Marc Yamada, author of Kore-eda Hirokazu, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I have always loved Kore-eda’s films, but it wasn’t […]
Q&A with Marc Yamada, author of KORE-EDA HIROKAZU
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Q&A with Catherine Russell, author of THE CINEMA OF BARBARA STANWYCK
Catherine Russell, author of The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this […]
SCMS 2023 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2023 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. […]
Free E-book Giveaway: LAUGHING TO KEEP FROM DYING
September’s free ebook is here! Check out Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century by Danielle Fuentes Morgan before the month is over! By subverting […]
Refresh for the Women and Film History International series
We are happy to announce that you will see new books coming from assistant acquisitions editor Mariah Schaefer in the near future. Mariah has been working on charting the future […]
Q&A with Sara E. Lampert, Author of Starring Women
Author, Sara E. Lampert, of Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1850 answers questions about her purpose for writing, book influences, and discoveries about entertainers for her book. Q: […]
Q&A with Joshua Lund, Author of Werner Herzog
Author of Werner Herzog, Joshua Lund answers questions about his motivations for writing, and dispels some myths about Herzog. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? A book […]
Backlist Bop: Women in film
Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of […]
George Toles on Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson is George Toles‘s long-awaited dive into the works of one of today’s most beguiling filmmakers. Below we offer a three-point sampler to tantalize fans of Toles’s acclaimed film […]
Orson Welles Week: When Orson met Papa
The recent Hollywood Issue of Vanity Fair features a long story by Josh Karp on Orson Welles’s Quixotic quest to finish The Other Side of the Wind, referred to ever after as […]
Orson Welles Week: It was 100 years ago today
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Orson Welles. The pride of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Welles dropped into life as the son of inventor-wagon factory owner Richard Welles […]
Orson Welles Week: Twist of Lime
A large part of the twentieth century was born in 1915. That storied year, an all-star lineup of cultural giants found their way to our reality, and in short order […]