Films, cinema Books
Edinburgh University Press Migrants Perspectives Migrants in Perspective
Book SynopsisAnalyses how migrants are portrayed in film from different viewpoints.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Francophone Belgian Cinema
Book SynopsisFrancophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws key distinctions between the local, national, small national, regional and transnational frameworks in both representational and industrial terms.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press European Film Remakes
Book SynopsisBringing together a range of international scholars, European Film Remakes discusses for the first time the textual, socio-cultural, political, and industrial mechanisms and singularities of the film remake in a European context.Trade Review"In this exciting new volume Cuelenaere, Willems and Joye bring together established names in the field of remake studies and a number of bright new voices. The result is a rich and diverse collection of essays written from multiple perspectives. Moving away from the established tendency to focus on the Hollywood remake and building upon a growing body of literature on its European counterparts, the collection provides fresh and invigorating new thinking on the European film industries while simultaneously adding important insights to the theorisation of remakes, adaptations and transnational cinema more widely. " -Lucy Mazdon, University of Hull
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Consuming Images
Book SynopsisAnalysing key commercials over the decades that feature new technologies and film aesthetics that were subsequently adopted by feature filmmakers, the book establishes the television commercial as a vital form of film art.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Consuming Images
Book SynopsisAnalysing key commercials over the decades that feature new technologies and film aesthetics that were subsequently adopted by feature filmmakers, the book establishes the television commercial as a vital form of film art.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press SinoEnchantment
Book SynopsisApproaches the recent resurgence of the fantastic in Chinese cinemas.Trade Review"China's haunted screens boast a rich legacy of uncanny, bizarre, grotesque, horrific, mystical and paranormal tales dating back to the silent era. Emerging from a period in which the supernatural ran afoul of censors in the Peoples' Republic of China, the resurgence of films rooted in superstition" merits serious critical attention. This anthology provides penetrating insight into this re-enchantment seen in films by auteurs such as Zhang Yimou (PRC), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan), and Tsui Hark (Hong Kong) as well as in reimagined classics such as Journey to the West in its multiple manifestations on screen."" -Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Religion in Contemporary Thought and Cinema
Book SynopsisThe special issue responds to two concurrent phenomena: the re-emergence in the 21st century of religion as a political and cultural force, and its resurgence in a range of theoretical discourses, from postsecularism to New Atheism.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Fashion on the Red Carpet
Book SynopsisOffers the first scholarly study of the Oscars red carpet as a media phenomenon.Trade Review"This important study advances our understanding of the historical, cultural, economic, and performative functions of fashion in modern life and everyday consciousness. Elizabeth Castaldo Lund n reveals how the red-carpeting of global culture still is expanding through established and newly innovated transmedia platforms. The study is a history of the Academy Awards observed through the lenses of fashion, celebrity, and media. Additionally, it refocuses on unexpected areas, such as the surprisingly crucial function of the anonymous fans who populate the bleachers aside the red carpet. The exemplary, meticulous, research utilizes original documents available only in the Academy's archives. The depth and breadth of this scholarship are unparalleled.?" -Donald Crafton, University of Notre Dame
£35.15
Edinburgh University Press Latecolonial French Cinema
Book SynopsisOffers a sustained analysis of a cluster of French films made during, and in response to, the Algerian War of Independence
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Cinema of Disorientation
Book SynopsisExamines disorientation and confusion, and their theoretical implications, in contemporary narrative film
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Creative Practice Research in the Age of
Book SynopsisAddresses the very notion of what creative practice research is, its challenges within the academy and the ways in which it contributes to scholarship and knowledge
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema
Book SynopsisDiscussing a variety of independent and experimental Italian films, this book gives voice to a critcically neglected form of Italian cinema and explores the character of independent films and their related practices within the Italian historical, cultural and cinematic landscape.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Truth in Visual Media
Book SynopsisShows how aesthetic, ethical, and political questions intersect in a range of art forms as found in traditional media.Trade Review"This is a welcome contribution to the growing field of research on the relationships between aesthetics, ethics and politics in visual media. The book offers thought-provoking and well-informed essays from authors with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, addressing a wide range of socially relevant issues.""" -Jens Eder, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Pulse in Cinema
