Film history, theory or criticism Books
Edinburgh University Press The FeelBad Film
Book SynopsisIn recent years some of the best known European and American art film directors have made films that place the spectator in a position of intense discomfort. How are these unpleasurable viewing experiences created? What do the directors believe they can achieve via the feel bad experience? These questions will be answered in this book.
£25.64
Edinburgh University Press My Self on Camera
Book SynopsisThis book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Making and Unmaking of Francoist Kitsch
Book SynopsisThis book examines five highly influential Francoist films produced from 1938 until 1964 and three later films by critically acclaimed directors Luis Bunuel, Guillermo del Toro, and Alex de la Iglesia that attempt to undermine Francoist aesthetics by re-imagining its visual and narrative cliches.
£90.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema
Book SynopsisMichelle Langford is Associate Professor of film studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research focuses on the cinemas of Iran and Germany. She is the author of Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance (2019) and has published on Iranian cinema in leading film studies journals including Camera Obscura, Screen and Screening the Past.Maryam Ghorbankarimi is Assistant Professor in film studies at Lancaster University, UK. She is the author of A Colourful Presence: The Evolution of Women's Representation in Iranian Cinema. Her edited volume on seminal Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad, ReFocus: The Works of Rakhshan Banietemad was published in 2021. Her current research is on transnational cinema and culture, specifically the representation of gender and sexuality in Middle Eastern cinema.Zahra Khosroshahi is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (SSHRC). She is currently working on her forthcoming monograph Iranian Women Filmmakers: A Cinema of Resistance. Zahra's research explores how film challenges systems of power, and how filmmaking specifically functions as a form of resistance in Iran. She completed her doctorate at the University of East Anglia, UK, working on prominent Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Banietemad's cinema as a gateway into important discussions around gender, femininity, and the taboo.
£133.00
Running Press,U.S. 20th CenturyFox
Book SynopsisMarch 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, Twentieth Century-Fox was one of the preeminent producers of films, stars, and filmmakers. Its unique identity in the industry and place in movie history is unparalleled -- and one of the greatest stories to come out of Hollywood. One man, a legendary producer named Darryl F. Zanuck, is the heart of the story. This narrative tells the complete tale of Zanuck and the films, stars, intrigue, and innovations of the iconic studio that was.
£20.90
Running Press,U.S. Why We Love the Matrix
Book SynopsisRediscover all the reasons you love The Matrix with this unique guide to the cult 90s sci-fi classic, filled with trivia, essays, and behind the scenes looks at characters, production, and so much more. Whether you saw the movie in theaters in 1999 or watched it for the first time at home, there is no denying that The Matrix has had an immense impact on pop culture. A 'must-see' of the science fiction genre and Why We Love The Matrix is the first and only guide that combines entertaining information about the history and making of the film with a celebratory look at all the different aspects that have helped solidify this as a beloved favorite of sci-fi fans.Offering entertaining essays about the key features that have helped the film become the classic it is today—like the origins of the plot and characters, film techniques, and the philosophy behind the story—plus quotes, sidebars, and eye-catching two-color illustrations throughout, Why We Love The Matrix is a great gift for both casual and more serious fans of the movie and, let's face it, Keanu Reeves.
£13.29
Running Press,U.S. Danger on the Silver Screen
Book SynopsisWhether it''s an exhilarating car chase, comedic pratfall, intense fight scene, or a dramatic leap from the top of a building, there is something about watching a well-executed stunt that leaves audiences in awe. When you think of stunts and stunt professionals, the first thing that comes to mind might be the last action or adventure movies you watched, however, this craft is an essential part of filmmaking across all genres and eras. TCM''s Danger on the Silver Screen is a book for both general film lovers-and stunt aficionados-that aims to highlight the history, evolution, and amazing stories of the stunt professionals and film crew took to create some of the most influential and memorable stunts in cinema. Featuring 40 films spanning from the silent era to modern blockbusters, each chapter will include an entertaining profile of the film, the iconic or influential stunt(s) and how they were executed, along with behind-the-scenes stories and interviews from cast and
£19.00
Running Press,U.S. Rotten Movies We Love Cult Classics Underrated
Book SynopsisHook. Wet Hot American Summer. Valley of the Dolls. There are some movies that defy traditional standards -- films panned by critics that go on to become beloved classics and cult phenoms anyway.In Rotten Movies We Love, the editors at Rotten Tomatoes - the leading online aggregator of movie and TV show reviews -- explore and celebrate these underrated films. The book is comprised of short write-ups on rotten movies, focusing on why we love them, why they scored so low on RT''s infamous Tomatometer, fun stories about their making, and how they have became pop-culture touchstones. The book is broken into seven categories that hint at the reasoning found within - People''s Champs, Cult Leaders, Sequels Worth a Second Look and so on - and will also feature 15 essays by critics from Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and more, each about a rotten movie that they love. Punctuated with black-and-white film stills and punchy two-col
£17.99
Running Press,U.S. Hollywood Victory
Book SynopsisRemember a time when all of Hollywood-with the expressed encouragement and investment of the government-joined forces to defend the American way of life? It was World War II and the gravest threat faced the nation, and the world at large. Hollywood answered the call to action.This is the riveting tale of how the film industry enlisted in the Allied effort during the second World War-a story that started with staunch isolationism as studios sought to maintain the European market and eventually erupted into impassioned support in countless ways. Industry output included war films depicting battles and reminding moviegoers what they were fighting for, home-front stories designed to boost the morale of troops overseas, and even musicals and comedies that did their bit by promoting the Good Neighbor Policy with American allies to the south. Stars like Carole Lombard-who lost her life returning from a war bond-selling tour-Bob Hope, and Marlene Dietrich enthusiastically joined USO
£23.75
Scarecrow Press Paramount In Paris
Book SynopsisThe years 1930-1933 were a time of experimentation and change. Sound (in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish) was being added to image by the world''s film studios. Motion Picture News warned that foreign-version talkers were the only means of breaking into film markets abroad. Fans around the world made it clear that they were eager to hear movies in their own languages and had little tolerance for sound films in languages other than their own. In an ambitious and risky attempt to dominate the international sound film market, Paramount invested money abroad where great filmmaking talent was at hand. In the process, Paramount rendered an important service to film history: it put together one of the most complete film records of the talent of an era ever assembled by an institution in the industry. The company set up a huge studio complex in Joinville, near Paris. Robert T. Kane, an experienced Paramount executive, filled the Paris studios with an unprecedented collection of talent and captured on film an era that is now long gone. Waldman offers a look at the 300 films Paramount produced in Paris and the filmmakers who loaned their genius to an effort that has been unjustly overlooked by film historians.Trade ReviewThose familiar with Waldman's previous books on Hollywood and foreigners and lost scenes won't be disappointed. He combines all three subjects in one epic of an entire lost foreign studio...Waldman has done quite a job in rescuing one of Hollywood's mostintriguing stories from the mysts of time...the synopses (of films often more risqu<\#142> than would have been allowed in the States) and the biographies are an enticing read.... * Movie Collector's World *...a useful source of European cinematic history. * American Reference Books Annual *...a fascinating look at the studio's 1930-33 attempts to dominate the market overseas... * Past Times *Those familiar with Waldman's previous books on Hollywood and foreigners and lost scenes won't be disappointed. He combines all three subjects in one epic of an entire lost foreign studio...Waldman has done quite a job in rescuing one of Hollywood's most intriguing stories from the mysts of time...the synopses (of films often more risqu than would have been allowed in the States) and the biographies are an enticing read. * Movie Collector's World *
