Film history, theory or criticism Books
Edinburgh University Press Egypt 1919
Book SynopsisThe first book offering an extensive analysis of literary and cinematic narratives dealing with the 1919 anti-colonial revolution in Egypt.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Balkan Cinema
Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines post-2008 developments in Balkan cinema in terms of aesthetics and industry. It provides critical and comprehensive profiles of the cinematic output in each Balkan country, while stressing transnational links, global networks and cross-cultural exchanges.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Ricardo Darn and the Construction of Latin
Book SynopsisExamines the star persona of Argentine actor Ricardo Darín.
£25.65
Edinburgh University Press Greek Film Noir
Book SynopsisInvestigates how film noir has been received, adapted and developed in Greece, from the 1940s to the present
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Francophone Belgian Cinema
Book SynopsisFrancophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws key distinctions between the local, national, small national, regional and transnational frameworks in both representational and industrial terms.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Paul Schrader
Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive exploration of his groundbreaking achievements in cinema, the book considers Schrader's more overlooked films and provides new insights to their connection with his celebrated work in direction and screenwriting such as Taxi Driver (1976), Cat People (1982) and The Comfort of Strangers (1990).Trade Review"As a filmmaker and as an essayist, Paul Schrader has always been focused on the life of spirit, often under the most debased conditions and shocking circumstances. That focus, as a writer and as a director, has resulted in several truly remarkable pictures. We’ve worked together on and off throughout the better part of our lives. It hasn’t always been easy, but it has always been fruitful and, quite often, revelatory. Truly, I don’t know where the art of cinema would be without his work, his mind, and his presence. This collection is a just and illuminating tribute to the work of a very important artist." - Martin ScorseseTable of ContentsIntroduction: Taxi Driver Forward - Brian Brems and Michelle E. Moore Schrader and Style - Erik M. Bachman Movement and Meaning: The "unmotivated" Camera in Four Films by Paul Schrader - Deborah Allison Late Schrader: From the Canon to the Canyons - BillyStevenson "Thinking White:" Performing Racial Tension in Blue Collar - Scott Balcerzak Prophets and Zealots: Paul Schrader's Adaptations of The Mosquito Coast and The Last Temptation of Christ - Erica Moulton "So I find another form of expression": Art and Life/Art in Life in Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - Thomas Prasch Schrader’s Women: Cat People and Patty Hearst - Brian Brems Paul Schrader’s Experiment in Italian Neo-decadence: The Comfort of Strangers and the Sadean System - Robert Dassanowsky "Just Being Transparent Baby": Surveillance Culture, Digitization and Self-Regulation in Paul Schrader’s The Canyons - James Slaymaker "Every Act of Preservation Is an Act of Creation": Paul Schrader’s Eco-Theology in First Reformed - Tatiana Prorokova Leaning on the Everlasting Arms: Love and Silence in First Reformed - Robert Ribera Interview with Paul Schrader conducted by Michelle E. Moore and Brian Brems on 9/27/2018 at the Rail Line Diner, NY Filmography Bibliography
£90.25
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?
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press No Power without an Image
Book SynopsisThe first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections between seven celebrated photographs of political struggles, taken between 1936 and 1968, and cinema in all its forms.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Journey to Poland
Book SynopsisJourney to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polish Republic.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Animating Truth
Book SynopsisAnimating Truth examines the rise of animated documentary in the 21st century, and addresses how non-photorealistic animation is increasingly used to depict and shape reality.Trade Review"In this fascinating and expertly-researched book, Nea Ehrlich positions animation as a key narrative mode in contemporary digital culture. Transgressing visual realism, animation as a practice of movement on screen is capable of moving us too, taking us into new cognitive and affective territories while showing us what truly matters." -Joanna Zylinska, Professor of New Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, author of Nonhuman Photography
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Squid Cinema from Hell
Book SynopsisHere be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a critical analysis of cephalopods and other tentacular creatures in contemporary media, while also speculating that digital media might themselves constitute a weird, intelligent alien.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Films of Rachid Bouchareb
Book SynopsisExamines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Gender and Seriality
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to understand how gender as a practice is generated by television narratives in the overlapping of text, reception and production, and explores the viewer practices that these narratives seek to trigger and draw on in the process.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Diana Dors
Book SynopsisExamines Diana Dors' film career, acting method, star image and enduring celebrityTrade Review"Shingler on Dors is a dream team: the doyen of Star Studies on the most warmly beloved of stars. Packed with detail, beautifully written, Shingler draws out the resonances of the Dors persona alongside demonstrating the skill of her performances, brilliantly fusing appreciation of the star as image and actor." -Richard Dyer, King's College London
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema
Book SynopsisDiscussing a variety of independent and experimental Italian films, this book gives voice to a critcically neglected form of Italian cinema and explores the character of independent films and their related practices within the Italian historical, cultural and cinematic landscape.
