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Edinburgh University Press Metaphysics and the Moving Image
Book SynopsisExamines the work of transcendental filmmakers such as Bela Tarr and Terence Malick using a metaphysical frameworkTrade Review"Trevor Mowchun's extraordinary new book shines new light on our understanding of things far more basic than film, including experience, consciousness, perception, and reality. An extremely stylish and engaging author, Mowchun takes us on a tour of his own deepest concerns and passions, compels us to share them, and tells us something new about ourselves and the cinematic experiences we have had our whole lives, and which we now see we have failed to examine to their very depths." -Justin E.H. Smith, University of Paris
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Metaphysics and the Moving Image
Book SynopsisA metaphysics of film for a post-metaphysical age
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Edinburgh University Press Chaoid Cinema
Book SynopsisA Deleuzian analysis of the role of silence as chaotic interstice in sound film.Trade Review"Gardner's pioneering work turns up the theoretical and philosophical volume on what is typically disregarded by critics and dismissed by directors in sound films: silence. Drawing on the ecosophical dimension of Deleuze and Guattari's thought and building on an impressive range of examples from 1931 to 2009, Gardner performs a virtuosic recital of sonic dropouts, pregnant pauses, and zones of silence in cinema. This visionary book will serve as an ideal companion to emergent works of scholarship on visual absence and darkness in film studies and film-philosophy." -Tanya Shilina-Conte, SUNY at Buffalo
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Bosnian Hajj Literature
Book SynopsisExplores changing attitudes to the holy through a study of five centuries of Bosnian Hajj literature
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Whiteness Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary
Book SynopsisThe first study to consider how Whiteness pervades and is challenged in contemporary British and US Absurdist poetry.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Mary Harron
Book SynopsisOffers the first first book-length study of Mary Harron's career and works.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Mary Harron
Book SynopsisOffers the first first book-length study of Mary Harron's career and works.Trade Review"This is a welcome addition to the growing body of work on women working within mainstream and/or indie film and television production, an area of creative practice too often overlooked. The editor has done well to source a range of cogent contributions providing good coverage of Mary Harron's oeuvre, including in television." -Mary Harrod, University of Warwick
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Iconoclasm in European Cinema
Book SynopsisA philosophical study of image-destruction in European cinema.Trade Review"Through detailed and engaging readings of select films by Bene, Bergman, Debord, Duras, Godard, Isou, Jarman, and Kie?lowski Chiara Quaranta demonstrates impressively how the destruction of the image within European cinema can be generative of an enabling ethics which foregrounds the importance of listening and imagining in the film experience." -Sarah Cooper, King's College London
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Iconoclasm in European Cinema
Book SynopsisA philosophical study of image-destruction in European cinema.
£22.00
Edinburgh University Press Criminal Evidence and Procedure an Introduction
Book SynopsisSheriff Alastair Brown draws on his extensive experience in practice to present a clear and up-to date overview of the conduct of criminal cases, taking into account updates relating to the law of arrest, the treatment of vulnerable witnesses, the sentencing powers for non-harassment orders and the First Diet procedure.
£39.90
Edinburgh University Press Naomi Mitchison
Book SynopsisAs a novelist, feminist, socialist, activist, travel-writer, and diarist, Naomi Mitchison is one of Scotland?s most important yet understudied twentieth-century writers. This volume showcases the first collection of scholarly essays addressing her diverse literary work, including nine critical essays by scholars from the UK and the USA dealing with aspects such as spirituality, socialism, eugenics, war, the short story, science, feminism, mothering, and decolonisation. The volume also features ?Europe?: a previously unknown story by Mitchison, here published for the first time. Aimed at students, scholars, and teachers of literature from undergraduate level upwards, it is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in Mitchison?s life and literary legacy.
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Edinburgh University Press Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific
Book SynopsisHow does Robert Louis Stevenson's engagement with Pacific Islands cultures demonstrate processes of inculturation and the transformation of global Christianity?Trade Review"This is a book of startling breadth and originality. Ratnapalan has not simply made a major contribution to Stevenson studies; he has?also brought scholarly analysis of the Presbyterian literary culture of late nineteenth-century Scotland into a surprisingly fruitful engagement with the modern anthropology of Pacific Christianity. " -Brian Stanley, University of Edinburgh
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific
Book SynopsisRobert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific Islands re-orients the intellectual biography of Robert Louis Stevenson by presenting him in the distinctive cultural environment of the Pacific. The book argues that Stevenson was religiously literate within a Scottish Presbyterian tradition and therefore well placed to grasp with subtlety the breadth and dynamics of a Christianized Pacific culture. It considers his legacy with respect to issues of indigenous sovereignty and agency and positions him within an important and wide-ranging modern debate about inculturation, defined as the emergence of Christianity from within a particular culture rather than imposed on it from outside. Through this study of a major Scottish writer, the book offers a model of interdisciplinary scholarship.