£111.71
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A New History of Japanese Cinema A Century of
Book SynopsisPresents the history of Japanese cinema which has had an international influence. Drawing upon Japanese film scholarship that has never been published outside Japan, this book provides a chronological survey of a range of films and sheds light on films and directors that are not so famous on the international stage, as well as on those who are.Trade Review"full of helpful historical information...both readable and persuasive...includes an extensive bibliography, filmography, and endnotes. It will be valuable to those pursuing film studies, cultural studies, and Japanese studies...Highly recommended"--- Choice, R. Ducharme, Mount Saint Mary's University -- R. Ducharme, Mount Saint Mary's University * Choice *"A ground-breaking and original work written with considerable expertise, A New History of Japanese Cinema is enhanced with a section of "Reflections," extensive notations, a "Select Filmograpy," a "Select Bibliography," and an exhaustive index, making it especially recommended for academic library Cinematic Studies and Japanese Popular Culture reference collections and supplemental reading lists." -The Midwest Book Review, June 2005 * Midwest Book Review, The *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Translations; Introduction; 1. Cinema, Modernity and the Shochiku Tokyo Studios; 2. Cinema and Nationalism; 3. Cinema and the State; 4. Cinema and Humanism; 5. Cinema and Transgression; 6. Genres and Gender; Reflections.
£39.99
British Film Institute Enfants du Paradis BFI Film Classics
Book SynopsisThis text looks at one of the masterpieces of French cinema, made under great difficulties during the German occupation in World War II, and set in the world of 19th-century Parisian theatre.
£11.39
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Looks and Frictions
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£31.99
British Film Institute October BFI Film Classics
Book SynopsisRichard Taylor asks to what extent the film can lay claim to authentic history. He then examines October's relationship to the politics of the period and explains the theory and its application, as well as placing October in the wider context of Eisenstein's career.
£11.39
Museum of Modern Art Positif 50 Years
Book SynopsisTo celebrate the 50th Anniversary and the 500th issue of the French film journal Positif - voila! A pre-eminent film magazine since its inception, the monthly Positif has always been at the forefront of critical thought, discerning trends in cinema as they are happening. With over fifty articles covering some of the most notable films of the past fifty years, this compendium reveals how the magazine accomplished that very feat throughout its existence. Read Bernard Chardere on Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidados, Paul-Louis Thirard on Maurice Burnan, Robert Benayoun on Frederico Fellini, and other critics on flicks from The African Queen and Hiroshima mon Amour to Reservoir Dogs. With an introduction by Michel Ciment, Positif's editor, and articles by distinguished critics and practitioners, this compilation pays tribute to both the importance of films and the lasting value of Positif.
£14.40
Limelight Editions Cabaret Music on Film Music on Film Series Music
Book SynopsisMUSIC ON FILM: CABARET
£7.99
Hogrefe Publishing Positive Psychology at the Movies: Using Films to Build Character Strengths and Well-Being
Book SynopsisMovies are a powerful and enjoyable medium for learning. This book shows exactly how to use film to learn about the concepts and the real-life benefits of positive psychology, both for self-improvement and in classes or seminars.Trade Review"Positive Psychology at the Movies 2 is an easy, convenient, and fun but serious way to learn about Positive Psychology. Importantly, it provides resources for applying the science to one's own life and for bringing it to others so that all may flourish." Jeanette Biermann, PhD, Cleveland, OH, in The Ohio Psychologist Review (Nov./Dec. 2014) "Positive Psychology at the Movies provides a creative way to explore positive psychology principles through the exploration of films [and] an impressive approach to teaching. Any psychology educator will find a plethora of films to use to teach a wide array of psychological concepts and principles that extend beyond Positive Psychology and are legitimised by rigorous research. This book could be used as a form of cinematherapy [and] would certainly be a useful tool to consolidate psychological concepts and inspire behavior change. "The new inclusions of film exemplars and extended appendices add to the quality of teaching resources that the book provides. "In addition, its stimulating and contemporary presentation should encourage a broader audience including lay people who want to evaluate the meaning of movies." Melissa Monfries, Counselling and Psychological Health, La Trobe University, in Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, vol 14, 2014 "Need a dose of courage? An injection of humility? A dram of teamwork? Then look no further than the movies for inspiration. Positive Psychology at the Movies: Using Films to Build Character Strengths and Well-Being (2nd ed.) is a tightly organized, thematically interesting, and, of course, utterly positive guide to viewing films through the lens of flourishing. Film is a natural medium by which to illustrate psychological concepts and bear witness to the experiences of (fantastical) others. The book's purpose is to highlight films that 'portray and inspire character strengths', and it succeeds - exemplar films are discussed and dissected according to their respective key concept, relevant research, signature strengths, strength dynamics, benefits, and coping. The book lends itself to classroom use, as evidenced by Appendix E, "Questions for Classroom, Therapy, and Movie Group Discussions", and by Appendix G, "Syllabus of a Positive Psychology Course That Uses Movies". As well, it can be a tool in individual and/or group therapy. Prof. Debra Merskin, PhD, Associate Professor of Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, in PsycCRITIQUES, 2014, Vol. 59, No. 28, Article 6 "Ryan Niemiec and Danny Wedding's updated edition of Positive Psychology at the Movies is an exploration of the ways that movies can illuminate and portray the principles of positive psychology, especially character strengths... "[The authors] encourage the reader to watch films with an eye on strengths and well-being. They ask us to watch mindfully instead of passively, and to take lessons from the films and apply them to our own lives... [They] also give practical applications for mining the most character strength knowledge from a film and ways to bring that learning into daily life. There is a great deal of information here. "The most intriguing part of [the] 470-page book ... focuses on the ways in which movies can support Martin Seligman's PERMA model of human flourishing... The learning possibilities are endless." Bright Dickson, MAPP, Theano Coaching LLC, in Psychology News Daily, 2013 "[A] valuable book. As a business consultant and leadership coach, I continually look for ways to help my clients increase their awareness of their leadership style, and how their personality and sense of self informs this awareness. The use of films and clips (including examples from television) are a valuable tool. I have already shared this book with my peers..." Howard A Fox, MA, Fielding Graduate University, in Doody's Listings and Reviews, 2013Table of ContentsTable of Contents About the Authors ... ii Dedication ... v In Memoriam ... vii Foreword to this Second Edition ... viii Foreword to the First Edition ... ix Preface ... x Acknowledgments ... xiii Section I: Introduction and Background ... 1 1. Introduction ... 3 Section II: Character Strengths at the Movies ... 27 The Virtue of Wisdom and Knowledge ... 29 2. Wisdom and Knowledge I: Creativity and Curiosity ... 31 3. Wisdom and Knowledge II: Judgment , Love of Learning , and Perspective ... 54 The Virtue of Courage ... 83 4. Courage I: Bravery and Perseverance ... 