£19.94
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.
£20.89
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.
£26.59
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.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema
Book SynopsisMaking a compelling argument for the continuing relevance of Brechtian film theory and cinema, this book offers new research and analysis of Brecht the film and media theorist, placing his scattered writings on the subject within the lively film theory debates that took place in Europe between the 1920s?1960s.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press And Now for Something Completely Different
Book SynopsisThe book examinesMonty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this book reappraises Python's comedy output from the perspective of its fifty years of cultural circulation.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Film Hot War Traces and Cold War Spaces
Book SynopsisInvestigates the intertwining of fiction, documentary and memory in film
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms
Book SynopsisExamines new sinophone modes of filmic address in Hong Kong cinema in the 20th century, enabling a developing cosmopolitanism to emerge
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms
Book SynopsisExamines new sinophone modes of filmic address in Hong Kong cinema in the 20th century, enabling a developing cosmopolitanism to emergeTrade Review"This very welcome addition to the scholarship on transnational Chinese cinema provides the needed depth and breadth to appreciate the expansive historical and geographic sweep of Chinese-language film with Hong Kong at its beating heart.? Tan deftly moves from Shanghai roots through cross-dressing operatic romances, softcore court intrigues, James Bond-style spy stories, and swordplay actioners as they circulate through Hong Kong and throughout the Chinese diaspora.? Culminating with Tsui Hark's New Wave Chinese-accented cosmopolitanism, this book highlights the continuing importance of Hong Kong at a cinematic crossroads that connects Asia to the rest of the world." -Gina Marchetti, author of Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Political Cinema
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates that a contemporary form of political cinema has emerged, centered on the production of subjectivity and networks of protest.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Franchise Era
Book SynopsisExamining how traditional media incumbents like studios and networks have responded to the rise of new entrants from the technology sector (such as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google), the authors take a critical look at the way new and old industrial logics collide in an increasingly fragmented and consolidated mediascape.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Researching Historical Screen Audiences
Book SynopsisConsiders the challenges of historical audience research in the field of screen studies.Trade Review"Egan, Smith and Terrill have produced an ambitiously constructed, extensively researched and a truly exciting edited volume. The book offers a wealth of invaluable insights into screen audiences and film cultures more broadly, while showcasing a rich and diverse range of methodologies, periods, settings and contexts. An indispensable contribution to audience historiography." -Daniela Treveri Gennari, Oxford Brookes University
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Moroccan Cinema Uncut
Book SynopsisTaking a transnational approach to Moroccan cinema, this book examines diversity in its production models, its barriers to international distribution and success, its key markets and audiences, as well as the consequences of digital disruption upon it.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press CounterMemories in Iranian Cinema
Book SynopsisReassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective.Trade Review"This collected volume is a vital cinematic intervention in master narratives of modern Iran from the 1960s to 2014. Based on the premise that films can work as a counterforce to official histories of institutions, societies, and politics, the book convincingly posits cinema as counter-history. Foregrounding the plurality of histories, memories, material culture, and audiovisual archives, the brilliant chapters in this volume boldly attest to how cinematic memoryscapes and afterimages make 'hidden history' visible and tangible. Scholars and students of Iranian cinema, media, and modern history interested in going beyond conventional understandings of film and history will appreciate this volume's theorizing of film as a site of counter-memory production." -Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Seton Hall University
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle
Book SynopsisEngages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World CinemaTrade Review"This transporting collection seizes the key paradox of Isabelle Huppert's performance style so frank, yet so enigmatic as the launchpad for a series of inspired, surprising, persuasive analyses of her work. These essays also furnish fresh, rewarding lenses on affect and opacity, whiteness and nation, comedy and irony, motherhood and melodrama." -Nick Davis, Northwestern University
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Francois Ozon
Book SynopsisExamines Francois Ozon, one of France's most prolific and best known international (queer) directors.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Fran Ois Ozon