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Edinburgh University Press Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
Book SynopsisIn them, Kolst examines how the drivers behind ethnic conflicts in the non-Russian republics were not only struggles for collective identities but also more mundane interests, such as competition for jobs and positions.Trade Review"The monograph by P l Kolst is solid and high-quality scientific research that will be useful to social and political scientists." -Georgi Asatryan
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Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Literary Films of Richard Brooks
Book SynopsisThe first critical work to emphasize Richard Brook's literarinessTrade Review"A comprehensive and telling treatment of an often overlooked director, ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks includes incisive and elegantly written essays from major film scholars that appreciate a genial director and his oeuvre." -Tom Conley, Harvard University
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Literary Films of Richard Brooks
Book SynopsisReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks highlights the accomplishments of one of postwar America?s most important and successful directors, with an emphasis on the literary aspects of his career, including his work as a screenwriter and adaptor of such modern classics as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Lord Jim, and The Brothers Karamazov.
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Edinburgh University Press Film Style in Indonesian Cinema 19982018
Book SynopsisExamines the use of cinematography and mise en sc ne in contemporary Indonesian cinemaTrade Review"In this engrossing study of contemporary Indonesian film style, Ari Purnama probes the visual appeal and artistic power of a cinema in resurgence. Distinguished by analytical acuity and theoretical rigor, Purnama's account reveals how post-Suharto filmmakers have innovated upon past traditions, pushing Indonesian cinema to dazzling new heights of artistry." -Gary Bettinson, Author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Cinema.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His
Book SynopsisRevises current thinking about how genre operates in early modern theatre
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Edinburgh University Press Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals
Book SynopsisRevisits Taiwan New Cinema in relation to film festivals from cultural, historical, and geopolitical standpointsTrade Review"Outstripping auteur-centred accounts of the Taiwan New Cinema, Tsai forges an illuminating new perspective by reconstructing the economic, discursive, and migratory conditions that shaped this movement. This book is vital reading for those interested in Taiwan New Cinema and its afterlives, and in the transnational imaginary of contemporary art cinema." -Jean Ma, Stanford University
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Networked David Lynch
Book SynopsisThefirst multi-disciplinary reconsideration of Lynch's uvre
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Edinburgh University Press The Idlers Club
Book SynopsisPoking fun at Victorian social clubs became a way of asserting and redefining social belonging. At the turn of the century, amid intense social change, the club became the subject of sustained humour in the Idler magazine and its circle, from editors Jerome K. Jerome and Robert Barr to J. M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry Pain, Israel Zangwill, and even P. G. Wodehouse. Rather than doing away with the club itself, these authors embraced the paradoxes of the club and re-defined it as a space of possibility. Their humorous, fictional clubs aided the social mobility of the authors who created them, who in turn served as models for the readers who might never cross the literal thresholds of Clubland.
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Edinburgh University Press Cormac Mccarthy Philosophy and the Physics of the
Book SynopsisExplains Cormac McCarthy's consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Democracy in the PostTruth Era
Book SynopsisThe world of post-truth is a world of intense disinformation, an offensive of pseudoscience and widespread scepticism about expert knowledge. It is a world in which the terms of the political game are imposed by illiberal democrats who undermine the authority of scientific institutions. The liberal-democratic politicians have had to take up the gauntlet thrown down to them in this way. However, according to the book''s author, they have not been followed by liberal theorists. Liberal theorists have never attempted to confront the pessimistic vision of a world in which citizens cannot distinguish expert from pseudo-expert and science from pseudo-science. The dominant liberal theories are based on the assumption that citizens are either competent to participate in major political decisions or that they can easily acquire such competence. The book strikingly explores a very different perspective. How would the theory and practice of liberal democracy have to change if we assume that laypersons will never appreciate the relevance of the arguments put forward by experts?
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Edinburgh University Press Womens Literary Education c. 16901850
Book SynopsisStudies how women writers shaped long-eighteenth-century educational discourse through literature
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Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Roberta Findlay
Book SynopsisReFocus: The Films of Roberta Findlay covers a variety of angles, using queer, feminist, historical, and close textual reading methods to grapple with the complicated and contradictory politics and meanings of this pioneering culture-worker. Chapters examine Findlay?s marketing strategies, the gender politics of her exploitation and hardcore films, 1980s horror productions, and several case studies of key individual films, in addition to a new interview with Findlay reflecting on her life and career.
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Edinburgh University Press The Geographies of David Foster Wallaces Novels
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between geography and David Foster Wallace's novels
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Edinburgh University Press The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and
Book SynopsisContains thirteen original essays and an expansive introduction, including contributions by some of the foremost scholars in the field.