Book SynopsisThe Pulse in Cinema acknowledges that the pulse is felt in the body, yet also argues that the pulse has a wider reaching effect in cinema than simply the physiological response of the spectator to the image it's the affective force in cinema.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Western China on Screen
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between cinema and the cities of Western China.Trade Review"Hongyan Zou's skilful analysis rewrites the Chinese West and the Chinese Western genre we thought we knew as dry and dusty pioneer lands in 1980s films like Yellow Earth. Her lively writing reveals a regional cinema of many genres depicting historic cities with distinct identities and rich cultures undergoing explosive growth and ultra-rapid modernisation." -Chris Berry, King's College London
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Moroccan Cinema Uncut
Book SynopsisTaking a transnational approach to Moroccan cinema, this book examines diversity in its production models, its barriers to international distribution and success, its key markets and audiences, as well as the consequences of digital disruption upon it.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Mapping the Rockumentary
Book SynopsisMapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury is the first anthology to explore the rockumentary as a central component of both the documentary and world cinema.Trade Review"This book is a milestone in the study of rockumentary as a genre and the way it reflects history, gender and politics. It takes us through the almost uncharted land of this important genre: from early forms of mediated music, to the breakthrough in the 1960s and into the digital era. It is a rich and illuminating analysis of rockumentary and its cultural context." -Ib Bondebjerg, professor emeritus, University of Copenhagen
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press CounterMemories in Iranian Cinema
Book SynopsisReassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle
Book SynopsisEngages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World CinemaTrade Review"This transporting collection seizes the key paradox of Isabelle Huppert's performance style so frank, yet so enigmatic as the launchpad for a series of inspired, surprising, persuasive analyses of her work. These essays also furnish fresh, rewarding lenses on affect and opacity, whiteness and nation, comedy and irony, motherhood and melodrama." -Nick Davis, Northwestern University
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press British Cinema and a Divided Nation
Book SynopsisOffers contemporary context of Britain as a deeply divided society as reflected in film.Trade Review""This thoughtful and thought-provoking study of contemporary British film situates its case studies firmly within their social, political, historical and cultural contexts, reading them collectively as expressive of a fractured national psyche. Whether mobilising the past or exploring the present, dealing with conflict or community, the films discussed in this book, ranging from wartime biopics to costume drama, art cinema to social realism, are compellingly presented as an especially incisive way of accessing and understanding the state of the nation." -Melanie Williams, University of East Anglia
£18.99
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.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Science Fiction Film
Book SynopsisBy presenting a new political framework, the book looks at the sci-fi film genre's important critical role in a post-political world, deepening and elucidating our understanding of the post-political present and hence reopening the political imagination to possible future trajectories beyond the horizon of the present.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Blood on the Lens
Book SynopsisConnects the found footage horror subgenre to significant traumatic events and societal anxieties in American history and contemporary America
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Provocation in Womens Filmmaking
Book SynopsisA new critical perspective on the female auteur that considers her place in the avant-garde tradition of provocation
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Superhero Blockbusters
Book SynopsisExplores the huge commercial success of contemporary superhero blockbusters and develops a critical theory of digital-era popular seriality
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Derivative Images
Book SynopsisFocused on French cultural responses to the 2008 global financial crisis in cinema, literature and theory, Derivative Images offers detailed analyses of post-2008 French-language works, including Les Effondrés (2010), Le Grand Retournement (2013) and L''Outsider (2016), to show how they appropriate and reconfigure notions at the heart of the crisis, such as derivatives, financial trading and markets.Drawing on ideas from thinkers such as Jonathan Beller, Yves Citton and Peter Szendy, this book shows how derivatives can be taken as a conceptual resource for thinking about creative practice and the circulation of audio-visual images today.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Derivative Images
Book SynopsisA theoretical, interdisciplinary reading of French film and literary texts inspired by the 2008 global financial crisis.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey
Book SynopsisExposing the strategy of Turkey's ruling elite to obtain cultural hegemony, this book examines the AKP's efforts to rewrite Turkish public memory by promoting its ideas through TV series, movies, propaganda videos, school curricula and material culture in urban public spaces.Trade Review"A wonderfully wide-ranging collection of essays, critical and yet hopeful, presenting a compelling cultural map of the 'New Turkey' and in so doing making a significant contribution to the globalisation of Turkish cultural studies." -Dr. John Storey, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Mary Harron
