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Film and Media
New Books Catalogue
July-September 2021
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The Terminator M Near Dark The Exorcist
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Duck Soup Trainspotting
J. Hoberman, film critic, journalist and author, Murray Smith, University of Kent, UK
New York, USA In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in
J. Hoberman's study of Duck Soup (1933) traces the British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed,
film's reputation, from the initial disappointment it crossed into the mainstream despite being a
of its release, to its rise to cult status in the 1960s black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin
when the Marx’s anarchic, anti-establishment humor addiction in Edinburgh. The film is crucial for
seemed again timely. Hoberman places Duck understanding British culture in the context of
Soup in its cinematic context, alongside analogous comedies—Dr. devolution and the rise of ‘Cool Britannia’. In his afterword to this new
Strangelove (1964), the Beatles films, Morgan! (1966), The President’s edition, Murray Smith reflects on the original film 25 years after its
Analyst (1967) and The Producers (1968). It attained canonical stature release, and its 2017 sequel T2: Trainspotting also directed by Danny
as a touchstone for Woody Allen and would be recognized by the Boyle. Smith also considers Boyle's subsequent directorial career, with
Library of Congress in the 1990s. highlights including Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and the 2012 London
Olympics opening ceremony.
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 104 pages • 40 bw illus
PB 9781839022258 • £11.99 / $15.95 UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus
ePub 9781839022265 • £10.79 / $13.54 PB 9781839022166 • £11.99 / $15.95
ePdf 9781839022272 • £10.79 / $13.54 ePub 9781839022173 • £10.79 / $13.54
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute ePdf 9781839022180 • £10.79 / $13.54
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Screen Industries in East-Central The Story of British Animation
Europe Jez Stewart, British Film Institute, UK
Petr Szczepanik, Charles University, Prague The first authoritative account of the history, art and
industry of animation in Britain, covering everything
This book is available as open access through the
from the origins of animation at the end of the
Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on
Victorian era to the 21st century's pioneering digital
www.bloomsburycollections.com.
techniques, highlighting key animators, teams and
Petr Szczepanik provides an in-depth study into the studios. Richly illustrated with unique material from
audiovisual media industries of the Czech Republic, the BFI archive, the book also features focused 'close up' analyses of
Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, offering broad insights into the ways key animators, studios and classic films, such as Anson Dyer's Animal
the screen industries of Eastern and Central Europe are positioned in Farm (1954), Britain’s second animated feature Yellow Submarine
and are responding to globalization and digitalization. (1968), the children's classic Watership Down (1978) and the creations
of Aardman Animations.
UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 224 pages • 15 bw illus
HB 9781839022739 • £85.00 / $115.00
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 192 pages • 100 colour illus
ePdf 9781839022753 • £76.50 / $94.85
PB 9781911239659 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781911239734 • £70.00 / $95.00
Series: International Screen Industries • British Film Institute
ePub 9781911239727 • £20.69 / $25.86
ePdf 9781911239710 • £20.69 / $25.86
Series: British Screen Stories • British Film Institute
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F I L M & M E D I A – Animation
Writing for Animation The Classical Animated
Laura Beaumont, Independent screenwriter, UK Documentary and Its
& Paul Larson, Independent screenwriter, UK
Contemporary Evolution
Written by the writers of such programs as Thomas
the Tank Engine and Bob the Builder, Writing
Cristina Formenti, University of Milan, Italy
for Animation provides all the tools necessary Cristina Formenti integrates a theoretical and a
to produce professional quality scripts that will historical approach in order to shed new light on
further your career in animation. Starting with the the animated documentary as a form as well as on
fundamentals of ‘why animation?’ the book leads you through a the work of renowned studios such as The Walt
series of principles, including constructing the middle act, character Disney Studios, Halas & Batchelor, National Film Board of Canada
generation and a comedy workshop. These help to create a and never before addressed ones as Corona Cinematografica. She
comprehensive toolbox that helps you to create stories that become also highlights the differences and the similarities existing among the
more dramatic, more engaging and downright funny. animated documentaries created from the 1940s through the present
day, demonstrating their evolution.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 288 pages • 32 bw illus
PB 9781501358661 • £18.99 / $25.95 • HB 9781501358678 • £60.00 / $80.00 UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus
ePub 9781501358654 • £19.48 / $23.35 HB 9781501346460 • £96.00 / $120.00
ePdf 9781501358647 • £19.48 / $23.35 ePub 9781501346484 • £88.50 / $108.00
Bloomsbury Academic ePdf 9781501346477 • £88.50 / $108.00
Bloomsbury Academic
Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers
Chris Pallant, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Coraline
Grendel Grendel Grendel A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA’s Stop-
Animating Beowulf Motion Witchcraft
Dan Torre, RMIT University, Australia & Lienors Edited by Mihaela Mihailova, Michigan State
Torre, Deakin University, Australia University, USA
This book is available as open access through This book is available as open access through
the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is
available on www.bloomsburycollections.com available on www.bloomsburycollections.com
Grendel Grendel Grendel is a masterpiece of animation and design This collection celebrates Coraline’s 10th anniversary by examining
which has attained a national and international cult status since its the narrative, aesthetics, cinematic techniques, technological
release in 1981. A mature, intelligent, irreverent and unique animated advancements, cultural impact, and industrial legacy that have made
film, it is a movie, both in terms of content and of an aesthetic this film an animation milestone. Topics explored in this collection
that was well ahead of its time. Dan and Lienors Torre provide an highlight Coraline’s pivotal role in revolutionizing the stop-motion
intriguing analysis of the film, one of the finest Australian animated process, its animation aesthetics, narrative techniques, and global
features of all time. reception.