85 5. Courage II: Honesty and Zest ... 108 The Virtue of Humanity ... 131 6. Humanity I: Love ... 133 7. Humanity II: Kindness and Social Intelligence ... 151 The Virtue of Justice ... 177 8. Justice: Teamwork , Fairness , and Leadership ... 179 The Virtue of Temperance ... 215 9. Temperance: Forgiveness , Humility , Prudence , and Self-Regulation ... 217 The Virtue of Transcendence ... 259 10. Transcendence I: Appreciation of Beauty/Excellence and Gratitude ... 261 11. Transcendence II: Hope and Humor ... 285 12. Transcendence III: Spirituality ... 310 Section III: PERMA at the Movies ... 333 13. Positive Relationships ... 337 14. Achievement, Positive Emotions, Engagement, and Meaning ... 348 15. Mindfulness and Resilience ... 361 Section IV: Conclusion ... 371 16. Conclusion and Future Directions ... 373 xvi Positive Psychology at the Movies Appendices ... 377 Appendix A: Exemplars in Positive Psychology at the Movies ... 379 Appendix B: The Positive Psychology Film Awards ... 380 Appendix C: Positive Psychology Movies for Children, Adolescents, and Families ... 381 Appendix D: Positive Psychology Shorts ... 383 Appendix E: Questions for Classroom, Therapy, and Movie Group Discussions ... 385 Appendix F: Positive Psychology Movie Clips ... 386 Appendix G: Syllabus of a Positive Psychology Course That Uses Movies ... 387 Appendix H: Website Resources: Movies, Positive Psychology, and Character Strengths ... 390 Appendix I: 100 Years ... 100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies ... 391 Appendix J: Positive Psychology Movies: Films That Portray and Inspire Character Strengths ... 393 References ... 409 Film Index ... 443 People Index ... 459
£32.30
Ilona Halberstadt Pix 3
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£34.64
Filmstock Press Dont Look Now And Then
£54.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Werner Herzog
Book SynopsisRichard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College, USA. He is the author of five books and works in aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of language, and German philosophy.Trade ReviewHegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger are prominent among the philosophical sources, but Eldridge also draws extensively on commentary by contemporary film scholars and reviewers and on Herzog’s own writings and interviews. Particularly effective are Eldridge’s insightful close readings of particular films, both fiction and documentary … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *The range of films discussed is excellent, avoiding the over-familiar concentration on the output of the 1960s and 70s. * Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media *Richard Eldridge's excellent contribution to Bloomsbury's Philosophical Filmmakers series creates a significant set of interpretations of Werner Herzog's films, by showing how these films not only interact with philosophy, but do work parallel to that done by philosophy. * Monatshefte *Werner Herzog, although patently an auteur, has not always fared well with academic critics, due to their theoretical biases. Herzog’s art is Romantic, with a capital R, committed to defamiliarizing reality in the spirit of Heidegger. But in Richard Eldridge, Herzog has finally found his ideal interpreter. A philosopher steeped in German philosophy and Romantic literature, as well as Wittgenstein and Cavell, Eldridge is able to demonstrate Herzog’s attention to fundamental existential themes in ways that makes an exemplary case for the power of humane letters to reveal the importance of great art. -- Noël Carroll, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The City University of New York, USAIn his brilliant and stimulating study, Richard Eldridge shows that the issues addressed in Herzog’s films are continuous with those of concern to philosophers, most centrally that of finding meaning in our lives. Eldridge enriches our understanding of the philosophical capabilities of film through his detailed exploration of how Herzog’s films present the human quest for meaning in a world that is, if not hostile, indifferent to our purposes. A major achievement! -- Thomas E. Wartenberg Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, USAThis book brings remarkable intellectual breadth and depth to bear on Herzog as a filmmaker wrestling with the fundamental issues of human existence…With always acutely perceptive and often surprising results, Eldridge places the director’s work in mutually enlightening dialog with numerous conceptual, artistic, and historical traditions, while remaining highly sensitive to the fine-grained experiential and cinematic textures of the films discussed. Elegantly integrating Ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophical perspectives with film theory and criticism, this is not only a major original study of Herzog, but a template for a richer form of philosophy of, and through, film, with its own version of ‘ecstatic truth’. -- Daniel Yacavone Lecturer of Film Studies, University of Edinburgh, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Images and Contemporary Culture 2. Nature 3. Selfhood 4. History Notes Bibliography Index
£29.66
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Lucasfilm
Book SynopsisFrom A New Hope to The Rise of Skywalker and beyond, this book offers the first complete assessment and philosophical exploration of the Star Wars universe.Lucasfilm examines the ways in which these iconic films were shaped by global cultural mythologies and world cinema, as well as philosophical ideas from the fields of aesthetics and political theory, and now serve as a platform for public philosophy. Cyrus R. K. Patell also looks at how this ever-expanding universe of cultural products and enterprises became a global brand and asks: can a corporate entity be considered a filmmaker and philosopher?More than any other film franchise, Lucasfilm's Star Wars has become part of the global cultural imagination. The new generation of Lucasfilm artists is full of passionate fans of the Star Wars universe, who have now been given the chance to build on George Lucas''s oeuvre. Within these pages, Patell explores what it means for films and their creatoTrade ReviewOffers an informative overview on Star Wars, focusing on the importance of storytelling combined with filmmaking and its overarching connection to philosophy. * AMERICANA - E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary *Cyrus Patell's immensely engaging volume dismantles the long-assumed tension between film as industrial production and film as an art form capable of philosophical reflection when controlled by an auteur. In considering Lucasfilm and the Star Wars universe as evidence for the existence of a corporate cogito, Patell argues for the films' cosmopolitanism, working with their viewers to build a model of the world and contemplate how best to live in it. * Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English, Michigan State University, USA *In Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe, Cyrus R. K. Patell takes cultural criticism to a new level, advancing a cosmopolitan reading practice that grounds the concerns of contemporary critical theory in the discursive realities of media production and media reception. From the Modesto-born Journal of the Whills to the StageCraft-enabled filming facilities of The Mandalorian, Patell clearly and humanely charts an emergent mythology of the postmodern age. * Marc Dolan, Professor of English, Film Studies, and American Studies, The City University of New York, USA *Table of ContentsList of Images Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Filmmaking and Philosophizing 2. From Lucas to Lucasfilm 3. Reversal and Recognition, Exile and Return 4. Melodrama 5. Individualism 6. Technophobia 7. Cosmopolitanism 8. Fallibilism 9. Moral Compass Notes Bibliography Index
£23.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Kenneth Lonergan
