Individual film directors Books
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
Edinburgh University Press The Films of Rachid Bouchareb
Book SynopsisExamines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.
£85.50
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.
£90.00
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.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema
Book SynopsisMaking a compelling argument for the continuing relevance of Brechtian film theory and cinema, this book offers new research and analysis of Brecht the film and media theorist, placing his scattered writings on the subject within the lively film theory debates that took place in Europe between the 1920s?1960s.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press PostHorror
Book SynopsisPost-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Zoya Akhtar
Book SynopsisExamines the work of Hindi film director, screenwriter and producer Zoya Akhtar
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Rakhshan Banietemad
Book SynopsisThis book, the first English language study of her films and career, Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad contains chapters by some of the most prominent scholars of Iranian cinema, as well as younger scholars with fresh points of view.Trade Review"Aspects of Iranian cinema race, gender, class, social and artistic history have been blessed with generations of groundbreaking scholarship. Maryam Ghorbankarimi's edited volume brings together a collection of insightful essays on a seminal figure in Iranian cinema. With impeccable attention to details, full command of archival material, and inquisitive prose, these essays push the boundaries of the whole discipline of cinema studies to unprecedented levels. This book is a model of scholarship for the new generation of cinema studies. ? ?" -Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad, SOAS, author of The Politics of Iranian Cinema
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Ken Russell
Book SynopsisShowcases the most contemporary scholarly and archival research into Ken Russell's career and work
£23.74
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.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Later Films and Legacy of Robert
Book SynopsisExamines an under-analysed period of Robert Altman's career.Trade Review"Moving beyond Robert Altman's early film career, ReFocus turns to the active, though critically overlooked, last 25 years of it. Each chapter teems with new takes and perspectives. A must for anyone interested in independent cinema, and for those who find Altman's work as innovative and observant as the director himself was." -Caryl Flinn, University of Michigan
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Francois Ozon
Book SynopsisExamines Francois Ozon, one of France's most prolific and best known international (queer) directors.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press George A. Romeros Independent Cinema
Book SynopsisExamines George A. Romero's regional production company Laurel Entertainment and its contribution to American cinema.Trade Review"In this excellent book, Fallows provides a rigorously researched analysis of the practices, economies and realities of independent filmmaking through the most compelling and illuminating of case studies. Essential reading for anyone interested in horror, cult and independent cinema, as well as film history and media industry studies." -Kate Egan, Northumbria University
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Jocelyne Saab
Book SynopsisIn this book, a range of international scholars integrates her work into a cohesive study of all aspects of her oeuvre filmic, activist and artistic representing the global significance of Saab's work and the ongoing resonance of her ideals and activism in a worldwide perspective.Trade Review"This tantalizing compilation of a great variety of authors and perspectives, well-informed and original, rightly mirrors the multi-faceted and challenging oeuvre of Lebanese artist-filmmaker Jocelyne Saab and her truly global and internationalist stature." -Viola Shafik, filmmaker
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Doris Wishman
Book SynopsisReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman positions Wishman as a significant and overlooked force in American independent film.Trade Review"This book is a must for scholars in a range of different areas. The collection explores the sexual politics of Wishman's films and provoke fascinating questions about our understanding of genre. It also explores what it means to consider Wishman an artist" and, in the process, explores her relationship to other filmmakers and film movements. In short, this book is much more than a study of a fascinating figure: it provides a fascinating take on film history in particular, and cultural history more generally, that demands to be read by those who have never heard of Wishman and who may consider themselves uninterested in lowbrow culture more generally."" -Mark Jancovich, University of East Anglia
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Film Regulation in a Cultural Context
Book SynopsisCompares censorship's distinct and varying profiles across five different national contexts - U.S.A., Britain, Canada, Australia, and FranceTrade Review"A rich multi-modal account of international censorship as the conceptual and historical backdrop to films that linger at the far reaches of notoriety. Measured and thoughtful about this most heated of global conversations, this is essential reading for anyone engaged by limit cases of media representation." -Tim Palmer, Author of Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema and Irreversible
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Transgressive Art Films
Book SynopsisExplores extremity in films and it's ethical, theoretical and film-philosophical implications
£23.74
