ReFocus: A Series of International Film Studies Anthologies

Full name / name of organization:
Edinburgh University Press

contact email:
Dr. Robert Singer, rlsngr99@gmail.com

In 2015, the University of Edinburgh Press launched a multivolume series of scholarly, refereed anthologies entitled ReFocus. Edited by Drs. Gary D. Rhodes (Oklahoma Baptist University), Stefanie Van de Peer (University of Exeter), and Robert Singer (CUNY), each book focuses on a critically overlooked film director who worked in the studio system, independent cinema, mainstream cinema, experimental filmmaking, or the documentary tradition. Volumes published so far in this series include: Sohrab Shahid Saless, Susanne Bier,  Paul Leni, Teuvo Tulio, Xavier Dolan, Paul Leni, and Francis Veber, with many more in preparation

ReFocus features a series of contemporary methodological and theoretical approaches to the interdisciplinary analyses and interpretations of the work of international film directors, fromthe once-famous to the ignored, in direct relationship to inter/national cultures --its myths, values, and historical precepts. This series will consider any director who created a historical space, beginning with the origins of cinema and continuing up to the present. This research may include work in other media such as television.

We are now soliciting on-line proposals by potential editors/authors for new ReFocus editions. We are especially interested in proposals for the following international filmmakers:
• Wang Bing
• Michal Bat-Adam
• Pedro Almodovar
• Michael Apted
• Jacqueline Audry
• Claude Autant-Lara
• Romnit Avni
• Yevgeni Bauer
• Maria Bemberg
• Bernardo Bertolucci
• Simone Bitton
• Nouri Bouzid
• Charles Burguet
• Edith Carlmar
• Liliana Cavani
• Youssef Chahine
• Rene Clement
• David Cronenberg
• Vera Chytilová
• Claire Denis
• Vittorio DeSica
• Lav Diaz
• Germaine Dulac
• Cheryl Dunye
• Nana Dzhordzhadze
• Paul Fejos
• Louis Feuillade
• Mike Figgis
• Stephen Frears
• Lucio Fulci
• Kinji Fukasaku
• Abel Gance
• Haile Gerima
• Jean-Luc Godard
• Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
• Jessica Hausner
• Kaouther Ben Hania
• Shirin Neshat
• Samira Makhmalbaf
• Agnès Jaoui
• Astrid Henning-Jensen
• Tran Anh Hung
• Neil Jordan
• Chen Kaige
• Xhanfize Keko
• Michel Khleifi
• Esmail Koushan
• Diane Kurys
• Mike Leigh
• Kim Longinotto
• Samira Makhmalbaf
• Djibril Mambety
• Ana Mariscal
• Mary McGuckian
• Márta Mészáros
• Moshé Mizrahi
• Friedrich Murnau
• Mira Nair
• Gaspar Noe
• Maria Novaro
• Alanis Obomsawin
• Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira
• Max Ophuls
• Yasujiro Ozu
• Euzhan Palcy
• Jafar Panahi
• Olga Ivanovna Preobrazhenskaya
• Singeetam Srinivasa Rao
• Satyajit Ray
• Leni Riefenstahl
• Brigitte Roüan
• Ousmane Sembene
• Li Shaohong
• Abderrahmane Sissako
• Elia Suleiman
• Istvan Szabo
• Bela Tarr
• Nadine Trintignant
• Margarethe von Trotta
• Agnes Varda
• Paul Wegener
• Peter Weir
• Robert Wiene
• Lina Wertmuller
• Wu Yonggang
• Sun Yu
• Ferdinand Zecca
• Friedrich Zelnik
• Mai Zetterling
• Suggest a director

If you are interested in editing/authoring such a volume, or have any related questions, please attach a curriculum vitae to your abstract/proposal and email to all three editors:

Gary D. Rhodes, gdrhodes@gmail.com

Stefanie Van de Peer, stefanievandepeer@gmail.com

Robert Singer, rlsngr99@gmail.com