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Edinburgh University Press Assessing Intelligence
Book SynopsisExamines how novelists engaged with the emergence of the IQ concept of intelligence and the meritocratic ideal
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Edinburgh University Press Assessing Intelligence
Book SynopsisExamines how novelists engaged with the emergence of the IQ concept of intelligence and the meritocratic ideal
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Edinburgh University Press Modernist War Poetry
Book SynopsisRe-reading intra-war modernist poetics through war poetry
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Edinburgh University Press Touching at a Distance
Book SynopsisStudies the capacity of Shakespeare's plays to touch and think about touchTrade Review"Many distances are touched on in Johannes Ungelenk's brilliant new book: distances between actors onstage, between actors and audiences, between men and women, between political authorities and political minorities, between scholars and texts, between control and openness within one's self. Ungelenk's philology of touch" offers an inviting new approach to the practices of contemporary academic writing."" -Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Touching at a Distance
Book SynopsisTheatre has a remarkable capacity: it touches from a distance. The audience is affected, despite their physical separation from the stage. The spectators are moved, even though the fictional world presented to them will never come into direct touch with their real lives. Shakespeare is clearly one of the master practitioners of theatrical touch. As the study shows, his exceptional dramaturgic talent is intrinsically connected with being one of the great thinkers of touch. His plays fathom the complexity and power of a fascinating notion ? touch as a productive proximity that is characterised by unbridgeable distance ? which philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Jean-Luc Nancy have written about, centuries later. By playing with touch and its metatheatrical implications, Shakespeare raises questions that make his theatrical art point towards modernity: how are communities to form when traditional institutions begin to crumble? What happens to selfhood when time speeds up, when oneness and timeless truth can no longer serve as reliable foundations? What is the role and the capacity of language in a world that has lost its seemingly unshakeable belief and trust in meaning? How are we to conceive of the unthinkable extremes of human existence ? birth and death ? when the religious orthodoxy slowly ceases to give satisfactory explanations? Shakespeare?s theatre not only prompts these questions, but provides us with answers. They are all related to touch, and they are all theatrical at their core: they are argued and performed by the striking experience of theatre?s capacities to touch ? at a distance.This publication was supported by funds from the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany.
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Edinburgh University Press Pop Cinema
Book SynopsisExamines how the tropes of Pop Art are expressed in film
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Yul Brynner
Book SynopsisYul Brynner?s star image was built on cosmopolitan flair, shifting tales of origin, baldness, as well as film roles as foreign rulers, freedom fighters, army officials, gunslingers and secret agents of ever-shifting ethnicities. Whether Cossacks, marauding pirate captains or cross-dressing torch singers, Brynner?s characters were invariably stand-outs.This book explores his exotic and masculine star image and its transformations from lavish Orientalist Hollywood spectacles of the 1950s to 1960s European co-productions, 1970s action films and scifi. Extensively researched, it covers the actor?s entire film catalogue, his rumoured yet unrealised projects, television work and stage appearances, as well as their international media reception. Thematically organised, the book inquires after racial casting politics, the construction of sex symbols, Brynner?s humanitarian work and the recurring poses and gestures that characterised his performance style.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press WomenS Activism in the Transatlantic Consumers
Book SynopsisUncovers the central and leading roles of women in the development of organised consumer activism in the UK and the USA between 1885 and 1920
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Womens Activism in the Transatlantic Consumers
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Edinburgh University Press Beastly Modernisms
Book SynopsisThe intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questions about what it means to live with animals in modernity. Beastly Modernisms gathers essays from leading figures in the field alongside emerging scholars who, together, revisit canonical figures and decentre the canons and geographies of modernism. Grounded in interdisciplinary approaches, the contributions work with cultural history and theoretical frameworks to unearth the multispecies dynamics of twentieth-century literature and culture. The chapters in Beastly Modernisms present a diverse range of approaches and topics, exploring dogs in Virginia Woolf to Republican China, animals and gender in surrealism to African-American texts, Sámi reindeer to rat propaganda, modernist jellyfish to metamodernist beasts, 1940s poetry to Indian Partition stories, charting the current and future state of modernist animal studies.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Questioning a New History of Western Philosophy
Book SynopsisGideon Baker provides a gripping genealogy of Western philosophy as a history of questioning. From Socrates to Judith Butler, he reveals the ancient in the modern and reflects on newer questions, like: is human being uniquely defined by questioning? And does the negativity of questioning lead to nihilistic despair?
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Edinburgh University Press Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema
Book SynopsisApplys a noir lens to films which defy easy generic categorization
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Edinburgh University Press Poetic Prosthetics
Book SynopsisExamines contemporary online soldier poetry and graphic novel writing in the first book-length study of its kind
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Poetic Prosthetics
Book SynopsisExamines contemporary online soldier poetry and graphic novel writing in the first book-length study of its kind
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Sanctity Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia
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Edinburgh University Press James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality
Book SynopsisThe first book-length treatment of Joyce and hospitality
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Edinburgh University Press Shakespeares Virtuous Theatre
Book SynopsisPresents Shakespeare's theatre as a powerful forum for shaping our capacity for virtue
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Edinburgh University Press Film Adaptations of Russian Classics
Book SynopsisDiscusses film adaptations of Russian classics since the 1960s
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press A History of Herat
Book SynopsisShows how and why an ancient city destroyed and then rebuilt by Mongols became the 'Pearl' of the Iranian east
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press WomenS Political Representation in Iran and
Book SynopsisProvides a comparative study of women's political participation and representation in contemporary Iran and Turkey
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Edinburgh University Press Blanchot Ecology and Contemporary Fiction
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