Film history, theory or criticism Books
Edinburgh University Press East Asian Film Remakes
Book SynopsisConsiders the remake from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives and positions it alongside other serialized cultural forms.
£27.20
Edinburgh University Press Singing Out
Book SynopsisSinging Out explores a broad range of singing voices and sung moments, from lavish film musical sequences, television and videogames, through to online platforms, advertising, and multimedia installation work. It illustrates the diverse ways in which the singing voice is produced and understood in different media across international contexts, taking into consideration issues such as corporeal form, age, race, reception, and gender. The act of singing emphasises issues of identity, technology, and the identifying markers of the voice itself, heightening communication, acting as an aid to memory, and inviting judgement. Singing demarcates and breaks down textual and conceptual boundaries, and offers an intensity of experience that gives it a special status on the soundtrack. Singing Out contains a range of approaches to the singing voice, offering students and researchers a variety of methodological and critical tools to understand the contemporary context and importance of singing in multimedia.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of William Wyler
Book SynopsisIn his forty-five-year career, William Wyler not only traversed the silent and the sound eras, but also connected classic Hollywood to new Hollywood. The range of his films also spans a wide spectrum of genres: from westerns to adaptations of classic literature, from crime thrillers to rom-coms, and from controversial topics to musicals. His three Oscars for Best Director are an achievement surpassed only by John Ford. His life experience as one of Hollywood?s early immigrant artists also speaks to the foreign influence on classic Hollywood. Yet despite his awards and commercial success, artistic recognition has mostly eluded Wyler. This volume of the ReFocus series attempts to analyze this Wyler paradox and also seeks to contextualize and theorize selections from Wyler?s canon and his relationship to American cinematic history and American culture. This collection has gathered contributions from international authors from extremely diverse backgrounds, and therefore differing perspectives on Wyler and his work.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Steve McQueen
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Edinburgh University Press Failed Masculinities
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of men and masculinity in the cinema of Satyajit RayTrade Review"Sanyal draws some fascinating conclusions when reviewing the different kinds of ineffectual males populating Satyajit Ray's films from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Notions of modernity and nationhood intersect with masculinity to illuminate this historically contextualised study in which women whether strong or subjugated play a critical role too." -Martin Shingler, author of Diana Dors: Film Star and Actor
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Yim Soonrye
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£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Gooey Media
Book SynopsisExplores the influence of the graphic user interface on contemporary screen media
£27.20
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Larisa Shepitko
Book SynopsisA collection of critical chapters on Larisa Shepitko, one of the most significant Soviet (Ukrainian born) filmmakers
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Martial Arts Ecology
£96.82
Edinburgh University Press Vampires in Interactive Media
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Regional Cinema in the Philippines
Book SynopsisExamines the emergence of Filipino digital filmmaking in the various islands outside the Philippine capital.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Refocus The Films of Lindsay Anderson
£102.98
Edinburgh University Press The Postmodern Slasher Film
Book SynopsisScream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. It has been widely assumed that postmodern slasher films are distinguished from preceding phases because they employ intertextuality, metafictional self-reflexivity, pastiche, and deconstruction. The Postmodern Slasher Film challenges those assumptions. I evince that these traits were present in the slasher subgenre?s 1980s boom-period. I then demonstrate that these films are more pertinently distinguished by their tone, which is characterised by self-consciousness, duplicity, cynicism, fatalism. Thus, this book argues that the postmodern slasher is a distinctive phase in the subgenre?s development, but for reasons that have been overlooked to-date. I will conclude by making a case for the continued pertinence of this phase by considering the legacies of the postmodern slasher?s distinctive tonal intervention in the subgenre.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Natural History of Film Form
£21.21
Edinburgh University Press Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream
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£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Velvet Curtains and Gilded Frames
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£18.99
Rowman & Littlefield Marilyn Monroe Day by Day
