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An examination of the systems and traditions that enable abuse and prop up abusers, helping them fail upwards and ensuring there will be a bottomless churn of vulnerable workers for them to exploit is so needed right now. Burn It Down is that book.\" — Erin Keane, Editor-in-Chief of Salon and author of Runaway  \"Maureen Ryan is a dogged, clear-eyed reporter, legendary for her miles-deep exposés of Hollywood abuse, toxicity and bullying. In Burn It Down, she makes a powerful case for a less romanticized view of the entertainment industry, one that rejects the ugly traditions of the past, holds bad bosses accountable, and marks a path to a better future.\" — Emily Nussbaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The New Yorker and author of I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution  \"Burn It Down does the heavy lifting in helping to uncover not just the ugliness of the behavior of high-profile individuals, but the mundane abuses common in the broader television and movie landscape. Maureen Ryan is a tenacious and meticulous reporter, a sharp and passionate writer, and an advocate for a fairer and better industry. There’s a reason a lot of network personnel with a lot they’re trying to keep in the dark hate nothing more than to see Maureen coming with a flashlight and a pen.\" — Linda Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour  \"Maureen Ryan is a rigorous thinker and a lovely writer and does terrific and necessary work to trace the places where entertainment and injustice intertwine with profit and abuse.\" — Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad and All the Single Ladies  \"Maureen Ryan is a necessary agent in questioning the status quo, and Burn It Down masterfully takes on Hollywood power structures that need to be reckoned with and changed.\" — Ira Madison III, co-host of the Crooked Media podcast Keep It and author of the forthcoming essay collection Pure Innocent Fun  \"Maureen Ryan is not only a keen critic with a fair and far-reaching eye. She is also a leader in dismantling systems of oppression and abuse in Hollywood. Her reporting has single handedly brought consequences for abusers in positions of power. I am continually inspired and grateful for her work in my industry. She makes the entertainment world safer.\" — Felicia Day, New York Times bestselling author of You’re Never Weird on the Internet and Embrace Your Weird  \"As a journalist, Mo Ryan saw the need for #MeToo coming years before it went viral. And that means that even though the constant headline-grabbing virality has subsided, Mo knows that there is still much more work to do. There are unfortunately many more painful truths about show business that have to be dug up. And there are also more skeletons in closets that need to be dragged out into the light. Mo is fierce, funny, unbossed, and unafraid.\" — W. Kamau Bell, New York Times bestselling author of Do the Work: An Antiracist Activity Book, director, and executive producer  \"Film and television journalist and critic Ryan has written the kind of book the phrase 'searing indictment' was invented for: a straight-shooting, rigorously researched and documented exposé of Hollywood’s culture of abuse.... This appears to be the book Ryan’s career has been building toward: she’s always been an advocate for people who work in the entertainment industry, and she’s never shied away from exposing Hollywood’s darker side. This powerful, angry, shocking, and important work should grip all readers interested in the truth about the entertainment industry.\" — Booklist  \"Ryan exposes the ugly truths about the entertainment business and the harmful behaviors that have been accepted and normalized in Hollywood for more than a century.... By breaking down the various myths that entertainment workers are told to believe, the author dismantles the argument that there is no changing the business; she also offers solutions. Readers will come away with a better understanding of what creatives have gone through to make the shows and films people love to watch. Some readers may even recognize similar harmful behaviors in their own work environments.\" — Library Journal  \"Vanity Fair contributing editor Ryan has been writing about the film and TV industries for many years and has collected a huge number of stories about abuses. While the revelations about Harvey Weinstein shone a light into shadowy corners, the author argues that a propensity for abuse is effectively institutionalized.... Ryan has the experience and insight to explore Hollywood’s dark underbelly, and she finds plenty of monsters.\" — Kirkus Reviews  \"Filled with revealing behind-the-scenes stories and blistering analyses of the industry’s failings, this makes a convincing case for rebooting Hollywood.\" — Publishers Weekly  \"[A] breathless compendium of malfeasance, which provides a valuable service in giving voice to those who have long gone unheard.\" — Los Angeles Times  \"Burn It Down is a Howard Beale-style, 'mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore' manifesto directed at the overlords and ladies of show business, complete with a multi-point plan for their redemption.... This is a dogged and dedicated journalist.\" — New York Times  \"A searing indictment of abusive behavior and work practices in the U.S. entertainment industry.... This is the proverbial look inside the sausage factory, revealing the offal, sorry, awful truth about how those shows you love are made. Indeed, if you enjoy watching television, you owe it to yourself to read this book and see what's really going on.... Burn It Down is a heavily researched, beautifully written book that leaves no Hollywood throne unturned.... 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The art of film-writing is made accessible to novices and helps practiced writers improve their scripts, as the author pinpoints stylistic and structural elements such as characterisation and plot. Tips and techniques on what to do after your screenplay has been completed and much more are all here. 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''Broadsword Calling Danny Boy'' is Geoff Dyer''s tribute to the film he  has loved since childhood: an analysis taking us from its  snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax. For those who have not even seen \u003ci\u003eWhere Eagles Dare,\u003c\/i\u003e this book is a comic tour-de-force of criticism. But for the  film''s legions of fans, whose hearts will always belong to Ron  Goodwin''s theme tune, it will be the fulfilment of a dream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Geoff Dyer''s funniest book yet. Who else would work in Martha Gellhorn on the first page of a book on the film \u003ci\u003eWhere Eagles Dare\u003c\/i\u003e?''  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Instead of taking a world tour of national cinemas or displaying their transnational exchanges, Seung-hoon Jeong here sheds light on contemporary films' reflections of global phenomena related to conflicting biopolitical and ethical facets of globalization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, a 'Global Cinema' book that has a point of view and a point to make— a powerful point that is driven home through ingenious analyses of films that have been harbingers of our recent dark past. This most intelligent, unblinking exploration of popular as well as art films radiates confidence in the cinema that walks with us, and, better, a belief in the world. * Dudley Andrew, Yale University *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a most fascinating study of what world cinema reveals about our globalized world. This exceptionally comprehensive book provides insightful analysis of a wide variety of the most high-profile films from both Global Hollywood and Global Auteurs. From Skyfall to Jia Zhangke there is something here for anybody curious about how cinema illuminates the global nature of contemporary everyday life. Most crucially, Jeong expertly uncovers how an \"abject agency\" is revealed on screen which may yet gesture towards a hopeful and inclusive politics even for catastrophic times. * David Martin-Jones, University of Glasgow *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Acknowledgments  Introduction: World Cinema in a Global Frame  Part I. Abjection and Agency Chapter 1. Multicultural Conflicts in Post-Political Double Ethics   Chapter 2. The Narrative of Double Death with Abject Agency Chapter 3. Sovereign Agents' Biopolitical Abjection in the Spy Film  Part II. Catastrophe and Revelation Chapter 4. 