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      • Summit Books

        Summit Books is a division of Summit Publishing Company, Inc. We celebrate pop culture, extraordinary ideas, the brilliance of local talent, and up-and-coming trends. We provide readers with fresh reading material that’s well-written, well-priced, and well-distributed.Being a key player in the local book publishing, we pride ourselves for combining both strategy and out-of-the-box thinking in the books we publish. From a single imprint to five exciting new mediums for the written word, Summit Books has taken cues from market trends and even has dictated the needs of the local book market. This allows for the advancement of multi-platform marketing among various demographic levels.

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        The Arts
        December 2022

        The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

        by Ana María Sanchez-Arce

        This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodóvar's work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies, scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion for the films of Pedro Almodóvar.

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        June 2017

        Contemporary Australian cinema

        An introduction

        by Jonathan Rayner

        Provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s. Traces the development of Australian film, in terms of prominent directors and stars, consistent themes, styles and evolving genres. The evolution of the film genres peculiar to Australia, and the adaptation of conventional Hollywood forms (such as the musical and the road movie) are examined in detail through textual readings of landmark films. Films and trends discussed include: the period film and Picnic at Hanging Rock; the Gothic film and the Mad Max trilogy; camp and kitsch comedy and the Adventures of Pricilla, Queen of the Desert. The key issue of the revival (the definition, representation and propagation of a national image) is woven through analysis of the new Australian cinema.

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        Chetaah Summer

        by Katja Brandis

        When a travel adventure becomes a journey to yourself! For all readers who long to follow the wide world’s call to freedom. Especially for all the WOODWALKERS fans who have grown up. An unforgettable experience is waiting for Lily: she is off to work on a farm in Namibia where they work to protect endangered cheetahs. The German vet’s daughter will help care for injured big cats, raise orphaned young animals and assist with field research in the bush. A dream comes true for her! Lily’s trip goes well until she falls in love with Eric, the son of a neighbouring farmer. His strange family and their secrets plunge her life into chaos. Katja Brandis, whose WOODWALKERS series regularly conquers the bestseller lists by storm, is back with an environmental novel about the protection of cheetahs in Namibia. Authentic, sympathetic and completely devoid of kitsch sunset pathos.

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        Lilo of Dark Castle. No Magic Allowed! (3). Party at Highhorror Castle

        by Anna Lott/ Sabine Sauter

        The Dark Castle family receives an invitation to a party at Highhorror Castle. Lilo and Miss Rüdiger are immediately eager to go. And of course Luisa should go with them. But humans are strictly forbidden to set foot in Castle Highhorror. “Who cares?”, say Lilo and Luisa, and at first everything seems fine: Luisa gets in as a perfect witch. But then the girls learn about a protective magic spell which covers the whole of the castle: unauthorized beings will be turned for ever into stone… Only a secret book of magic spells can save Luisa now!

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        January 2019

        Contemporary Spanish cinema

        by Barry Jordan, Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas

        Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and autonomies.

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        Weltenwanderer

        Der Pfad der heiligen Kraft

        by Summer Rain, Mary

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Spanish cinema 1973–2010

        Auteurism, politics, landscape and memory

        by Maria M. Delgado, Robin Fiddian

        This collection offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analysed in the volume span a period of 35 years that have been crucial in the development of Spain, Spanish democracy and Spanish cinema. They encompass different genres (horror, thriller, melodrama, social realism, documentary), both popular (Los abrazos rotos/Broken Embraces, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and more select art house fare (En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia, El espíritu de la colmena/Spirit of the Beehive) and are made in English (as both first and second language), Basque, Castilian, Catalan and French. Offering an expanded understanding of 'national' cinemas, the volume explores key works by Guillermo del Toro and Lucrecia Martel alongside an examination of the ways in which established auteurs (Almodóvar, José Garci, Carlos Saura) and younger generations of filmmakers (Cesc Gay, Amenábar, Bollaín) have harnessed cinematic language towards a commentary on the nation-state. The result is a bold new study of the ways in which film has created new prisms that have determined how Spain is positioned in the global marketplace.