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt is seldom that a book is recommended as a research tool for scholars and also leisure reading for movie star fans. However, Marilyn Monroe's life was extraordinary. It is appropriate that books on her life would also be unique, and this book is interesting and very useful at the same time. Rollyson has a rich background in producing biographies. . . .In this new book, the author makes his research materials accessible to readers. He includes a brief, well-organized, and very readable biography in which he tries to clarify the cracks and discrepancies that still exist in her life story. Also included is a descriptive listing of the significant people in her life, a detailed time line, sources for quotes, and an annotated filmography. Especially valuable for researchers is the bibliography of selected quality materials. The annotations are extensive, not only describing the contents but evaluating the importance of the resource. The book is an especially useful tool for researchers and for students studying this controversial and enigmatic woman. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic audiences; general readers. * CHOICE *Rollyson, author of Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (1986), provides this day-by-day chronology that suggests different aspects of Monroe’s life. The book begins with a biography and an annotated listing of principal personages; this is followed by the time line, which moves from her grandparents (1876) to her death (1962). The concise entries flow by months and years to suggest the passages in her life and give insight into her everyday interests, providing another way to view Monroe’s short life. Recommended for hard-core fans of this film icon. * Booklist *Author Carl Rollyson's new book Marilyn Monroe, Day by Day is a carefully researched and consistently fascinating look at the actress's life. . . .And, throughout its over 300-detailed pages, we are offered a very thorough look at Marilyn Monroe's life and career. It is too easy to dismiss books of this sort as mere trivia, but Rollyson's book does not fall under this category. The information he provides not only gives fans of Marilyn Monroe a clear understanding of the events in her life, it also helps us examine her process in choosing roles, her approach to each character, the subsequent publicity she must engage in, and her reaction to various directors and co-stars. . . .While it would seem no more could possibly be said about Marilyn Monroe, Carl Rollyson's book offers a great deal of compact information that will interest and enlighten any of her fans. * Examiner.com *Providing a year-by-year time-line of Monroe’s life, with the events of each month—and day—where known. A useful reference book for the Monroe scholar. * Mad about Marilyn *Marilyn Monroe Day by Day is a treasure-trove of information related to all manner of Marilyn-related events. Carl Rollyson is a fantastic author and researcher and the work put into this book is nothing short of spectacular. If you want to know what show Marilyn attended on 11th January 1955, or when she did costume tests for ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,’ then look no further than this book. I know I will be using it on an everyday basis and it will always have a place on my bookshelf. -- Michelle Morgan, author of Marilyn Monroe: Private and ConfidentialCarl Rollyson, the first biographer to focus on Marilyn Monroe as an actress, has created a unique timeline depicting the life of an American icon. An indispensable research tool, Day By Day will clarify events from her troubled childhood onward, while dispelling some of the more pernicious myths. The woman who emerges is witty, sociable and hard-working. Rollyson also chronicles Monroe’s omnipresence in the magazines and newspapers of the day, revealing the complex interplay between image and reality. He offers sharp analysis of her cinematic legacy; deft portraits of the people who knew and loved her; and an opinionated guide to the many books published since her death. Far from closing the debate, Marilyn Monroe Day by Day sheds new light on an enduring enigma. -- Tara Hanks, author of The Mmm GirlAn outstanding achievement. Carl Rollyson’s A Life of the Actress remains the definitive study of Monroe’s career. Now, in Marilyn Monroe Day by Day he presents a fascinating experiment by carefully piecing together the events of her life—day by day—to reveal a portrait of a woman who is strong, in control, and extraordinarily shrewd. The result is a riveting social document that unfolds like an adventure novel. -- David Wills, author of Marilyn Monroe: MetamorphosisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction A Brief History of Marilyn Monroe Principal Personages Timeline Sources for Quotes Annotated Filmography Annotated Bibliography Index About the Author
£999.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book explores the moral dimensions of sexual imagery in contemporary, general-release Asian films. It examines debates that arise over aesthetic styles and the cultural and traditional influences that determine the content and impact of these films. The social and regulatory environments for filmmakers across Asia reflect distinct national and cultural differences. In just the past decade, for instance, Indian cinema has rapidly moved from representations of coy and submissive female protagonists to highly eroticized leading ladies unafraid of flaunting their sexuality. On the other hand, the cinema emerging from the Chinese mainland has been much more circumspect in its representations of overt sexuality, at times in conflict with other Chinese cinemas from Hong Kong and Taiwan. This use of sexual imagery or morally questionable film content raises on-going debates into censorship and the use of state or industry controls to protect certain sectors of society froTrade Review’Pugsley offers fresh perspectives on how contemporary Asian cinemas are transforming by challenging the cultural policy regimes that historically have shaped the ways in which their films represent gender and sexuality on screen. This book is key reading for anyone interested in peering into the rise and transformation of Asia and learning more about a bevy of dynamic filmmakers and films that are pushing the boundaries of self-expression and cultural diversity in the region.’ Brian Yecies, University of Wollongong, Australia; author of The Changing Face of Korean Cinema, 1960-2015Table of ContentsList of Figures viiList of Tables ixAcknowledgements xiIntroduction 11 Indian Cinema’s New Aesthetic 132 Visual Decorum and Chasteness in Chinese Film 413 Maintaining Respectability in Singaporean and Malaysian Cinema 734 An Open Mind: Japanese Cinema’s Sexual Revolution 995 Culture, Tradition and Sexuality in South Korean Cinema 117Conclusion 131Films Cited 141Bibliography 149Index
£128.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ReWriting Jesus Christ in 20thCentury Fiction and
Book SynopsisGraham Holderness is Professor of English at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, author or editor of numerous studies in early modern and modern literature and drama, and General Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Critical Survey. He is also a creative writer, novelist and award-winning poet and his previous books include Nine Lives of William Shakespeare (2010).Trade ReviewNo-one interested in the presentation of Christ in modern fiction and film should miss [this book]. * Times Literary Supplement *This book's first part makes an immensely useful contribution to the increasing volume of works covering the interface between theology and film. Taken together with Holderness's own novella, it does demonstrate that it is not only possible but also fruitful to explore the dual nature of Christ in a fictional literary vehicle. * Religion and Theology *Re-writing Jesus is a rare and refreshing example of how rigorous scholarship can inform and strengthen imaginative art. … This is quite a different kind of scholarly work. It is rigorous in attention to texts and sources and historical precedents, but it is also the starting point for a creative encounter with implications for today. Holderness studies in order to be inspired, to be renewed, to find something to share with others. … This would make a great supplemental text within a religion and film or religion and literature class. It is written in a learned but lucid style that undergraduates or seminary students would find accessible. .. Graham Holderness is an encouraging companion in endeavoring to unite what academia repeatedly strives to divide: faith and doubt, the ancient and the contemporary, rigorous analysis and creative response. * Christianity and Literature *Re-Writing Jesus is an unusual, provocative, theologically well-informed, and sensitive study of a Christ ‘without form nor comeliness’, existing for Holderness far beyond the word or image. * Cambridge Quarterly *One of the most balanced and scholarly analyses of Jesus-fictions ever produced. Well-argued and strongly supported, Re-writing Jesus is an invaluable addition to the fields of both Christ studies and popular culture studies. * Journal of Popular Culture *This is in a quite different class of originality and excellence from anything so far written about the fictional transformations of Jesus’ life. Acute analysis of a wide variety of novels, films and plays is combined with a rare sensitivity to the large underlying issues not only about the nature of doctrine but about religious language itself as it works and fails to work and reinvents itself in modern culture. A really stimulating and welcome book. * Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK, and formerly Archbishop of Canterbury *In Holderness' book we encounter, with historical and theological sureness of touch, the Jesus who mysteriously persists in contemporary film and fiction. Beginning with The Da Vinci Code, Holderness takes us back to the nineteenth century, and through the fiction of George Moore, leads us into the theological terrain of the late twentieth century. For readers who have never progressed much beyond Dan Brown, this book will be a fascinating journey into the continuing power of the central figure of the gospels in the culture of our time. * David Jasper, University of Glasgow, UK *Re-writing Jesus shows Jesus to be much more among us than we knew, kicking in the womb and on his cross in so much contemporary film and fiction. But Graham Holderness also demonstrates that such reincarnations are part of a neglected ‘great tradition’ stretching back to Renan’s Vie de Jesus. Holderness takes that tradition more than usually seriously, showing what it can do for theology. He even goes so far as to supplement it himself, in Ecce Homo, his original life of Christ, which is distinctive in really taking on the imaginative challenge of what it would mean to be both divine and human. Lucid, learned, and above all alive, this is a magnetic book. * Ewan Fernie, author of The Demonic: Literature and Experience and editor of Redcrosse: Remaking Religious Poetry for Today's World *Deeply learned and splendidly accessible, Graham Holderness's brilliant book serves as a fair-minded and thoughtful guide on the quest for last century's literary and cinematic Jesus. Here, readers will find a plurality of Jesus - and Christ - figures on display, each one revealing as much, if not more, about the novelist or the auteur as they do about the Nazarene. Re-writing Jesus is a theological tour de force! * Darren J. N. Middleton, Honors Faculty Fellow and Professor of Religion, The John V. Roach Honors College, Texas Christian University, USA *Every generation or so, Jesus must be re-written, re-imaged, and re-heard. Such cultural resurrections always carry with them the possibility of misrecognition, and so we need a guide to point the way. Graham Holderness proves an astute and alert docent as he travels with us on the Road to Emmaus, allowing us to recognize the re-written Jesus in film and novels of the past century. Along the way Holderness reveals the sacred in science, sacrifice in cinema, and ends with a poetically charged Jesus for the twenty-first century. * S. Brent Plate, author of A History of Religion in 5½ Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses, Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Hamilton College, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. 