Individual film directors Books
Edinburgh University Press New Realisms
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.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press CinemaMonde
Book SynopsisWith contributions from an international range of specialists, and with considerations of works by contemporary directors like Rachid Bouchareb, Abderrahmane Sissako and Rithy Panh, Cinema-monde explores the porous borders around francophone spaces and the ways in which languages and identities 'travel' in contemporary cinema.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Troubled Everyday
Book SynopsisTroubled Everyday offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in European art cinema. It calls for a re-evaluation of what gives these films such affective force, and such a prolonged grip on our imagination.
£81.00
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.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Beyond Eastern Noir
Book SynopsisAddressing representations of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic cinemas, this ground-breaking book investigates their hitherto overlooked transnational dimension.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press ReFocus The Films of Budd Boetticher
Book SynopsisGary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer present a vital collection of essays on the director's long career. Case studies include celebrated films like Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), lesser-known works like Escape in the Fog (1945), and Boetticher's continuing influence on contemporary classics like Series Breaking Bad.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Disfigured Screen
Book SynopsisInvestigates how horror films have rendered the humanbody as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragmentation.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Female Agency and Documentary Strategies
Book SynopsisFemale Agency and Documentary Strategies' centres on how self-portraiture and contemporary documentary manifestations such as blogging and the prevalent usage of social media shape and inform female subjectivities and claims to truth.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Engaging Dialogue
Book SynopsisFocusing on the 1980s until the present, particularly on the films by writer-directors like Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach and Richard Linklater, this book demonstrates dialogue's ability to engage audiences and bind together the narrative, aesthetic and performative elements of selected cinema.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Moving Figures
Book SynopsisExamines how the Chinese Reform Era is contrusted and felt in the films of Jia Zhangke, using the concept of structures of feeling
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Vampires Race and Transnational Hollywoods
Book SynopsisIn Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywood's vampires, between low-budget quickies and high-budget franchises, as it appropriates visual styles from German, Mexican and Hong Kong cinemas and off-shores to Canada, Philippines, and South Africa.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Short Films from a Small Nation
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press French Film in the Blockbuster Era
Book SynopsisExamines how changes to the French film industry have resulted in popular films which in turn are changing perspectives on French cinema.
£81.00
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.
£85.50
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
£85.50
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.
£81.00
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.
£81.00
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.
£81.00
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.
£85.50
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.
£81.00
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.
£22.79
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 Claude Chabrols Aesthetics of Opacity
Book SynopsisIn this first reappraisal of his filmography (1958-2009), readers are introduced toa new Chabrol, oneinfluenced by Balzac, Magritte, Kubrick.
£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 Impossible Puzzle Films
Book SynopsisBy blending film studies and cognitive sciences, Miklos Kiss and Steven Willemsen's study on 'Impossible Puzzle Films 'looks into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Hong Kong NeoNoir
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique and culturally specific version of the neo-noir genre, while at the same time drawing on and adapting existing international noir cinemas.
£26.09
Edinburgh University Press Abbas Kiarostami and FilmPhilosophy
Book SynopsisMathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott argues that Kiarostami's films carry out cinematic thinking: they do not just illustrate pre-existing philosophical ideas, but do real philosophical work.
£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.
£15.19
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
£81.00
