Film: styles and genres Books
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.
£76.50
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.
£81.00
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
£81.00
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.
£85.50
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.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Greek Weird Wave
Book SynopsisThis book establishes a cinematic and cultural history of Greece during the last difficult decade in an engaged and highly original manner.
£107.88
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.
£81.00
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.
£81.00
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.
£85.50
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.
£81.00
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.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Habiba Djahnine
Book SynopsisExplores the work and legacy of feminist documentary filmmaker, Habiba Djahnine.
£17.50
Edinburgh University Press Habiba Djahnine
Book SynopsisExplores the work and legacy of feminist documentary filmmaker, Habiba Djahnine.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Reanimated
Book SynopsisExplores American horror remakes produced since 2000 within key cultural, industry and reception contexts
£81.00
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 Revisiting Star Studies
Book SynopsisFrom Hollywood to Bollywood, from China to Italy, and from Poland to Mexico, this collection revisits the definitions and origins of star studies, and points the way forward to new ways of approaching the field.
£26.09
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 The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro
Book SynopsisThis book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death in 1963, focusing on Ozu's depiction of the everyday life and experiences of ordinary Japanese people during a time of depression, war and economic resurgence.
£26.99
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
Edinburgh University Press Phases of the Moon
Book SynopsisProvides thefirst academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Sensing Justice Through Contemporary Spanish
Book SynopsisSensing Justice examines the aesthetic frames that mediate the sensory perception and signification of law and justice in the context of 21st century Spain.
£81.00
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.
£85.50
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
£85.50
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.
£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.
£81.00
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.
£81.00
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.
£85.50
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.
£85.50
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.
£85.50
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.
£85.50
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.
£81.00
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.
£81.00
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.
£76.50
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.
£26.09
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.
£81.00