'Half God, Half Man': Nikos Kazantsakis' The Last Temptation and Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ 2. Human and Sacred: Anthony Burgess's Man of Nazareth and Franco Zefirelli's Jesus of Nazareth 3. Science and Religion: Jim Crace's Quarantine 4. Cross and Altar: Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ 5. God or Man?: Mark Dornford-May's Son of Man 6. Ecce Homo: A Life of Christ Bibliography Index
£26.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Alfred Hitchcock
Book SynopsisHitchcock was a masterful director, popular with audiences of all ages and critically acclaimed both during and after his unusually long career. What may have been sensed by many viewers but not fully articulated until now is the extent to which his works subtly engage philosophical themes: What is evil, and how does it shield and reveal itself? Can we know what is inside the mind of another person? What is at stake when one knows the truth but cannot speak of it or cannot persuade others? How is Hitchcock's loving critique of humanity manifested in his films? Why are Hitchcock's works so often ambiguous? What is the hidden purpose and theory behind his use of humor?Hitchcock employs cinematic techniquesfrom camera angles and use of light to editing and soundpartly to convey suspense and drama but also to engage and advance philosophical issues, ranging from identity crises to moral ugliness. Roche unlocks Hitchcock's engagement with philosophical themes, and he does so in a way that aTrade ReviewWith characteristic precision, Mark Roche urges us to see through the thrills and entertainment value of Alfred Hitchcock’s films into their philosophical heart. He convincingly argues that timeless philosophical questions are central, not incidental, to Hitchcock’s work. We are better people for thoughtfully engaging them. * Joseph G. Kickasola, Professor of Film and Digital Media, Baylor University, USA *Alfred Hitchcock was an entertainer and an artist, not a philosopher. Mark Roche shows that his films, however, were profoundly and coherently philosophical. Roche brings his enthusiasm and erudition to the puzzle-master that was Hitchcock. He teases out the director’s underlying humanity and irreverent religious thinking. Moreover, he achieves the delightfully unexpected result of making us want to view these often-viewed films once again. * Donald Crafton, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame, USA *Mark Roche's book is a very valuable contribution to Hitchcockian scholarship. His insightful reflections will be a welcome addition to the library of anyone interested in the study of film and philosophy. My admiration is so great that I include an interview with him in my course on Existentialism and Film.” * Sander Lee, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Keene State College, USA *Written with depth, lucidity and precision, Mark Roche’s masterful analysis of Hitchcock’s cinematography demonstrates that, propelled by suspense and humor, fear and laughter, courage and love, his films open up the possibility of a reconciliation of tragedy and comedy in human existence. * Dmitri Nikulin, Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, USA *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1. Hitchcock's Philosophical Universe 2. Hitchcock as Master of Form 3. Shadow of a Doubt as a Cinematic and Philosophical Masterpiece 4. Hitchcock and Beyond 5. Conclusion Bibliography Index
£70.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Film Fables
Book SynopsisJacques Rancière taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.Trade ReviewA compelling study that will leave an enduring mark on film and media studies. * Tom Conley, Harvard University, USA *A remarkable and beautiful book which, with immense elegance, sets aside the difficulties of film theory to recreate a liberating, critical and poetic history of cinema. * Adrian Rifkin, Professor of Visual Culture Media, Middlesex University, UK, and Editor of the Art History journal *An important exploration of the tensions, ruptures and continuities that complicate the twists and folds of the history of cinema. * Geoffrey Whitehall, Theory & Event *What really sets the book apart is Ranciere's gifts as a writer and fine-grain critic... The wide-ranging analyses emerge out of a truly intimate knowledge of the films, expressed with loving attention to the most minute of formal details--a hesitant gesture, a recurring sound, a glimmer of light. Like all the best books by philosophers on cinema, Ranciere encourages us at once to think and to see these images anew. * Paul Fileri in Film Comment *Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface Prologue: A Thwarted Fable Part I: FABLES OF THE VISIBLE Between the age of the theater and the television age 1. Eisenstein's Madness 2. A Silent Tartuffe 3. From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages 4. The Child Director Part II: CLASSICAL NARRATIVE, ROMANTIC NARRATIVE 5. Some Things To Do: The Poetics of Anthony Mann 6. The Missing Shot: The Poetics of Nicholas Ray Part III: IF THERE IS A CINEMATOGRAPHIC MODERNITY 7. From One Image to Another? Deleuze and the Ages of Cinema 8. Falling Bodies: Rossellini's Physics 9. The Red of La Chinoise: Godard's Politics Part IV: FABLES OF THE CINEMA, (HI)STORIES OF A CENTURY 10. Documentary Fiction: Marker and the Fiction of Memory 11. A Fable Without a Moral: Godard, Cinema, (Hi)stories Index