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 224 pages • 65 bw illus UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 256 pages • 17 bw illus
HB 9781501337826 • £90.00 / $120.00 HB 9781501347863 • £95.00 / $130.00
ePub 9781501337819 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePub 9781501347870 • £95.81 / $117.00
ePdf 9781501337802 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501347887 • £95.81 / $117.00
Series: Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers • Bloomsbury Academic Series: Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers • Bloomsbury Academic
Aardman Animations Animation in the Middle East
Beyond Stop-Motion Practice and Aesthetics from Baghdad to
Edited by Annabelle Honess Roe, University of Casablanca
Surrey, UK Edited by Stefanie van de Peer, Queen Margaret
This volume brings together leading scholars from University, UK
film studies and animation studies, and children’s Animation in the Middle East uncovers the history
media and animation professionals to explore the and politics that have defined the practice and
production practices behind this uniquely British study of animation in the Middle East. The book
animation studio, creators of much-loved figures such as Wallace explores how in spite of censorship, oppression and war, animation
and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Contributors address Aardman's studios have thrived in recent years - in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon,
creativity, the key personalities who have formed its ethos, its Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Turkey - giving rise to a whole new
representations of ‘British-ness’ on screen and the implications of generation of entrepreneurs and artists.
traditional animation methods in a digital era.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 336 pages • 21 bw illus
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781350243903 • £28.99 / $39.95
PB 9781350194946 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784533267
Previously published in HB 9781350114555 ePub 9781786721716 • £81.00 / $101.01
ePub 9781350130302 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781786731715 • £81.00 / $101.01
ePdf 9781350130296 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
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F I L M & M E D I A – Screenplays / Film Editing & Production / Race & Gender
Mank Film Editing
The Screenplay Emotion, Performance and Story
Jack Fincher, American screenwriter Julie Lambden, Westminster University, UK
David Fincher's Mank recreates 1930s Hollywood Combining history, theory and practice, Film
through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic Editing explains how and why editorial decisions
screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races impact on the emotional and narrative engagement
to finish Citizen Kane. Starring Gary Oldman as of the audience. With colour examples taken
Mankiewicz, Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davies, from features, short films, documentaries and
Charles Dance as William Randolph Hearst and Tom Burke as Orson commercials, Julie Lambden introduces a range of different editing
Welles. styles and techniques. Each chapter includes in-depth interviews with
current editors, directors and writers, demonstrating a wide range of
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 160 pages techniques and working styles. Exercises are accompanied online by
PB 9781350244856 • £11.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350244863 • £10.79 / $13.54
editable video and audio material, enabling you to experiment with
ePdf 9781350244894 • £10.79 / $13.54 the ideas and techniques introduced in each chapter.
Bloomsbury Academic
World English UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 224 pages • 200 colour illus
PB 9781474254908 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9781501379109 • £75.00 / $100.00
ePub 9781474256254 • £26.99 / $33.25
ePdf 9781474256247 • £26.99 / $33.25
Bloomsbury Academic
Divergent Tracks
How Three Film Communities
Revolutionized Digital Film Sound Dramatic Effects with a Movie
Vanessa Theme Ament, Ball State University, Camera
USA Gail Segal, Tisch School of the Arts, New York
Offers a unique perspective through the author's University, USA & Sheril Antonio, Tisch School of
personal experience of the three main American Arts, New York University, USA
sound communities of Hollywood, New York, and A practical guide to the visual storytelling potential
the San Francisco Bay Area's transition from analogue to digital of different camera techniques, demonstrating how
postproduction in the 1990s. Using three case studies of essential they can produce compelling shots and sequences.
