Department of Film Studies

Now Available! Cinema at the Periphery Edited by Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, and Belén Vidal

Focusing on case studies of small national cinemas located at the global margins but also of filmmaking that comes from peripheral cultures, like Palestinian ‘stateless' cinema or Australian Aboriginal films, the volume highlights the inextricable interrelationship between production modes, circulation channels, and the emerging narratives of histories and identities they enable.

Now Available! Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe, By William Brown, Dina Iordanova, Leshu Torchin

Moving People, Moving Images focuses on the current cycle of films that play upon global anxieties about trafficking. Like their subject, the essays in this volume cross national borders to reflect on recent films that depict contemporary slavery and undocumented labour. The volume considers a wide array of trafficking films including Promised Land (Amos Gitaï), Lorna's Silence (the Dardenne Brothers), Ghosts (Nick Broomfield), Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl), and When Mother Comes Home for Christmas (Nilita Vachani), which film critic Stewart Klawans once declared 'the best film you'll never see'.

Now Available! Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities Edited by Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung

Film Festivals and Imagined Communities, the second volume in the Film Festival Yearbook series, brings together essays about festivals that use international cinema to mediate the creation of transnational ‘imagined communities’.