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Edinburgh University Press Aesthetics Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of
Book SynopsisOne of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodóvar has won international recognition for his dark comedy-dramas like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver. Reconceptualising Almodóvar's films as theoretical and political resources, this innovative book examines a neglected aspect of his cinema: its engagement with the traumatic past, with subjective and collective memory, and with the ethical and political meanings that result from this engagement. With close readings of Almodóvar's films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Bad Education and The Skin I Live In, Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla explores how Almodóvar's cinema mourns and witnesses the traces of trauma, drawing on theoretical approaches from trauma studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, film studies and visual studies to suggest that his work proposes an ethical model based on our compassionate relations to others, and envisions a world co-inhabited by plurality and difference.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cinema of the Dark Side
Book SynopsisExplores how contemporary cinema treats state-sponsored atrocity, evoking multiple landscapes of state terror. Investigating the ethical potential of cinematic atrocity images, this book argues that while films help to create and confirm normative perceptions about atrocities, they can also disrupt those perceptions and build alternatives.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Celluloid Singapore
Book SynopsisCelluloid Singapore' is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the revival from the 1990s onwards.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Untimely Affects
Book SynopsisHow does cinema function as a means of ethical resistance and thought? Focusing on Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's cinemas, this book uses the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to ask how cinema can enable us to see and act in an ethical way. It analyses the cinematic medium itself through concepts of affect, sensation and actual virtual violence.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Chow Yunfat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom
Book SynopsisChow Yun-fat and Territories of Hong Kong Stardom highlights the complex redefinitions of local and global, traditional and modern, and East and West, that Chow's image has undergone, exploring the nature of Chinese and transnational stardom, the East Asian film industry, and Asian male stardom beyond martial arts and action cinema.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Transnational Film Remakes
Book SynopsisOffering a variety of case studies in which films have been remade across national borders, Transnational Film Remakes provides an analysis of cinematic remaking that moves beyond Hollywood to address the truly global nature of this phenomenon.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Transnational Film Remakes, lain Robert Smith and Constantine Verevis PART I: GENRES AND TRADITIONS; 1. Disrupting the Remake: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lucy Mazdon; 2. Fritz Lang Remakes Jean Renoir for Hollywood; Film Noir in Three National Voices, R. Barton Palmer; 3. The Cultural Politics of Re-making Spanish Horror films in the Twenty-First Century: Quarantine and Come Out and Play, Andy Willis; 4. For the Dead Travel Fast: The Transnational Afterlives of Dracula, lain Robert Smith PART II: GENDER AND PERFORMANCE; 5. The Chinese Cinematic Remake as Transnational Appeal: Zhang Yimou's A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, Kenneth Chan; 6. Transformation and Glamour in the Cross-Cultural Makeover: Return to Eden, Khoon Bhari Maang and the Avenging Woman in Popular Hindi Cinema, Michael Lawrence; 7. Translating Cool: Cinematic Exchange between Hong Kong, Hollywood, and Bollywood, Rashna Wadia Richards; 8. Trading Places: Das doppelte Lottchen and The ParentTrap, Constantine Verevis PART III: AUTEURS AND CRITICS; 9. A Tale of Two Balloons: Intercultural Cinema and Transnational Nostalgia in Le voyage du ballon rouge, David Scott Diffrient and Carl R. Burgchardt; 10. Crazed Heat: Nakahira Ko and theTransnational Self-Remake, David Desser; 11. Remaking Funny Games: Michael Haneke's Cross-Cultural Experiment, Kathleen Loock; 12. Reinterpreting Revenge: Authorship, Excess, and the Critical Reception of Spike Lee's Oldboy, Daniel Martin; 13. TheTransnational Film Remake in the American Press, Daniel Herbert; Contributors; Notes.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Deleuzes Cinema Books
Book SynopsisThis textbook maps the Cinema books for newcomers to Deleuzian film studies and opens up new areas of enquiry for expert readers.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Films on Ice