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Atopian Networking and Positive Nihilism  References Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732533424471,"sku":"9780190093792","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190093792.jpg?v=1719997311"},{"product_id":"hollywood-harmony-musical-wonder-and-the-sound-of-cinema-oxford-musicmedia-series-9780190606404","title":"Hollywood Harmony Musical Wonder and the Sound of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ean engaging style and rich insights into films and their music ... Lehman's musical, dramaturgical, and psychological insights will lead to more engaged film listening and viewing. * S. C. Pelkey, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eIt's a rewarding read... If you pick it up, you might want to have a piano at hand to plink out the passages, or at least have Oxford University Press's companion Website of musical examples in front of you. * Boston Globe *\u003cbr\u003eHollywood Harmony brings analysis of film music fully into the present. 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Films like Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind have promoted racist stereotypes and films like Get Out and BlacKkKlansman have worked to tear those same stereotypes down. Greg Garrett's new book suggests that looking to religious traditions can help us discern and correct our nationalnarratives of race and ultimately lead to reconciliation in a meaningful and lasting way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book's dust jacket describes the author's method: \"Greg Garrett brings [to bear] his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism.\" ... The present volume looks at the representation of African Americans in six films: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Casablanca (1943), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Do the Right Thing (1989), Crash (2004), and Get Out (2017). 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Crashing into Each Other: Crash as Multicultural Post-9\/11 Fable  Get Out: Black Bodies Matter  Conclusion: Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732548038999,"sku":"9780190906252","price":22.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190906252.jpg?v=1719997374"},{"product_id":"race-politics-and-irish-america-a-gothic-history-9780192859730","title":"Race Politics and Irish America A Gothic History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsiders three centuries of writers and creatives of mostly Scots-Irish and post-Famine Irish descent whose work examines moments of entwined racial, social, and political transformation for those of that identity in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethis is an innovative, thought-provoking book that employs rich historical framings for its literary analysis. The book's uncovering of what might be called a \"disguised Irish experience\" in the work of a number of well-known American writers not generally thought of as \"Irish\" is intellectually stimulating and will, we predict, be a building block for further work. * James Donnelly, Chair of McGowan Prize (IACI) *\u003cbr\u003eBurke confronts the racial dynamics ever-present—but acknowledged to varying degrees—in works by authors whose ancestors may have been considered \"off white\" or ethnic others themselves. Burke presents her readers with ew ways of considering the Irishness of canonical American authors such as Henry James, William Faulkner, and Edgar Allan Poe, while also introducing a wider audience to less studied authors such as Frank Yerby, who was of mixed African and Irish descent. In so doing she establishes a new sub-genre, the Scots-Irish gothic. This book will be of value to scholars of Irish Studies and American literature, as it makes important new claims in these overlapping fields. * Matthew Reznicek, Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize (ACIS) *\u003cbr\u003eRace, Politics, and Irish America is of value because it refuses and exposes the homogeneous treatment of the Irish (as all descended from Famine refugees) in Irish American literary criticism. The book acts as a corrective for three prominent areas of scholarship...It provides a narrative in its own right that complements whiteness studies by bringing in a literary approach and an impressively nuanced view of the history of various groups in Ireland and America. * Beth O'Leary Anish, Community College of Rhode Island, Irish University Review *\u003cbr\u003eBurke's book is an exciting, necessary contribution to both Irish Studies and American literary studies. She impressively distills complicated histories on both sides of the Atlantic into comprehensible chunks, and then deftly applies that history to a range of texts, most with previously ignored Irish elements at the base of their protagonists' race and class anxieties. * Beth O'Leary Anish, Community College of Rhode Island, Irish University Review  *\u003cbr\u003eRace, Politics, and Irish America makes a compelling argument for seeing ethnic identity as every bit as key to understanding Fitzgerald as his self-doubts over his class status and literary standing. * Kirk Curnutt, F. Scott Fitzgerald Review *\u003cbr\u003eFor those of us who struggle with the contradiction of being Irish-American - how our ancestors, who were near the bottom of every racial hierarchy, came to side with their oppressors - Mary Burke's book is essential reading. Viewed through a Gothic lens with a focus on political, literary and artistic figures, Professor Burke's book connects the dots across five centuries of Irish history in the Americas. * Tim Quinn, BiblioCommons *\u003cbr\u003eMary M. Burke has written a book that the field of Irish Studies in the United States will find hard to ignore or dismiss. * Peter McDermott, Irish Echo *\u003cbr\u003eA \"luminous new study...[that] explores centuries of competing narratives about the Irish in America.\" * Cahir O'Doherty, Irish Central *\u003cbr\u003eThis generic breadth helps Burke create a rich, nuanced, and complex picture of what it means to be Irish...Compellingly, Burke includes performers, \"public women,\" and queer and multiracial authors in her analyses and thus rejects the traditional focus on straight, white, male authors. She promises, and delivers, a rich, rewarding, and challenging read...this powerful and timely examination of race and politics in Irish America challenges many stereotypes and frames well-known authors, celebrities, and politicians in a way that brings new understanding to them and their Irish identities. Burke is to be congratulated for producing such a fine, wide-ranging, and broadly appealing study. * Christine Kinealy, Eugene O'Neill Review *\u003cbr\u003eBurke's deeply researched and wide-ranging book provides a roadmap for future scholars to examine with far greater nuance than was previously the case the complexity of Irish identities in the United States. * Sinéad Moynihan, Irish Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe text is most enlightening when read as a linear whole, to understand the messy evolution of 'white' Irishness in a racially divided America. * Ciara Smart, Australasian Journal of Irish studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Past is a Foreign Country 1: Towards Scots-Irish Gothic 2: Closeted Irish: Henry James 3: How the Irish Became Red: O'Neill and Fitzgerald 4: Complicit Irishness: Plantation novels by Yerby, Mitchell, and Faulkner 5: White Wedding: Grace Kelly, spectacle, and Irish assimilation Epilogue: Kennedy Gothic","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732602302807,"sku":"9780192859730","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780192859730.jpg?v=1719997601"},{"product_id":"complicating-articulation-in-art-cinema-9780192894069","title":"Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComplicating Articulation in Art Cinema argues that art cinema draws attention to its disjointed, multi-parted form, but that criticism has too frequently sought to explain this complexity away by stitching the parts together in totalizing readings. This stitching together has often relied on the assumption that the solution to art cinema''s puzzles lies in interpreting each film as the expression of a focalizing character''s internal disturbance. This book challenges this assumption. It argues that the attempt to explain formal complexity through this character-centric approach reduces formal achievements and enigmatic characters to inadequate approximations of one another. Reference to character cannot fully tame unschematic and unpredictable combinations of - and collisions between - contradictory levels of narration, clashing styles, discontinuously edited shots, jarring allusions, dislocated genre signifiers, and intermedial elements. 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The final section has been completely rewritten and expanded to take into account the major films and trends of the past nine years. Particular attention has been paid to the growth of documentary film-making in the Soviet Union since Glasnost and the corresponding expansion in the United States, including Ken Burns''s The Civil War, which broke all audience records for Public Television in 1990.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the best historical overview of that major genre termed 'Documentary' or 'Non-fiction.