films - Barton Fink, Bram Stoker's Dracula and The English Patient - it By exploring how a close-up shot of a character’s face can help the
becomes clear the 1990s was an era in which sound professionals viewer share their fear or joy, or how a moving camera can reveal plot
became more visible as artists, collaborated in sound design points, connect objects and characters in space or give clues to their
authorship, and influenced this digital transition to better accomodate state of mind, Gail Segal and Sheril Antonio show how choice of shot
their needs and desires in their work. can dramatically affect your narrative. With detailed analysis of clips
from 45 films, from 30 countries, this is a unique window into how
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 176 pages • 27 colour illus
movie-making masters have made the most of their cameras – and
HB 9781501359224 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781501359217 • £81.19 / $99.00 how you can too.
ePdf 9781501359200 • £81.19 / $99.00
Bloomsbury Academic UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 304 pages • 175 color illus
PB 9781474285827 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350099494 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781474285841 • £26.09 / $33.25
ePdf 9781474285834 • £26.09 / $33.25
Bloomsbury Academic
Fashioning James Bond
Costume, Gender & Identity in the World
of 007
Llewella Chapman, University of East Anglia, UK Smartphone Filmmaking
Fashioning James Bond provides the first full-length Theory and Practice
critical study of the costume and fashion evident in Max Schleser, Swinburne University of
the James Bond films. Its methodological approach Technology, Australia
includes research generated from archives, close
textual analysis of the costumes and fashion brands presented Smartphone Filmmaking introduces readers to
within the James Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking,
shirtmakers who assisted in creating the ‘look’ and fashion for the providing a source of inspiration for outlining
character of James Bond, and critical reception and the marketing creative practices and principles on how to produce
strategies for the films, promoted to create a ‘James Bond lifestyle’. your first film and distribute your project via mobile social media.
Filmmaker and academic Max Schleser traces the development of
In it, Chapman questions why costumes are an important tool for mobile filmmaking over a decade from its early experimentation
analysing and evaluating film, both in terms of the development of to films screened at international film festivals, such as Sundance
gender in the James Bond film franchise and how it evokes the desire or Berlin International Film Festival. Unlike the the how-to guides
in audiences to become part of a specific lifestyle construct through currently on the market, this book goes beyond technical elements
the wearing of fashions as seen on screen. It researches the agency and focuses on the stories that were told and how they were created.
of the costume department, director, producer and actor in creating
the look and characterisation of James Bond, the villains, the Bond UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 256 pages • 184 illus
girls and the henchmen who inhibit the world of 007. In doing so, this PB 9781501360329 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781501360336 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781501360343 • £25.98 / $31.45
book contributes to the emerging critical literature surrounding the ePdf 9781501360350 • £25.98 / $31.45
combined areas of film, fashion, gender and James Bond. Bloomsbury Academic
UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 256 pages
PB 9781350258488 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350145481 • £65.00 / $90.00
ePub 9781350164666 • £17.99 / $22.16
ePdf 9781350164659 • £17.99 / $22.16
Bloomsbury Academic
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F I L M & M E D I A – Race & Gender
Critical Race Theory and Jordan Wonder Woman
Peele's Get Out The Female Body and Popular Culture
Kevin Wynter, Pomona College, USA Joan Ormrod, Manchester Metropolitan
This book provides a concise introduction to critical University, UK
race theory and shows how this theory can be used This book explores how Wonder Woman’s body
to interpret Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Its analysis of has changed over the years as her mission has
Get Out is organized into three sections – Sub/ shifted from being an ambassador for peace and
urban Space, The Black Body, and The Sunken love to the greatest warrior in the DC transmedia
Place – illustrating how contemporary debates in critical race theory universe, as she's reflected increasing technological sophistication,
and approaches to the analysis of mainstream Hollywood cinema globalisation and women’s changing roles and ambitions.
can illuminate each other. In this way, the book provides both an
accessible reference guide to key terminology in critical race studies UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 320 pages
PB 9781350191648 • £28.99 / $39.95
and film studies, while contributing new scholarship to both fields.
