Individual film directors Books
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 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 Refocus the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
Book SynopsisThis book provides a fresh look at the director's legacy, with critical essays by both world-famous and early-career film scholars.
£90.25
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 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.
£20.89
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 Tracking Loach
Book SynopsisOffers a unique first-hand account of Ken Loach's working methodsTrade Review"David Archibald provides a thorough analysis of the many facets of Ken Loach's work as one of the most consistent and radical filmmakers in Britain. With a carefully argued methodology and a thorough case study, based on the production process of The Angels' Share, his book offers eloquent insight into this significant director and his work." -Rod Stoneman, NUI Galway
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Films of Teuvo Tulio
Book SynopsisThis is the first English-language collection on this innovative director, exploring Tulio's unique style and the extent and effect of his obsessive recirculation of story elements and stylistic patterns in his work.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Teuvo Tulio
Book SynopsisThis is the first English-language collection on this innovative director, exploring Tulio's unique style and the extent and effect of his obsessive recirculation of story elements and stylistic patterns in his work.
£19.94
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.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered
Book SynopsisChallenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution of production personnel beyond the director, and discusses how cultural change is reflected in both film style and cinematic themes.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Performing Ethics Through Film Style
Book SynopsisProposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three directorial bodies of work: those of Barbet Schroeder, Paul Schrader and the Dardenne Brothers.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity
Book SynopsisThe book offers a radical rethinking of Michelangelo Antonioni's work. It argues against prevalent understandings of it in terms of both cinematic purity and indebtedness to painting.
£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
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Filmmakers Philosopher
Book SynopsisExploring Mamardashvili's extensive philosophical output, as well as a range of recent Russian films, Alyssa DeBlasio reveals the intellectual affinities amongst directors of the Mamardashvili generation including Alexander Sokurov, Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov.
£71.25
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.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Xavier Dolan
Book SynopsisAs the first book-length study about Dolan, with case studies of key films like Mommy (2014), Tom at the Farm (2013) and It's Only the End of the World (2016), this volume explores the global reach of small national and subnational cinemas.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Cinematic Intermediality
Book SynopsisThis edited collection proposes new directions for understanding cinematic intermediality, mapping out innovative approaches to film's relationship with some of its most influential artistic predecessors in the fields of performance, sculpture, painting, photography and dance.
£85.50
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.
£90.25
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.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press The Cinema of Mia HansenLove
Book SynopsisAs the first book-length study of the films of Mia Hansen-Love, this volume introduces her cinema to both an academic and a general readership.
£15.99
Edinburgh University Press The Films of Pablo Larrain
Book SynopsisAssessing his work in the context of film aesthetics, philosophy, history, adaptation studies and cultural studies, this is the first book-length English-language anthology about this important director's cinema, offering a wide range of perspectives by a diverse range of international scholars.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Pablo Larrain
Book SynopsisAssessing his work in the context of film aesthetics, philosophy, history, adaptation studies and cultural studies, this is the first book-length English-language anthology about this important director's cinema, offering a wide range of perspectives by a diverse range of international scholars.
£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.
£90.25
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.
£24.69
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.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Shoe Reels
Book SynopsisExamining the special relationship between footwear and film, Shoe Reelsexplores images of shoes in cinema.It questions what shoes mean in the context of narrative, aesthetics and symbolism, why they are so memorable, and what their wider cultural resonances might be.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Douglas Sirk Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture
Book SynopsisWith detailed case studies of 'Final Chord' and 'All That Heaven Allows', Victoria Evans demonstrates how Sirk attempted to dissolve the boundaries of cinema by assimilating elements of avant-garde art, architecture and design into the colour, composition and setting of many of his most well-known films.
£22.79
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.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Film and the Imagined Image
Book SynopsisThis book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination.
£85.50
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.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Paul Leni
Book SynopsisThis collection the first comprehensive English-language study of Leni's life and career offers new insights into his national and international films, his bold forays into scenic design and his transition from German to Hollywood filmmaking.Trade Review"This excellent book fully reinstates Paul Leni's status as one of silent German and American cinema's most inventive filmmakers. The contributors of this volume offer fresh perspectives on his diverse oeuvre which encompassed war films and the avant-garde, horror and comedy, expressionism and naturalism." -Tim Bergfelder, Professor of Film and Director of Internationalisation, Southampton University
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Irish Queer Cinema
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging, and explores the role of queerness within the constitution of an Irish national culture.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press BMovie Gothic
Book SynopsisExamines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia, Spain, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong and India, highlighting their transgressive, transnational and provocative nature.
£22.79
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.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Cold War Film Genres
Book SynopsisWith case studies of the Cold War comedy, the 'rogue cop' film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances, Cold War Film Genres explores these myriad productions, redefining American cinematic history with a more inclusive view of the types of films that post-war audiences actually enjoyed, and that the studios provided for them.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Moving Figures
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on how the 'Reform Era' has been constructed in the work of the director Jia Zhangke, analysing the archetypal class figures of worker, peasant, soldier, intellectual and entrepreneur that are found in his films.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on Stanley Cavell's account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, which proposes the remarkable thesis that most truly great Hollywood films reflect the struggle to become who we are that is foregrounded in the characteristically American theory of Emersonian perfectionism.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Films of Michel Gondry
Book SynopsisIn this book, a range of international scholars offers a comprehensive study of this significant and influential figure, covering his French and English-language films and videos, and framing Gondry as a transnational auteur whose work provides insight into both French/European and American cinematic and cultural identity.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cinema and Soft Power
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Sohrab ShahidSaless
Book SynopsisIn this the first English-language book to reflect on his work and its implications for creativity in the diasporic conditions of urban displacement a range of international scholars provide a comprehensive account of Shahid Saless's films and production methods.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Sohrab ShahidSaless
Book SynopsisIn this the first English-language book to reflect on his work and its implications for creativity in the diasporic conditions of urban displacement a range of international scholars provide a comprehensive account of Shahid Saless's films and production methods.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Asian Cinema
Book SynopsisThis book explores the collaborative models of film production, distribution, exhibition and reception that have enabled greater co-operation and integration between Asia's film industries.
£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?
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press No Power without an Image
Book SynopsisThe first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections between seven celebrated photographs of political struggles, taken between 1936 and 1968, and cinema in all its forms.
£85.50
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.
£22.79
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
£90.25