Book SynopsisKenneth Lonergan's three filmsYou Can Count on Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016)are rife with philosophical complexities. They challenge simple philosophical approaches to central issues of human behaviour. In particular, they ask questions about how to cope with suffering that one cannot overcome, the role that self- deception plays in people's lives and how to think about characters who do not embody simplistic moral ideas of virtue and vice. By philosophically engaging with these themes as they unfold in Lonergan's films, we are then able to formulate a more nuanced answer to the questions they pose. Kenneth Lonergan: Philosophical Filmmaker will draw from Lonergan's films and plays, along with the philosophical literature on the topics that they explore. The rich history of philosophical reflection surrounding these areas enables the reader to determine how the themes central to Lonergan's work have combined to create a rich ciTrade ReviewWith a lucidity typical of all his work, Todd May engages with Lonergan’s cinema through moral philosophy, but with none of the technical knowledge from ethics or film studies that might alienate a non-expert. Beginning with only Nietzsche’s famous adage concerning suffering and survival, this impressive study expands to find an equally philosophical spirit at work throughout Lonergan’s art. * Professor John Ó Maoilearca, Professor of Film, Kingston University, UK. *Todd May’s accessible and engaging book will drive the uninitiated into the films of Kenneth Lonergan and enhance the experience of those who are already admirers. May connects philosophy to the films in ways that both professional scholars and laypersons can appreciate. One wishes more books like this existed. * Paul Schofield, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Bates College, USA *Table of Contentsprelims acknowledgements 1. Kenneth Lonergan: An Introduction to his Work 2. Irredeemable Suffering 3. Self-Deception 4. Moral Complexity 5. Conclusion: Complicating Philosophical Reflection bibliography index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Alejandro Jodorowsky
Book SynopsisWilliam Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, USA. His research and teaching focus on literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis, the foundations of physics, early modern European literature and thought, and modern Latin American literature.Trade ReviewAlejandro Jodorowsky: Filmmaker and Philosopher is a captivating exploration of Jodorowsky’s work, and a vital read for those seeking a deeper understanding of the filmmaker’s elusive concept of psychomagic. Egginton’s analysis, premised on highlighting the parallel structures that exist between Jodorowsky’s body of work and Lacanian psychoanalysis, has unlocked a register of criticism that will serve Jodorowsky scholars for years to come * Michael Newell Witte, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, University of San Diego, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Violence of Desire 3. Staging the Fantasy 4. Subjective Destitution Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Adapting Macbeth
Book SynopsisIn this study, William C. Carroll analyses a wide range of adaptations and appropriations of Macbeth across different media to consider what it is about the play that compels our desire to reshape it. Arguing that many of these adaptations attempt to improve' or correct' the play's perceived political or aesthetic flaws, Carroll traces how Macbeth's popularity and adaptability stems from several of its formal features: its openly political nature; its inclusion of supernatural elements; its parable of the dangers of ambition; its violence; its brevity; and its domestic focus on a husband and wife. The study ranges across elite and popular culture divides: from Sir William Davenant's adaptation for the Restoration stage (16634), an early 18th-century novel, The Secret History of Mackbeth and Verdi''s Macbeth, through to 20th- and 21st-century adaptations for stage and screen, as well as contemporary novelizations, young adult literature and commercial appropTrade ReviewThis impeccably researched, detailed book has much to offer to anyone studying, teaching, directing or taking part in what is probably Shakespeare’s best known play. * Ink Pellet *Offers a rich compendium of examples, providing both a resource for and an invitation to readers and researchers to explore further themselves. * Shakespeare Survey *Carroll’s net is cast wide and there are chapters on the novel, global and racial Macbeths, as well as musical versions. Stage and cinematic adaptations figure throughout. Geographically, the range is impressive—no fewer than thirty different countries are mentioned … [Carroll] has a fluent grasp of this play’s multitudinous reincarnations. This elegant study will surely become a model of condensation and explication of the continuing cultural presence of Shakespeare’s apparently immortal literary artefacts. * Adaptation *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Text Introduction: Macbeth and Mackbeth, the prequel 1 Political Macbeth 2 ‘The gracious Duncan’ and ‘our eldest, Malcolm’ 3 The return of Fleance 4 Noir Macbeth 5 Recuperating Lady Macbeth 6 Novelizing Macbeth 7 Global and racial Macbeth 8 Macbeth, the musical Epilogue: Macbeth 3.0 Notes Works Cited Index
£76.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC New Perspectives on Early Cinema History
Book SynopsisIn this book, editors Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst present a theoretical reconceptualization of early cinema. To do so, they highlight the latest methods and tools for analysis, and cast new light on the experience of early cinema through the application of these concepts and methods.The international host of contributors evaluate examples of early cinema across the globe, including The May Irwin Kiss (1896), Un homme de têtes (1900), The Terrible Turkish Executioner (1904) and Tom Tom the Piper's Son (1905). In doing so, they address the periodization of the era, emphasizing the recent boon in the availability of primary materials, the rise of digital technologies, the developments in new cinema history, and the persistence of some conceptualizations as key incentives for rethinking early cinema in theoretical and methodological terms. They go on to highlight cutting-edge approaches to the study of early cinema, including the use of the MediathreadTrade ReviewThis outstanding collection, expertly curated by the editors, interrogates the current state of early cinema study by re-examining how we have come to understand this complex phenomenon and suggesting what more there is to learn. Adopting distinct approaches, uncovering novel sources, and providing exciting scholarly discoveries, New Perspectives on Early Cinema History more than fulfills the promise of its title. -- Charlie Keil, University of Toronto, CanadaFifty years ago, studying the first decades of film claimed a special place in the wider history of cinema. Since then, it has become one of the liveliest and most productive areas for theorising not only old but increasingly also new media, as this welcome collection of new studies demonstrates. -- Ian Christie, Birkbeck College, University of London, UKTable of ContentsList of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: New perspectives on early cinema - Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst PART ONE: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES 1. Animated pictures according to Georges Méliès: A sober and unpretentious remediation, or when Méliès took a stand against … the cinema! - André Gaudreault 2. Attraction/narration/illustration: A third paradigm for early cinema - Valentine Robert 3. ‘The very act itself, even to the smack’: Early cinema, presence and experience - Gert Jan Harkema 4. Lost love on a hot summer day: The absorptive experience of the first film show in Denmark - Casper Tybjerg PART TWO: APPROACHES, METHODS AND SOURCES 5. Revisiting the fiction/non-fiction distinction: Early cinema and the philosophy of imagination - Mario Slugan 6. Using Mediathread for gesture analysis in the cinema of attractions - Danae Kleida 7. Librettos as source material for film history: The case of early Russian cinema - Anna Kovalova PART THREE AUDIENCES AND EXPERIENCES 8. Narrative cinema as a separate attraction: Archie L. Shepard’s newspaper publicity - Paul S. Moore 9. Mapping Black moviegoing in Harlem, New York City, 1909–14 - Agata Frymus 10. Attraction, narration, performance: A historical-pragmatic perspective on early cinema - Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk 11. The other panicking audience: A New Cinema History approach to early cinemagoing, cinema fires, disasters and panics - Daniël Biltereyst Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Licence to Thrill
Book SynopsisIn this new edition of Licence To Thrill, James Chapman builds upon the success of his classic work, regarded as the definitive scholarly study of the history of the James Bond film series from the first picture, Dr No (1962), to the present. He considers the origins of the films in the spy thrillers of Ian Fleming and examines the production histories of the films in the contexts of the British and international film industries.This edition includes a new introduction and chapters on Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021). Chapman explores how the films have changed over time in response to developments in the wider film culture and society at large. He charts the ever-evolving Bond formula, analysing the films' representations of nationhood, class, and gender in a constantly shifting cinematic and ideological landscape.