Previously published in HB 9781788314114
ePub 9781786725813 • £76.50 / $94.85
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 208 pages ePdf 9781786735812 • £76.50 / $94.85
PB 9781501351297 • £15.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781501351280 • £60.00 / $75.00 Bloomsbury Academic
ePub 9781501351303 • £14.61 / $17.95
ePdf 9781501351310 • £14.61 / $17.95
Series: Film Theory in Practice • Bloomsbury Academic
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Claire Nally, Northumbria University, UK and Angela Smith, University of Sunderland, UK
Gender and Early Television "Guilty Pleasures"
Mapping Women’s Role in Emerging US European Audiences and Contemporary
and British Media, 1850-1950 Hollywood Romantic Comedy
Sarah Arnold, Maynooth University, Ireland Alice Guilluy, London Film Academy, UK
Sarah Arnold traces women’s relationship to the Alice Guilluy examines the reception of
new medium of television, arguing that women contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy in
played a crucial role in its development both Britain, France and Germany. She offers a new look
as producers and as audiences long before the at the romantic comedy genre through a qualitative
‘golden age’ of television in the 1950s. As keen consumers of media, study of its consumption by actual audiences, focusing on Sweet
women also helped promote television to the public by performing as Home Alabama (2002, dir. Andy Tennant). In doing so, she attempts
‘television girls’. Additionally, women worked as directors, producers, to challenge traditional critiques of the genre as trite “escapism” at
technical crew and announcers. Beginning with the emergence of best, and dangerous “guilty pleasure” at worst. This book makes a
media entertainment in the mid-19th century and culminating in the valuable contribution to scholarly debates on gender representation
rise of the post-war television industries, the author shows that, all in the contemporary romantic comedy, and brings a fresh approach to
along the way, women had a stake in television. genre studies through its focus on audience research.
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 256 pages UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781780769769 • £85.00 / $115.00 HB 9781350163034 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781786726100 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePub 9781350163058 • £76.50 / $94.85
ePdf 9781786736161 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350163041 • £76.50 / $94.85
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Fat on Film Fathers on Film
Gender, Race and Body Size in Paternity and Masculinity in 1990s
Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Hollywood
Barbara Plotz, London College of Katie Barnett, University of Chester, UK
Communication, UAL, UK The father is an enduring and iconic figure in
This book provides a critical analysis of the Hollywood cinema and in the 1990s, narratives
cinematic representation of fatness over the last two of redemptive fatherhood featured prominently
decades, specifically in contemporary Hollywood in some of the decade’s most popular films like
cinema, with emphasis on the intersection of gender, race and Kindergarten Cop (1990), Mrs Doubtfire (1993), Jurassic Park (1993)
fatness. The analysis is based on around 50 films released since 2000 and The Lion King (1994). Katie Barnett offers an insightful and
and includes examples such as Transformers (2007), Precious (2009), interdisciplinary discussion of cinematic fathers, interpreting such
Kung Fu Panda (2008), Paul Blart (2009) and Pitch Perfect (2012). films through the lens of feminist and queer theory, along with
masculinity studies and psychoanalysis.
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 296 pages
PB 9781350191662 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus
Previously published in HB 9781350114586 PB 9781350191600 • £28.99 / $39.95
ePub 9781350114593 • £76.50 / $94.85 Previously published in HB 9781350120884
ePdf 9781350114579 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePub 9781350120877 • £76.50 / $94.85
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic ePdf 9781350120860 • £76.50 / $94.85
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Thinking Cinema
F I L M & M E D I A – European & World Cinema
David Martin-Jones, University of Glasgow, UK and
The History of German Sarah Cooper, King’s College, University of London, UK
Literature on Film
Christiane Schönfeld, University of Limerick,
Ireland
Detailing the comprehensive and multi-layered
Limit Cinema
story of adaptations of German literature on film Transgression and the Nonhuman in
between 1896-2010, this indispensable study Contemporary Global Film
shows how these adaptations emerge from and
Chelsea Birks, University of British Columbia
continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film
& Simon Fraser University, Canada
history. The History of German Literature on Film includes an online
comprehensive chronology of film adaptations spanning the history Limit Cinema explores how contemporary
of the cinema, allowing students to follow the main trunk of analysis global cinema represents the relationship
and to quickly contextualize adaptations in film history, providing between humans and nature. During the 21st
opportunities for independent research. century this relationship has become increasingly fraught due to
proliferating social and environmental crises; recent films from Lars
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 400 pages • 50 bw illus von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s
HB 9781628923766 • £120.00 / $180.00 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) address
ePub 9781628923759 • £132.35 / $162.00
ePdf 9781628923742 • £132.35 / $162.00
these problems by reflecting or renegotiating the terms of our
Series: The History of World Literatures on Film • Bloomsbury Academic engagement with the natural world. In this spirit, this book
proposes a new film philosophy for the Anthropocene. It argues
that certain contemporary films attempt to transgress the limits of
human experience, and that such ‘limit cinema’ has the potential
Global Exploitation Cinemas to help us rethink our relationship with nature. Posing a new and
timely alternative to the process philosophies that have become
Austin Fisher, Bournemouth University, UK and Johnny Walker, orthodox in the fields of film philosophy and ecocriticism, Limit
Northumbria University, UK Cinema revitalizes the philosophy of Georges Bataille and puts
forward a new reading of his notion of transgression in the context
of our current environmental crisis.