\" --Edward S. Small, Phd., University of Kansas \"Nothing compares, still.\" --Amy Villarejo, Cornell University \"A reasonably priced introduction to a major area of film making which is all too often left in the shadow of drama. It is both thorough and readable.\" --Fred Caffney, South Kent College \"First rate history--well written, with a coherent and constant focus on the power of the documentary film.\" --Tom Mullin, Eastern Washington University \"The best in its field.  I have used the first edition for almost twenty years to great effect.  Barnouw is a masterful text writer.\" --Robert J. Allen, Seton Hall University \"This is the basic book for anybody who wants to be a documentary filmmaker. Very good!\" --Aleksander Mandis, New York University \"A concise, accurate and indispensable book for any lover of documentary film.  An indispensable reference and a worthy text for any course on the subject.\" --Lynne Jackson, St. Francis College \"The best general history of documentary available. Concise, yet wide ranging and erudite. A valuable classroom text.\" --Michael Griffin, University of Minnesota Praise for Previous Editions: \"A helpful antidote to the spirit....It presents sign posts to where documentary could be and where it may emerge.  Barnouw's style has a clarity and precision that make his books delights to read.\" --Film Quarterly \"The whole panorama has been richly researched and compactly organized into easy prose by Barnouw, writing at the peak of his competence.\" --Variety \"Erik Barnouw puts film history in the mainstream of human history as few others have done before. He reminds us of the powers of film to instruct, exhilarate, excite and deceive, and shows how these powers have been used in our time.\" --Daniel J. Boorstin \"Provides students with a foundation of knowledge from which they can learn, explore, and create.\" --Ronald A. Hoodak, Elmira College \"Indispensable text. I have used Barnouw's book since 1975, and I'm grateful for each updated edition.\" --Bill Huie, Texas A\u0026amp;M University, Corpus Cristi \"Well-written and wonderfully researched. Clear and concise!....I'm very excited using it.\" --Robert J. de Maria, Washington and Lee University \"Superior text.  [I've] used it for years and will continue to do so.\" --Professor E. Scott Bryce, St. Cloud State University \"I will almost certainly use it when I next teach the class.\"--Professor Edward S. Small, University of Kansas \"Very good overview.\"--Mike Duvall, Saugamon State University \"This knowledgeable chronicle and advocacy of the documentary is marked with the poetry of Barnouw's own appreciation of the medium.\" --William Judson, University of Pittsburgh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.: Glimpse of Wonders Prophet 2.: Images at Work Explorer Reporter Painter 3.: Sound and Fury Advocate Bugler Prosecutor 4.: Clouded Lens Poet Chronicler Promoter 5.: Sharp Focus Observer Catalyst Guerilla 6.: Movement","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732636971351,"sku":"9780195078985","price":16.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195078985.jpg?v=1719997748"},{"product_id":"documentary-film-9780195182705","title":"Documentary Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDocumentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty''s pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore''s anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9\/11, from Dziga Vertov''s artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet''s heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively, often fierce debates among filmmakers and scholars about the best ways to represent reality and to tell the truths worth telling. Beginning with an overview of the central issues of documentary filmmaking--its definitions and purposes, its forms and founders--Aufderheide focuses on several of its key subgenres, including public affairs films, government propaganda (particularly the works produced during World War II), historical documentaries, and nature films. Her thematic approach allows readers to enter the subject matter through the kinds of films that first attracted them to documentaries, and it permits her to make connections between eras, as well as revealing the ongoing nature of documentary''s core controversies involving objectivity, advocacy, and bias. Interwoven throughout are discussions of the ethical and practical considerations that arise with every aspect of documentary production. A particularly useful feature of the book is an appended list of 100 great documentaries that anyone with a serious interest in the genre should see. Drawing on the author''s four decades of experience as a film scholar and critic, this book is the perfect introduction not just for teachers and students but also for all thoughtful filmgoers and for those who aspire to make documentaries themselves. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlways clear and concise... a welcome addition to the Very Short Introductions series. * The Observer *","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732637823319,"sku":"9780195182705","price":12.73,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195182705.jpg?v=1719997751"},{"product_id":"astaire-by-numbers-time-the-straight-white-male-dancer-9780197643594","title":"Astaire by Numbers Time  the Straight White Male","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAstaire by Numbers offers a complete re-assessment of a twentieth-century icon of American popular culture through a new looks at every second of dancing Fred Astaire committed to film in the studio era. Author Todd Decker provides a deep examination of this towering straight white male figure from the ground up by digging deeply into questions of race, gender, and sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn wonderfully engaging prose, Decker demonstrates how and why both musical and computational numbers count in Astaire's films, and he is also enviably good at describing the qualitative dimension of those numbers. This book will be a delight for Astaire enthusiasts and a must-read for devotees and students of dance on film, while also providing a sobering account of the systemic racism and careful, career-long self-regulation that sustained his successful dancing performance of straight white masculinity. * Raymond Knapp, Distinguished Professor of Musicology and Humanities, UCLA *\u003cbr\u003eTodd Decker's Astaire by Numbers deftly pairs quantitative analysis with archival research to examine both the material labor of Fred Astaire's dancing body and his position of power within the Hollywood studio era. Through a novel and careful parsing of musical choreography and production practices, Decker illustrates how Astaire's identity as a cisgender, heterosexual white male allowed him to dominate the Hollywood Studio era's film musicals in a way no other musical star has. * Colleen T. Dunagan, California State University, Long Beach *\u003cbr\u003eAstaire by Numbers provides an in-depth look into the fastidious creative processes of Fred Astaire and how the dancer's work and persona shaped the concept of the male dancer during his time... Recommended. 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Westerns in particular propose a remarkable vision of white settlers'' westward expansion that reveals a transformation in what American Progress came to mean.Initially, these films tracked settlers moving westward across the Appalachians, Great Plains, and Rockies. Their seizure of empty land provoked continual resistance from Indigenous peoples and Mexicans; pioneers suffered extreme hardships, but heroic male figures usually scattered or wiped out those aliens. Some films indulged in nostalgic empathy for the Indian as a Vanishing American. In the early 1910s, westerns became increasingly popular. In Indian pictures, Native Americans ranged from devious savages, victims of white violence, and Noble Savages to in-between figures caught between cultures and mixed-descent peoples partnered for security or advantage. 