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        June 2021

        Lukácsian film theory and cinema

        A study of Georg Lukács' writing on film 1913–1971

        by Ian Aitken

        Lukácsian film theory and cinema explores Georg Lukács' writings on film. The Hungarian Marxist critic Georg Lukács is primarily known as a literary theorist, but he also wrote extensively on the cinema. These writings have remained little known in the English-speaking world because the great majority of them have never actually been translated into English - until now. Aitken has gathered together the most important essays and the translations appear here, often for the first time. This book thus makes a decisive contribution to understandings of Lukács within the field of film studies, and, in doing so, also challenges many existing preconceptions concerning his theoretical position. For example, whilst Lukács' literary theory is well known for its repudiation of naturalism, in his writings on film Lukács appears to advance a theory and practice of film that can best be described as naturalist. Lukácsian film theory and cinema is divided into two parts. In part one, Lukács' writings on film are explored, and placed within relevant historical and intellectual contexts, whilst part two consists of the essays themselves. This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students working within the fields of film studies, literary studies, intellectual history, media and cultural studies. It is also intended to be the final volume in a trilogy of works on cinematic realism, which includes the author's earlier European film theory and cinema (2001), and Realist film theory and cinema (2006).

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        June 2021

        Algerian national cinema

        by Guy Austin

        This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political significance, Algerian National Cinema presents a dynamic, detailed and up to date analysis of how film has represented this often misunderstood nation. Algerian National Cinema explores key films from The Battle of Algiers (1966) to Mascarades (2007). Introductions to Algerian history and to the national film industry are followed by chapters on the essential genres and themes of filmmaking in Algeria, including films of anti-colonial struggle, representations of gender, Berber cinema, and filming the 'black decade' of the 1990s. This thoughtful and timely book will appeal to all interested in world cinemas, in North African and Islamic cultures, and in the role of cinema as a vehicle for the expression of contested identities. By the author of the critically-acclaimed Contemporary French Cinema.

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        January 2019

        Algerian national cinema

        by Guy Austin

        This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s. At a time when North African and Islamic cultures are of increasing political significance, Algerian National Cinema presents a dynamic, detailed and up to date analysis of how film has represented this often misunderstood nation. Algerian National Cinema explores key films from The Battle of Algiers (1966) to Mascarades (2007). Introductions to Algerian history and to the national film industry are followed by chapters on the essential genres and themes of filmmaking in Algeria, including films of anti-colonial struggle, representations of gender, Berber cinema, and filming the 'black decade' of the 1990s. This thoughtful and timely book will appeal to all interested in world cinemas, in North African and Islamic cultures, and in the role of cinema as a vehicle for the expression of contested identities. By the author of the critically-acclaimed Contemporary French Cinema.

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        January 2019

        Cinema - Italy

        by Stefania Parigi, Des O'Rawe

        A journey to the Italian cinema that overturns established views and opens up new perspectives and interpretations. Its itinerary is organized in four stages. The first is an analysis of the theories of Cesare Zavattini on neorealism which overturns widely accepted positions both on Zavattini and on neorealism. The second confronts a key film of the post-war Italian cinema, Roberto Rossellini's Paisà, by examining the nature of its realism. The third is dedicated to Luchino Visconti: to questions of the use of language exemplified in his La terra trema, the use of settings, costume and light as agents of meaning in his Il Gattopardo and Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa. The final voyage of the film is to the physical and symbolic construction of heaven and earth in the work of Pasolini. Particular attention is given to the representation of the body in his last four films: the grotesque and mythical bodies in popular tradition in his Trilogia di vita and the tortured bodies destroyed by the mass media in Salò.

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        February 2023

        Royal Horses (1). Kronenherz

        Band 1 der romantischen und royalen Pferde-Trilogie ab 12. Mit Farbschnitt – nur in der 1. Auflage

        by Jana Hoch, Clara Vath

        Band 1 der „Royal Horses“-Trilogie jetzt als besondere Schmuckausgabe mit hochwertigem Farbschnitt - limitiert auf die erste Auflage! Seine Welt ist die der Royals - voller Skandale und Geheimnisse. Sich in ihn zu verlieben war nie Teil ihres Plans. Auf dem königlichen Pferdegestüt der Royal Horses kreuzen sich ihre Wege … Greta will nur noch weg: weg von ihrer Schule und weg von ihren Freunden, die sie so unendlich enttäuscht haben. Da kommt ihr der Ferienjob auf dem Gestüt der Royals gerade recht. Mit Pferden hat Greta zwar nichts am Hut - und mit Prinzen und Prinzessinnen noch viel weniger -, aber das Schloss der Königsfamilie lässt ihr Herz trotzdem höher schlagen. Doch schon am ersten Tag gerät sie mit Edward, dem Pferdetrainer, aneinander. Er ahnt, dass sie ein Geheimnis hat und will es um jeden Preis ans Licht bringen. Als kurz darauf auch Prinz Tristan auf dem Gestüt auftaucht, wird Gretas Leben endgültig durcheinandergebracht. Zu spät merkt sie, dass sie geradewegs dabei ist sich zu verlieben - ausgerechnet in den Jungen, von dem sie sich eigentlich fernhalten wollte. Witzig und romantisch, glamourös und spannend: „Royal Horses“ ist die perfekte Liebesgeschichte für alle Leser von 12 bis 99 Jahren und für Fans von Mona Kasten, Bianca Iosivoni und Colleen Hoover. Weitere Infos zur Autorin unter www.jana-hoch.de oder auf Instagram unter @janahoch.autorin.   Die „Royal Horses“-Trilogie: Royal Horses (1). KronenherzRoyal Horses (2). Kronentraum Royal Horses (3). Kronennacht Die „Ruby Circle“-Trilogie: The Ruby Circle (1). All unsere Geheimnisse (18.08.2023)The Ruby Circle (2). All unsere Lügen (Frühjahr 2024)The Ruby Circle (3). All unsere Wahrheiten (Herbst 2024) Weitere Titel von Jana Hoch bei Arena: Dancing with Raven. Unser wildes Herz Pressestimmen: „Eine magische Geschichte zwischen Menschen und Tieren, die mich so berührt hat, dass ich am Ende ein paar Tränen in den Augen hatte.“ Lilly Marleen, 12, im BuchMarkt „Ein wunderschönes Pferdebuch zum Wegträumen ab zwölf Jahren. Toll geschrieben!“ Neue Presse Hannover „Witzig und romantisch!“ Westfälische Rundschau