Let's Go Stag! To that end, Limit Cinema brings Bataille into conversation
with more recent discussions in the humanities that seek less
A History of Pornographic Film from the anthropocentric modes of thought, including posthumanism,
Invention of Cinema to 1970 speculative realism, and other theories associated with the
nonhuman turn. The problems at stake are global in scale, and
Dan Erdman, Media Burn Archive, Chicago, USA
the book therefore engages with cinema from a range of national
Let's Go Stag! reveals the secrets of the and cultural contexts. From Ben Wheatley’s psychological thrillers
underground world of hardcore pornographic to Nettie Wild’s eco-documentaries, limit cinema pushes against
"stag films". Using the archives of civic groups, the boundaries of thought and encourages an ethical engagement
law enforcement, bygone government studies and with perspectives beyond the human.
similarly neglected evidence, archivist Dan Erdman reconstructs the
means by which stag films were produced, distributed and exhibited, UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 208 pages • 15 bw illus
and also demonstrates the way in which these practices changed with HB 9781501352867 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781501352874 • £88.50 / $108.00
the times, eventually paving the way for the pornographic explosion ePdf 9781501352881 • £88.50 / $108.00
of the 1970s and beyond. Series: Thinking Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 272 pages • 50 bw illus
HB 9781501333019 • £96.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781501333026 • £88.50 / $108.00
ePdf 9781501333033 • £88.50 / $108.00
Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas • Bloomsbury Academic
The Mad Max Effect The Politics of Nordsploitation
Road Warriors in International History, Industry, Audiences
Exploitation Cinema Pietari Kääpä, University of Stirling, UK & Tommy
James Newton, University of Kent, UK Gustafsson, Linnaeus University, Sweden
By analysing the individual films of the Mad Max The Politics of Nordsploitation takes a transnational
series, this book examines how the kinetic energy approach to exploring films in their industrial
and aesthetic design of a number of divergent contexts, exploring them as not only political
exploitation films filters into the Mad Max series manifestations of domestic considerations but also
and resulted in a fresh cycle of international low-budget post- to position Nordic exploitation film cultures in a global context. The
apocalyptic movies that appeared on the new home video markets book provides a film historical exposition of a largely ignored film
in the 1980s. The first in-depth academic study of the extraordinary cultural movement but in addition, on a more retrospective level of
journey of Mad Max from its premiere in 1979 to the Acadamy Award analysis, it outlines how influential these films have been. The majority
success of 2015's Fury Road, The Mad Max Effect reveals how a of the book focuses on key patterns and periods in the 1970-90s,
humble low-budget Australian action movie came from the cultural but also traces the impact these films have had on textual tactics and
margins of exploitation cinema to have an indelible impact on the industrial practices of contemporary filmmakers.
broader media landscape.
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F I L M & M E D I A – European & World Cinema
Romanian Cinema From France With Love
Thinking Outside the Screen Gender and Identity in French Romantic
Doru Pop, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Comedy
Romanian Cinema: Thinking Outside the Screen Mary Harrod, University of Warwick, UK
explores the philosophical and metaphysical In From France with Love, author Mary Harrod
manifestations of contemporary cinema. Starting explores the contemporary phenomenon that is
with the hypothesis that movies provide an the romantic comedy genre, examining both local
experience that is both a pathway into the thinking French hits and films with international status.
mechanisms of modern humans and into our collective psyche, this Using socio-cultural data, box-office figures and analysis of critical
study focuses on the elements that form the “Romanian cinematic reception, she reveals the ways in which these films mirror shifting
mind” as part of the European cinema-thinking. attitudes towards gender roles within French society, as well as the
increasingly important interrelation between French national cinema
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 304 pages
and transnational filmmaking paradigms.
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KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema
Birgit Beumers, University of Passau, Germany and Lilya
Kaganovsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Screening Soviet Nationalities
Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central
Asia
Performing Femininity Oksana Sarkisova, Central European University, EU
Woman as Performer in Early Russian This book examines the non-fictional
Cinema representations of Soviet borderlands from the Far
Rachel Morley, University College London, UK North to the Northern Caucasus and Central Asia
from 1925-1940. Oksana Sarkisova rediscovers
In this book, author Rachel Morley explores the
films by Vladimir Erofeev, Vladimir Shneiderov, and other filmmakers
near ubiquitous role of the female performer in
who helped construct an image of Soviet ethnic diversity. Using
the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia. From the
unexplored archival evidence, Sarkisova examines constructions of
first feature film, Romashkov's Stenka Razin (1908),
exoticism, backwardness and Soviet-driven modernity through these
through the sophisticated melodramas of the 1910s, to Viskovsky's
underexplored historical travelogues. In doing so, she highlights
The Last Tango (1918). In doing so, Morley argues that early Russian
changing ethnographic conventions of representation, looks at
filmmakers used the character of the female performer to explore key
studies of diversity despite the homogenising ambitions of the Soviet
contemporary concerns from changing conceptions of femininity and
project, and reexamines methods of blending reality and fiction as
the emergence of the so-called New Woman, to broader questions
part of both ideological and educational agendas.
concerning gender identity.