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Hart, \"The Silent Man\"  Touring the West 4   Chapter 5: Harry Carey, Tom Mix, Douglas Fairbanks  Afterword Bibliography Endnotes Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732676456791,"sku":"9780197744055","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197744055.jpg?v=1719997912"},{"product_id":"the-oxford-guide-to-film-studies-9780198711247","title":"The Oxford Guide to Film Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComprehensive, authoritative, and unique, The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is the up-to-date critical volume on the theories, debates, and approaches to the study of film. A host of international experts provide an overview of the main disciplinary approaches to film studies, an explanation of the main concepts and methods involved in film analysis, a survey of the main issues and debates in the study of film, and critical discussion of key areas. The Guide features: * Comprehensive coverage suitable for any course on cinema or film studies * Organized into three sections: Approaches; Hollywood and the World; World Cinema * An emphasis throughout on critical concepts, methods, and debates * Specially commissioned chapters on such varied topics as film music, the Hollywood Star System, and the idea of national cinema * Coverage dedicated to important new areas in film studies: gay and lesbian criticism, postcolonial theory, audience studies, post-classical Hollywood cinema, and cultural studies * Chapters discussing exciting new developments in classical topics, such as Early Hollywood Cinema, Film History, and the avant-garde* Illustrated throughout, and complete with `readings'' designed to demonstrate the variety of theoretical approaches, chapter headings and summaries, guides to further reading, and `highlight'' quotes With its uniquely comprehensive coverage, The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is an indispensable aide and reference source for the student of film and media, and anyone interested in the study of cinema.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the first things that strikes you about The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is the number of contributors, nearly 70 in all representing a fair cross-section of leading scholarship mainly (though not exclusively) from the United Kingdom and the United States. This is a great strength.\" * The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 1999 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Prominence is given to the politics of gender and sexuality, an accurate reflection of the balance of debates within the discipline over the past two decades at least.\" * The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 1999 *\u003cbr\u003e\"In its coverage of major theoretical issues, provides a sound introduction for undergraduate film-studies students and perhaps even more usefully, for students on courses on which film is only a part.\" * The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 1999 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Featuring entries from most of the reigning luminaries in the field, this solid, exhaustive volume is possibly the best all-in-one guide currently available. The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches, and there are a few surpises --- for instance, pornography is firmly ensconced as a respectable academic subject.\" * Sight and Sound, May 1998 *\u003cbr\u003esubstantial book that, particularly in its coverage of major theoretical issues, provides a sound introduction for undergraduate film-studies students and, perhaps even more usefully, for students on courses of which film is only a part. * Steve Blandford, The Times Higher Education Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Introduction ; PART ONE: CRITICAL APPROACHES ; 1. Introduction to Film Studies ; STUDYING THE FILM TEXT ; 2. The Film Text and Film Form ; 3. Film Acting ; 4. Film Costume ; 5. Film Music ; THE FILM TEXT: THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS ; 6. Classic Film Theory and Semiotics ; 7. Formalism and Neo-formalism ; 8. Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory ; 9. Film and Psychoanalysis ; 10. Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction ; 11. Film and Postmodernism ; FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: GENDER, IDEOLOGY, AND IDENTITIES ; 12. Marxism and Film ; 13. Feminism and Film ; 14. Gay and Lesbian Criticism ; 15. Queer Theory ; 16. Pornography ; 17. Race, Ethnicity, and Film ; 18. Film and Cultural Identity ; FILM TEXT AND CONTEXT: CULTURE, HISTORY, AND RECEPTION ; 19. Film and History ; 20. Sociology and Film ; 21. Cultural Studies and Film ; 22. Film Audiences ; 23. Hermeneutics, Reception Aesthetics, and Film Interpretation ; PART TWO: AMERICAN CINEMA AND HOLLYWOOD: CRITICAL APPROACHES. ; AMERICAN CINEMA: HISTORY, INDUSTRY, AND INTERPRETATION ; 1. American Cinema and Film History ; 2. History and Cinema Technology ; 3. Hollywood as Industry ; 4. Early American Film ; 5. Classical Hollywood Film and Melodrama ; 6. Post-classical Hollywood ; CRITICAL CONCEPTS ; 7. Authorship and Hollywood ; 8. Genre and Hollywood ; 9. 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British Cinema ; 15. Ireland and Cinema ; 16. Australian Cinema ; 17. Canadian Cinema ; WORLD CINEMA ; 18. Issues in World Cinema ; CASE-STUDIES: CINEMAS OF THE WORLD ; 19. Indian Cinema ; 20. Chinese Cinema ; 21(a) Hong Kong Cinema: Discovery and Pre-Discovery ; 21(b) China, and 1997 ; 22. Taiwanese New Cinema ; 23. Japanese Cinema ; 25. South American Cinema ; FILM IN A CHANGING AGE ; 26. Film and Changing Technologies ; 27. Film and Television","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732767715671,"sku":"9780198711247","price":58.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198711247.jpg?v=1719998312"},{"product_id":"french-cinema-9780198718611","title":"French Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice. The French invented the auteur and the ciné-club; they incubated criticism from the 1920s to our own day that is unrivalled; and they boast more film journals, fan magazines, TV shows, and festivals devoted to film than anywhere else. This Very Short Introduction opens up French cinema through focusing on some of its most notable works, using the lens of the New Wave decade (1958-1968) that changed cinema worldwide. Exploring the entire French cinematic oeuvre, Dudley Andrew teases out distinguishing themes, tendencies, and lineages, to bring what is most crucial about French Cinema into alignment. 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From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood , Indian Cinema has challenged social injustices such as caste, the oppression of Indian women, religious intolerance, rural poverty, and the pressures of life in the burgeoning cities. And yet, the Indian movie industry makes only about five percent of Hollywood''s annual revenue.In this Very Short Introduction Ashish Rajadhyaksha delves into the political, social, and economic factors which, over time, have shaped Indian Cinema into a fascinating counterculture. Covering everything from silent cinema through to the digital era, Rajadhyaksha examines how the industry reflects the complexity and variety of Indian society through the dramatic changes of the 20th century, and into the beginnings of the 21st. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. 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Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field, and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism; national, international, and transnational cinemas; film history, movements, and genres; film industry organizations and practices; and key technical terms and concepts. Since its first publication in 2012, the dictionary has been updated to incorporate over 40 new entries, including  computer games and film, disability, ecocinema, identity, portmanteau film, Practice as Research, and film in Vietnam.  Moreover, numerous revisions have been made to existing entries to account for developments in the discipline, and changes to film institutions more generally. Indices of films and filmmakers mentioned in the text are included for easy access to relevant entries. 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This book is the first to consider the significant interplay between fashion and interiors and their combined contribution to cinematic style from early film to the digital age.With examples from Frank Lloyd Wright inspired architecture in Hitchcock's \u003ci\u003eNorth by Northwest,\u003c\/i\u003e to Coco Chanel's costumes for Gloria Swanson and a \u003ci\u003eGreat Gatsby \u003c\/i\u003efilm-set turned Ralph Lauren flagship, \u003ci\u003eCinematic Style\u003c\/i\u003e describes the reciprocal relationship between these cultural forms. Exposing the bleeding lines between fashion and interiors in cinematic and real-life contexts, Berry presents case studies of cinematic styles adopted as brand identities and design movements promoted through filmic fantasy.Shedding light on\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCinematic Style\u003c\/i\u003e approaches the long-term disciplinary distinction between fashion, architectural decor and interior design through the lens of cinema, arguing for the interconnectivity of these fields. Abundantly illustrated, with an approachable writing style and innovative story line, it is an essential read for scholars of the domestic, commercial, or fictive interior, fashion historians, architects and historic preservationists alike. * Anca Lasc, Pratt Institute, USA *\u003cbr\u003eBerry brings themes from feminist theory, and to a lesser degree, Queer theory, to bear on this slice through film history to consider