£18.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Licence to Thrill
Book SynopsisIn this new edition of Licence To Thrill, James Chapman builds upon the success of his classic work, regarded as the definitive scholarly study of the history of the James Bond film series from the first picture, Dr No (1962), to the present. He considers the origins of the films in the spy thrillers of Ian Fleming and examines the production histories of the films in the contexts of the British and international film industries.This edition includes a new introduction and chapters on Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021). Chapman explores how the films have changed over time in response to developments in the wider film culture and society at large. He charts the ever-evolving Bond formula, analysing the films' representations of nationhood, class, and gender in a constantly shifting cinematic and ideological landscape.
£58.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Other Cinemas
Book SynopsisThe innovations and debates in experimental film in the 1970s have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film screenings and social networks that recognise its achievements. Professor Laura Mulvey, and writer/director Sue Clayton, bring together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge of research into 1970s radical cinema for this collection. 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. Other Cinemas 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.Exploring and celebrating the work of The Other Cinema, the Trade ReviewAn 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, UKThis anthology brilliantly reflects the struggles and achievements of a generation of filmmakers and film scholars outside Britain's commercial entertainment industry. Edited by two key figures from the movement and introducing texts by leading contemporary scholars on this period, this book offers new insights into a vibrant, influential and often highly contested film culture. -- David Curtis, BAFVSC, Central Saint Martins, UKThis superb collection of essays presents a very timely reconsideration of many key independent and radical films of the 1970s, their context of production and exhibition then, and their continuing importance for the aesthetics and politics of image-making in our current era of the digital and global. -- Elizabeth Cowie, University of Kent, UKThis book is distinctive in the way it gathers different threads and focuses on actual films and exhibition practices while at the same maintaining an approach that privileges critical theory. It also benefits from the editorial policy of commissioning partly from people who, like the editors, participated in the 1970s movement and partly from much younger authors. -- The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and TelevisionAs befits its subject, the loose network of film and video collectives which bloomed in the wake of 1968, this edited collection offers a variety of angles whose effect is cumulative. The ‘other cinemas’ of the title ranged from the agit-prop Cinema Action to Black Audio Film Collective; from Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, closely associated with Screen, house journal of cine-structuralism, to the ‘structural/materialist’ London Film-Makers’ Co-op, whose members at their most extreme rejected all forms of representation; and from the feminist Circles screening collective to the ‘subjective documentarist’ Stephen Dwoskin. -- Sight & SoundTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction - Sue Clayton and Laura Mulvey PART ONE: CRITICAL CONTEXTS FOR 1970s EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING 1. Semiotics and 1970s British Film Culture, Nicolas Helm-Grovas (King's College London, UK) 2. Listening to Women, Sophie Mayer (Independent scholar, UK) 3. Political Contexts of 1970s Independent Filmmaking, Steve Sprung (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) & Anthony Davies (University of the Arts London, UK) 4. Platforms of History: Brecht and the Public Uses of Radical History in 1970s Independent Cinema, Colin Perry (University of Westminster, UK) PART TWO: INFRASTRUCTURES, TECHNOLOGIES AND 1970s EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING 5. Audiences: Not an Optional Extra: Artists’ Distribution Practices from the London Film-Makers’ Co-op to Lux, Julia Knight (University of Sunderland, UK) 6. Engaging Material Specificities: Aesthetics and Politics in the 1970s, Kim Knowles (University of Aberystwyth, UK) 7. The Technologies and Practices of 1970s Community Video in the UK, Ed Webb-Ingall (Independent scholar, UK) 8. ‘Whose History?’ Feminist Advocacy and Experimental Film and Video, Lucy Reynolds (University of Westminster, UK) PART THREE: PRACTICES, AESTHETICS AND 1970s EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING (THE 200 AVANT-GARDES) 9. A Whole New Attitude: The London Film Makers’ Co-op in the Decade of Structural/Materialism, Steven McIntyre (University of Melbourne, UK) 10. The ‘Salvage’ of Working-Class History and Experience: Reconsidering the Amber Collective’s 1970s Tyneside Documentaries, Jamie Chambers (Transgressive North, UK) 11. Television Interventions: Experiments in Broadcasting by Artists in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, Catherine Elwes (University of the Arts London, UK) 12. Britain’s Black Filmmaking Workshops and Collective Practice, Daniella Rose King (Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA) PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES 13. Views of River Yar : Reconsidering Raban and Welsby’s Landmark Landscape Film, Federico Windhausen (Independent scholar, Argentina) 14. Between Seeing and Knowing: Stephen Dwoskin’s Behindert and the Camera’s Caress, Rachel Garfield (University of Reading, UK) 15. Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair, Amy Tobin (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 16. ‘On Her Devolves the Labour’: The Cinematic Time Travel of The Song of the Shirt, Kodwo Eshun (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) PART FIVE: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE 1970s 17.Memories of The Other Cinema, Nick Hart-Williams (Transition Totnes Film Festival, UK) 18. Organising for Innovation in Film and Television: The Independent Film-Makers’ Association in the Long 1970s, Simon Blanchard (Leeds Beckett University, UK) & Claire M. Holdsworth (Kingston University London, UK) 19. The International Forum on Avant-Garde Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival, 1976: Interview with Lynda Myles, Kim Knowles (University of Aberystwyth, UK) 20. The Workshop Declaration: Independents and Organised Labour, Claire M. Holdsworth (Kingston University London, UK) 21. Campaigning for Innovation and Experiment on Channel 4, Claire M. Holdsworth (Kingston University London, UK) & Rod Stoneman (National University of Ireland, Ireland) Notes on Contributors Chronological List of Recent Events Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Popular Ethiopian Cinema
