Films, cinema Books
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.
£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.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Bergson and the Art of Immanence
Book SynopsisImmanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not outside of it. This collection brings the major 20th century French philosopher Henri Bergson's work on immanence together with fresh ideas in art theory and the practice of immanent art as found in painting, photography and film.
£27.54
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.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus
Book SynopsisIn the Taiwanese film industry, the dichotomy between art house and commercially viable films is heavily emphasised by both scholars and the local media. This book provides a nuanced picture of the Taiwanese film industry since democratisation and isolation from the Peoples Republic of China.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Female Stars of British Cinema
Book SynopsisFemale Stars of British Cinema uses case studies of seven female stars whose careers span the 1940s to the present day Jean Kent, Diana Dors, Rita Tushingham, Glenda Jackson, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Lloyd, and Judi Dench to explore how British star femininities have developed over time.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The New Soundtrack
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£18.04
Edinburgh University Press BenHur
Book SynopsisJon Solomon's new book offers an exciting and detailed study of the Ben-Hur brand, tracking its spectacular journey from Wallace's original novel through to twenty-first century adaptations, and encompassing a wealth of previously unexplored material along the way
£108.00
Edinburgh University Press Intermedial Dialogues
Book SynopsisCasting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dialogues is the first comprehensive study of the New Wave's relationship with the older arts.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The War on Terror and American Film
Book SynopsisThis compelling, theoretically informed and up-to-date exploration of contemporary American cinema charts the evolution of the impact of 9/11 on Hollywood film.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Special Affects
Book SynopsisSpecial Affects is the first extended exploration of the connection between media and consumerism, and the first book to extensively apply Deleuzian film theory to animation.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The New Soundtrack
Book SynopsisThe New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images.
£18.04
Edinburgh University Press Sounding Modernism
Book SynopsisThis individual studies ask what specific sonorous qualities are capable of being registered by different modern media, and how sonic transpositions and transferences across media affect the ways in which human subjects attend to modern soundscapes.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press James Bennings Environments
Book SynopsisA range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of James Benning s practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work.
£85.50
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.
£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 Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British
Book SynopsisMaking substantial use of new and underexplored archive resources that provide a wealth of information and insight on the period in question, this book offers a fresh perspective on the major resurgence of creativity and international appeal experienced by British cinema in the 1960s.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British
Book SynopsisMaking substantial use of new and underexplored archive resources that provide a wealth of information and insight on the period in question, this book offers a fresh perspective on the major resurgence of creativity and international appeal experienced by British cinema in the 1960s.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Political Cinema
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates that a contemporary form of political cinema has emerged, centered on the production of subjectivity and networks of protest.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Jacques Ranciere and the Politics of Art Cinema
Book SynopsisDrawing on case studies of films including Charlie Kaufman's 'Synecdoche, New York', Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 'Climates' and John Akomfrah's 'The Nine Muses', this books asks to what extent is politics shaping art cinema? And, in turn, could art cinema possibly affect the political structure of the world as we know it?
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Hieroglyphic Modernisms
Book SynopsisHieroglyphic Modernisms explores this conjunction of hieroglyphs and modernist fiction and film, revealing how the challenge of new media spurred a fertile interplay among practitioners of old and new media forms.
£90.25
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 Imagining Surveillance
Book SynopsisImagining Surveillance presents the first full-length study of the depiction and assessment of surveillance in literature and film. Focusing on Utopian genre, the book offers an in- depth account of which the most creative writers, filmmakers and thinkers have envisioned alternative worlds in which surveillance in various forms plays a key concern.
£22.79
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 Screening Statues
Book SynopsisThis book examines key sculptural motifs and cinematic sculpture in film history through a series of case studies and through an extensive reference gallery of 150 different films.
£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 Refocus the Films of Albert Brooks
Book SynopsisOffers the first book-length investigation Albert Brooks' more than six-decade comedy career.Trade Review"This collection of essays makes the case for Albert Brooks's multi-faceted significance as a pioneer of meta-comedy, a satirist of baby-boomer complicity, and a prophet of fail culture. America has spent the last half century trailing Brooks. This book catches up with him." -Robert J. King, Columbia University
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Gillian Armstrong
Book SynopsisThis important book fills a gap in the literature on women screen practitioners and is a long overdue response to demands for new insight into the work of Gillian Armstrong.
£15.99
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.
