Film: styles and genres Books
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.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Indie Reframed
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking collection, the first sustained examination of the work of female practitioners within American independent cinema, reclaims the 'difference' of female indie filmmaking.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Revisiting Star Studies
Book SynopsisGathering together the most important new research on star studies, with case studies of stars from many different cultures, this collection looks at film stardom from new angles, challenging the received wisdom on the subject and raising important questions about image, performance, bodies, voices and fans in cultures across the globe.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Amy Heckerling
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and writer of Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. The book constitutes a significant intervention in Film Studies, prompting a reconsideration of the importance of Heckerling both to the development of teen cinema and as a figure in Hollywood comedy.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press American Postfeminist Cinema
Book SynopsisExamines a cycle of postfeminist films that adopt the conventions of romance. This book explores the symbiotic relationship between heterosexual romance and postfeminist culture. It offers a fresh perspective on both popular American romance films and postfeminist cultural criticism.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Selling the Splat Pack
Book SynopsisReveals the history of how the emergence of the DVD market changed cultural and industrial attitudes about horror movies and film ratings. This title presents a re-evaluation of the history of the horror film from an industry studies perspective. It also features an exploration of the relationship between DVDs and film ratings.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Preston Sturges
Book SynopsisThe Films of Preston Sturges, first book in the ReFocus series, provides this recognition with essays by world-famous scholars that chart Sturges' contributions to Hollywood cinema, pivotal status as an early writer-director, inimitable style and ongoing influence.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Impossible Puzzle Films
Book SynopsisBy blending film studies and cognitive sciences, Mikls Kiss and Steven Willemsen's study on Impossible PuzzleFilms looks into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Slums on Screen
Book SynopsisFrom Jacob Riis' How The Other Half Lives (1890) to Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Igor Krsti outlines a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, barrios poulares or chawls of our 'planet of slums'.
£85.50
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.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Grindhouse Nostalgia
Book SynopsisExploitation films have become sincerely appreciated cult objects on home video. In this new study, David Church explores how the history of drive-in theatres and urban grind houses has descended to home video formats. Church examines how nostalgia shapes the aesthetics and politics of exploitation films and the fan cultures devoted to them.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Films on Ice
Book SynopsisWith chapters on polar explorer films, silent cinema, documentaries, ethnographic and indigenous film, gender and ecology, as well as Hollywood and the USSR's uses and abuses of the Arctic, this book provides a groundbreaking account of Arctic cinemas from 1898 to the present and radically alters stereotypical views of the Arctic region.
£27.54
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.
£85.50
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.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Hamlet Lives in Hollywood
Book SynopsisThis book, a collection of fifteen original essays on the film performances and stardom of John Barrymore, redresses the lack of scholarship on Barrymore by offering a range of varied perspectives on the actor s work.
£85.50
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.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Hong Kong NeoNoir
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique and culturally specific version of the neo-noir genre, while at the same time drawing on and adapting existing international noir cinemas.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press New Realisms
Book SynopsisTaking 5 filmmakers (Duane Hopkins, Joanna Hogg, Andrea Arnold, Shane Meadows and Clio Barnard) as case studies, this book seeks to explore in depth this new tradition of British cinema and in the process, it reignites debates over realism that have concerned scholars for decades.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press International Noir
Book SynopsisRanging from Japanese silent films and women's films to French, Hong Kong, and Nordic New Waves, this book explores the influence of noir on international cinematic traditions and challenges prevailing film scholarship. It includes extensive bibliography and filmographies for recommended reading and viewing.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie
Book SynopsisReconsidering tropes such as the male juvenile delinquent figure, the makeover and the teen vampire, the book uses a series of detailed case studies to provide an innovative overview of the Hollywood teen movie and its construction of teen identity.
£85.50
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).
£85.50
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.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Troubled Everyday
Book SynopsisTroubled Everyday offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in European art cinema. It calls for a re-evaluation of what gives these films such affective force, and such a prolonged grip on our imagination.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris
Book SynopsisBringing together Murdoch's moral philosophy and contemporary cinema to build a dialogue about vision, ethics and love, author Lucy Bolton encourages us to view cinema as a way of studying other worlds and moral journeys.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Disappearing War
Book SynopsisThe battles fought in the name of the war on terror have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those geographically distant from its real world consequences. What is missing from our highly mediated experience of war?
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press CloseUp
Book SynopsisThis two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history. This second volume focuses on international cinema, and includes case studies of key performances from actors like Ingrid Bergman, Nikolai Cherkassov, Alec Guinness and Isabelle Huppert.
£90.25
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 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 Francophone Belgian Cinema
Book SynopsisConsiders transnational, national and regional concepts within contemporary francophone Belgian cinema.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Bollywood and Postmodernism
Book SynopsisApplying postmodern concepts and locating postmodern motifs in key commercial Hindi films, this innovative study reveals how Indian cinema has changed in the 21st century.
£27.54
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 Vampires Race and Transnational Hollywoods
Book SynopsisIn Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywood's vampires, between low-budget quickies and high-budget franchises, as it appropriates visual styles from German, Mexican and Hong Kong cinemas and off-shores to Canada, Philippines, and South Africa.
£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 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.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Epic Heroes on Screen
Book SynopsisRepresentations of the ancient hero in the new millennium
£90.25
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 SynopsisExamines the significance of women's work in popular genres
£90.25
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 Screening Divinity
Book SynopsisEngaging with recent scholarship on film, particularly film and theology as well as classical reception, Lisa Maurice considers the gods of Greek and Roman mythology alongside the biblical God of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
£90.25
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 Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study brings together leading international scholars in a variety of disciplines to both revisit the Spaghetti Western genre s cultural significance and consider its on-going influence on international film industries.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Slums on Screen
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£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 French and Spanish Queer Film
Book SynopsisAdvancing the current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in transnational contexts, French and Spanish Queer Film analyses how French LGBTQ films are seen in Spain and Spanish ones in France.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press FrenchLanguage Road Cinema
Book SynopsisFocusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, French-language Road Cinema contends that nowhere is the impulse to remap the spaces and identities of `New Europe more evident than in French-language cinema.
£22.79
