It's available this week!!!

According to Amazon, my book will be available on March 13. As you can tell from the pictures, my copies arrived recently, and, in all honesty, it looks fantastic. I am so pleased with how it turned out - lay out, font, picture placement... everything.

As I have said before, because this book is considered "academic" - and therefore priced higher than trade books - I don't expect people to buy it. If you can afford it, are interested in the subject, please do. But I don't want people (even people who know me) to feel obligated to purchase it. However, I would also like to see this book sell out; if the initial run sells out, the publisher might consider a cheaper paperback version.

In order to make that happen, I'm asking people to do two things:

1) Go to your local library. Request that they bring this book in.

Here's the information you'd need.

The Lasting Influence of the War on Postwar British Film
Michael W. Boyce
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10: 0230116892 ISBN-13: 978-0230116894

Now, once the library brings the book in you should probably check it out, maybe read it, but that's between you and your god.

2) Spread the word. Tell your friends to do the same. I'd like to see this book in libraries all over the globe. I wrote it to be read, not to make money. Academics don't (usually) write for profit. We write to disseminate ideas.

If you are able to buy your own copy, here are some links to various online bookstores. Many of them are offering better discounts than I can get as the author.

Chapters Indigo (Canada)
Amazon.ca (Canada)
Amazon.com (U.S)

Amazon.co.uk (UK)
Blackwell’s (UK)


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My book around town

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He likes it!

The other day someone was telling me about one of their Facebook friends who posts pictures of coffee cups whenever he "checks" in from a coffee shop. That gave me an idea to do a similar "garden gnome" thing with my book - take pictures of it all around town like people do with gnomes or Flat Stanley's.

Here is the first such picture:



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It's here!!!

My author copies arrived on Friday. I can't even begin to express how thrilled I am with the final product.




"With scrupulous and brilliant close analysis of key films and stars, Boyce reveals and complicates a new era of 'Britishness' in the immediate postwar years, one irrevocably marked by war trauma. In remarkably clear prose, The Lasting Influence of the War on Postwar British Film illustrates a social and historical unconscious that has largely been ignored yet emerges as a crucial period in the history of British cinema and nation (re)building." - Dina Smith, associate professor of English, Drake University

'Like Raymond Durgnat's and Charles Barr's exceptional studies of English cinema, Michael Boyce's work combines highly informed and nuanced cultural commentary with elegant close readings of individual films. Boyce offers surprising insights on a great many topics, from the strained rhetoric of accommodation and the beleaguered assertions of resistance dramatized in such 'conservative' films as Brief Encounter and In Which We Serve to the oblique, searching commentary on children displaced from their homes during the war in the adaptations of Dickens novels. Again and again, Boyce overturns received ideas about performers and genres in the austere, post-war environment, and does so in a manner that is witty, self-questioning, and alive to narrative pleasures of every sort.' - George Toles, University of Manitoba

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Just one of those days

Yesterday, in order to best describe how things have been going lately, I turned the name Sisyphus into a verb.



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