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Matthew Page, Independent scholar, UK From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, 100 Bible Films is the indispensable guide to the wide and varied history of biblical adaptations, featuring 100 of the most interesting and significant biblical films. Richly illustrated with film stills, this book depicts how such films have undertaken a complex negotiation between art, commerce, entertainment and religion. Matthew Page traces the screen history of the biblical stories from the very earliest silent passion plays, via the golden ages of the biblical epic, through to more innovative and controversial later films, as well as covering significant TV adaptations.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 256 pages • 80 bw and colour illus PB 9781839023521 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781839023538 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781839023545 • £17.99 / $23.44 ePdf 9781839023552 • £17.99 / $23.44 Series: BFI Screen Guides • British Film Institute
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum)
Julian Preece, Swansea University, UK Julian Preece considers what makes this film new and radical, a turning point in numerous contexts, especially with respect to women’s cinema and its portrayal of a female lead. Drawing on archival material including drafts of the screenplay, brochures and props, reviews and interviews, Preece traces the conception of the film and its development from the original short novel authored by Heinrich Böll. First-hand accounts by members of the cast and production team, including cinematographer Jost Vacano, producer Eberhard von Junkersdorf, and actors Angela Winkler and Mario Adorf, provide unique insight into the film’s production. Andrew Osmond, Writer and journalist, Berkshire, UK Twenty years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today, they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz with Bashir; the Gallic sophistication of Belleville Rendez-Vous; the eye-popping violence of Japan's Akira; and the stop-motion whimsy of Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Andrew Osmond provides an entertaining and illuminating guide to the endlessly diverse world of animated features, with entries on 100 of the most interesting and important animated films from around the world, from the 1920s to the present day. This new edition has been revised and updated with 35 new films selected for coverage.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 70 colour and bw illus PB 9781839024429 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781839024412 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781839024436 • £17.99 / $23.44 ePdf 9781839024443 • £17.99 / $23.44 Series: BFI Screen Guides • British Film Institute
The French New Wave
Critical Landmarks
Edited by Peter Graham, Film-maker, critic and food writer, France & Ginette Vincendeau, King's College London, UK The new edition of The French New Wave now represents writings by and about women critics and film-makers, including important articles by the critics Evelyne Sullerot, Michele Firk and Françoise Aude, addressing issues of gender and representation, as well as considering New Wave films in the context of contemporary political events, notably France's colonialist war on the Algerian independence movement. To accompany the case study of Godard's À bout de souffle, the new edition includes a case study of the critical reception of two films by Agnès Varda: La Pointe Courte and Cléo de 5 à 7.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus PB 9781839024375 • £11.99 / $15.95 ePub 9781839024382 • £10.79 / $14.32 ePdf 9781839024399 • £10.79 / $14.32 Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
The History of World Literatures on Film
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 288 pages • 50 bw illus PB 9781839022296 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781839022302 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781839022319 • £19.79 / $26.05 ePdf 9781839022326 • £19.79 / $26.05 British Film Institute World All Languages (except French)
Greg M. Colón Semenza and Bob Hasenfratz, both of University of Connecticut, USA
The History of American Literature on Film
Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware, USA From William Dickson’s Rip Van Winkle films (1896) to Baz Luhrmann’s big-budget production of The Great Gatsby (2013) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of American literature participate in a rich and fascinating history. This volume considers the multiple functions of filmed American literature as a cinematic genre in its own right—one that reflects the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas even as it plays a decisive role in defining American literature for a global audience.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 464 pages • 91 bw illus PB 9781501390753 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781628923735 ePub 9781628923728 • £125.01 / $162.00 ePdf 9781628923711 • £125.01 / $162.00 Series: The History of World Literatures on Film • Bloomsbury Academic
The History of French Literature on Film
Kate Griffiths, Cardiff University, UK & Andrew Watts, University of Birmingham, UK From the silent films of Georges Méliès to the Hollywood production of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary directed by Sophie Barthes, The History of French Literature on Film explores the key films, directors, and movements that have shaped the adaptation of works by French authors since the end of the 19th century. Across six chapters, Griffiths and Watts examine the factors that have driven this vibrant adaptive industry, as filmmakers have turned to literature in search of commercial profits, cultural legitimacy, and stories rich in dramatic potential. The volume also helps to deepen both our understanding and our appreciation of literary adaptation as a creative practice.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 328 pages • 47 bw illus PB 9781501372407 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501311840 ePub 9781501311826 • £104.30 / $135.00 ePdf 9781501311819 • £104.30 / $135.00 Series: The History of World Literatures on Film • Bloomsbury Academic
Third Edition
