Film history, theory or criticism Books
Edinburgh University Press Ana Kokkinos
Book SynopsisAna Kokkinos is an Australian screenwriter, producer and director who has worked in film and television for almost thirty years. Best known for her fictional films Antamosi, Only the Brave, Head On, The Book of Revelation and Blessed her work is often bold and confrontational in its exploration of the alienation, estrangement and visceral distresses of those outside the mainstream. In the first major study of the director, Ana Kokkinos: An Oeuvre of Outsiders offers new readings of and across her fictional oeuvre by broadly tracing the deployment of the outsider as an organising motif.
£16.14
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Book SynopsisThrough a textual analysis of six filmmakers (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando Meirelles, Walter Salles and Juan Jose Campanella), this book brings a new perspective to the films of Latin America's transnational auteurs.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Nordic Genre Film
Book SynopsisNordic Genre Film' offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of William Friedkin
Book SynopsisThis book, the first scholarly study of Friedkin's films, reveals how they confront the ambiguities of law and morality, issues of subjectivity and problems of faith, while raising key questions around emotion and narrative in the cinema.Trade Review"This is a closely reasoned argument for William Friedkin as a filmmaker of transcendent faith and existential authenticity.? It provides a sophisticated re-interpretation of his work through the lenses of thinkers as varied as Frederic Jameson, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Soren Kierkegaard, and legal theorist Carl Schmitt, not to mention film scholars like Tom Gunning, Linda Ruth Williams, Michel Chion, and Robin Wood. ?Skillfully written and exhaustively researched, the book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the American cinema and the American film industry in the last three decades of the twentieth century." -Dr David Cook, UNC Greensboro
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Aesthetics Ethics and Trauma and the Cinema of
Book SynopsisReconceptualising Almodovar'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.
£22.79
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).
£22.79
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.
£22.79
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.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Female Authorship and the Documentary Image
Book SynopsisAddressing the politics of representation and authorship both behind and in front of the camera, a range of international scholars explore the pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemporary documentary practices.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Engaging Dialogue
Book SynopsisO'Meara highlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific components, and demonstrates how indie dialogue can instead hinge on an idea of cinematic verbalism.
£22.79
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.Trade ReviewThe Audience Effect is is an immensely important contribution to the phenomenology of cinema. Focused on the much-neglected collectivity of the theatrical film experience, it also touches on other modes of collective viewing, and its rigorous descriptions of the structures, effects, and affects entailed in collective viewing are extraordinarily enlivened by many examples and extremely accessible prose. -- Professor Vivian Sobchack, UCLA; This book moves its attention from the images on the screen to the audience gathered in the film theatre and eventually tells `their’ stories. Hanich makes a spectacular shift, and he unfolds a reality that film studies has partly forgotten, as well as cinema’s nature as a `democratic’ art. A rigorous and fascinating book that will revamp audience studies. -- Professor Francesco Casetti, Yale; For those looking to learn more about the complex responses of audiences of cinematic art this is the book you should consult.-- Bob Lane, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Vancouver Island University, Metapsychology
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Drawn from Life
Book SynopsisFrom early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, this book casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us, challenging the orthodox definitions of documentary cinema.
£26.59
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.
£22.79
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.
£27.54
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 Buuel, Guillermo del Toro, and Alex de la Iglesia that attempt to undermine Francoist aesthetics by re-imagining its visual and narrative cliches.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press From Film Practice to Data Process
Book SynopsisWith an in-depth case study of Sally Potter's 2012 film Ginger & Rosa, and drawing upon interviews with international film industry practitioners, From Film Practice to Data Process is a groundbreaking examination of film production in its totality, in a moment of profound change.
£25.64
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Spanish Gothic
Book SynopsisContemporary Spanish Gothic' is the first book to study how the Gothic mode intersects with cultural production in Spain today, considering some of the ways in which such production feeds off and simultaneously feeds into Gothic production more widely.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia
Book SynopsisBringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema after the Second World War.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press American Cinema in the Shadow of 911
Book SynopsisAmerican Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of essays by some of the foremost scholars writing in the field of contemporary American film.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Colonial Documentary Film in South and
Book SynopsisBased on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze Cinema and the Thought of the World
Book SynopsisDeleuze turns to the cinema because its formal resources enable it to 'think' the relation between movement and duration in ways that philosophy cannot. Discover the nature of the philosophical problems that Deleuze turns to the cinema to resolve and how resources of the cinema enable him to do what philosophy alone cannot.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze Cinema and the Thought of the World
Book SynopsisDeleuze turns to the cinema because its formal resources enable it to 'think' the relation between movement and duration in ways that philosophy cannot. Discover the nature of the philosophical problems that Deleuze turns to the cinema to resolve and how resources of the cinema enable him to do what philosophy alone cannot.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers
Book SynopsisBased on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts, this book identifies independence as a 'tactical practice', contesting the normative definitions and functions assigned to culture, cultural production and producers in a neoliberal economic system.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Reproductive Politics of American Literature and Film 19591973
Book SynopsisDevelops a new approach to the politics of reproduction in literature and film.
£71.25
Edinburgh University Press Deconstruction Feminism Film
Book SynopsisThis book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida's thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns of contemporary film studies, including spectatorship, realism vs artifice, narrative, adaptation, auto/biography and the still.