Book SynopsisThis book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia. Focusing on the rise of the industry from 2002, until today, and embedded in archival, ethnographic and textual research methods, this book offers a sustained and detailed appreciation of Amharic-language cinema. Michael Thomas considers ''fiker''/love as an organising principle in national Ethiopian culture and, by extension, Amharic cinema. Placing ''fiker'' as central to understanding Amharic film genres also illuminates the continuous negotiations at play between romantic, familial, patriotic and spiritual notions of love in these films. Thomas considers the production and exhibition of films in Ethiopia, charting fluctuations and continuities between the past and the present. Having done so, he offers detailed textual readings of films, identifying important junctures in the industry's development and the emergence of new genres. The findings of the book detail the affTrade ReviewMichael W. Thomas gives a detailed first-hand account of Ethiopian cinema in compelling detail ... an excellent read written in simple structure, yet sophisticated in its insider knowledge * Journal of African Cinemas *This book provides an engaged and located history of Amharic language Ethiopian cinema. Thomas pays attention to the materiality and socio-political contexts of cinema-going cultures and complicates our understanding of the ways in which audiences engage with and debate genre. -- Carli Coetzee, University of Oxford, UKThere are no words to express how much I enjoyed reading Popular Ethiopian Cinema! It is one of the greatest books, not only about the Ethiopian film industry but of pan-African cinema as a whole. Michael W. Thomas provides invaluable insight into Ethiopian filmmakers and their struggle, ideology, aesthetics and social values. -- Endalegeta Kebede, former Cultural Officer for the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, Ethiopia.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Courting and the Curiosity of Cinema in Addis Ababa PART 1: THE HISTORY 1: Film Exhibition in Ethiopia 2: Film Production in Ethiopia PART 2: THE FILMS 3: The “yefiker film/love film” 4: The Rise of the “assikiñ yefiker film/humorous love film” 5: Violence and Order in the “lib anteltay film/suspense film” 6: The Absence of Romance and the “yebeteseb film/family film” PART 3: THE INDUSTRY 7: Promoting Amharic Film Genres 8: Producing Amharic Film Genres 9: Perceiving Amharic Film Genres Conclusion: Of Fiker and Film Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture
Book SynopsisSheldon Lu is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Davis, USA. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books in English and Chinese. These include Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture (2007), China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity (2001), and From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative (1994). Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics (co-edited with Emilie Y. Y. Yeh, 2005) was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.Trade ReviewSheldon Lu has contributed significantly to the study of Chinese language cinema, literature, and visual arts over the years, and initiated important concepts such as transnational cinema which has become an indispensable framework for scholars and students to look at Chinese cinema, world cinemas, and visual culture. His latest book covers a broad array of visual and artistic medium: film, painting, graffiti, photography, architecture, installation, performance and poetry. It is illustrated with photographs of artworks and stills from films which contribute to the understanding of the text. This book brings the subject matter alive and up to date, revealing the diversity and vibrancy of Chinese aesthetic culture for readers. -- Stephen Teo, Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeA timely intervention in academic debates and visual productions that challenges the reader to rethink familiar concepts (e.g., nation, masculinity, environment) and reconfigure relationships between cinema and other arts. A must-read for those interested in the expert judgment of a leading voice in the field. -- Yingjin Zhang, University of California, San Diego, USAIn a world ravaged by pandemics, ecological degradation, sexual violence, racial assaults, territorial disputes, and trade wars, Sheldon Lu’s book makes a critical intervention into ongoing debates about China by focusing on the notion of the “nation” in cinema and related visual arts. Absolutely essential reading. -- Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong, Hong KongAs the originator of the transnational concept, Sheldon Lu is the most able scholar to probe the vagaries of national cinema in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. We tend to think of globalisation and nationalism as antithetical forces, but Lu presents case after case of how nationalism is aided and abetted by globalisation and transnationalism. China’s film and visual culture carry the aims of patriotic ideologues, but also present visions of individual struggles against repression, inequality and patriarchy. Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture is an incisive, expansive intervention into China’s global figurations. -- Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Lingnan University, Hong KongTable of ContentsIntroduction: Refashioning the Nation in Transnational Cinema and Art Part 1: Nationhood, Gender, Sexuality, Masculinity in Feature Film 1.Projecting the Chinese Nation on Domestic and Global Screens 2. Space, Mobility, Modernity: The Female Prostitute in Chinese-language Film 3. Re-orientations of Hong Kong Cinema and Transformations of Masculinity 4. Masculinity in Crisis: Male Characters in Jia Zhangke’s Films Part 2. Multimedia Engagements with the Local, National, and Global 5. Peripheral, Underground, and Independent Cinema 6. Performing and Romancing the Other in Film, Television Drama, and Ballet 7. Reshaping Beijing’s Space: Architecture, Art, Photography, Film 8. Artistic and Multimedia Interventions Conclusion: Globalization at Bay Filmography Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola
Book SynopsisThe Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola offers the first comprehensive overview of the director''s impressive oeuvre. It includes individual chapters on her films, including The Virgin Suicides (1999), Lost in Translation (2003), Marie Antoinette (2006), Somewhere (2010), The Bling Ring (2013), The Beguiled (2017), and On the Rocks (2020). While focused on her films, contributors also consider Coppola''s shorter works for television, commercials and music videos, as well as explorations of the distinct elements of her signature style: cinematography, production/costume design, music, and editing. Additional chapters provide insights into the influences on her work, its popular and scholarly reception, and interpretations of key themes and issues.The international team of contributors includes leading scholars of film, music, fashion, celebrity and gender studies, visual and material culture, reception studies, as well as industrTrade ReviewThis Handbook provides the most significant work to date on Sofia Coppola compiled in a single volume, and focuses on a wide range of topics, some of which have received little scholarly attention to date. In time to come it will surely establish itself as a touchstone text. -- Joel Gwynne, National Institute of Education, SingaporeThe Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola should have one word added to its title: it is undoubtedly the essential handbook to the filmmaker and cultural icon at its center. The essays included here are not only informative introductions but compelling, thought-provoking, and sometimes surprising re-evaluations of one of the most interesting celebrity artists in the contemporary media scene. -- Mallory Young, Tarleton State University, USATable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA) I The Big Screen 1. The Virgin Suicides The Cinematic Style of Loss: Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides - Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 2. Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation: Liminality, Loneliness, and Learning from an-Other - Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 3. Marie Antoinette The Journey: The Reception of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette - Nicole Richter (Wright State University, USA) 4. Somewhere Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere: The Most American of European Films - Todd Kennedy (Nicholls State University, USA) 5. The Bling Ring Surface Play: Aesthetics and Performance in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring - Maryn Wilkinson (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 6. The Beguiled The Knowledge of Feeling in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled - Michelle Devereaux (University of Warwick, UK) 7. On the Rocks Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks and “Personal” Filmmaking - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA) II Small(er) Screens and Streaming 8. Music Videos “If You Don’t Have At Least Two Careers, You Don’t Fit In”: Transmedia Authorship and the Music Videos of Sofia Coppola - Mathias Bonde Korsgaard (Aarhus University, Denmark) 9. Short Film Girls Rule in Sofia Coppola’s Lick the Star - Cynthia Felando (University of California Santa Barbara, USA) 10. Television Rewriting the (Christmas) Genre: The Legacy of Robert Altman in Sofia Coppola’s A Very Murray Christmas - Todd Kennedy (Nicholls State University, USA) 11. Advertising Fashion Campaigns: Sofia Coppola’s “Mini-Films” - Caryn Simonson (University of Arts London, UK) III “Coppolism” 12. Cinematography Sofia Coppola’s Minimalist Mystique - Cameron Beyl (Independent filmmaker) 13. Fine Art and Photography Art on Film/Film as Art: Sofia Coppola’s Cinema - Suzanne Ferriss (Nova Southeastern University, USA) 14. Music The Feeling of the Moment: Music in the Cinema of Sofia Coppola - Tim J. Anderson (Old Dominion University, USA) 15. Design Designing Luxury: Sofia Coppola’s Production Design - Saige Walton (University of South Australia, Australia) 16. Acting Sofia Coppola, Indiewood, and Performance - Cynthia Barron (Bowling Green State University, USA) & Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool, UK) IV Interpretations 17. Auteurism Sofia Coppola: Commodity Auteur - Pam Cook (University of Southampton, UK) 18. Curation Sofia Coppola: The Auteur as Curator - Lawrence Webb (University of Sussex, UK) 19. Feminism “You Cannot Go Deaf to Women’s Voices”: Feminism and the Films of Sofia Coppola - Anna Backman Rogers (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 20. Postfeminism Postfeminist Approaches to Sofia Coppola - Fiona Handyside (University of Exeter, UK) 21. Race and Class Making Whiteness: The Absent Presence of Race and Class in Sofia Coppola’s Feature Films - Jamie Ann Rogers (Clemson University, USA) 22. Place Psychogeography and Cinema(car)tography: Cinematic Tourism and Sofia Coppola’s Films - Laura Henderson (University of Melbourne, Australia) 23. Celebrity Celebrity in Sofia Coppola’s Cinema: The Aesthetics of Performance - Delphine Letort (Université du Maine, France) V Reception 24. Critical Reception “All That Style Overwhelms the Substance”: The Critical Reception of Sofia Coppola’s Work - Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain) 25. Academic Response Sofia Coppola in the Curriculum: Feminist Film Pedagogies - Emma McNicol, Whitney Monaghan, Grace Russell, and Belinda Smaill (Monash University, Australia) 26. Popular Reaction Sofia Coppola, Cosmopolitan Icon - Sara Pesce (University of Bologna, Italy) Sofia Coppola: A Timeline References Filmography List of Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Judith Butler and Film
Book SynopsisTemmuz Süreyya Gürbüz is a filmmaker and film scholar based in Dublin. They specialize in film theory, global media studies, documentary and experimental film, and currently teach across University of Galway and University College Dublin. They are recipient of the Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (20222024) and the Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland (2023), supporting their film practice and academic research.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Film Bodies
Book SynopsisIn Film Bodies, Katharina Lindner took film studies into a new direction, integrating queer and feminist theory with film phenomenology. Her groundbreaking book explores the presence of women''s bodies in movement in a range of genres, including the dance film, the sports film and queer cinema, providing detailed textural analyses of Black Swan (2010), The Tango Lesson (1997), 2 Seconds (1998), Offside (2006), Tomboy (2011), and Girlhood (2014), and discussing the queer feminist encounters they give rise to. Published after Lindner''s untimely death in 2019, this new paperback edition of Film Bodies includes a special foreword by Jenny Chamarette, exploring the embodied, time travelling nature of Lindner''s work. Trailing gloriously in the wind behind Film Bodies are all the beginnings, the experiences that shape it, the visceral connections that give the book a bodymind from which to speak.Trade ReviewLindner provides a welcome guide through new terrain. Deftly navigating the challenge of bringing feminist and queer thought together, Film Bodies raises important questions about how the social, spatial and corporeal coordinates of cinematic being are imbricated. * Film-Philosophy *I cannot think of a single other scholar in the world who combines such an integrated approach to philosophical phenomenology, queer theory and feminist theory while also examining contemporary films in such insightful detail. -- Jenny Chamarette, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of LondonIn this challenging and provocative book, Katharina Lindner tackles the problems that film phenomenology has skirted around for years. What is a queer feminist phenomenology? What about female bodies that are in movement, that disrupt, that display themselves and unsettle? Who can speak about them and for them? Lindner looks at filmic female bodies that dance and play sport, and that are performatively queer, and examines the thrilling spaces and affective timeframes in which they move. The result is a new realm of queer feminist embodiment that enables different kinds of non-normative lived bodies to become visible and active, from tango dancers to tomboys, and boxers to ballerinas. A vital and significant development of film phenomenology. -- Lucy Bolton, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of LondonFilm Bodies vibrantly explores the intersections between film phenomenology and queer and feminist theories. Through a series of agile textual analyses, Lindner draws out the potential of the gendered body to trouble both cinema's sensory experience and film theory s critical categories. Film Bodies is an essential contribution to queer film scholarship. -- Rosalind Galt, Head of Department of Film Studies, King's College LondonTable of ContentsChapter 1 – Queer(ing) Phenomenology Chapter 2 – Female Bodies in ‘Action’: Gender/Genre Trouble Chapter 3 – ‘Throwing Like a Girl’? Physicality and Athletic Performance on Screen Chapter 4 – Dancing on Screen: Mirror-ing Movement Chapter 5 – Queer Cinema: Queer Orientations? Chapter 6 – Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Gender and Genre in 1990s Hollywood
Book SynopsisPatricia Di Risio is Lecturer in Media Communications and Screen Studies at at Monash College, Monash University Pathways, Australia. Her writing has featured in Transmedia and Public Representation edited by Perez Riedel (2021), Critical Perspectives on Gender and Sport edited by Curtis Fogel (2018), and Silent Women; Pioneers of Cinema edited by Melody Bridges & Cheryl Robson (2016).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Cinema of Jia Zhangke