intersections between fashion, design and groupings of films (many canonical) from the 1920s and 1930s, the mid- and late 20th-century, and more recent examples. Anyone with an interest in masquerade, transformation, performativity, staging, interiority, gender, and sexuality, as well as camp, Queer nostalgia, and Queer heterotopias, fashion and luxury, will find much to intrigue them in here. * Pat Kirkham, Kingston School of Art, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures                                                                                                                          Acknowledgements                                                                                                                   Introduction: Cinematic Style—Fashion, Architecture and the Interior on Film                                      1. Bedrooms, Boudoirs and Bathrooms: Modern Women, Seductive Spaces and Spectacular Silhouettes  2. Evil Lairs and Bachelor Dandies: Modernist Architecture, Spies and the Suit                             3. Luxurious Longings: Queer Heterotopias in Décor and Dress  4. Grand Entrances: Staircases, Stages and Fashion Parades  5. Windows and Screens: Cinema, Department Stores and Boutique Displays                                        6. Dream Spaces: Film Sets as Fashion Flagships and Experiential Retail Environments      Conclusion                                                                                                                                Notes Filmography                                                                                                                                                        Bibliography                                                                                                                                                        Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738593472855,"sku":"9781350137622","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350137622.jpg?v=1720049587"},{"product_id":"christopher-nolan-9781350139978","title":"Christopher Nolan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight Rises\u003c\/i\u003e, and also of arthouse films like \u003ci\u003eMemento\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInception\u003c\/i\u003e.  Underlying his staggering commercial success however, is a darker sensibility that questions the veracity of human knowledge, the allure of appearance over reality and the latent disorder in contemporary society. This appreciation of the sinister owes a huge debt to philosophy and especially modern thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida. Taking a thematic approach to Nolan's oeuvre, Robbie Goh examines how the director's postmodern inclinations manifest themselves in non-linearity, causal agnosticism, the threat of social anarchy and the frequent use of the \u003ci\u003emise en abyme\u003c\/i\u003e, while running counter to these are narratives of heroism, moral responsibility and the dignity of human choice. For Goh, Nolan is a reluctant postmodernist'. His films reflect the c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA magisterial sweep over a multifold canvas. At once \u003ci\u003eauteur\u003c\/i\u003e, social critic, genie, and moralist, Goh’s Nolan is a layered and evolving medium for our times. From the restless \u003ci\u003enoir\u003c\/i\u003e of the earliest works, to the historical gravitas of the most recent, Goh’s survey penetrates intricacies and opens new perceptions. A must-read study on a crucial \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e for critics, students, filmmakers and fans alike. * Lauren M.E. Goodlad, Professor of English, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA *\u003cbr\u003eWith deft handling of Christopher Nolan’s diverse oeuvre, Robbie Goh puts forward a strong argument for the philosophical depths of films such as \u003ci\u003eInception\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDunkirk\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Film Narrative and\/as Philosophy","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738594095447,"sku":"9781350139978","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350139978.jpg?v=1720049590"},{"product_id":"representing-religion-in-film-9781350140806","title":"Representing Religion in Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between religion, film, and ideology. It shows how religion is imagined, constructed, and interpreted in film and film criticism. The films analyzed include \u003ci\u003eThe Last Jedi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTerminator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDarjeeling Limited\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHellboy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Revenant\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Religulous\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret of my Success\u003c\/i\u003e.  Each chapter offers: - an explanation of the particular representation of religion that appears in film - a discussion of how this representation has been interpreted in film criticism and religious studies scholarship - an in-depth study of a Hollywood or popular film to highlight the rhetorical, social, and political functions this representation accomplishes on the silver screen - a discussion about how such analysis might be applied to other films of a similar genre  Written in an accessible style, and focusing on Hollywood and popular cinema, this book will be of interest to both movie l\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRelevant for students and scholars across a range of disciplines, \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Religion in Film\u003c\/i\u003e not only provides analyses of compelling case studies, but it also presents the theoretical tools necessary for studying religion and popular culture more broadly. Read with a highlighter and a bag of popcorn. * K. Merinda Simmons, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis book will change the way we think about religion and film studies. * William L. Blizek, Professor Emeritus, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors Forward, Tenzan Eaghll \u003ci\u003e(independent scholar, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e and Rebekka King \u003ci\u003e(Middle Tennessee State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e Introduction - Three Film Critics Walk into a Theatre: The Ideological Blindspot in the Academic Study of Religion and Film, Tenzan Eaghll \u003ci\u003e(independent scholar, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 1.       Atheistic Documentaries and the Critique of Religion in Bill Maher’s\u003ci\u003e Religulous, \u003c\/i\u003eTeemu Taira \u003ci\u003e(University of Helsinki, Finland)\u003c\/i\u003e 2.       Capitalism, the Hero’s Journey, and the Myth of Entrepreneurship in \u003ci\u003eThe Secret to My Success \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Joy, \u003c\/i\u003eDennis LoRusso\u003ci\u003e (Princeton University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 3.       Oprah, Mindy, and Reese: The Holy Trinity of Disney’s \u003ci\u003eA Wrinkle in Time, \u003c\/i\u003eLeslie Dorrough Smith \u003ci\u003e(Avila University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 4.       Race, Colonialism, and Whiteness in Scorsese’s\u003ci\u003e Silence, \u003c\/i\u003eMalory Nye\u003ci\u003e (Aberdeen University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 5.       We Haven’t Located Us Yet: The Mystic East in Wes Anderson’s \u003ci\u003eDarjeeling Limited, \u003c\/i\u003eMichael J. Altman \u003ci\u003e(University of Alabama, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 6.       Lost in Žižek, Redeemed in \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e: Buddhism and Other Tales of “Asian Religions” in Western Cinema and Affective Circulation\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eTing Guo (\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Toronto, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e 7.       Magical realism, Anti-modernity, and the Religious Imaginaries of Latin American cinema: A look through Ciro Guerra’s \u003ci\u003eThe Wind Journeys, \u003c\/i\u003eRebecca Bartel\u003ci\u003e (San Diego State University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 8.       Unsettling Settler-Colonial Myths about Native Americans in \u003ci\u003eThe Revenant, \u003c\/i\u003eMatt Sheedy \u003ci\u003e(Bonn University, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e 9.       From the Horrors of Human Tragedy and Social Reproduction to the Comfort of a Demonic Cult: Agency in the Film \u003ci\u003eHereditary, \u003c\/i\u003eSean McCloud \u003ci\u003e(University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 10.   Superheroes, Apocalyptic Messiahs, and \u003ci\u003eHellboy\u003c\/i\u003e, Aaron Ricker \u003ci\u003e(McGill University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 11.   