Book SynopsisWith chapters on polar explorer films, silent cinema, documentaries, ethnographic and indigenous film, gender and ecology, as well as Hollywood and the USSR's uses and abuses of the Arctic, this book provides a groundbreaking account of Arctic cinemas from 1898 to the present and radically alters stereotypical views of the Arctic region.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Style of Sleaze
Book SynopsisThe Style of Sleaze' reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation demarcations blaxploitation, horror and sexploitation indicate a concurrent evolution of filmmaking that could be seen as an identifiable cinematic movement.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Peripatetic Frame
Book SynopsisThomas Deane Tucker explores the intertwined relationship between cinema and walking from its very first steps breaking new ground in motion studies and providing a bold new perspective on film history.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Screening Statues
Book SynopsisThis book examines key sculptural motifs and cinematic sculpture in film history through a series of case studies and through an extensive reference gallery of 150 different films.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Irish Queer Cinema
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging, and explores the role of queerness within the constitution of an Irish national culture.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Blood in the Streets
Book SynopsisBlood in the Streets' investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political contexts.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press New Realisms
Book SynopsisTaking 5 filmmakers (Duane Hopkins, Joanna Hogg, Andrea Arnold, Shane Meadows and Clio Barnard) as case studies, this book seeks to explore in depth this new tradition of British cinema and in the process, it reignites debates over realism that have concerned scholars for decades.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Musical Film
Book SynopsisThis edited collection looks closely at the range and scope of contemporary film musicals, from stage adaptations like Mamma Mia! (2008) and Les Miserables (2012), to less conventional works that elide the genre, like Team America: World Police (2004) and Quentin Tarantino s Kill Bill (2003/04).
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Audience Effect
Book SynopsisIn this innovative book, Julian Hanich explores the subjectively lived experience of watching films together, to discover a fuller understanding of cinema as an art form and a social institution that matters to millions of people worldwide.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press CinemaMonde
Book SynopsisWith contributions from an international range of specialists, and with considerations of works by contemporary directors like Rachid Bouchareb, Abderrahmane Sissako and Rithy Panh, Cinema-monde explores the porous borders around francophone spaces and the ways in which languages and identities 'travel' in contemporary cinema.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris
Book SynopsisBringing together Murdoch's moral philosophy and contemporary cinema to build a dialogue about vision, ethics and love, author Lucy Bolton encourages us to view cinema as a way of studying other worlds and moral journeys.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Disappearing War
Book SynopsisThe battles fought in the name of the war on terror have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographically distant from its real world consequences. What is missing from our highly mediated experience of war?
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Museum as a Cinematic Space
Book SynopsisWith an innovative and strongly interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this book offers an extensive investigation of the use of audio-visuals in exhibition design.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press American Independent Cinema
Book SynopsisThis introduction to American Independent Cinema offers both a comprehensive industrial and economic history of the sector from the early twentieth century to the present and a study of key individual films, filmmakers and film companies.
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Edinburgh University Press CloseUp
Book SynopsisThis two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history. This volume focuses on American cinema, including case studies of key performances from actors like Bette Davis, Irene Dunne, Whoopi Goldberg, Cary Grant, Oscar Isaac, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press CloseUp
Book SynopsisThis two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history. This second volume focuses on international cinema, and includes case studies of key performances from actors like Ingrid Bergman, Nikolai Cherkassov, Alec Guinness and Isabelle Huppert.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press James Bennings Environments
Book SynopsisA range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of James Benning s practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Beyond Eastern Noir
Book SynopsisAddressing representations of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic cinemas, this ground-breaking book investigates their hitherto overlooked transnational dimension.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Acinemas
Book SynopsisThis collection presents, for the first time in English, all of Lyotard s major essays on film, an introductory essay by the leading French scholar on Lyotard s film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard s practical film projects written by his collaborators, and a selection of critical essays by philosophers and film theorists.
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