Film: styles and genres Books
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 Other Hollywood Renaissance
Book SynopsisThis book provides a revisionist account of the Hollywood Renaissance period by discussing (and thus memorialising) 24 directors of note who have not yet been given a proper place in the larger history of the period.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Women in the Western
Book SynopsisExplores the changing roles of women to the Western and offers new approaches to what has been a male-centred genreTable of ContentsIntroduction, Sue Matheson Roles on the Range 1. Silent but Rowdy: Stuntwomen of the Early Frontier Cynthia J. Miller 2. Suffering Heroines on the Frontier—Melodrama and Pathos, 1914-39 Sue Matheson 3. When East Goes West: The Loss of Dramatic Agency in DeMille’s Western Women from the 1910s to the 1930s David Blanke 4. The Virginian and the Rose: Two Key Female Roles in Western Films and Comics David Huxley, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 5. Freud, "The Family on the Land," and the Feminine Turn in Post-war Westerns Gaylyn Studlar 6. Clytemnestra and Electra under Western Skies Martin M. Winkler 7. ‘Never seen a woman who was more of a man’: Saloon Girls, Women Heroes, and Female Masculinity in the Western Christopher Minz 8. Gender Politics in the Revisionist Western: Interrogating the Perpetrator-Victim Binary in The Missing (Howard 2003) Fran Pheasant-Kelly Women’s Issues in Post-war, Revisionist, and Feminist Westerns 9. Trading Places—Trading Races: The Cross-Cultural Assimilation of Women in The Searchers (1956) and Unforgiven (1960) Kelly MacPhail 10. Western Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Native American Women in Wind River (2017) Robert Spindler 11. Mostly Whores with a (Very) Few Angels: Asian Women in the Western Vincent Piturro 12. "We been haunted a long time": Raped Women in Westerns Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho 13. "My body for a hand of poker": The Belle Starr Story in Its Contexts Erin Lee Mock 14. The Female Avenger in Post-9/11 Westerns Martin Holtz 15. You’ve Got Something: Female Agency in Justified Paul Zinder 16. Eastward the Women: Remapping Women's Journeys in Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman (2014) J Paul Johnson 17. Women Gotta a Gun? Iconography and Female Representation in Godless Stella Hockenhull 18. Wagon Mistress Andrew Patrick Nelson Filmography and Bibliographies 19. Women in the Western Filmography and Bibliography Camille McCutcheon Contributors
£90.25
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 Pontius Pilate on Screen
Book SynopsisThis book considers portrayals of Pontius Pilate in film from the silent era to the twenty-first century.
£85.50
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.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Gothic Film
Book SynopsisThis anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations.
£90.25
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS BATORI EXTREME CINEMA
£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 Women in Marvel Films
Book SynopsisDraws attention to the manifestation of feminist issues within Marvel superhero filmsTrade Review"This book offers its reader diverse theoretical lenses and examples of their applications in the analysis and study of popular cultural artifacts. Women in Marvel Films proposes an analysis of different forms of womanhood, female relationships to their male superhero counterparts, and relevant political contexts." -Enrique Morales-Diaz, West?eld State University
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of John Hughes
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging collection examines the films of John Hughes from diverse angles, considering how he depicted young characters, how he revealed the humour of family life, and how his films subtly critiqued social issues such as class, race, gender, education and domestic relationships.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Nasty Business
Book SynopsisConsiders the technological, economic and aesthetic histories of the early British video industry as part of the broader global film industry.
£85.50
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.
£85.50
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 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 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 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.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Epic Heroes on Screen
Book SynopsisSince 2000, numerous heroes of the ancient world have appeared on film and TV, from the mythical Hercules to leaders of the Greek and Roman worlds. This collection brings together a range of perspectives on twenty-first century cinematic representations of heroes from the ancient world.
£27.54
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 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.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Tim Burtons Bodies
Book SynopsisThis innovative study centres on the body as a centripetal force in Burton's work and considers the array of anomalous, extraordinary and transgressive beings that pervade his canon.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Vampires in Italian Cinema 19561975
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how and why the transnational figure of the vampire was appropriated by Italian genre filmmakers between 1956 and 1975
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press European Film Remakes
Book SynopsisBringing together a range of international scholars, European Film Remakes discusses for the first time the textual, socio-cultural, political, and industrial mechanisms and singularities of the film remake in a European context.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press SinoEnchantment
Book SynopsisApproaches the recent resurgence of the fantastic in Chinese cinemas.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Cinema of Disorientation
Book SynopsisExamines disorientation and confusion, and their theoretical implications, in contemporary narrative film
£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 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 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.
£90.00
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 Exotic Cinema
Book SynopsisA critical reassessment of the aesthetic strategies and cultural value of exoticism in contemporary transnational cinemas.
£18.99
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 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 Contemporary Disney Animation
Book SynopsisReconsiders contemporary Disney animation through the critical lens of genre theory
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Western China on Screen
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between cinema and the cities of Western China.
£90.25
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 Science Fiction Film
Book SynopsisBy presenting a new political framework, the book looks at the sci-fi film genre's important critical role in a post-political world, deepening and elucidating our understanding of the post-political present and hence reopening the political imagination to possible future trajectories beyond the horizon of the present.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Doris Wishman
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£90.25
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 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.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Japanese High School Films
Book SynopsisLooks exclusively at high school films as valuable markers of contemporary Japanese culture.
£18.99
McFarland & Co Inc Egyptomania Goes to the Movies
Book Synopsis Egyptomania, the West''s obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has for centuries been reflected in architecture, literature and the performing arts. But the discovery of Tutankhamen''s tomb in 1922, by a sensation-hungry world newly united by mass media, created a wave of fascination unlike anything before. They called it Tutmania and its influence was felt everywhere from fashion to home decor to popular music--and notably in the new medium of film. This study traces the origins of 20th century cinema''s obsession with Ancient Egypt through previous eras and relates its recurring themes and ideas to the historical reality of the land of the Pharaohs.Trade Review"The title is a recommended and most entertaining resource for any serious fan of mummy films and horror pictures connected with Ancient Egypt." -- PopCultureShelf.com"This reference work goes into detail about films, whether they come from Hollywood, from the UK, or from somewhere else. And the first dates back to 1849![...]The book is therefore a must for anyone who loves Egyptology and movies!" - Out of this World Magazine
£34.99
Globe Pequot Press Release The Snyder Cut
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£14.24
Limelight Editions Film Noir Compendium
Book SynopsisIn this essential study of film noir editors Alain Silver and James Ursini select the most significant and influential articles on the movement from their highly respected Film Noir Reader series and assemble them into a single convenient heavily illustrated volume. Still included of course are many rare early articles and such seminal essays as Borde and Chaumeton''s Towards a Definition of Film Noir from ÊPanorama du Film Noir AmericainÊ Paul Schrader''s Notes on Film Noir and Paint It Black: the Family Tree of the Film Noir by Raymond Durgnat. With newer studies such as Lounge Time by Vivian Sobchack Manufacturing Heroines in Classic Noir Films by Sheri Chinen Biesen and Voices from the Deep: Film Noir as Psychodrama J. P. Telotte this collection of over 30 articles probes this most influential American film movement from varying angles: formalist feminist structuralist sociological and stylistic; narrative-thematic historical and even from the point of vi
£22.50