Book SynopsisOffers the first first book-length study of Mary Harron's career and works.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Mary Harron
Book SynopsisOffers the first first book-length study of Mary Harron's career and works.Trade Review"This is a welcome addition to the growing body of work on women working within mainstream and/or indie film and television production, an area of creative practice too often overlooked. The editor has done well to source a range of cogent contributions providing good coverage of Mary Harron's oeuvre, including in television." -Mary Harrod, University of Warwick
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Japanese High School Films
Book SynopsisLooks exclusively at high school films as valuable markers of contemporary Japanese culture.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press New Realism
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.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press The Other Side of Glamour
Book SynopsisHong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and international politics at different historical junctures. The Other Side of Glamour is a study of the historical development of the left-wing film establishment in Hong Kong.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Film Style in Indonesian Cinema 19982018
Book SynopsisExamines the use of cinematography and mise en sc ne in contemporary Indonesian cinemaTrade Review"In this engrossing study of contemporary Indonesian film style, Ari Purnama probes the visual appeal and artistic power of a cinema in resurgence. Distinguished by analytical acuity and theoretical rigor, Purnama's account reveals how post-Suharto filmmakers have innovated upon past traditions, pushing Indonesian cinema to dazzling new heights of artistry." -Gary Bettinson, Author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Cinema.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Transnational Tv Crime
Book SynopsisTraces the evolution of the TV cime drama since 2000 with a focus on the value these series have delivered to the creative industries and society in general
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals
Book SynopsisRevisits Taiwan New Cinema in relation to film festivals from cultural, historical, and geopolitical standpointsTrade Review"Outstripping auteur-centred accounts of the Taiwan New Cinema, Tsai forges an illuminating new perspective by reconstructing the economic, discursive, and migratory conditions that shaped this movement. This book is vital reading for those interested in Taiwan New Cinema and its afterlives, and in the transnational imaginary of contemporary art cinema." -Jean Ma, Stanford University
£80.75
Hal Leonard Corporation MASH FAQ Everything Left to Know About the Best
Book SynopsisMASH FAQ: EVERYTHING LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE BEST CARE ANYWHERE
£14.24
Hal Leonard Corporation Star Wars FAQ Everything Left to Know About the
Book SynopsisSTAR WARS FAQ:EVERYTHING LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE TRILOGY THAT CHANGED THE MOVIES
£17.09
Hal Leonard Corporation American NeoNoir
Book SynopsisAfter scores of books and commentaries on film noir and its classic period experts Alain Silver and James Ursini turn their full attention to neo-noir the self-conscious mannered sometimes ersatz and often surprising genre that sprang from the original movement. This volume surveys the full breath of American neo-noir its style and substance its evolution over succeeding generations of filmmakers from activist through postmodern to millennial and on with extensive illustrations in black-and-white and full-color that capture the genre''s dramatic and visual essence.
£999.99
Hal Leonard Corporation The Room
Book SynopsisOh Hai! ÊThe Room: The Definitive GuideÊ is the ultimate key to the biggest pop culture phenomenon of the 21st century Tommy Wiseau''s ÊThe RoomÊ. Arguably the worst film of all time and certainly one of the most beguiling the masterpiece of so-bad-it''s-good filmmaking has grown since its release in 2003 to become one of the most popular theatrical releases of all time with an extremely loyal and vocal fan base.ÞWithin the book readers will find everything required to step into ÊThe RoomÊ for the first time and understand the traditions characters and (lack of) logic at play within the ultimate cult film. Favorite customers of the film will also find a dozen red roses as the book takes a look back at the history of the phenomenon features extensive and in-depth analysis of the film includes extensive interviews with the cast and crew and of course studies the film''s enigmatic and visionary auteur Tommy Wiseau.ÞThis is the first available book guide to ÊThe RoomÊ. And an a
£17.09
Globe Pequot Press Hello Norma Jeane
Book SynopsisHer unforgettable image is seared into the minds of fans everywhere, and her private life continues to inspire headlines and controversy, but Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famousand misunderstoodwomen in the world who remains a mystery to most people. On Marilyn cuts through the rumors and myths to present the real person behind the queen of movies and pop culture. From her chaotic childhood in Depression-era Los Angeles to her rise in the world of Hollywood and finally her untimely deathOn Marilyn explores the legendary star's family history, connection to the movies from childhood, her personal life as an adult, and her interest in continually educating herself. On Marilyn is compulsively readableinstead of chronological dates and dry accounts of events, there are chapters about specific aspects of her life and career. What did Marilyn like to eat? What types of books did she read? Was she really plus size? Did she nearly bring down a political empire?
