Take One (Jul 1978)

THE REGULARS New Publications Selected papers from the stimulating 1976-1977 Purdue Film Conferences have been published by Redgrave Publishing Company. The 1977 Film Studies Manual is in two parts: Explorations in National Cinemas (French, German, Swedish, Italian), and Theoretical / Historical Speculations (film history, genre history). Cost— $19.00. Back issues of the 1976 Film Studies Annual (on Altman, Makavejev, Pasolini, Surrealism) are available at $7.95. Both from Redgrave Publishing Co., 430 Manville Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570. G.K. Hall, a Boston-based publishing company, has inaugurated a new venture directed primarily at film teachers. A series of new reference and resource guides on major film directors is being published. Each 200-page volume includes filmographies, annotated bibliographies, film synopses, archival sources, distribution lists. The initial volumes include the first full length studies on Richard Lester and John Schlesinger. Other titles include books on Fellini, Flaherty, Lubitsch, Ken Russell. For information, write: G.K. Hall and Co., 70 Lincoln Street, Boston, Mass. 02111. Twayne Publishers, a division of G.K. Hall, also has a new series on directors. These volumes are critical studies, as opposed to the research and reference guides just mentioned. First titles include studies on Coppola, Pabst, N. Ray, Abel Gance, Truffaut and Mike Nichols. Write: Twayne Publishers, 70 Lincoln Street, Boston, Mass. 02111. The first 3 issues of Temple University Working Papers in Culture and Communication ate now available. Papers read at the 1975-1978 Conferences on Culture and Communication make up these contributions to the study of. visual anthropology. Cost, $2.00 each. Write: Dr. Richart Chalfen, Editor, WPCC, Dept. of Anthropology, Temple University, Phila., PA 19122. Under the editorial direction of Garth Jowett, Arno Press is continuing its publication of long-out-of-print film books and Ph.D. and M.A. dissertations on film studies. Twenty-one new titles will be published this year in this Arno Press series Aspects of Film. For full information, write: Aspects of Film, Arno Press, 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Media Mix is an 8-page newsletter edited by Jeffrey Schrank, detailing ideas on cheap rentals, equipment in the classroom, critical reviews of film study teaching guides, and media kits. Monthly, $9.00 a year. Write: Media Mix, 221 West Madison St., Chicago, IL 60606. The Media Reporter, is a new British journal concerned with media studies and CELLULOID CLASSROOM Stuart Samuels G.K. Hall has inaugurated a new venture directed primarily at film teachers—a series of new reference and resource guides on major film directors. mass communication. Write: The Media Reporter, 39 Legh Road, Sale, Cheshire, England. Film Archives An important part of the development of film studies is the growth of useable film atchives. Several new publications have given us valuable information on the material—print and non-print—in American archives. G.K. Hall has published Motion Pictures, Television and Radio: A Union Catalogue of Manuscripts and Special Collections in the Western United States. Anne Schlosser discusses the oral history transcripts, and other manuscripts available at the American Film Institute Center of Advanced Studies, in Quarterly Review of Film Studies Ul (Winter, 1978), 129-35. See also her article, ‘‘Film Broadcasting Resources in the Los Angeles Area,’’ in Performing Arts Resources \ (1974). A symposium on Film Archives in the United States was published in Journal of the University Film Association XXIX (Fall, 1977), 49-57. Article details holdings and activities of AFI, Library of Congress, National Archives, MOMA, UCLA Film / Television Archives, Eastman House. Ernest Rose’s newly published World Film and TV Study Resources: A Reference Guide to Major Training Centers and Archives is available at a special price of $9.75 from the Journal of the University Film Assoctation, Dept. of Radio-TV-Film, Temple University, Phila., PA 19122. —> KAROMA proudly announces... Vilgot Sjoman.. L 136. DIARY WITH INGMAR BERGMAN, Trans. by Alan Blair. Intro. by John Simon. Pp. 241. Cloth» $9.95. Paper $4.50. ISBN 0-89720-016-0. This detailed and sympathetic chronicle of artistic transformation, a diary kept by Vilgot Sjaman, a noted (/ am Cur tous Yellow) director in his own right, while he observed Bergman’s shooting of Winter Light, has never appeared in English before. This is an excellent translation by Alan Blair of the Swedish original (1963) with a provocative introduction by John Simon. “L 136” is the production number of Winter Light, an apt title for this intimate portrait of a renowned cinematographer actively engaged in the daily trials and triumphs of shooting while on his quest to portray “the precarious balance between light dark extremities of human emotion” now so familiar to all serious students of contemporary cinema. This is the most complete study of Bergman’s many facets and phases; they are here captured by the verbal lens of a would-be novelist and film critic in training to become a director. A fascinating work of abiding interest for all who have been intrigued by both Bergman and Sjéman. : Karoma Publishers, Inc. | 3133 Bolgos Circle, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 (313) 665-3331 8)