Among the year-end best of 2012 lists that abound are some lists of academic books that librarians found most interesting. Here are a few film and related title, below, from CHOICE REVIEWS Outstanding Academic Titles 2012. If you haven’t seen them already, perhaps some will pique your interest for a little intersession reading.
Some film titles from the year:
Cavalier, Stephen. The world history of animation. California, 2011. 416p bibl index ISBN 0520261127, $39.95 ISBN 9780520261129, $39.95 Jun’12, 49-5398.
Abraham, Adam. When Magoo flew: the rise and fall of animation studio UPA. Wesleyan, 2012. 301p bibl filmography index afp ISBN 9780819569141, $29.95; ISBN 9780819572707 e-book, contact publisher for price Sep’12, 50-0176.
Ganti, Tejaswini. Producing Bollywood: inside the contemporary Hindi film industry. Duke, 2012. 424p bibl index afp ISBN 9780822352020, $99.95; ISBN 9780822352136 pbk, $27.95 Sep’12, 50-0178.
Haltof, Marek. Polish film and the Holocaust: politics and memory. Berghahn Books, 2012. 274p bibl filmography index afp ISBN 9780857453563, $90.00; ISBN 9780857453570 e-book, contact publisher for price Jun’12, 49-5562.
Israeli cinema: identities in motion, ed. by Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg. Texas, 2011. 373p bibl filmography index afp ISBN 9780292725607, $55.00 Jan’12, 49-2563.
Jenkins, Tricia. The CIA in Hollywood: how the agency shapes film and television. Texas, 2012. 167p bibl index afp On order for library.
Kord, Susanne. Contemporary Hollywood masculinities: gender, genre, and politics, by Susanne Kord and Elisabeth Krimmer. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 280p bibl index ISBN 0230338410, $85.00 ISBN 9780230338418, $85.00 Aug’12, 49-6776.
Lehman, Katherine J. Those girls: single women in sixties and seventies popular culture. University Press of Kansas, 2011. 312p bibl index afp ISBN 9780700618088, $29.95 Jan’12, 49-2564.
Martin, Florence. Screens and veils: Maghrebi women’s cinema. Indiana, 2011. 271p bibl afp ISBN 9780253356680, $70.00; ISBN 9780253223418 pbk, $24.95 May’12, 49-4950.
Mehta, Monika. Censorship and sexuality in Bombay cinema. Texas, 2011. 304p bibl index afp On order for library.
Murphy, J. J. The black hole of the camera: the films of Andy Warhol. California, 2012. 203p bibl index afp ISBN 9780520271876, $70.00; ISBN 9780520271883 pbk, $29.95 Sep’12, 50-0180.
Peberdy, Donna. Masculinity and film performance: male angst in contemporary American cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 219p bibl filmography index afp ISBN 9780230283787, $80.00 Mar’12, 49-3764.
Ross, Steven J. Hollywood left and right: how movie stars shaped American politics. Oxford, 2011. 500p index afp ISBN 0195181727, $29.95 ISBN 9780195181722, $29.95 Apr’12, 49-4360.
The Wiley-Blackwell history of American film, ed. by Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 4v bibl index afp ISBN 1405179848, $595.00 ISBN 9781405179843, $595.00 Oct’12, 50-0773.
And a selection of some other titles that could be of interest:
Made to be seen: perspectives on the history of visual anthropology, ed. by Marcus Banks and Jay Ruby. Chicago, 2011. 419p bibl index afp ISBN 9780226036618, $110.00; ISBN 9780226036625 pbk, $35.00 Mar’12, 49-3942
Matson, Wallace. Grand theories and everyday beliefs: science, philosophy, and their histories. Oxford, 2011. 223p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199812691, $35.00 Jun’12, 49-5599
Tate, Carolyn E. Reconsidering Olmec visual culture: the unborn, women, and creation. Texas, 2012. 399p bibl index afp ISBN 9780292728523, $65.00; ISBN 9780292735491e-book, contact publisher for price Aug’12, 49-6971
Friedlander, Eli. Walter Benjamin: a philosophical portrait. Harvard, 2012. 285p index afp ISBN 0674061691, $39.95 ISBN 9780674061699, $39.95 Jul’12, 49-6198
Leet, Sri Kartini. Reading photography: a sourcebook of critical texts, 1921-2000, [selected] by Sri Kartini Leet; [ed.] by Alison Hill. Lund Humphries, 2011. 372p index ISBN 0853319766, $250.00 ISBN 9780853319764, $250.00 Aug’12, 49-6608
De Villiers, Nicholas. Opacity and the closet: queer tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol. Minnesota, 2012. 229p bibl index afp ISBN 9780816675708, $75.00; ISBN 9780816675715 pbk, $25.00 Nov’12, 50-1252
Braddock, Jeremy. Collecting as modernist practice. Johns Hopkins, 2012. 319p bibl index afp ISBN 1421403641, $39.95 ISBN 9781421403649, $39.95 Sep’12, 50-0060
Gottschall, Jonathan. The storytelling animal: how stories make us human. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780547391403, $24.00 Sep’12, 50-0062
Colbert, Charles. Haunted visions: spiritualism and American art. Pennsylvania, 2011. 319p bibl index afp ISBN 9780812243253, $49.95 Feb’12, 49-3087
Klein, Mason. The radical camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951, by Mason Klein and Catherine Evans; contributions by Maurice Berger, Michael Lesy, and Anne Wilkes Tucker. Yale/Jewish Museum/Columbus Museum of Art, 2011. 248p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300146875, $50.00 Apr’12, 49-4273
Photographic memory: the album in the age of photography, [ed.] by Verna Posever Curtis. Aperture/Library of Congress, 2012. 287p bibl index ISBN 9781597111317, $75.00 Nov’12, 50-1292
Pinson, Stephen C. Speculating Daguerre: art and enterprise in the work of L. J. M. Daguerre. Chicago, 2012. 313p bibl index afp ISBN 9780226669113, $65.00 Oct’12, 50-0695
McGonigal, Jane. Reality is broken: why games make us better and how they can change the world. Penguin, 2011. 396p index ISBN 0143120611 pbk, $16.00 ISBN 9780143120612 pbk, $16.00 Jul’12, 49-6095
Meikle, Graham. Media convergence: networked digital media in everyday life, by Graham Meikle and Sherman Young. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 242p bibl index afp ISBN 9780230228931, $85.00; ISBN 9780230228948 pbk, $27.00 Aug’12, 49-6705
Szasz, Ferenc Morton. Atomic comics: cartoonists confront the nuclear world. Nevada, 2012. 179p bibl index afp ISBN 9780874178746, $34.95; ISBN 9780874178791 e-book, contact publisher for price Dec’12, 50-1891
Davis, Andrew. Baggy pants comedy: burlesque and the oral tradition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780230116795, $90.00 Jul’12, 49-6165
Encyclopedia of creativity, ed. by Mark A. Runco and Steven R. Pritzker. Elsevier/Academic Press, 2011. 2v bibl index ISBN 9780123750396, $400.00 Feb’12, 49-3009
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. Planned obsolescence: publishing, technology, and the future of the academy. New York University, 2011. 245p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814727874, $75.00; ISBN 9780814727881 pbk, $23.00; ISBN 9780814728963 e-book, contact publisher for price. Apr’12, 49-4188