£22.52
Hal Leonard Corporation The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ
Book SynopsisTHE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW FAQ:EVERYTHING LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE CAMPY CULT CLASSIC
£14.99
Limelight Editions Film Noir Light and Shadow
Book SynopsisDespite a glut of black and white filters the digital revolution in videography has all but abandoned the art science beauty and power of cinematic lighting that literally illuminated the Golden Age of motion pictures. ÊFilm Noir Light and ShadowÊ explores an era before CGI ä a time when every photon mattered and the lighting of a set served a grander purpose than simply rendering its subjects visible. Edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini the duo behind numerous critically acclaimed studies of other aspects of noir this anthology presents a series of essays that examine the visual style of the filmmakers of cinema''s classic period. Some focus on individual pictures or directors; others discuss elements of style or sub-groups of movies within the movement. All are sharply focused on what makes the noir phenomenon unique in American ä and global ä cinematic history. Aside from highlighting the innovative work of its editors and their late colleague Robert Porfirio ÊFilm Noir L
£18.04
Hal Leonard Corporation Buffy the Vampire Slayer FAQ All Thats Left to
Book SynopsisBUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER FAQ
£14.24
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. The Legend Of Korra: Art Of The Animated Series -
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£32.29
Manchester University Press British Rural Landscapes on Film
Book SynopsisThis volume offers insights into how rural areas of Britain have been represented on film, from the silent era through both world wars and on into the twenty-first century. It is the first book to deal exclusively with representations of the British countryside on film. The contributors demonstrate that the countryside has provided Britain and its constituent nations and regions with a dense range of spaces in which cultural identities have been and continue to be worked through. Overall, the book demonstrates that British cinema provides numerous examples of how national identity and the identity of the countryside have been constructed through filmic representation, and how British rural films can help us to understand the relationship between the cultural identities of specific areas of Britain and the landscapes they inhabit.Trade Review‘This is a useful work ... Newland's Introduction valuably locates the debates about landscape in film within a social and cultural context. He gives an interesting account of the contributions of art history and cultural geography to the issue in hand, and makes a large (and in my view justifiable) claim that cinema has a privileged role in prefiguring social expectations of rural space. Essentially, film mines the available fields of topography and iconography and recycles them in a palatable form. To be sure, this edited volume, like all of its kind, has some internal contradictions because of the plural authorship. But what is gained is variety and richness of texture ... overall, this is a very stimulating book and one which rewards re-reading.’Sue Harper, The Journal of British Cinema and Television. ‘This fine collection of essays and interviews investigates the modes and significance of British rural landscape on screen within the history of British national cinema. It sets out to challenge heritage cinema’s representational paradigm of treating landscape as mere spectacle, and focuses instead on films in which the notion of the rural incorporates the depiction of the interconnectedness of land and its inhabitants […] The book may serve as an excellent introduction to the topic for students, as well as a source of new ideas and some refreshingly new perspectives for the initiated expert.’Erzsébet Stróbl, Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Winter 2018) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: approaching British rural landscapes on film - Paul Newland1 Silent landscapes: rural settings, national identity and British silent cinema - Andrew Higson 2 British landscapes in pre-Second World War film publicity - Paul Moody3 Rural imagery in Second World War British cinema - Tom Ryall4 'An unlimited field for experiment': Britain's stereoscopic landscapes - Keith M. Johnston 5 The figure (and disfigurement) in the landscape: The Go-Between's picturesque - Mark Broughton6 'Here is Wales, there England': contested borders and blurred boundaries in On the Black Hill - Kate Woodward7 Where the land meets the sea: liminality, identity and rural landscape in contemporary Scottish cinema - Duncan Petrie8 Fantasy, fallacy and allusion: reconceptualising British landscapes through the lens of children's cinema - Suzanne Speidel9 Picturesque, pastoral and dirty: uncivilised topographies in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - Stella Hockenhull10 Folk horror and the contemporary cult of British rural landscape: the case of Blood on Satan's Claw - Paul Newland11 sleep furiously: interview with Gideon Koppel - Paul Newland12 Film and the repossession of rural space: interview with Patrick Keiller - Paul NewlandIndex