AI Apocalypticism and the Religious Impulse In, and \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e, the Terminator Franchise, Beth Singler (\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Cambridge, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 12.   Myth of the Auteur and the Authentic in \u003ci\u003eStar Wars: The Last Jedi, \u003c\/i\u003eRichard Newton (\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Alabama, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e Conclusion - Religion as Film: Constructing a Course as a Critique of a Dominant Paradigm, Tenzan Eaghll \u003ci\u003e(independent scholar, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738594259287,"sku":"9781350140806","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350140806.jpg?v=1720049591"},{"product_id":"believing-in-film-9781350160491","title":"Believing in Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Le Fanu\u003c\/b\u003e is a well-known writer on film who has contributed regular pieces and columns to Sight and Sound, Positif and the East-West Review. A former Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, he was from 1993-2008 Director of Studies in Film History at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) and\u003ci\u003e Mizoguchi and Japan\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), which was shortlisted in its year of publication for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStyle is one of the remarkable aspects of Dr Le Fanu’s book. It is beautifully free from useless technicalities and the clotted syntax that afflicts many academic writers … [he has] an ability to convey the thrust of a film that the reader might not have seen, and an openness to directors’ ideas that might be uncongenial to the author ... gripping. * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eIn this superb cultural history, Mark Le Fanu considers the religious impulse that distinguishes so much European cinema in its golden age from the second world war up to the 1980s … Le Fanu’s wonderful survey, with its aphoristic grace and erudition lightly worn, is from start to finish a delight to read. * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e[There is] much of fascination here for a general reader … [This book] has not only stimulated and educated, but led to my seeking out copies of four films that Le Fanu makes seem especially fascinating: Bergman’s \u003ci\u003eWinter Light\u003c\/i\u003e, Buñuel’s \u003ci\u003eSimon of the Desert\u003c\/i\u003e, Zanussi’s \u003ci\u003eSpirala\u003c\/i\u003e and Dreyer’s \u003ci\u003eDay of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e. These purchases prove this deeply-felt treatise also to be a work of evangelism. * The Tablet *\u003cbr\u003eClearly and thoughtfully written, with thankfully no film studies jargon, this book is one to be truly grateful for. * Catholic Herald *\u003cbr\u003eThe substance of \u003ci\u003eBelieving in Film \u003c\/i\u003eis an auteurist, country-by-country survey of the place of the Christian religion among the output of European directors during the golden age of art cinema from the time of World War II up to the end of the 1980s. The author’s criterion for inclusion is not that a film should exhibit, or that a director should possess, faith, but only that the film should evidence a sympathy for Christianity, even when criticising its pretensions. One of the pleasures of tourism for the thinking traveller is the appreciation of different European countries’ attitudes to what remains of their religion, and that pleasure is replicated and enhanced in this book by the author’s understated and sensitive discussion of favourite films, based on a life-time of critical discernment. For Le Fanu is one of those nuanced and thoughtful people who, while rejecting extremes, is not embarrassed to confess that he remains open to the ‘still-living truths of Christianity’. * Standpoint Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eAre we all still Christian? Or at least unwilling to stop framing the world in a Christian narrative? Mark Le Fanu’s compelling and courageous account of European cinema is an invitation to think of films in a different light, and to explore a marvellous repertoire of films everyone ought to know better. From Pavel Lungin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Island\u003c\/i\u003e to Ermanno Olmi’s \u003ci\u003eThe Fiancés\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrzej Wajda’s \u003ci\u003eAshes and Diamonds\u003c\/i\u003e to Bunuel’s \u003ci\u003eNazarin\u003c\/i\u003e, Le Fanu ably shows how saturated our Western imagination is in such notions as sin and sacrifice, predestination and redemption, how frequently, even in the work of atheists and agnostics, epiphanies, miracles and resurrections occur. Proceeding from one engaging account to another, \u003ci\u003eBelieving in Film\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely reminder of the resilience and narrative fertility of our Christian tradition. * Tim Parks, novelist and Associate Professor of English, IULM University, Milan, Italy *\u003cbr\u003eMark Le Fanu, who \"endured a Catholic upbringing during the 1950s in the north of Scotland\", has written a lucid and highly readable  study of the role of religion – and specifically, the Christian religion – in classic European cinema. His thesis, unfashionable in certain quarters but cogently argued, that religion and culture are inseparable, takes in not only expected figures like Bresson and Tarkovsky, but also such avowed atheists as the Spanish director  Luis Buñuel. 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He traces the origins of \u003ci\u003ekaika eiga\u003c\/i\u003e in Japanese kabuki theatre and traditions of the monstrous feminine, showing how these traditional forms were combined with the style and conventions of Hollywood horror to produce an aesthetic that was both transnational and peculiarly Japanese.\u003ci\u003eGhost in the Well \u003c\/i\u003esheds new light on one of Japanese ci\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn engrossing, insightful celebration of Japan’s rich horror-film history, a saga shaped by war, military occupation, time-honored tales, and innovative artists who remain largely unknown abroad. * Cineaste *\u003cbr\u003eCrandol’s research is firmly grounded in meticulous citation of relevant Japanese-language sources. * Monumenta Nipponica *\u003cbr\u003eMoving beyond the usual suspects of internationally acclaimed turn-of-the-millennium J-horror flicks, Michael Crandol’s groundbreaking study of the transnational history of the horror film in Japan plunges us into the very bowels of the kitschy, wonderfully creepy, sometimes terrifying, always thrilling realm of the perennially popular Japanese “cinema of the strange.” -- Adam L. Kern, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA\u003cbr\u003eA welcome challenge to the prevailing notion that genres such as supernatural horror should only be understood in Western terms. -- Jasper Sharp, Independent scholar, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1. Kaiki eiga: Naming the Classic Japanese Horror Film 2. Ghost Cat vs Samurai: Prewar Kaiki Cinema    3.  The Dead Sleep Unwell: Censorship and the Postwar Return of Kaiki  4. Uncanny Invasions and Osore Incarnate: Shintoho Studios and Nakagawa Nobuo 5. Back from the Dead: The Kaiki Legacy of J-horror Afterword: …The End? 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Through broadening the frame of study beyond the screen, the book widens understanding of the cinema, not merely as a collection of films-as-texts, but as a site of cultural and political contestation in the Arab world.   Divided into two sections, and guided by interdisciplinary considerations, the contributors examine historical and contemporary issues of Arab cinema in terms of the experience of movie-going and filmmaking. 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Patricia Caillé (Université de Strasbourg, France) 10.Gatekeepers or Facilitators? MAD Solutions and Other Film Distribution Networks for Arab Cinema, Stefanie Van de Peer (Queen Margaret University, UK) 11.A New Online Cinema Audience? an interview on aflamuna with Jad Abi Khalil, Anaïs Farine (University Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis, France) 12.A Taste for Cinema: Saudi Arabia’s Mediated Transitional Public Film Culture, Anne Ciecko (University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA) 13.The Multifunctional Cinema Exhibition Space at the Turn of the Century: a dialogue, Nour El Safoury (independent researcher, Egypt)  and Jowe Harfouche (Network of Arab Alternative Screens (NAAS), Lebanon) 14.The Visual Nation: Film, Soft Power and Egypt as a Community of Spectators, Iskandar Abdalla (Berlin Graduate School, Germany)  Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738598519127,"sku":"9781350163713","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350163713.jpg?v=1723812145"},{"product_id":"the-cinema-of-sofia-coppola-9781350178076","title":"The Cinema of Sofia Coppola","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Sofia Coppola\u003c\/i\u003e provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola's oeuvre that situates her work broadly in relation to contemporary artistic, social and cultural currents. 