Buried by the Times
The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper
Laurel Leff
Paperback | $19.99
Hardback | $29.00

Cambridge University Press wishes to congratulate Laurel Leff, author of Buried by the Times, which has won the American Journalism Historians Association's award for best book in media history published in 2005.

The Films of Orson Welles

• Robert Garis
• Offering a comprehensive overview of Orson Welles' life and career, this book highlights the filmmaker's career, emphasizing his astonishing precocity and extraordinary talent that resulted in great success as well as puzzling failure. At the core of the book are sustained studies of Welles' masterpieces, Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, and critically incisive accounts of his other major films, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, Othello, Macbeth, and Chimes at Midnight.

The 'I' of the Camera
Essays in Film Criticism, History, and Aesthetics
2nd Edition

• William Rothman
• Originally published in 1988, The "I" of the Camera has become a classic in the literature of film. This second edition includes fourteen new essays, as well as a new foreword. Offering alternatives to the viewing and criticism of film, William Rothman challenges readers to think about film in adventurous ways that are more open to our experience of movies. In explaining the "American" quality of American film, Rothman argues compellingly that movies have inherited the philosophical perspective of American transcendentalism.

Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City

• Edited by Sidney Gottlieb
• Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, the film has been credited with initiating a revolution in and reinvention of modern cinema. This volume offers an original overview of the production history of Rome Open City; some of its key images, the complexity of its political dimensions, and the legacy of the film in public consciousness. It serves as an accessible introduction to one of the major achievements of filmmaking.

Horror Film and Psychoanalysis
Freud's Worst Nightmare

• Edited by Steven Jay Schneider
• "The essays in Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmare are exemplary philosophical and aesthetic discussions, their complex and subtle arguments are both challenging and thought-provoking."
  Elizabeth Cowie, University of Kent

Understanding Cinema
A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery

• Per Persson
• Understanding Cinema analyzes the moving imagery of film and television from a psychological perspective. Per Persson asserts that spectators interpret, feel or make use of knowledge, assumptions, expectations and prejudices when viewing film. Persson explains how close-ups, editing conventions, character psychology and other cinematic techniques work, and how and why they affect the spectator. Utilizing examples from early and contemporary cinema, the book also analyzes the design of cinema conventions and their stylistic transformations through the evolution of film.