hitchcock films. Q: Scripting Hitchcock focuses on […]
Scripting Hitchcock nominated for an Edgar
We are excited to announce that the recently published University of Illinois Press book Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick has been nominated […]
Rachel and Rory and Shirley and Cyril
On September 5, 2011, we published Mike Leigh, the 28th volume in our Contemporary Film Directors series. Author Sean O’Sullivan conducted multiple interviews with Mike Leigh and distilled them into […]
New Editors for the Contemporary Film Directors Series by Daniel Nasset
Justus Nieland and Jennifer Fay are delighted to serve as the new editors of Illinois’s Contemporary Film Directors series. James Naremore is a tough act to follow. Jim has created a […]
The Guardian reviews Disappearing Tricks
Following Disappearing Tricks‘ recent win of the Kraszna-Krausz Best Moving Image Book Award, prize judge Peter Bradshaw raves about the book on the Guardian Film Blog. Solomon’s excellent book shows how the […]
Disappearing Tricks wins Kraszna-Krausz Book Award
Matthew Solomon’s recent University of Illinois Press book Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century was announced the winner the Kraszna-Krausz Best Moving Image […]
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! recognized by SCMS
Neepa Majumdar’s book, Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s will receive an Honorable Mention for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Best First […]
UIP author Peter Brunette dies
Sad news. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Peter Brunette, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Michael Haneke, died today in Italy. He was on assignment covering the Taormina […]