Film history, theory or criticism Books
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Budd Boetticher
Book SynopsisGary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer present a vital collection of essays on the director's long career. Case studies include celebrated films like Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), lesser-known works like Escape in the Fog (1945), and Boetticher's continuing influence on contemporary classics like Series Breaking Bad.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Disfigured Screen
Book SynopsisInvestigates how horror films have rendered the humanbody as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentation.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Female Agency and Documentary Strategies
Book SynopsisFemale Agency and Documentary Strategies' centres on how self-portraiture and contemporary documentary manifestations such as blogging and the prevalent usage of social media shape and inform female subjectivities and claims to truth.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Early Cinema in Scotland
Book SynopsisFocusing on the social experience of cinema and cinema-going, this collection of essays provides a detailed context for the history of early cinema in Scotland, from its inception in 1896 until the arrival of sound in the early 1930s.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press British Women Amateur Filmmakers
Book SynopsisThe study of amateur filmmaking and media history is a rapidly-growing specialist field, and this ground-breaking book is the first to address the subject in the context of British women's amateur practice.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press East West and Centre
Book SynopsisAdvanced students and scholars in European Film Studies
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Moving Figures
Book SynopsisExamines how the Chinese Reform Era is contrusted and felt in the films of Jia Zhangke, using the concept of structures of feeling
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Eclipsed Cinema
Book SynopsisEclipsed Cinema explores the under-investigated aspects of colonial film culture such as the representational politics of colonial cinema, the film unit of the colonial government, the social reception of Hollywood cinema in relation to emerging Korean nationalism, Japanese settlers'film culture, and gendered film spectatorship.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Journeys on Screen
Book SynopsisAddressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collection reveals the journey to be a persistent presence across cinema and in cultural modernity.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press BMovie Gothic
Book SynopsisExamines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong and India, highlighting their transgressive, transnational and provocative nature.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Jacques Ranciere and the Politics of Art Cinema
Book SynopsisDrawing on case studies of films including Charlie Kaufman's 'Synecdoche, New York', Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 'Climates' and John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses', this books asks to what extent is politics shaping art cinema? And, in turn, could art cinema possibly affect the political structure of the world as we know it?
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Short Films from a Small Nation
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press French Film in the Blockbuster Era
Book SynopsisExamines how changes to the French film industry have resulted in popular films which in turn are changing perspectives on French cinema.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cinematic Nihilism
Book SynopsisThrough case studies of popular films, including Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises, Dawn of the Dead and The Human Centipede, this book re-emphasises the constructive potential of cinematic nihilism.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Hong Kong Horror Cinema
Book SynopsisHong Kong Horror Cinema' offers new insights into the history of Hong Kong horror through case studies of classic films and through a detailed consideration of their aesthetic power, economic significance, and cultural impact in both the global and domestic market.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Genre Authorship and Contemporary Women
Book SynopsisExamining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women's contribution to genre cinema through an exploration of filmmakers like Kathryn Bigelow, Diablo Cody, Sofia Coppola and Kelly Reichard.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Amy Heckerling
Book SynopsisA collection of interdisciplinary essays, collected for the first time, on the work of filmmaker and screenwriter Amy Heckerling whose work includes Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Talkies Road Movies and Chick Flicks
Book SynopsisThis book explores a range of popular film genres throughout American history and uncovers the ways that sound is related to the depiction of gender in each.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Border Crossing
Book SynopsisApplying the metaphor of the `border crossing from one temporal or spatial territory into another, Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press In Secrecys Shadow
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive archival research, In Secrecy s Shadow explores the revolution in the relationship between Hollywood and the secret state, from unwavering trust and cooperation to extreme scepticism and paranoia.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Russian Cinema
Book SynopsisOne of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium, this volume captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and interprets it through the framework of the symbolic mode.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Major Realist Film Theorists
Book SynopsisThe first collection to address the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg Lukacs in one volume.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Screen Presence
Book SynopsisScreen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media and contemporary art through the examples of four internationally celebrated artists: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Hatoum and Douglas Gordon.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Delmer Daves
Book SynopsisAs the first comprehensive study of Daves s career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding of his work, and also to problematize existing conceptions of him as a competent, conventional and even naive studio man.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Extreme Cinema
Book SynopsisExtreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention is not the narrative but the spectacle.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Cracking Gilles Deleuzes Crystal
Book SynopsisReassessing the unique qualities of Renoir's influential visual style by interpreting his films through Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, and through previously unpublished production files, Barry Nevin provides a fresh and accessible interdisciplinary perspective that illuminates both the consistency and diversity of Renoir's oeuvre.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cracking Gilles Deleuzes Crystal
Book SynopsisReassessing the unique qualities of Renoir's influential visual style by interpreting his films through Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, and through previously unpublished production files, Barry Nevin provides a fresh and accessible interdisciplinary perspective that illuminates both the consistency and diversity of Renoir's oeuvre.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Beyond Realism
Book SynopsisExamines the unique cultural and critical history of international naturalist cinema.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema
Book SynopsisUsing paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema focuses upon the DVD and Blu-ray object, analysing how sleeve designs, blurbs, and special features shape the identity of the film.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Marguerite Duras
Book SynopsisDrawing on theories of embodiment and spectatorship, this book analyses the tactility and multisensoriality of Duras' films, and how they relate to her female-centred perspective.