£32.71
Cornerstone Stranger Things One Way or Another
£13.29
Rowman & Littlefield Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and behind
Book SynopsisWhile many film fans may not be familiar with Bill Duke’s name, they most certainly recognize his face. Dating back to the 1970s, Duke has appeared in a number of popular films, including Car Wash, American Gigolo, Commando, Predator, and X-Men: The Last Stand. Fewer still might be aware of Duke’s extraordinary accomplishments off-screen—as a talented director, producer, entrepreneur, and humanitarian. Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and behind the Camera is the memoir of a Hollywood original. In an industry that rarely embraces artists of color, Duke first achieved success as an actor then turned to directing. After helming episodes of ratings giants Dallas, Falcon Crest, Hill Street Blues, and Miami Vice, Duke progressed to feature films like A Rage in Harlem, Deep Cover, Hoodlum, and Sister Act 2. In this candid autobiography, Duke recalls the loving but stern presence of his mother and father, acting mentors like Olympia Dukakis, and the pitfalls that nearly derailed his career, notably an addiction to drugs. Along the way, readers will encounter familiar names like Danny Glover, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Whoopi Goldberg. From his Broadway debut in 1971 to the establishment of the Duke Media Foundation, which trains and mentors young filmmakers, Duke has been breaking the rules of what it means to triumph in the entertainment industry. Recalling pivotal moments in his life, Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and behind the Camera is the story only Bill Duke could tell.Trade ReviewAs an actor and director, Bill Duke has been breaking down racial barriers since the 1970s. In blockbuster movies and hit TV shows, he has channeled his personal struggles into professional triumphs that helped pave the way for a new generation. His story is an important and inspirational reminder that change can and must happen in Hollywood as well as Washington. -- April Ryan, White House Correspondent-American Urban Radio Networks; CNN Analyst; authorWorking with the great Bill Duke was one off the most sublime pleasures of my creative adventure. Bill is a consummate actor’s director and collaborating with him and Laurence Fishburne and the wonderful cast was wildly delicious. What a giant talent - deeply gifted, authentic, focused, free, uniquely inspirational, powerfully wise - I’m so proud to have been part of Deep Cover and enormously grateful for our friendship. -- Jeff Goldblum, actorRarely does someone get to work with the level of giftedness that Bill Duke exudes. His creativity and versatility is exemplified in the massive body of work he’s done. It was a pleasure to work with him on Not Easily Broken. His autobiography is destined to be invaluable to those seeking to unlock and enhance their own potentials and learn from his experiences! -- T.D. Jakes, C.E.O. TDJ Enterprises, LLPActor and director Duke looks back on his life and career in film and television. . . . Duke doesn’t shy away from the internalized racism he battled and the challenges he faced in trying to form healthy romantic relationships in this memoir of resilience and talent. * Booklist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Prologue Introduction CHILDHOOD Chapter One: Wyatt Jones Beer Garden Chapter Two: Little Black Sambo Chapter Three: Understanding Hate A GROWING MIND Chapter Four: Finding the Skips Chapter Five: Poetic License Chapter Six: The Awakening Chapter Seven: Higher Learning Chapter Eight: A Tumultuous Time SUCCESS AND FAILURE Chapter Nine: The Death of Courage Chapter Ten: Inspirations and Aspirations Chapter Eleven: A Pool of Regret Chapter Twelve: Meditation MY CAREER Chapter Thirteen: Acting Out Chapter Fourteen: Directing Hollywood NO CONCLUSIONS Chapter Fifteen: The Rainbow Bridge Chapter Sixteen: Now What? Epilogue Index About the Author
£17.09
