Film history, theory or criticism Books
Edinburgh University Press Performing Ethics Through Film Style
Book SynopsisProposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three directorial bodies of work: those of Barbet Schroeder, Paul Schrader and the Dardenne Brothers.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity
Book SynopsisThe book offers a radical rethinking of Michelangelo Antonioni's work. It argues against prevalent understandings of it in terms of both cinematic purity and indebtedness to painting.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Filmmakers Philosopher
Book SynopsisExploring Mamardashvili's extensive philosophical output, as well as a range of recent Russian films, Alyssa DeBlasio reveals the intellectual affinities amongst directors of the Mamardashvili generation including Alexander Sokurov, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov.
£71.25
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Pedro Costa
Book SynopsisThis is the first English-language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, examining the cultural, production and exhibition contexts of his feature films, shorts and video installations.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Stillness of Solitude
Book SynopsisMichelle Devereaux explores the underlying philosophical and aesthetic Romantic connections between a selection of seven films from four popular filmmakers: Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Stillness of Solitude
Book SynopsisMichelle Devereaux explores the underlying philosophical and aesthetic Romantic connections between a selection of seven films from four popular filmmakers: Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Mediating War and Identity
Book SynopsisThrough an interdisciplinary lens, this collection analyses the depiction offigures of transgression (e.g. traitors, deserters, refugees) in a variety of visual media, as well as the narrative, socio-cultural, political and historical contexts in which they emerge.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Animal Worlds
Book SynopsisAnalyses the relationship between cinema, philosophy and animal life
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Animal Worlds
Book SynopsisFocusing on a recent wave of international art cinema, Animal Worlds offers the first sustained analysis of the relations between cinematic time and animal life.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Finnish Film Studios
Book SynopsisProvides the first scholarly examination of Finnish studio system
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Spike Jonze
Book SynopsisThis book looks at Spike Jonze's ground-breaking work in both features and short forms, exploring the impact of his filmmaking across a range of philosophical and cultural discussions.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press The Films of Pablo Larrain
Book SynopsisAssessing his work in the context of film aesthetics, philosophy, history, adaptation studies and cultural studies, this is the first book-length English-language anthology about this important director's cinema, offering a wide range of perspectives by a diverse range of international scholars.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cinema of Crisis
Book SynopsisThis collection explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across Europe in flux. It brings together scholars from Spain to Estonia, Hungary to Britain, in order to trace European filmmakers' diverse responses to the interlinked upheavals and emergencies of the past three decades.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Looking Beyond Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisDevelops important insights into the politics of contemporary cinema and cinematic responses to the Crisis
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Women in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Book SynopsisWomen in Marvel Films provides the first rigorous analysis of the portrayals of women, heroic and otherwise, in films based on Marvel comics from the 1980s to the present.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Screening Youth
Book SynopsisThis volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established Francophone directors, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Images of Apartheid
Book SynopsisImages of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa is an exploration of the low budget, black-action cinema that emerged in South Africa during the 1970s and led to subsequent gangster and race-conflict films that defined an era of prolific genre activity.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Images of Apartheid
Book SynopsisImages of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa is an exploration of the low budget, black-action cinema that emerged in South Africa during the 1970s and led to subsequent gangster and race-conflict films that defined an era of prolific genre activity.Trade Review"Waddell examines South African (or B-scheme films), i.e., the country's iteration of Hollywood blaxploitation. ZAxploitation cinema was surreptitiously tainted by the apartheid ideological undertones because it was supported by the National Party regime, which provided financial underwriting in the background. These low-budget exploitation films reimagined Black lives in a modernized (rural and urbanized) context. Waddell's book is in conversation with Ken Harrow's Trash: African Cinema from Below (2013) and Tomaselli's Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinema (2006). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -K. M. Kapanga
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Film Reboots
Book SynopsisThrough a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise, with ambitions that are at once respectful and revisionary.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Shoe Reels
Book SynopsisExamining the special relationship between footwear and film, Shoe Reelsexplores images of shoes in cinema.It questions what shoes mean in the context of narrative, aesthetics and symbolism, why they are so memorable, and what their wider cultural resonances might be.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in
Book SynopsisOutlining the rise of Philippine slums alongside the historical development of Philippine urban cinema, Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema makes a novel contribution to the cinema-city nexus through its interdisciplinary framework of film studies and human geography.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in