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She also explores the theme of celebrity, including Coppola's own director-star persona, and argues that Coppola's auteur status rests on an original and distinct visual style, derived from the filmmaker's complex engagement with photography and painting.Ferriss analyzes each of Coppola's six films, categorizing them in two groups: films where fashion commands attention (\u003ci\u003eMarie Antoinette, The Beguiled \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Bling Ring\u003c\/i\u003e) and those where clothing and material goods do not stand out ostentatiously, but \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScholar Ferriss traces and deconstructs how Coppola’s knowledge of interior design, fashion, architecture, art and music informs every aspect of her movies – and their carefully crafted, painterly compositions – and illuminates how deftly style becomes substance. * Everything Zoomer *\u003cbr\u003eSuzanne Ferriss presents us with an indispensable study that effectively captures the complexities of Sofia Coppola's universe through the lens of fashion, culture and celebrity. * The Journal of Dress History *\u003cbr\u003eThought provoking for fans of Coppola’s work and casual viewers alike. * Film Criticism *\u003cbr\u003eFerriss offers a sophisticated and wide-ranging analysis of Coppola's films and their intersections with fashion, art and celebrity culture. This is the first study, in particular, that positions Coppola's aesthetic preoccupations from the perspective of neither feminism nor post-feminism, but rather from that of art history. This book, therefore, offers a genuinely new, vital and fascinating take on a currently neglected, or under-studied, aspect of Coppola's oeuvre. Ferriss combines rich analysis with extensive knowledge of Coppola's artistic influences and writes both lucidly and beautifully. This study will be indispensable to both undergraduate students and serious scholars of not only film, but also those working in interdisciplinary subjects such as fashion studies, gender studies and art history. -- Anna Backman Rogers, Senior Lecturer in Feminism and Visual Culture, University of Gothenburg, Sweden\u003cbr\u003eSuzanne Ferriss’s timely and lively book makes a convincing case for considering Sofia Coppola a designer as much as a director, creating beautifully fashioned story worlds. Threading together analysis of Coppola’s use of costume, her carefully curated locations, and her eclectic range of photographic and fine art references, this book will appeal not just to devotees of Coppola but also scholars interested in the vibrant interconnections Ferriss demonstrates between fashion, film, and visual cultures. -- Fiona Handyside, Associate Professor of Film Studies, University of Exeter, UK\u003cbr\u003eThis vibrant addition to the growing body of Coppola scholarship is an exquisitely detailed celebration of her luscious visual style, in the particular context of costume and fashion, photography and fame. Ferris explores Coppola’s unique set of influences and firmly demonstrates her cultural prestige and indisputable significance. -- Lucy Bolton, Deputy Head of Film, Queen Mary, University of London, UK\u003cbr\u003eA tour de force of extensive range yet admirable clarity, \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Sofia Coppola \u003c\/i\u003estands apart in the rapidly expanding field of Coppola studies for its definitive demonstration of the filmmaker's debt and contribution to fashion cultures, broadly defined. Moving nimbly between areas as diverse as fine art, phenomenology and business, Suzanne Ferriss' study conjures vividly the far-reaching impact of \"Coppolism\" as a densely intermedial aesthetic and social phenomenon. -- Mary Harrod, Assistant Professor, University of Warwick, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Sofia Coppola\u003c\/i\u003e will fast become the go-to reference volume for any student, scholar or cinephile interested in the films of this talented, award-winning director. Writing in a readable and engaging style, the author provides a wealth of well-researched material about the complicated itinerary that lead to the success of one of the world’s most prominent women auteurs. -- Hilary Radner, Professor Emeritus, University of Otago, New Zealand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1. Self-Fashioning 2. Fashioning Worlds 3. Film Style 4. 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In the bold colors and improbable plots of Sirk’s melodramas he finds important lessons not just about race, class, and gender, but also—and perhaps more importantly—about the limits of moral inquiry. * Martin Woessner, Associate Professor of History \u0026amp; Society, Center for Worker Education, The City College of New York (CUNY), USA *\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Pippin’s book provides extraordinary and perceptive insights into Douglas Sirk’s Hollywood films. The book unravels a range of arguments with admirable clarity while paying attention to Sirk’s visual style, as well to as his uses of story and character. Pippin argues that characters in these films often perform actions in ways that are beyond their understanding. This provides these films with a very particular moral atmosphere in which good characters do ‘wrong’ things, but in ways that, for the most part, engage our sympathy and admiration. * Richard Rushton, Senior Lecturer in Film, Lancaster University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eIn this wonderfully provocative study, Robert Pippin explores three of Sirk’s most famous American melodramas, finding in their excesses and irony a philosophical rigour. Ingeniously, Pippin explains how Sirk’s sumptuously pessimistic world forecloses, for the characters, any real possibility of love, mutuality and self-knowledge, despite the putative happy endings. For viewers willing to give Sirk’s films a “second” or “third thought”, however, Pippin teaches us to see past the surface of bourgeois morality and discover a more difficult but worthwhile reckoning with “the politics of American emotional life” and our own complicities with its sympathetic registers. * Jennifer Fay, Professor and Chair of Cinema  \u0026amp; Media Arts and Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003epreface \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eacknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter One. Introduction: Irony as Subversion Chapter Two. Love and Class in All That Heaven Allows Chapter Three. Misplaced Moralism in Written on the Wind Chapter Four. 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Chapters are at once historically grounded yet fused with the current analysis of today''s generation of cine-philes, to rediscover a unique moment for extraordinary film production. \u003ci\u003eOther Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e establishes the factors that helped to shape alternative film: world cinema and internationalism, the politics of cultural policy and arts funding, new accessible technologies, avant-garde theories, and the development of a dynamic and interactive relationship between film and its audiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring and celebrating the work of The Other Cinema, the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn invaluable reference source for academics, researchers and the wider public less familiar with this significant period of British film history. -- William Raban, University of the Arts London, UK\u003cbr\u003eThis anthology brilliantly reflects the struggles and achievements of a generation of filmmakers and film scholars outside Britain's commercial entertainment industry. 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The political force of his films, including the classic \u003ci\u003eThe Travelling Players\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), gave way to more essayistic works exploring identity, love, loss, memory and, ultimately, mortality. This development of sensibilities is charted along with the key cultural moments informing Angelopoulos' shifting thinking. From \u003ci\u003eVoyage to Cythera\u003c\/i\u003e (1984) until his last film, \u003ci\u003eThe Dust of Time\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), Angelopoulos' problematic heroes in search of meaning and purpose engaged with the thinking of Plato, Mark, Heidegger, Arendt and Luckacs, both implicitly and explicitly.