Book SynopsisShorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best MonographStarting out as an independent filmmaker, and despite his films being subjected to censorship in his native China, Jia Zhangke has become the country's leading film director internationally. Seen as one of world cinema's foremost auteurs, he has played a crucial role in documenting and reflecting upon China's era of intense transformations since the 1990s..Cecília Mello provides in-depth analysis of Jia's unique body of work, from his early films Xiao Wu and Platform, to experimental quasi-documentary 24 City and the audacious Mountains May Depart. Mello suggests that Jia's particular expression of the realist mode is shaped by the aesthetics of other Chinese artistic traditions, allowing Jia to unearth memories both personal and collective, still lingering within the ever-changing landscapes of contemporary China. Mello's groundbreaking study opens a door into Chinese cinema anTrade ReviewThe tone is serious and scholarly, and the author approaches her subject as if nothing could be as important in a world in which the liberal arts have been almost abandoned … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Cecilia Mello's study of Jia Zhangke, China's leading independent director, brilliantly counterbalances the impulses towards realism and intermediality she finds in Zhangke's work. 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 judgesOver 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, USACecília 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, RomaniaCecília 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, UKTable of Contents1. '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 Still Life' 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. 'I Wish I Knew’s Cinephilic Journeys (an afterword on intertextuality)' 10. Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Justice in 21stCentury Fairy Tales and the Power
Book SynopsisCristina Bacchilega is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA, and coeditor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. Her recent works include Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the 21st Century, coedited with Jennifer Orme, and publications in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and Narrative Culture. Pauline Greenhill is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She has received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her publications include The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, co-edited with Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, and Lauren Bosc (2018), and essays in Signs, parallax, Theoretical Criminology, Studies in European Cinema, and Law, Culture and the Humanities.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Babylon Berlin German Visual Spectacle and Global
Book SynopsisHester Baer is Professor of German and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Maryland, USA. She is the author of Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language (2009), German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism (2021), and a volume for the series German Film Classics on Ula Stöckl's The Cat Has Nine Lives (2022). She currently serves as co-editor of The German Quarterly.Jill Suzanne Smith is Associate Professor of German and a contributing faculty member in Cinema Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, and Urban Studies at Bowdoin College, USA. She is the author of Berlin Coquette: Prostitution and the New German Woman 1890-1933 (2013) and a volume editor for the Bloomsbury series A Cultural History of Prostitution.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Representing the New AI in Film and Television
Book SynopsisGraham Allen is Professor of English Literature at University College Cork, Ireland.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Japanese Cinema and Punk
Book SynopsisMark Player is a film scholar specialising in Japanese cinema. He previously taught film at the University of Reading, UK and has been published in journals such as Japan Forum, Punk & Post Punk, and Film and Media Studies. His research interests include Asian cinema, (cyber)punk, media distribution, film festivals, amateur film, DIY and underground subcultures.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America
Book SynopsisAbigail Loxham is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Film Studies at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is author of Cinema at the edges: New encounters with Julio Medem, Bigas Luna and José Luis Guerín (2014). She has published widely on Spanish cinema with a focus on Catalonia, gender and memory.Anja Louis is Reader in Cultural and Intercultural Studies and REF coordinator at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is author of Women and the Law: Carmen de Burgos (2005) and co-editor of Multiple Modernities: Carmen de Burgos, Author and Activist (2017). She has published widely in the fields of gender studies and popular culture.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Soviet Spectatorship
Book SynopsisSamuel Goff is Affiliated Lecturer in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is Editorial Director of the film platform Klassiki, and a former editor at The Calvert Journal.
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Bloomsbury Academic Feminist Visions
Book SynopsisCristelle Maury is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. She is co-editor of Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-feminist Era (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).Hélène Charlery is Associate Professor of American and Films Studies at Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France. She is co-editor of Erasure and Recollection. Memories of Racial Passing Within and Beyond the United States (2021). Her research focuses on the intersectional representations of Black female characters in American film and television series.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC New Perspectives on Early Cinema History
Book SynopsisIn this book, editors Mario Slugan and Daniël Biltereyst present a theoretical reconceptualization of early cinema. To do so, they highlight the latest methods and tools for analysis, and cast new light on the experience of early cinema through the application of these concepts and methods.The international host of contributors evaluate examples of early cinema across the globe, including The May Irwin Kiss (1896), Un homme de têtes (1900), The Terrible Turkish Executioner (1904) and Tom Tom the Piper's Son (1905). In doing so, they address the periodization of the era, emphasizing the recent boon in the availability of primary materials, the rise of digital technologies, the developments in new cinema history, and the persistence of some conceptualizations as key incentives for rethinking early cinema in theoretical and methodological terms. They go on to highlight cutting-edge approaches to the study of early cinema, including the use of
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Bloomsbury Academic Contemporary Chilean Filmmaking
Book SynopsisEva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo is a research assistant at CY Cergy Paris Université, France. She completed her PhD in Film and TV Studies (University of Warwick) and in Hispanic Studies (CY Cergy Paris Université) in 2022.
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Edinburgh University Press James Joyce and Cinematicity
Book SynopsisIn this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian culture's emergent 'cinematicity' as a key creative driver of Joyce's experimental fiction, showing how Joyce's style and themes share the cinematograph's roots in Victorian optical entertainment and science.
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Edinburgh University Press Adrian Brunel and British Cinema of the 1920s
Book SynopsisUncovers the life and work of a key figure in British cinema, Adrian Brunel.
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Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Wallace Fox
Book SynopsisOffers the first collection of critical essays on Wallace Fox, one of Hollywood's first Native American film directors
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Edinburgh University Press Silicon Valley Cinema
Book SynopsisIdentifies in 'Silicon Valley Cinema' a recent trend in twenty-first century Hollywood film.Trade Review"Silicon Valley Cinema is a timely and captivating investigation of how tech futurism has colonized our imaginations as it simultaneously truncates our material prospects. Adroitly balanced between contextual analysis and filmic example, this indispensable book maps the parameters of this new stage of capitalist excess personified in the figure of the entrepreneurial genius." -Sherryl Vint, University of California Riverside
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