Book SynopsisOutlining the rise of Philippine slums alongside the historical development of Philippine urban cinema, Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Philippine Cinema makes a novel contribution to the cinema-city nexus through its interdisciplinary framework of film studies and human geography.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Douglas Sirk Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture
Book SynopsisWith detailed case studies of 'Final Chord' and 'All That Heaven Allows', Victoria Evans demonstrates how Sirk attempted to dissolve the boundaries of cinema by assimilating elements of avant-garde art, architecture and design into the colour, composition and setting of many of his most well-known films.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Intercultural Screen Adaptation
Book SynopsisIntercultural Screen Adaptation offers a wide-ranging examination of how film and television adaptations (and non-adaptations) interact with the cultural, social and political environments of their national, transnational and post-national contexts.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Love Across the Atlantic
Book SynopsisFrom romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Hong Kong Horror Cinema
Book SynopsisHong Kong Horror Cinemaoffers 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.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Kelly Reichardt
Book SynopsisIn this close reading of her films and production methods, E. Dawn Hall defines Reichardt's auteur characteristics, arguing that she offers a contemporary and sustainable model for independent filmmakers in America.
£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.
£22.79
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.
£22.79
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.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Film and the Imagined Image
Book SynopsisThis book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Film and the Imagined Image
Book SynopsisThis book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Narrative Humanism
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and questioning the ethics and efficacy of attempts to represent human social complexity in fiction. With case studies of films like Parenthood (1989), American Beauty (1999), Little Miss Sunshine (2006) and The Kids Are All Right (2010), this original study synthesises leading discourses on media and cognition, evolutionary anthropology, literature and film analysis into a new theory of the storytelling instinct.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Paul Leni
Book SynopsisThis collection the first comprehensive English-language study of Leni's life and career offers new insights into his national and international films, his bold forays into scenic design and his transition from German to Hollywood filmmaking.
£90.25
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.
£22.79
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.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of William Castle
Book SynopsisWith an influence felt on directors like Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis and John Waters, this volume reappraises Castle's legacy as an innovator as much as a showman.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Cold War Film Genres
Book SynopsisWith case studies of the Cold War comedy, the 'rogue cop' film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances, Cold War Film Genres explores these myriad productions, redefining American cinematic history with a more inclusive view of the types of films that post-war audiences actually enjoyed, and that the studios provided for them.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Moving Figures
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on how the 'Reform Era' has been constructed in the work of the director Jia Zhangke, analysing the archetypal class figures of worker, peasant, soldier, intellectual and entrepreneur that are found in his films.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on Stanley Cavell's account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, which proposes the remarkable thesis that most truly great Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we are that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian perfectionism.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Michel Gondry
Book SynopsisIn this book, a range of international scholars offers a comprehensive study of this significant and influential figure, covering his French and English-language films and videos, and framing Gondry as a transnational auteur whose work provides insight into both French/European and American cinematic and cultural identity.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press IsraelPalestine
Book SynopsisSince the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these borders.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press IsraelPalestine
Book SynopsisSince the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank and Gaza that restrict Palestinian movement. Israel/Palestine examines how authors and filmmakers have grappled with the spread of these borders.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Cinema and Soft Power
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms
Book SynopsisHorror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage,' to post-cinematic new media forms such as Youtube horror, horror video games and cinematic virtual reality horror.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Hotel Modernity
Book SynopsisHotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern fiction and film.Trade Review"Robbie Moore's delightfully original Hotel Modernity is an adroit, indeed magisterial, intervention in cultural history but also in thinking about the novel form and its metaphors. His eclectic, deft, sophisticated approach persuasively and inspiringly combines substantial research on the world of hotels with shimmeringly suggestive critical readings of a rare order." -Philip Horne, UCL
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Migrants Perspectives Migrants in Perspective
Book SynopsisAnalyses how migrants are portrayed in film from different viewpoints.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Art Making in the Age of Global Capitalism
Book SynopsisJan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and filmmakers are using to criticise the social and economic conditions shaping our historical moment. She then assesses how the world is being positively re-imagined through their work today.
£94.50