\u003ci\u003eTheo Angelopoulos\u003c\/i\u003e also explores the rich visual language and ocular poetics' of Angelopopulos' oeuvre and his mastery of communicating profundit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book has impressively decoded the potential of philosophical complexities in Angelopoulos' films. 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Visual Essay: The Discovery of the Psyche  \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738609889623,"sku":"9781350245365","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350245365.jpg?v=1720049643"},{"product_id":"the-origins-of-the-film-star-system-9781350272255","title":"The Origins of the Film Star System","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early 20th century. Modifying and supplementing Richard deCordova's account of the birth of the US star system, Shail describes the complex set of economic circumstances that led film studios and actors to consent to the adoption of a star system. 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The book should be an important contribution not only to scholars across but also to cultural producers, activists, and even nonspecialized readers interested in the past and future of indigenous people. -- Gustavo Furtado, Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Co-Director of the Amazon Humanities Laboratory at Duke University, USA\u003cbr\u003eThrough a \"trans-methodology\" that crosses disciplines and boundaries of historical periods and countries, Stam shows us how indigenous peoples have constructed a global and intercontinental response to colonialism over the centuries. As a result, the modern world's history emerges as an \"intertextual mise-en-abyme\", in which indigenous progressive social thought, political practices and arts interpose the colonial imaginary. -- Joana Brandão, Tavares Professor at Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB), Brazil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e The Terms of Debate A 1492 Project: Conquest and Discovery The Protocols of Anti-Indigenism The Sacred Land Native Arts and Aesthetics Indigenous Media    \u003cb\u003eChapter One: From France Antartique To Shamanic Critique: The Tupinization Of Social Thought\u003c\/b\u003e France Antartique and Tupi Theory Filming France Antartique Montaigne and Tupi Theory From France Antartique to the Carib Revolution From the French \u003ci\u003ePhilosophes\u003c\/i\u003e to the American Revolution The French Missions, Lévi-Strauss, and the Indian Pierre Clastres, the Anarchist Indigene, and the Wari The Franco-Brazilian Dialogue and the Politics of The Falling Sky   \u003cb\u003eChapter Two: The Indigenous “\u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e:” The Metamorphosis of a Gendered Trope\u003c\/b\u003e The Tupinization of Manhattan The “\u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e” as Filmmaker The \u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e as Myth: Paraguaçu \u003ci\u003eCaramuru: The Invention of Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e The Filmic and Televisual \u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e The \u003ci\u003eCunhã \u003c\/i\u003eDegraded The \u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e as Warrior The \u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e as Forest Princess The Cunhã as Hyper-Woman The Ecological \u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e The “\u003ci\u003eCunhã\u003c\/i\u003e” as Activist\/Artist Myths of Extinction: The Return of the Vanished Indigene   \u003cb\u003eChapter Three: The Transnational “Indian”\u003c\/b\u003e Land and the Frontier Western Going Native Europe’s “White Indians” The Indian Hobbyists Transmedial Indigeneity The Strategic Uses of Humor Painterly Tricksterism Indigeneity and Music First Peoples, First Features Indigenization of Horror   \u003cb\u003eChapter Four: Cross-National Comparabilities: The Indigenization Of Brazilian Media\u003c\/b\u003e Centennial Commemorations and First Contact Films Variations on a Westward Theme Proto-Indigenist Cinema in Brazil Indigenous Media in Brazil Video nas Aldeias The Archival Turn Corumbiara: on the Trail of Massacres The Guaraní and Contrapuntal Narration The Martyrdom of the Guaraní-Kaiowá The Transmediatic Indigene of Popular Culture   \u003cb\u003eChapter Five: Triumphs and the Travails of the Yanomami\u003c\/b\u003e Juan Downey and “The Laughing Alligator” Crossed Filmic Gazes The Poetics of \u003ci\u003eThe Falling Sky\u003c\/i\u003e   The Cinematic Imaginary of the Yanomami  Cinematizing Shamanism\u003ci\u003e: Xapiri\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Last Forest\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eConclusion: The Theoretical Indigene: Becoming Indian, And The Elsewhere Of Capitalism\u003c\/b\u003e   Colonial Ambivalence and the Transnational Gaze Transformational Becomings From Republican Constitutions to the Carib Revolution The Theoretical Indigene Indigeneity and the Postcolonial Left Before and After the Nation-State Postcolonialism and the Nurture of Nature The Fear of a Red Academe: Indigenous Decoloniality The Power of Shamanic Critique Capitalism vs. the Planet The Transnational Trope of Indigenous Happiness Coda       Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738614477143,"sku":"9781350282353","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350282353.jpg?v=1720049659"},{"product_id":"experimental-filmmaking-and-punk-9781350293083","title":"Experimental Filmmaking and Punk","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies. 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Feminism, Visualising the Kitchen Table and Do-It-Yourself: in Praise of the Fragment Part 1 4. Kracauer Disintegration and Punk: In Praise of the Fragment Part 2 5. 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Its foreword by Walter Salles backs up Salles's and Mello's claim that Zhangke is the most important world film director of the twenty-first century so far, and Mello's thorough knowledge and understanding of Chinese cultures of this period underpins the book's location of memory between the realist impulse and the impure multilayeredness of Zhangke's films. -- BAFTSS Awards judges\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of the past 25 years, there has been no better cinematic chronicle of China’s dramatic transformation than the films of Jia Zhangke... Cecília Mello digs deep into Jia’s body of work, unveiling a rich tapestry of intermingling songs, landscapes, textures, and intertexts. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding how Jia Zhangke’s films work. -- Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies, UCLA, USA\u003cbr\u003eCecília Mello’s refined analysis not only unravels Jia Zhangke’s poetics of cinema as a complex aesthetic of in- betweenness contemplating a world in inevitable transience and change, but also proposes an amazingly nuanced intermedial approach that illuminates from different vantage points the deep imbrication of art and life, memory and palpable reality. -- Ágnes Petho, Professor of Film Studies, Sapientia University, Romania\u003cbr\u003eCecília Mello’s book is a breakthrough. It clears the mists around Jia Zhangke’s famously “impure” realism, showing how it is shot through with Chinese aesthetics drawn from wuxia martial arts, Chinese opera performance, gardening, painting, and more. -- Chris Berry, Professor of Film Studies, King’s College London, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 'Introduction: Jia Zhangke, Realism, Memory and Impurity' 2. 'The Walls of China: Between Ephemerality and Permanence' 3. 'Ping Yao’s City Walls: On-Location Filming and the Weight of History' 4. 'Pop Music’s Sonic Memories' 5. 'Landscape Painting, Chinese Philosophy and the Aesthetic Innovation of \u003ci\u003eStill Life'\u003c\/i\u003e 6. 'Opera, Wuxia and China’s Imagined Civilization' 7. 'Painterly Still Lives and Photographic Poses: Stillness and the Moving Image' 8. 'Garden Heterotopias and the Memory of Space' 9. '\u003ci\u003eI Wish I Knew\u003c\/i\u003e’s Cinephilic Journeys (an afterword on intertextuality)' 10. 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By defining a cinema that knows that it is no longer a competitor to Hollywood (i.e. the classic self-other construction), Elsaesser also thinks past the kind of self-exoticism or auto-ethnography that is the perpetual temptation of such a co-produced, multi-platform ''national cinema as world cinema''. Discussing key filmmakers and philosophers, like: Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy; Aki Kaurismäki, abjection and Julia Kristeva; Michael Haneke, the paradoxes of Christianity and Slavoj Zizek; Fatih Akin, Alain Badiou and Jacques\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccessible and rigorous, brimming with indispensable insights for students, scholars, and readers of film studies, continental philosophy, visual culture, and media theory ... 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