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        March 2023

        Royal Horses (2). Kronentraum

        Band 2 der romantischen und royalen Pferde-Trilogie ab 12. Mit Farbschnitt – nur in der 1. Auflage

        by Jana Hoch, Clara Vath

        Band 2 der „Royal Horses“-Trilogie jetzt als besondere Schmuckausgabe mit hochwertigem Farbschnitt - limitiert auf die erste Auflage! Sie wollte nie zu den Royals gehören. Doch ohne sie wird er in einer Welt voller Intrigen und Geheimnisse zugrunde gehen … Paparazzi, Blitzlichtgewitter, Skandale - Gretas Leben wird von einem Tag auf den anderen völlig auf den Kopf gestellt. Und daran trägt nur einer die Schuld. Edward. Oder besser gesagt: Prinz Tristan. Noch immer fühlt sich Greta wegen seiner Lügen hintergangen. Wieso hat er ihr nicht gesagt, wer er wirklich ist? Doch als Edward ihr anbietet, Schutz vor dem Medienrummel auf Caverley Green zu suchen, kann Greta nicht Nein sagen. Vor allem, weil ihr Herz noch immer höher schlägt, wenn sie Edward bei der Arbeit mit den Pferden beobachtet. Oder wenn er sie auf diese bestimmte Weise ansieht … Aber ist Greta wirklich bereit, Teil seiner Welt zu werden? Weitere Infos zur Autorin unter www.jana-hoch.de oder auf Instagram unter @janahoch.autorin.   Die „Royal Horses“-Trilogie: Royal Horses (1). KronenherzRoyal Horses (2). KronentraumRoyal Horses (3). Kronennacht Die „Ruby Circle“-Trilogie: The Ruby Circle (1). All unsere Geheimnisse (18.08.2023)The Ruby Circle (2). All unsere Lügen (Frühjahr 2024)The Ruby Circle (3). All unsere Wahrheiten (Herbst 2024) Weitere Titel von Jana Hoch bei Arena: Dancing with Raven. Unser wildes Herz Pressestimmen: „So cool, so spannend, so posh: Nicht nur was für Pferdenarren!“ LESESCOUT SARAH, 13 JAHRE, LESESCOUT „Man muss weder ein Pferdemädchen, noch ein Fan des englischen Königshauses sein, um dieses Buch zu mögen. Charaktere, Dialoge und Plot sind perfekt gelungen.“ SANDRA BETTENDORF, BUCHHANDLUNG REUFFEL, KOBLENZ

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        January 2019

        Popular cinema in Brazil, 1930–2001

        by Stephanie Dennison, Lisa Shaw

        Brazil has one of the most significant and productive film industries in Latin America. This ground-breaking study provides an entertaining insight into the Brazilian films that have most captured the imagination of domestic audiences over the years. The recent international success of films such as Central Station and City of God, has stimulated widespread interest in Brazilian film, but studies written in English focus on the 'auteur' cinema of the 1960s. This book focuses on individual films in their socio-historical context, drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil and Latin America. It argues that Brazilian cinema has almost always been grounded in intrinsically home-grown cultural forms, dating back to the nineteenth century, such as the Brazilian music-hall, the travelling circus, radio shows, carnival, and, later, comedy television. Combining a chronological structure with groundbreaking research and a lively approach, Popular cinema in Brazil is the ideal introduction to Brazilian cinema.

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