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 […]
Category: film
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 […]
TLS reviews “The Uncanny Gaze”
On February 1, 2010, we published the first English translation of Heide Schlüpmann’s book The Uncanny Gaze: The Drama of Early German Cinema, which was translated by Inga Pollmann. The book (Unheimlichkeit […]
UIP at SCMS
The University of Illinois Press exhibited its new books in film and media studies at the 2010 convention of the Society for Film and Media Studies in Los Angeles, March […]
More Tell Me More
Following segments earlier this week on Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey, NPR’s Tell Me More wraps up its Divas on Screen feature with Halle Berry. Commentator Mia Mask: […]
Mia Mask on NPR’s “Tell Me More”
Mia Mask, author of the new book Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film, was a featured commentator today on National Public Radio: “With the 2010 Academy Awards approaching, NPR’s Tell […]
Jerry Lewis film retrospective
Anthology Film Archives in New York is hosting a Jerry Lewis film retrospective to celebrate the publication of Chris Fujiwara’s book Jerry Lewis. Read about it on NBC New York and […]