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Bloomsbury Academic A New Heritage of Horror
Book SynopsisDavid Pirie is a screenwriter, film producer, film critic, and novelist. A former Film Editor of Time Out, Pirie has written for publications including Sight and Sound, Monthly Film Bulletin, The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. As a screenwriter, Pirie has achieved a reputation for his noirish original thrillers, classic adaptations and period gothic pieces including the hit ITV series Murderland starring Robbie Coltrane (2009). Pirie was nominated for a BAFTA for his adaptation of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (BBC, 1997), and in 2018 he co-executive produced the BBC's five hour production of the same novel, starring Jessie Buckley. Pirie is the creator of the Murder Rooms novels and BBC TV dramas. His work for TV and film includes the New York TV Festival award-winning Rainy Day Women (1984); Element of Doubt (1996), Natural Lies (1992); Ashenden (1991), and Black Easter (1995) and he also worked (uncredited) on the screenplay for Lars von Trier's Oscar-nominated Breaking the Waves (1996).
£65.00
Edinburgh University Press Transnational Crime Cinema
Book SynopsisContributes a genealogical approach to debates on critical transnationalismTrade Review"In this stunning collection, Delahousse and Sedzielarz do not round up the usual suspects. Instead, they compile an international police blotter written by stellar investigators tracking a globe-trotting and time-traveling crime spree spanning four continents. Revealed in film histories that cross borders and genres corruption connects nations, politics, capital and culture. From Albania to Nigeria, Iran, Italy, India, China, France and beyond, hidden bodies surface to implicate cinema itself in various crimes of the century: Stalinist show trials, fascist dictatorships, ruthless capitalist exploitation." -Paula Rabinowitz, University of Minnesota
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press The Sex Slave in Cinema
Book SynopsisExamines cinema as a cultural venue that constructs and disseminates the sex slave figure on a visual plane.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Hong Kong Crime Films
Book SynopsisHong Kong Crime Films is the first book detailing the post-war history of the genre before the release of John Woo?s A Better Tomorrow (1986), the film that put Hong Kong action-crime on the global map. Focusing on what it calls the mode of ?criminal realism? in the crime film, the book shows how depictions of Hong Kong?s social reality (including crime) were for decades anxiously policed by colonial censors, and how crime films tended (and still tend) to confound and transgress critical definitions of realism. Drawing on extensive archival research, Hong Kong Crime Films covers several neglected topics in the study of Hong Kong cinema, such as the evolving generic landscape of the crime film prior to the 1980s, the influence of colonial film censorship on the genre, and the prominence and contestation of realism in the local history of the crime film.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Holocaust Representations in Animated
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£23.74
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Evolution of the Western
Book SynopsisExplore the enduring influence of the Western the quintessential American film genre and its essential role in US and world culture. Follow the entire history of the Western, from its roots in the pulp novels of the early 20th century, through the serials of the silent era and the mid-century classics of John Ford and John Wayne, to the recent award-winning revisionist works, like Unforgiven and No Country for Old Men, that provide a more complex and nuanced take on history of the West. Perhaps more than any other pop culture genre, the Western allows us to view how Americans have seen themselves over the last 150 years. Build a foundational understanding of the genre with 5 introductory essays, exploring the development of the Western Mythos in the traditional Western, the heyday of the traditional Western in the post-WWII period, revisionist Westerns and the counterculture, race and identify, and the Western outside of the USA. Close to 100
£71.25
Rowman & Littlefield The Monster Movies of Universal Studios
Book SynopsisIn 1931 Universal Studios released Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. This box office success was followed by a string of films featuring macabre characters and chilling atmospherics, including Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Invisible Man. With each new film, Universal established its place in the Hollywood firmament as the leading producer of horror films, a status it enjoyed for more than twenty years.In The Monster Movies of Universal Studios, James L. Neibaur examines the key films produced by the studio from the early 1930s through the mid-1950s. In each entry, the author recounts the movie's production, provides critical commentary, considers the film's commercial reception, and offers an overall assessment of the movie's significance. Neibaur also examines the impact these films had on popular culture, an influence that resonates in the cinema of fear today.From the world premiere of Dracula to the 1956 release of The Creature Walks among Us, Universal excelled at scaring viewers oTrade ReviewLike Dr. Frankenstein, Universal Studios under Carl Laemmle Jr., brought the monster movie genre to terrifying new life with the 1931 Tod Browning–directed film Dracula starring Bela Lugosi in his most iconic role. The characterizations of Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster by Lugosi and Boris Karloff, as well as the studio’s costume and makeup design, ensured that Universal’s monsters would become the standard representation of these literary monsters in popular culture. In chronological order, historian Neibaur (The Fall of Buster Keaton) details the production and reception of each monster movie produced by the studio between 1931 and 1956, including such classics as Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and each of their respective sequels. The author provides insight into the challenges that the actors faced in the roles that made them household names. Verdict: Neibaur’s book honors Universal’s horror legacy with exhaustive research. The detailed breakdowns of each film makes this an excellent resource for film students and monster movie fanatics. * Library Journal *The horror movies produced by Universal Studios from the 1930s to the early 1950s featured some of the most iconic movie monsters in film history. Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, and the Creature have been portrayed more than once since their first appearances on screen, but there are many who prefer these classic movie monsters to today’s CGI film fiends. Entries document the initial films as well as their sequels. After a summary with full credits, release date, running time, and availability, there is an essay that provides background information, a plot synopsis, and other details. Studio stills and trade ads for several of the films add a suitably scary touch to this treat for fans and scholars alike. * Booklist *A must-read for any avid horror fan or classic movie buff, The Monster Movies of Universal Studios is an fascinating look back at a struggling studio and the genre that saved it. For those who weren't around at the time, the book provides a wealth of insight & trivia, and if it prompts the reader to revisit any of these classics, then it's done its job. * Free Kittens Movie Guide *Neibaur does a good job discussing ... films.... [A]ny monster fan would have fun reading over some of their favorite titles of these classic monster films. * Kitley's Krypt *I was impressed by the research and smooth writing skills of the author, which have become a staple of his books.... [I]t's a fact-filled, genre-fun read of a piece of Hollywood history that so many cult film fans love. It merits real estate in your book case. * Plan 9 Crunch: All About Cult Films *While the images of Bela Lugosi’s Dracula, Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein monster, and Elsa Lanchester’s Bride of Frankenstein dominate magazine covers, notebooks, posters, mugs and other collectibles, the series of movies that introduced these characters seems to get very little respect from film historians. A step in the right direction to correct this is the excellent new book The Monster Movies of Universal Studios by James L. Neibaur, published by Rowman and Littlefield. In this fascinating new study, the author puts Universal’s horror series into proper historical context. Unlike other books on the subject, Neibaur has limited his focus to films that feature one or more of Universal’s line-up of monsters…. The book is an impressive work of film scholarship and shines a spotlight on classic Hollywood moviemaking by looking at one of the longest film series at a major studio….Each chapter is full of behind the scenes information and welcome analysis into the filmmaking process. It’s clear that Neibaur has studied the screenplays for these films…. The Monster Movies of Universal Studios is a great book on the history of one of Hollywood’s oldest franchises…. The book is an excellent look at studio and genre filmmaking in a bygone era. It is the perfect Halloween read. * Cinema Retro *
£999.99
Amberley Publishing Star Wars Memorabilia
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated guide to Star Wars action figures, comic books and all other kinds of memorabilia.
£19.70
Edinburgh University Press Aesthetics Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of
Book SynopsisOne of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodóvar has won international recognition for his dark comedy-dramas like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver. Reconceptualising Almodóvar'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. With close readings of Almodóvar's films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Bad Education and The Skin I Live In, Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla explores how Almodóvar's cinema mourns and witnesses the traces of trauma, drawing on theoretical approaches from trauma studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, film studies and visual studies to suggest that his work proposes an ethical model based on our compassionate relations to others, and envisions a world co-inhabited by plurality and difference.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Spanish Erotic Cinema
Book SynopsisThis book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. The volume explores homoerotic narratives in the crusade films of the 1940s, the commodification of bodies in the late Franco period, and the so-called destape period that followed the abolition of censorship during the democratic transition.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Delmer Daves
Book SynopsisAs the first comprehensive study of Daves's career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding of his work, and also to problematize existing conceptions of him as a competent, conventional and even nave studio man.
£90.25
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
