Film: styles and genres Books
Edinburgh University Press Cracking Gilles Deleuzes Crystal
Book SynopsisReassessing the unique qualities of Renoir's influential visual style by interpreting his films through Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, and through previously unpublished production files, Barry Nevin provides a fresh and accessible interdisciplinary perspective that illuminates both the consistency and diversity of Renoir's oeuvre.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cracking Gilles Deleuzes Crystal
Book SynopsisReassessing the unique qualities of Renoir's influential visual style by interpreting his films through Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, and through previously unpublished production files, Barry Nevin provides a fresh and accessible interdisciplinary perspective that illuminates both the consistency and diversity of Renoir's oeuvre.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema
Book SynopsisUsing paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, 'Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema' focuses upon the DVD and Blu-ray object, analysing how sleeve designs, blurbs, and special features shape the identity of the film.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema
Book SynopsisUsing paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema focuses upon the DVD and Blu-ray object, analysing how sleeve designs, blurbs, and special features shape the identity of the film.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The ComputerAnimated Film
Book SynopsisCovering thirty years of computer-animated film history, and analysing over 200 different examples, 'The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre' persuasively argues that this body of work constitutes a unique genre of mainstream cinema
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The ComputerAnimated Film Industry Style and
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£24.99
Edinburgh University Press The Contemporary Western
Book SynopsisIn this book, John White explores how films such as 'Open Range', 'True Grit' and 'Jane Got a Gun' reinforce a conservative myth of America exceptionalism; endorsing the use of extreme force in dealing with enemies and highlighting the importance of defending the homeland.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cinema If You Please
Book SynopsisIn 'Cinema, If You Please', Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cinema If You Please
Book SynopsisIn Cinema, If You Please, Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Susanne Bier
Book SynopsisFeaturing essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the volume's contributors.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Susanne Bier
Book SynopsisFeaturing essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the volume's contributors.
£25.64
Edinburgh University Press Film and Domestic Space
Book SynopsisDrawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman, Agnes Varda, Claire Denis and Todd Haynes this book goes beyond the representational approach to the analysis of domestic space in cinema, in order to look at it as a dispositif.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Cinema Between Media
Book SynopsisOffers new tools from intermediality studies for analysing contemporary cinema.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press WhoS in the Money
Book SynopsisUsing newly unearthed primary sources, this ground-breaking book examines the bitter and little known struggle in Hollywood and Washington D.C. during 1933 to create a National Recovery Administration (NRA) code of practice for the motion picture industry.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Framing Empire
Book SynopsisThis book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and the influence of globalized media entities.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Postfeminist Whiteness
Book SynopsisKendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the 'melancholic white woman' serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in the American dream.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture
Book SynopsisWith case studies of high-profile stars like Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, this ground-breaking book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans.
£20.89
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 Espionage and Exile
Book SynopsisThe first narrative analysis of mid-twentieth century British spy thrillers demonstrating their critiques of political responses to the dangers of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism.
£27.54
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 Improving Passions
Book SynopsisExamining eighteenth century 'moral sense' philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory, 'Improving Passions' is an innovative exploration of the sentimental tradition as both theatrical genre and cultural logic.
£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 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.
£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 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 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 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.
£22.79
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 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 British Music Videos 1966 2016
Book SynopsisBased on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major new analysis of music videos from 1966-2016, identifying not only their distinctive British traits, but their parallels with British film genres and styles.
£85.50
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 Caught inBetween
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores intermediality as a new perspective in the interpretation of the cinemas that have emerged after the collapse of the former Eastern bloc.
£90.25
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.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The The Invisibilities of Political Torture
Book SynopsisBy 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.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Greek Cinema and Migration
Book SynopsisThe book provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greece, and to determine the capacity of contemporary Greek cinema to challenge the logic of Fortress Europe.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Eclipsed Cinema
Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking investigation into the seldom-studied film culture of colonial Korea (1910-1945), Dong Hoon Kim brings new perspectives to the associations between colonialism, modernity, film historiography and national cinema.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere
Book SynopsisNordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and world cinema traditions.
£90.25
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 Barbara Kopple
Book SynopsisIn 'ReFocus: The Films of Barbara Kopple', a range of international scholars trace Kopple's career to date, analysing her contributions in the contexts of funding, style, production and reception, and examining her films' interrogations of social class using the lenses of gender, sexuality and race.
£85.50
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 Spanish Erotic Cinema
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive scholarly study of Spanish erotic cinema, this book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day.
£27.54
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.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Vampires Race and Transnational Hollywoods
Book SynopsisVampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods' 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.
£27.54
