In Exile

Noted typomane Mike Atkinson announces blogwise that Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood is finally hitting the shelves of your local bookstore, virtual versions included.

I happened to hold a physical copy of this tome myself this past weekend while meandering through the academic press book-faire set up within the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Philadelphia. I should have snapped a phone-pic to document my findings, which felt something like a Bigfoot sighting for this long-rumored release. The design looks good and the book feels solid in the hand in that wonderfully durable heavy-glossy-paper academic-publishing way, even if its contributors have fewer Ph. D's and more Certificates of Survival from film criticism's School of Hard Knocks (or is it a School for Scoundrels? My diploma has become too smudgy to tell).

Here's the redoubtable table of contents from the SUNY Press site:

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Michael Atkinson Part 1: Rockets from East Asia 1. Double Trouble: Tsui Hark & Ching Siu-tung Howard Hampton 2. Bullet Ballet: Seijun Suzuki Jonathan Rosenbaum 3. Kuala L'Impure: The Cinema of Amir Muhammad Dennis Lim 4. A Kurosawa Kiyoshi Kit B. Kite 5. The Bong Show: Bong Joon-ho Ed Park Part 2. On the European Outskirts 6. Beyond the Clouds: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan Geoff Andrew 7. Pawel Pawlikowski: Dreaming All My Life Jessica Winter 8. Bela Tarr Jonathan Romney 9. Blunt Force Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski Michael Atkinson 10. Sharunas Bartas Laura Sinagra Part 3. Documentarians and Mad Scientists 11. Ken Jacobs David Sterritt 12. A Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin Arnold George Toles 13. Ross McElwee Godfrey Cheshire 14. Judith Helfand: Secret Stories, Video Diaries, and Toxic Comedy Patricia Aufderheide Part 4. Lost between Genre and Myth-Making 15. The Beardo: José Mojica Marins Guy Maddin 16. Dellamorte Dellamore and Michele Soavi Maitland McDonagh 17. Guy Maddin Mark Peranson 18. James Fotopoulos Ed Halter 19. Christopher Munch: For Those We Have Loved Graham Fuller Part 5. Defiant Lions of the New Wave Generation 20. Pleasures of the Flesh: Walerian Borowczyk David Thompson 21. Chris Marker: The Return to Work at the Wonder Factory Joshua Clover 22. Moebius Dragstrip: Monte Hellman Circles Back Chuck Stephens 23. The Not-Too-Long Discourses of Chantal Akerman Stuart Klawans List of Contributors Index