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World Cinema
The Spanish Fantastic Realism in Greek Cinema
Contemporary Filmmaking in Horror, From the Post-War Period to the Present
Fantasy and Sci-fi Vrasidas Karalis, University of Sydney, Australia
Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Independent researcher, Focusing on the works of six major filmmakers
Canada active from just after WWII to the present day,
Shelagh Rowan-Legg investigates the rise of the this book examines the development of cinema
unique new wave of genre films from Spain, and as an art form in the social and political contexts
how they have recycled, reshaped and renewed the of Greece. Insights on gender in film, minority
stunning visual tropes, wild narratives and imaginative other worlds cinemas, stylistic richness and the representation of historical trauma
inherent to an increasingly influential cinematic field. She argues are afforded by close readings of the work and life of such luminaries
that the emergence of the Spanish ‘fantastic’ is part of a new trend as Michael Cacoyannis, Nikos Koundouros, Yannis Dalianidis, Theo
of post-national cinema, led by the fantastic, which approaches the Angelopoulos, Antouanetta Angelidi, Yorgos Lanthimos, Athena-
national boundaries of cinema with an exciting sense of fluidity. This Rachel Tsangari and Costas Zapas. The book examines how directors
new cinema has given voice to a generation, both beholden to and visually transmute reality to represent unstable societies, disrupted
yet breaking away from their historical and cultural roots. collective memories and national identity.
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8 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.ukF I L M & M E D I A – Film Directors
Cesare Zavattini’s Neo-realism Cesare Zavattini: Selected
and the Afterlife of an Idea Writings
An Intellectual Biography Edited by David Brancaleone, Limerick Institute
of Technology, Ireland
David Brancaleone, Limerick Institute of
Technology, Ireland Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings provides, for
the first time in English, a substantive selection of
David Brancaleone presents a vital portrait of the
Zavattini's writings across two volumes. Through
screenwriter of Sciuscià, Miracle in Milan, and
translation and detailed cultural and contextual
Bicycle Thieves for the first time, exploring his history as an active
commentary, translator and editor David Brancaleone traces not only
Neo-realist organizer, Modernist writer, political protestor, and
Zavattini's theory of the screen, but also his experimentation in new
celebrated filmmaker in the light of unprecedented access to archival
film practices, including the flash-film (film lampo), the inquiry film
material. Through a multidisciplinary lens that examines Zavattini's
(film inchiesta), cinema as encounter (cinema d’incontro), the diary
cultural politics, interventions into press, television, and journalism,
film (film diario), the confessional film (film-confessione), and the
experimental filmmaking, and personal history, Brancaleone
grass-roots community film (cinema insieme or cinema di tanti per
reconstructs the extent of Zavattini's contribution to cinema and
tanti).
culture.
UK April 2021 • US May 2021 • 848 pages
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World English
Ida Lupino, Filmmaker Movies with Stanley Cavell in
Edited by Phillip Sipiora, University of South Mind
Florida, USA Edited by David LaRocca, Binghamton
Ida Lupino, Filmmaker begins with an exploration University, USA
of biographical studies and analytical treatments
In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of
of Lupino’s film and television work as director,
the scholars who have become essential for our
moving forward to assess Lupino’s career in film and
understanding of Stanley Cavell’s writing on film
television with particular attention given to Lupino’s
gather to use his landmark contributions to help
singular, pioneering achievements and her role(s) within the cultural
us read new films—from Hollywood and elsewhere—films that
milieu(s) of her time, particularly the representation of women in
exist beyond his immediate reach and reading. Through a series of
cinema. Each chapter includes a close analysis of the film or television
interpretive vignettes, the contributers situate, for the expert and
work with insights drawn from film history and cultural/gender studies
beginner alike, how Cavell’s writing on film can profitably enrich one’s
to demonstrate that Lupino was a significant directorial figure in the
experience of cinema and also inform how we might continue the
development of film, especially in the late 1940s and early 1950s—
practice of serious philosophical criticism of specific films mindful of
and in television extending well into the 1960s.
his sensibility.