£16.14
Edinburgh University Press The ComputerAnimated Film
Book SynopsisCovering thirty years of computer-animated film history, and analysing over 200 different examples, 'The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre' persuasively argues that this body of work constitutes a unique genre of mainstream cinema
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Contemporary Western
Book SynopsisIn this book, John White explores how films such as 'Open Range', 'True Grit' and 'Jane Got a Gun' reinforce a conservative myth of America exceptionalism; endorsing the use of extreme force in dealing with enemies and highlighting the importance of defending the homeland.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Worldly Desires
Book SynopsisWith case studies of popular stars like Linda Lin Dai and Edison Chen, and spectacular genres like the Shaolin Temple cycle of martial arts films, the book explores what it meant to be both cosmopolitan and Chinese in the second half of the 20th century.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cinema If You Please
Book SynopsisIn Cinema, If You Please, Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Susanne Bier
Book SynopsisFeaturing essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the volume's contributors.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Susanne Bier
Book SynopsisFeaturing essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the volume's contributors.
£25.64
Edinburgh University Press Film and Domestic Space
Book SynopsisDrawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman, Agnes Varda, Claire Denis andTodd Haynes this book goes beyond the representational approach to the analysis of domestic space in cinema, in order to look at it as a dispositif.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Cinema Between Media
Book SynopsisOffers new tools from intermediality studies for analysing contemporary cinema.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press World Cinema and the Essay Film
Book SynopsisWorld Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press WhoS in the Money
Book SynopsisUsing newly unearthed primary sources, this ground-breaking book examines the bitter and little known struggle in Hollywood and Washington D.C. during 1933 to create a National Recovery Administration (NRA) code of practice for the motion picture industry.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Francis Veber
Book SynopsisUsing an auterist lens to challenge the notions of taste, genre and aesthetics that are commonly used to form the cinematic canon, this book explores the twelve films Veber directed between 1976 and 2008. These include Le Jouet (1976), Les fugitifs (1986) and L'emmerdeur (2008).
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Francis Veber
Book SynopsisUsing an auterist lens to challenge the notions of taste, genre and aesthetics that are commonly used to form the cinematic canon, this book explores the twelve films Veber directed between 1976 and 2008. These include Le Jouet (1976), Les fugitifs (1986) and L'emmerdeur (2008).
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Framing Empire
Book SynopsisThis book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and the influence of globalized media entities.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Framing Empire
Book SynopsisThis book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and the influence of globalized media entities.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Postfeminist Whiteness
Book SynopsisKendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the 'melancholic white woman' serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in the American dream.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Postfeminist Whiteness
Book SynopsisKendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the 'melancholic white woman' serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in the American dream.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture
Book SynopsisWith case studies of high-profile stars like Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, this ground-breaking book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Birth of the American Horror Film
Book SynopsisUsing thousands of primary sources and long-unseen illustrations, this book examines a history that begins in colonial Salem, exploring the influence of horror-themed literature, theatre and visual culture in America, and how that context established an amorphous structural foundation for films produced between 1895 and 1915.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Literature Chapter 2: Theatre Chapter 3: Visual Culture Chapter 4: Moving Pictures Chapter 5: Devils Chapter 6: Witches Chapter 7: Ghosts Chapter 8: Supernatural Creatures Chapter 9: Death, Murder, and Execution Chapter 10: Evolution and Devolution Chapter 11: The Other(s) Chapter 12: The Powers of the Mind Chapter 13: Mad Scientists Chapter 14: American Literature Onscreen Chapter 15: Exhibition and Reception
£25.64