£66.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Albert Brooks
Book SynopsisOffers the first book-length investigation Albert Brooks' more than six-decade comedy career.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory
Book SynopsisBy offering close readings of key contemporary films such as 'Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Water Lilies' and 'Carol' alongside a broader filmography encompassing over 300 other films released between 1927 and 2018, the book provokes new ways of understanding a changing field of representation.Trade Review"Twenty-first century cinema has so far yielded an extraordinarily rich array of works—by directors male and female, queer and straight, arthouse and independent—that feature lesbian figures, desires, and dilemmas. Bradbury-Rance’s book is the definitive study of these films. Showing how cinema stages key dramas of gender, sex, and visibility for the digital age, Bradbury-Rance convincingly restores the lesbian to debates in queer theory." Professor Patricia White, Swarthmore College
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Uncommon Alliances
Book SynopsisUncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europe' takes a critical stance toward both assimilationist and multicultural imaginings of community in the European Union that occlude neocolonial relations of dependence and exclusion.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Uncommon Alliances
Book SynopsisUncommon Alliances: Cultural Narratives of Migration in the New Europetakes a critical stance toward both assimilationist and multicultural imaginings of community in the European Union that occlude neocolonial relations of dependence and exclusion.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Two Cines Con Nino
Book SynopsisThis is the first genre study of child-starred cinemas from Spain. It illuminates continuities in the political use of the child protagonist in over fifty years of Spanish cinema and how the child-starred genres deploy the concept of childhood to retrospectively define the nation and its future.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Two Cines Con Nino
Book SynopsisThe Two cines con nio is the first genre study of Spanish-language child-starred cinemas. It illuminates continuities in the political use of the child protagonist in over fifty years of Spanish cinema and how the child-starred genres use the concept of childhood to retrospectively define the nation and its future.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Time Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image
Book SynopsisIn Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of delayed cinema to ideas on time and the relationship to the other in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, Emmanuel Levinas and Julia Kristeva, among others.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Invisibilities of Political Torture
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political tortureExamines role of images and film in (mis)understanding of tortureOffers synergised knowledge through comparative angle, exploring differences and continuities of torture cases which were documented to vastly different extentsIncludes key popular movies, independent films as well as serial televisionCombines serious film analysis with ethical-political questions and historically and theoretically informed researchExpands on the latest developments of comparative media scholarship, and integrates the nostalgic, material and affective turn. Academic work on the subject of torture tends to mirror public debates on its presumed utility, to focus on its historically ?correct? representation or on profilmic structures of identification. This book moves beyond these ideologically charged questions to explore how contemporary films have responded to a growing popular distrust in visual evidence when referencing factual cases of torture. Two cases studies ? the United States around 2004 and Chile from 1973 until the end of the dictatorship ? provide either an abundance or lack of such visual evidence. Drawing on films and television series such as Zero Dark Thirty (2012), NO (2012), Homeland (2011?) and Los 80 (2008?14), amongst many others, this book analyses the visible components of torture but also its invisibilities. By casting a wider net on the definition of torture, the author promotes a radical, theoretical reframing of our concept of torture and suggests that audiovisual products can help broaden our comprehension of torture as an event which includes collective and emotional dimensions and long-term social effects.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
Book SynopsisThis book provides a fresh look at the director's legacy, with critical essays by both world-famous and early-career film scholars.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Disappearing War
Book SynopsisLooking at a range of films that have provoked debate, from award-winning features like' Zero Dark Thirty' and 'American Sniper', to documentaries like 'Kill List' and 'Dirty Wars',this book examines the practices of erasure in the cinematic representation of recent military interventions.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Undead Apocalypse
Book SynopsisExploring how the figure of the vampire has been infused with the language of science, disease and apocalypse, while the zombie text has increasingly been influenced by the trope of the 'reluctant' vampire, Stacey Abbott shows how both archetypes are actually two sides of the same undead coin.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Acting Across Borders
Book SynopsisStudying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Elaine May
Book SynopsisThis collection focuses both on the films Elaine May has directed, and also emphasises her work with other high profile collaborators such as John Cassavetes, Warren Beatty and Otto Preminger.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Extraterritoriality
Book SynopsisExamining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of the Umbrella Movement (2014), this book traces how Hong Kong's extraterritoriality has been framed.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Extraterritoriality
Book SynopsisExamining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of the Umbrella Movement (2014), this book traces how Hong Kong's extraterritoriality has been framed.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Reanimated
Book SynopsisExplores American horror remakes produced since 2000 within key cultural, industry and reception contexts
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Kathleen Collins
Book SynopsisA philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with Losing Ground (1982). This book uses detailed analyses of Collins's films to contextualise her work in the African American, feminist and world film traditions, and it highlights her contribution to each of these canons.
£16.14
Edinburgh University Press Persistent Images
Book SynopsisChannelling a focus on the history of cinema into the present and beyond, Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema explores the continuing resonance of the memory of cinema as revealed in the technological and aesthetic expressions of a range of experimental practices.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Phases of the Moon
Book SynopsisProvides thefirst academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Hollywood Meme
Book SynopsisWith case studies from the film industries of Turkey, India and the Philippines, 'The Hollywood Meme' is the first comprehensive study of the transnational adaptations of Hollywood movies that have appeared throughout world cinema.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Teuvo Tulio
Book SynopsisThis is the first English-language collection on this innovative director, exploring Tulio's unique style and the extent and effect of his obsessive recirculation of story elements and stylistic patterns in his work.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Film Stardom in South East Asia
Book SynopsisAnalyses the cinematic and social significance of the star phenomenon in Southeast Asia.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered
Book SynopsisChallenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution of production personnel beyond the director, and discusses how cultural change is reflected in both film style and cinematic themes.
£90.25