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 272 pages • 63 bw illus
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Wes Anderson’s Symbolic The Lost Worlds of John Ford
Storyworld Beyond the Western
A Semiotic Analysis Jeffrey Richards, Lancaster University, UK
Warren Buckland, Oxford Brookes University, UK Jeffrey Richards develops and broadens our
understanding of John Ford's film-making oeuvre
Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld presents a
by studying his non-Western films through the lens
theoretical investigation of what makes the films
of Ford’s life and abiding preoccupations. Ford's
of Wes Anderson distinctive. It pulls apart each of
other cinematic worlds included Ireland, the Family,
Anderson’s narratives to pursue the proposition that they all share
Catholicism, War and the Sea, which share with his westerns the
the same deep underlying symbolic values – a common symbolic
recurrent themes of memory and loss, the plight of outsiders and the
storyworld. Taking the polemical strategy of outlining and employing
tragedy of family breakup. Richards' revisionist study both provides
Claude Lévi-Strauss’s distinguished work on myth and kinship to
new insights into familiar films such as The Fugitive (1947); The Quiet
analyze eight of Anderson’s films, Warren Buckland unearths the
Man (1952), Gideon’s Way and The Informer (1935) and reclaims
peculiar symbolic structure of each film, plus the circuits of exchange,
neglected masterpieces, among them Wee Willie Winkie (1937) and
tangible and intangible gift giving, and unusual kinship systems that
the extraordinary The Long Voyage Home. (1940).
govern the lives of Anderson’s characters.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 352 pages • 24 bw illus
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The Eisenstein Universe Esfir Shub
Edited by Ian Christie, Birkbeck, University Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking
of London, UK & Julia Vassilieva, Monash
Ilana Leah Sharp, Independent Scholar, Australia
University, Australia
Esfir Shub was the only prominent female director
In this ground-breaking collection, 16 international
of nonfiction film present at the dawning of the
scholars explore not only the still-expanding
Soviet film industry. She was, in fact, the first
universe of Eisenstein’s pioneering researches in
woman both to write critical texts on cinema and
aesthetics, anthropology and psychology, and his
then practically apply these theorisations in her
roots in different philosophical traditions, but also his continuing
own films. Her syncretism of cinema theory and praxis inspired her
place in the contemporary world of film and audiovisual media.
to ask questions regarding both the nature of nonfiction film, such
as the problem of authenticity and reality, and the function of the
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 336 pages • 27 bw illus
HB 9781350142107 • £85.00 / $115.00 artist in society. This book demonstrates Shub’s position not only as
ePub 9781350142114 • £76.50 / $94.85 a significant filmmaker and recognised member of the early Soviet
ePdf 9781350142091 • £76.50 / $94.85
avant-garde but also as a key figure in global cinema history and as a
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pioneer of the theory and practice of documentary filmmaking.
UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 320 pages
HB 9781501376511 • £95.00 / $130.00
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India Retold Beyond a Joke
Dialogues with Independent Parody in English Film and Television
Documentary Filmmakers in India Comedy
Edited by Rajesh James, Sacred Heart College, Neil Archer, Keele University, UK
India & Sathyaraj Venkatesan, National Institute Beyond a Joke explores how British film culture
of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India has used forms of parody, from the 1960s to the
A collection of in-depth interviews with 25 of present day. In it, author Neil Archer provides a
the most potent and best-known independent contextual and textual analysis of works which,
Indian documentary filmmakers, such as Rakesh Sharma and Anand while popular, have only rarely been the subject of serious academic
Patwardhan, revealing the process, motivation and inspiration behind attention – from Morecambe and Wise to Shaun of the Dead (2004)
their work. Illustrated with carefully selected shots from their own to the London 2012 Olympics’ opening ceremony. Combining
films, these interviews - while they provide insights into the aesthetics methodologies of film history and film theory, Beyond a Joke locates
of production and reception - also bring to light the troubling political parody within specific industrial and cultural moments and shows how
and socio-culturalscape of modern and contemporary India. ‘Britishness’, shaped in self-mocking and ironic terms, becomes the
selling point for the global market.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 288 pages • 58 bw illus
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Acting for the Silent Screen British Children's Cinema
Film Actors and Aspiration between the From the Thief of Bagdad to Wallace and
Wars Gromit
Chris O'Rourke, University of Lincoln, UK Noel Brown, Liverpool Hope University, UK
In Acting for the Silent Screen, author Chris In this book, Noel Brown relates the history of
O'Rourke investigates the myths and material children's cinema in Britain from the early years
practices that grew up around film actors during of commercial cinema to the present day. Brown
the silent era. He sheds light on issues such as provides in-depth analyses of several iconic films,
the social and cultural reception of cinema, the participatory film including The Railway Children, Bugsy Malone, the Harry Potter films,
culture expressed through fan magazines, and the working conditions Mary Poppins, and Aardman's Wallace and Gromit series. In doing so,
encountered by actors behind-the-scenes of silent films. In doing he challenges common prejudices that children's films are inherently
so, he reveals a missing - and much sought after - piece of cinematic shallow or simplistic, revealing the often complex strategies that
history and brings to life the personal narratives and experiences of underpin their enduring and wide-ranging appeal. He asserts the
the first generation to imagine making a living on screen. genre’s importance, not only for students and scholars of film studies,
but also as a window into the nation's socio-cultural history.