£19.94
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.Trade Review"[Papanikolaou] brings together pieces of an informal Greek cinematic archive, collects unnoticed information, and weaves the threads that connect people, practices, technologies of survival, gestures and spaces, inside and outside the cinematic or artistic context; it is this auto-ethnographical participative approach that makes this book so valuable, and also so enjoyable to read. [...] And yes, it is a weird book, as funny, brilliant, provocative, personal and political, biting and moving, as the films of this wave are. " -Anna Poupou, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Vital Resonances
Book SynopsisEstablishes resonance as a critical and conceptual paradigm for film analysis bringing together, for the first time, the work of three of the leading figures in European film: Agn s Varda, Michael Haneke and Jean-Luc Nancy.Trade Review"This is an extremely insightful and elegant exploration of the work of Nancy, Varda and Haneke which uniquely aligns the specificity of such cinemas in order to stage a brilliant encounter, rethinking notions of embodied spectatorship and its varying ethics of viewing pleasure." -Davina Quinlivan, Kingston University
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Invisibilities of Political Torture
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political tortureExamines role of images and film in (mis)understanding of tortureOffers synergised knowledge through comparative angle, exploring differences and continuities of torture cases which were documented to vastly different extentsIncludes key popular movies, independent films as well as serial televisionCombines serious film analysis with ethical-political questions and historically and theoretically informed researchExpands on the latest developments of comparative media scholarship, and integrates the nostalgic, material and affective turn. Academic work on the subject of torture tends to mirror public debates on its presumed utility, to focus on its historically ?correct? representation or on profilmic structures of identification. This book moves beyond these ideologically charged questions to explore how contemporary films have responded to a growing popular distrust in visual evidence when referencing factual cases of torture. Two cases studies ? the United States around 2004 and Chile from 1973 until the end of the dictatorship ? provide either an abundance or lack of such visual evidence. Drawing on films and television series such as Zero Dark Thirty (2012), NO (2012), Homeland (2011?) and Los 80 (2008?14), amongst many others, this book analyses the visible components of torture but also its invisibilities. By 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.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Sounding Modernism
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound studies.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The New Soundtrack
Book SynopsisThe New Soundtrack is fully peer-reviewed and includes contributions from recognised practitioners in the field, including composers, sound designers and directors.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Persistent Images
Book SynopsisChannelling a focus on the history of cinema into the present and beyond, Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema explores the continuing resonance of the memory of cinema as revealed in the technological and aesthetic expressions of a range of experimental practices.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Cinematic Realism
Book SynopsisIan Aitken links the issue of cinematic realism to important questions concerning human experience, analysing the close similarity between the film image and visual perception, and how different theories of realism have sought to uncover the way film's relation to reality can be understood.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Film Stardom in South East Asia
Book SynopsisAnalyses the cinematic and social significance of the star phenomenon in Southeast Asia.
£999.99
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 Gothic Film
Book SynopsisThis anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Cinema of Crisis
Book SynopsisThis collection explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across Europe in flux. It brings together scholars from Spain to Estonia, Hungary to Britain, in order to trace European filmmakers' diverse responses to the interlinked upheavals and emergencies of the past three decades.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Badfilm
Book SynopsisThis fascinating book examines badfilms; a subcategory of 'bad cinema' marked by incompetence, and typically exacerbated by material poverty and restrictive production conditions.Trade Review"Badfilm: Incompetence, Intention and Failure is a thorough and impressive consideration of the 'badfilm'. Bartlett investigates technical and aesthetic factors underpinning such films, including editing, sound, acting, and the use of stock footage. She also interrogates the complex ways that such films are embraced by niche audiences through engaging with issues such as cultural value and taste. Clearly and engagingly written, this is by far the best work produced so far on this fascinating subject." -Jamie Sexton, University of Northumbria
£19.94
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.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Working Title Films
Book SynopsisDrawing on over 30 interviews with key personnel from Working Title, Polygram and Universal, the author examines not only how this remarkable company has evolved but also why it has evolved in the way that it has by situating its history within the ever-changing landscape of the British and Hollywood film industries.Trade Review"Essential reading for anyone engaged in the serious study of contemporary British cinema, Nathan Townsend's book provides a long overdue full critical analysis of Working Title's operations and outputs since its inception four decades ago. It traces the company's complex history and surveys the full range of its transnational endeavours, from Oscar-winning highs to critic infuriating lows, and is nourished throughout by Townsend's conceptual sophistication and granular attention to detail." -Melanie Williams, University of East Anglia
£19.94
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.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Love Across the Atlantic
Book SynopsisFrom romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Hieroglyphic Modernisms
Book SynopsisHieroglyphic Modernisms' explores this conjunction of hieroglyphs and modernist fiction and film, revealing how the challenge of new media spurred a fertile interplay among practitioners of old and new media forms.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Spinsters Widows and Chars
Book SynopsisEstablishes the cultural and historical contexts for representations of female ageing in British film since the 1930s.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Tyrone Power
Book SynopsisThe first substantial academic study on Tyrone Power
£19.94