Book SynopsisExamines Fran ois Ozon, one of France's most prolific and best known international (queer) directors.Trade Review"From experimentations with genre and intertextuality to new visions of queerness and relationships, ReFocus: The Films of Fran ois Ozon captures the unique spirit of one of France's most idiosyncratic directors. Lo c Bourdeau's edited volume is intellectual yet creative, cohesive yet wide-ranging, inventive yet steeped in a rich cultural tradition. Much like Fran ois Ozon's cinema itself." -Gemma King, The Australian National University
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press George A. Romeros Independent Cinema
Book SynopsisExamines George A. Romero's regional production company Laurel Entertainment and its contribution to American cinema.Trade Review"In this excellent book, Fallows provides a rigorously researched analysis of the practices, economies and realities of independent filmmaking through the most compelling and illuminating of case studies. Essential reading for anyone interested in horror, cult and independent cinema, as well as film history and media industry studies." -Kate Egan, Northumbria University
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Annemarie Jacir
Book SynopsisTakes a transnational, feminist approach to the oeuvre of Palestinian director, Annemarie JacirTrade Review"This is a well-documented study which offers an intimate vision of the evolution of Jacir's film oeuvre, and how Palestinian cinema and audio-visual practices can become acts of resistance exposing the incongruous cultural memories of diverse Palestinian generations and their struggles for the homeland, freedom, and transnational identity in exile." -Ihab Saloul, Author of Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination: Telling Memories
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Annemarie Jacir
Book SynopsisTakes a transnational, feminist approach to the oeuvre of Palestinian director, Annemarie Jacir
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Film Regulation in a Cultural Context
Book SynopsisCompares censorship's distinct and varying profiles across five different national contexts - U.S.A., Britain, Canada, Australia, and FranceTrade Review"A rich multi-modal account of international censorship as the conceptual and historical backdrop to films that linger at the far reaches of notoriety. Measured and thoughtful about this most heated of global conversations, this is essential reading for anyone engaged by limit cases of media representation." -Tim Palmer, Author of Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema and Irreversible
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press The Talent Management of Indie Authorship
Book SynopsisExplores the role that talent intermediaries, including producers and talent managers, play in packaging American independent cinema projects
£72.00
Edinburgh University Press The Talent Management of Indie Authorship
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£22.49
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.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press French Blockbusters
Book SynopsisCutting across a swath of recent French-produced cinema, French Blockbusters offers the first book-length consideration of the theoretical implications, historical impact and cultural consequences of a recent grouping of popular films that are rapidly changing what it means to make or to see a 'French' film today.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Theatre Through the Camera Eye
Book SynopsisLaura Sava critically engages with the filmic representation of theatre, focusing on a selection of art house and independent films which provide a sophisticated commentary on the interaction between the two media.
£21.84
Edinburgh University Press Superhero Blockbusters
Book SynopsisExplores the huge commercial success of contemporary superhero blockbusters and develops a critical theory of digital-era popular seriality
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Lucrecia Martel
Book SynopsisCollects critical essays on the influential Argentine director Lucrecia Martel
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Ageing Dementia and Time in Film
Book SynopsisOffers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis
Book SynopsisCollects 18 previously published essays and two new essays by one of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze and Guattari.
£99.00
Edinburgh University Press Main Melody Films
Book SynopsisProvides an in-depth study of Hong Kong directors' participation in Chinese 'main-melody' blockbusters in the 2010s.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Chaoid Cinema
Book SynopsisA Deleuzian analysis of the role of silence as chaotic interstice in sound film.Trade Review"Gardner's pioneering work turns up the theoretical and philosophical volume on what is typically disregarded by critics and dismissed by directors in sound films: silence. Drawing on the ecosophical dimension of Deleuze and Guattari's thought and building on an impressive range of examples from 1931 to 2009, Gardner performs a virtuosic recital of sonic dropouts, pregnant pauses, and zones of silence in cinema. This visionary book will serve as an ideal companion to emergent works of scholarship on visual absence and darkness in film studies and film-philosophy." -Tanya Shilina-Conte, SUNY at Buffalo
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Iconoclasm in European Cinema
Book SynopsisA philosophical study of image-destruction in European cinema.Trade Review"Through detailed and engaging readings of select films by Bene, Bergman, Debord, Duras, Godard, Isou, Jarman, and Kie?lowski Chiara Quaranta demonstrates impressively how the destruction of the image within European cinema can be generative of an enabling ethics which foregrounds the importance of listening and imagining in the film experience." -Sarah Cooper, King's College London
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Iconoclasm in European Cinema
Book SynopsisA philosophical study of image-destruction in European cinema.
£22.00