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10 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.ukF I L M & M E D I A – Film History & Theory / TV & Radio
Other Cinemas Musicals at the Margins
Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in Genre, Boundaries, Canons
the 1970s Edited by Julie Lobalzo Wright, University
Edited by Sue Clayton, Goldsmiths, University of of Warwick, UK & Martha Shearer, University
London, UK & Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck, University College Dublin, Ireland
of London, UK While the musical for much of its existence has
Laura Mulvey and writer/director Sue Clayton bring had a relatively ‘strong’ generic identity, the
together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge genre’s central semantic element, the musical
of research into 1970s radical cinema. Chapters are both historically number, is also widespread in films not understood to be musicals.
grounded and fused with the current analysis of today's generation It encompasses a range of different forms of marginality, including
of cinephiles, to rediscover a unique moment for extraordinary film media that is 'sort of' a musical, music documentaries, workout
production. Other Cinemas establishes the factors that helped to films, and visual albums. This volume focuses on the genre’s edges
shape alternative film: world cinema and internationalism, the politics and boundaries, contributing to genre studies by investigating
of cultural policy and arts funding, new accessible technologies, one particular case of the instability of a film genre. By considering
avant-garde theories, and the development of a dynamic and texts outside of the canon and through a wide range of critical
interactive relationship between film and its audiences. perspectives, Musicals at the Margins expands the study of the
musical as the genre continues to evolve.
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PB 9781350213128 • £27.99 / $37.95 UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 264 pages • 28 bw illus
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Film Criticism and Digital Freedom and Vengeance on Film
Cultures Precarious Lives and the Politics of
Journalism, Social Media and the Subjectivity
Democratization of Opinion Robert E. Watkins, Columbia College Chicago,
Andrew McWhirter, Glasgow Caledonian USA
University, UK In this book, author Robert E. Watkins explores
what audiences learn about the two core political
In this book, author Andrew McWhirter examines
ideals of freedom and vengeance from film. He
the reality of contemporary film criticism. Through interviews with
examines five contemporary feature films; Into the Wild, Mystic
leading practitioners such as Nick James, Mark Cousins and Jonathan
River, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Wendy and Lucy and
Rosenbaum, he considers the impact of larger cultural, economic
Winter’s Bone, considering the ways in which these films engage
and technological processes facing media and journalism. Employing
our deep attachments to these ideals. In doing so, he interrogates
historical perspectives and current debates, McWhirter unravels
the political consequences of the reproduction or disruption of their
crucial questions such as: what is the relationship between crisis and
meanings. Watkins argues that films both reflect and construct social
criticism? And, how does the web change the functions and habits of
reality, especially in the way they employ, affirm and critique the
practitioners? Covering several influential publications including Sight
discourses through which we grasp political life.
& Sound, The Guardian, and Variety, he argues the case for evolution
rather than revolution taking place within film criticism.
UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 176 pages
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Beyond The Bridge British Radio Drama, 1945-63
Contemporary Danish Television Drama Hugh Chignell, Bournemouth University, UK
Tobias Hochscherf, University of Applied British Radio Drama, 1945-1963 reveals the quality
Sciences at Kiel, Germany & Heidi Philipsen, and range of avant-garde British radio drama. As
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark young generations of radio producers broadcast
Beyond the Bridge considers acclaimed series the work of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco
such as The Killing, Borgen and The Bridge post-World War II, this 'theatre of the absurd'
alongside lesser known case studies, to explore the triggered a renaissance of writing and production
widespread fascination with Danish aesthetics and culture. Drawing featuring the work of Giles Cooper, Rhys Adrian and Harold Pinter, as
on popular motifs such as foreign politics, organised crime, global well as the launch of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Hugh Chignell
warming, and the impact of multinational corporations, the book places this 'golden age' of BBC’s history in both the broader context
questions the consequences of increasingly globalised film and of British post-war culture, as norms of morality and behavior were
television industries, for example, the 'Americanisation' of foreign re-negotiated in the shadow of the Cold War, and the transnational
television formats, the meaning and practice behind the term cultural flows established by the internationalism of much radio
'quality television', and the purpose and efficacy of public service drama.
broadcasting.
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