Individual film directors Books
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 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.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Genre Authorship and Contemporary Women
Book SynopsisExamines the significance of women's work in popular genres
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Genre Authorship and Contemporary Women
Book SynopsisExamining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women's contribution to genre cinema through an exploration of filmmakers like Kathryn Bigelow, Diablo Cody, Sofia Coppola and Kelly Reichard.
£27.54
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.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Major Realist Film Theorists
Book SynopsisThe first collection to address the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg Lukacs in one volume.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Cracking Gilles Deleuzes Crystal
Book SynopsisReassessing the unique qualities of Renoir's influential visual style by interpreting his films through Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, and through previously unpublished production files, Barry Nevin provides a fresh and accessible interdisciplinary perspective that illuminates both the consistency and diversity of Renoir's oeuvre.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cracking Gilles Deleuzes Crystal
Book SynopsisReassessing the unique qualities of Renoir's influential visual style by interpreting his films through Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy, and through previously unpublished production files, Barry Nevin provides a fresh and accessible interdisciplinary perspective that illuminates both the consistency and diversity of Renoir's oeuvre.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Beyond Realism
Book SynopsisExamines the unique cultural and critical history of international naturalist cinema.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema
Book SynopsisUsing paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema focuses upon the DVD and Blu-ray object, analysing how sleeve designs, blurbs, and special features shape the identity of the film.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Contemporary Western
Book SynopsisIn this book, John White explores how films such as 'Open Range', 'True Grit' and 'Jane Got a Gun' reinforce a conservative myth of America exceptionalism; endorsing the use of extreme force in dealing with enemies and highlighting the importance of defending the homeland.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cinema If You Please
Book SynopsisIn Cinema, If You Please, Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Susanne Bier
Book SynopsisFeaturing essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film and media studies, this book also includes an original interview with Bier, addressing some of the provocative readings of her films advanced by the volume's contributors.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Cinema Between Media
Book SynopsisOffers new tools from intermediality studies for analysing contemporary cinema.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Framing Empire
Book SynopsisThis book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and the influence of globalized media entities.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Postfeminist Whiteness
Book SynopsisKendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing that the 'melancholic white woman' serves as a vehicle through which to explore the excesses of late capitalism and a crisis of faith in the American dream.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Birth of the American Horror Film
Book SynopsisUsing thousands of primary sources and long-unseen illustrations, this book examines a history that begins in colonial Salem, exploring the influence of horror-themed literature, theatre and visual culture in America, and how that context established an amorphous structural foundation for films produced between 1895 and 1915.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Literature Chapter 2: Theatre Chapter 3: Visual Culture Chapter 4: Moving Pictures Chapter 5: Devils Chapter 6: Witches Chapter 7: Ghosts Chapter 8: Supernatural Creatures Chapter 9: Death, Murder, and Execution Chapter 10: Evolution and Devolution Chapter 11: The Other(s) Chapter 12: The Powers of the Mind Chapter 13: Mad Scientists Chapter 14: American Literature Onscreen Chapter 15: Exhibition and Reception
£25.64
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of William Friedkin
Book SynopsisThis book, the first scholarly study of Friedkin's films, reveals how they confront the ambiguities of law and morality, issues of subjectivity and problems of faith, while raising key questions around emotion and narrative in the cinema.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of William Friedkin
Book SynopsisThis book, the first scholarly study of Friedkin's films, reveals how they confront the ambiguities of law and morality, issues of subjectivity and problems of faith, while raising key questions around emotion and narrative in the cinema.Trade Review"This is a closely reasoned argument for William Friedkin as a filmmaker of transcendent faith and existential authenticity.? It provides a sophisticated re-interpretation of his work through the lenses of thinkers as varied as Frederic Jameson, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Soren Kierkegaard, and legal theorist Carl Schmitt, not to mention film scholars like Tom Gunning, Linda Ruth Williams, Michel Chion, and Robin Wood. ?Skillfully written and exhaustively researched, the book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the American cinema and the American film industry in the last three decades of the twentieth century." -Dr David Cook, UNC Greensboro
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Aesthetics Ethics and Trauma and the Cinema of
Book SynopsisReconceptualising Almodovar'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.
£22.79
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 Engaging Dialogue
Book SynopsisO'Meara highlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific components, and demonstrates how indie dialogue can instead hinge on an idea of cinematic verbalism.
£999.99
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 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 American Cinema in the Shadow of 911
Book SynopsisAmerican Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of essays by some of the foremost scholars writing in the field of contemporary American film.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Colonial Documentary Film in South and
Book SynopsisBased on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers
Book SynopsisBased on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts, this book identifies independence as a 'tactical practice', contesting the normative definitions and functions assigned to culture, cultural production and producers in a neoliberal economic system.
£20.89
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 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
£85.50
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.
£90.25
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