Betsy A. McLane, Independent Scholar, USA Building upon the best-selling 2005 and 2012 editions, Betsy McLane, Director Emerita of the International Documentary Association, keeps the same chronological examination, factual reliability, ease of use and accessible prose style as before, while also weaving new threads - streaming, animated documentaries, Black Lives Matter - into the discussion. She emphasizes archival and preservation history, present practices, and future needs for documentaries. Along with preservation information, specific problems of copyright and fair use, as they relate to documentary, are considered. The book additionally retains and updates the recommended readings and important films and the end of each chapter from the second edition, including the bibliography and appendices, a useful resource for students and researchers of film studies.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 496 pages • 100 bw illus and 30 color illus PB 9781501385155 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781501385162 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501385148 • £24.54 / $31.45 ePdf 9781501385131 • £24.54 / $31.45 Bloomsbury Academic
Romanticism and Film
Franz Liszt and Audio-Visual Explanation
Will Kitchen, University of Southampton, UK The relationship between Romanticism and film remains one of the most neglected topics in film theory and history, with analysis often focusing on the proto-cinematic significance of Richard Wagner’s music-dramas. Will Kitchen explores the relationship between film and the concept of Romanticism, analyzing the cultural image of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt (1811-86), including the ways that he and his music have been represented in films.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 264 pages • 18 bw illus PB 9781501370953 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501361364 ePub 9781501361357 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501361340 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Walls Without Cinema
Larrie Dudenhoeffer, Kennesaw State University, USA Walls without Cinema: State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First Century U.S. Filmmaking closely examines the near-ubiquitous images of state security walls, domes, and other such defense enclosures flashing across movie screens since 2006, the year of the ratification of George W. Bush’s Secure Fence Act. With case studies ranging from Atomic Blonde and Ready Player One to Black Panther and Elysium, Walls without Cinema serves a counterpoint to the xenophobic rhetoric and abusive, carceral security conditions that characterized the Trump administration’s management of the Mexico-U.S. border situation.
The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution
Cristina Formenti, University of Milan, Italy Cristina Formenti integrates a theoretical and a historical approach in order to shed new light on the animated documentary as a form as well as on the work of renowned studios such as The Walt Disney Studios, Halas & Batchelor, National Film Board of Canada and never before addressed ones as Corona Cinematografica. She also highlights the differences and the similarities existing among the animated documentaries created from the 1940s through the present day, demonstrating their evolution.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 304 pages • 47 bw illus HB 9781501346460 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501346484 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501346477 • £90.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Shadow Cinema
The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films
Edited by James Fenwick, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, Kieran Foster, De Montfort University, UK & David Eldridge, University of Hull, UK Since the dawn of film, projects are routinely abandoned in pre-production, halted, cut short, or even made and never distributed – creating a “shadow cinema” that exists only in the archives. This collection of essays by leading scholars and researchers opens those archives to draw on a wealth of previously unexamined scripts, correspondence and production material, reconstructing many of the hidden histories of the last hundred years of world cinema. Highlighting the fact that the movies we see are actually the exception to the rule, this study uncovers the myriad reasons why ‘failures’ occur and considers how understanding those failures can transform the disciplines of film and media history.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 280 pages PB 9781501370960 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501351594 ePub 9781501351600 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501351617 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 256 pages • 25 bw illus PB 9781501370977 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501364198 ePub 9781501364181 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501364174 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Kevin Wynter, Pomona College, USA This book provides a concise introduction to critical race theory and shows how this theory can be used to interpret Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Its analysis of Get Out is organized into three sections – Sub/ urban Space, The Black Body, and The Sunken Place – illustrating how contemporary debates in critical race theory and approaches to the analysis of mainstream Hollywood cinema can illuminate each other. In this way, the book provides both an accessible reference guide to key terminology in critical race studies and film studies, while contributing new scholarship to both fields.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 208 pages PB 9781501351297 • £15.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781501351280 • £60.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781501351303 • £13.80 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501351310 • £13.80 / $17.95 Series: Film Theory in Practice • Bloomsbury Academic
The Prison of Time
Elisa Pezzotta, Bergamo University, Italy Through the close analysis of Stanley Kubrick, Adrian Lyne, Michael Bay, and Quentin Tarantino’s oeuvre, Elisa Pezzotta discusses time in the cinematic medium. Pezzotta deploys and unpacks an impressive array of scholarly methods to interrogate film time, many of which are emerging areas of analysis with the humanities, and especially screen studies. Offering an innovative synthesis of these several areas conventionally regarded as outliers to film and media, such as philosophy, cognitivism, and quantum mechanics, Pezzotta skillfully draws from extant scholarly literature to make evident the narratology of cinematic ellipses, lacunae and analepses across a range of films and genres.
UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 240 pages HB 9781501380600 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501380594 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501380587 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Film Thinks
Film Noir, Iconography, and Affect
Padraic Killeen, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben, The Dark Interval teases out the aesthetic and ethical significance of this strange sense of ‘noir beatitude’, which responds to our current condition in a modernity that has become ‘post-historical’. Examining central noir films of the classic and modern era (The Killers, The Man Who Wasn’t There) as well as films at the peripheries of noir (Cat People, 2046), the book is a meditation that uniquely grapples with the look and feel of noir and which illuminates why film noir remains one of the most resonant and affecting visual milieus of our time.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781501349683 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501349690 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501349706 • £90.50 / $117.00 Series: Thinking Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema
Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after The World Viewed
Edited by David LaRocca, Binghamton University, USA This collection offers a concerted group effort to analyze and reflect anew upon Stanley Cavell's still-scintillating contributions to the very thought of film—and its philosophical significance. Mounted by some of today’s most compelling writers on cinema, these investigations take careful account of Cavell’s legacy, once and ongoing. In these pages, seasoned scholars and emerging talent artfully and expertly explore what precisely Cavell bequeathed— what endures, what stands in need of revision or updating, and how his writing remains vital and essential to any contemporary approach to the philosophy of film.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 336 pages PB 9781501384073 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501349164 ePub 9781501349171 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501349188 • £90.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Lúcia Nagib, University of Reading, UK and Tiago de Luca, University of Warwick, UK
Robert Pippin and Film
Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism
Dominic Lash, University of Bristol, UK Dominic Lash demonstrates the ways that film has been crucial to Pippin's thought on important philosophical topics such as political psychology, ethics, and self-knowledge. He also explores the implications of Pippin's methodological commitments to clear language and to maintaining close contact at all times with the details of the films in question. In so doing, Lash brings Pippin's work on film to a wider audience and contributes to current debates both within film studies and beyond, including those concerning the relationships between film and philosophy, criticism and aesthetics, and individual subjectivity and political consciousness.
Georges Didi-Huberman and Film
The Politics of the Image
Alison Smith, University of Liverpool, UK Georges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher of images whose work is overdue for attention from English-language readers. Since the publication of his first book, a study of photographic images of hysteria, in 1982, he has published 46 essays, mostly with the prestigious Editions de Minuit, and is recognised in France and elsewhere in Europe as one of the foremost philosophers of the image writing today. In Georges Didi-Huberman and Film, Alison Smith concentrates on how Didi-Huberman’s work has been informed by cinema, especially in his major (and ongoing) recent work L’Oeil de l’Histoire (The Eye of History).
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 280 pages • 22 bw illus HB 9781350182899 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350182912 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350182905 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Film Thinks • Bloomsbury Academic UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 184 pages PB 9781350193383 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784539849 ePub 9781350160415 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350160408 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Film Thinks • Bloomsbury Academic
A History of Crisis and Survival in Hollywood
Gianluca Sergi, University of Nottingham, UK & Gary Rydstrom, sound designer, USA Through a unique dual lens, film scholarship and film production, the authors examine the current state of the film industry using data as much as experience. Divided into a number of discreet instances of the concerns the film industry currently faces, each illustrated by a case study that helps illuminate the particular nature and dynamics of that issue, such as, millenials’ alleged flight from cinemas to other forms of consumption of film, particularly mobile and online devices. The examples featured illustrate how a more systematic approach to industry challenges can help generate effective ways to address them successfully.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 224 pages HB 9781501348556 • £96.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501348563 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501348570 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Cinema in the Arab World
New Histories, New Approaches
Edited by Philippe Meers, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Daniel Biltereyst, Ghent University, Belgium & Ifdal Elsaket, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Egypt Cinema in the Arab World brings together innovative essays from contributors across the globe to examine the historical and contemporary issues of Arab cinema in terms of the experience of movie-going and filmmaking. In doing so, it shifts the focus on Arab cinema off-screen, to examine the histories, politics, and conditions of distribution, exhibition, and cinema-going in the Arab world. Through broadening the frame of study beyond the screen, the book widens understanding of the cinema, not merely as a collection of films-as-texts, but as a site of cultural and political contestation in the Arab world.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 304 pages HB 9781350163713 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350163737 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350163720 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema
Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands By connecting formulations from various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema critically examines the ways in which indigenous societies are portrayed in Latin American cinema. It reviews how 67 fiction feature films produced between 2000 and 2018, reflect, reinforce, mask or challenge outdated archetypes, and how audiences react to these visual narratives. The underlying notion is that, in spite of important reconfigurations, static conventions of representation still determine the portrayal of indigenous communities in cinema.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 304 pages HB 9781501384707 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501384691 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501384684 • £90.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic The Imperial Gaze in Postwar Hollywood Cinema
Anna Cooper, University of Arizona, USA An American Abroad reframes postcolonial film aesthetics through a close textual study of Hollywood films about European travel from the long 1950s. The heterogeneous cycle of films made from 1948 to 1964 that depict Americans traveling in contemporary Europe portray a complex and fraught cultural encounter between American hegemonic power and a Europe that is being economically, socially and culturally dominated from across the Atlantic. Dr. Anna Cooper explores how discourses of European travel – Parisian shopping trips, Roman holidays, Berlin political intrigues and so on – are harnessed in service of American domination at the level of the American cultural imaginary.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 224 pages • 30 bw illus HB 9781501314476 • £74.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501314483 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501314490 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Crisis Cinema in the Middle East
Creativity and Constraint in Iran and the Arab World
Shohini Chaudhuri, University of Essex, UK Shohini Chaudhuri examines a broad scope of international films, ranging from award-winning, festival favourites such as Five Broken Cameras (2011), Persepolis (2007) and Kiarostami’s About Elly (2009) to lesser-known films originating from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Using various regional film archives and interviews with filmmakers such as Yasmin Fedda, Ossama Mohammed, Leila Sansour and Sam Kadi, Chaudhuri identifies how witnessing, humour, animation and adaptation have become prevalent creative strategies for producing work under the sociopolitical and material limitations of crisis.
UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 256 pages • 30 b/w illus HB 9781350190511 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350190528 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350190535 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
Theory and Practice in Indian Cinema and Television
Piyush Roy, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, RV University, Bengaluru, India This is the first of its kind case study-based rigorous academic review of popular Indian cinema using the Indian Aesthetic Appreciation Theory of Rasa (Affect/ Emotion). It seeks to identify and appreciate the continual influence of the ancient Sanskrit drama treatise, the Natyashastra and its ‘theory of aesthetics’ (‘Rasa Theory’) on the unique narrative attributes of Indian cinema. It critically engages with a representative sample of landmark films from the 100 years of Indian film history across genres, categories, regions and languages. It challenges existing First World/Euro-American film criticism canons and notions that privilege cinematic ‘realism’ over other narrative forms.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 320 pages HB 9789354354878 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354354885 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9789354355691 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent) Realism and Memory in Chinese Film
Cecília Mello, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best Monograph
Cecília Mello provides in-depth analysis of Jia’s unique body of work, from his early films Xiao Wu and Platform, to experimental quasi-documentary 24 City and the audacious Mountains May Depart. Mello suggests that Jia’s particular expression of the realist mode is shaped by the aesthetics of other Chinese artistic traditions, allowing Jia to unearth memories both personal and collective, still lingering within the everchanging landscapes of contemporary China. Mello’s groundbreaking study opens a door into Chinese cinema and culture, addressing the nature of the so-called ‘impure’ cinematographic art and the complex representation of China through the ages.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 320 pages • 35 bw illus PB 9781350293427 • £24.99 / $34.95 • / $120.00 Previously published in HB 9781784538156 ePub 9781350121713 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350121706 • £81.00 / $106.83 Bloomsbury Academic
A Foreigner’s Cinematic Dream of Japan
Representational Politics and Shadows of War in the Japanese-German Coproduction New Earth (1937)
Iris Haukamp, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan In early 1936, a German film team arrived in Japan to participate in a film co-production, intended to show the ‘real’ Japan to the world and to launch Japanese films into international markets. The two directors, one Japanese and the other German, clashed over the authenticity of the represented Japan and eventually directed two versions, The Samurai’s Daughter and New Earth, based on a common script. Drawing on a wide range of Japanese and German original sources, as well as a comparative analysis of the ‘GermanJapanese version’ and the elusive ‘Japanese-English version’, Iris Haukamp reveals the complexities of this international co-production.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 272 pages • 75 bw illus PB 9781501369308 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501343537 ePub 9781501343544 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501343551 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Italian Cinema Audiences
Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy
Daniela Treveri Gennari, Oxford Brookes University, UK, Catherine O'Rawe, University of Bristol, UK, Danielle Hipkins, University of Exeter, UK, Silvia Dibeltulo, Oxford Brookes University, UK & Sarah Culhane, Oxford Brookes University, UK Based on the AHRC-funded project ‘Italian Cinema Audiences 1945-60’, this book draws upon the rich data collected by the project team to examine cinema’s role in everyday Italian life, and its affective meaning when remembered by older people. The study is enriched with industrial analyses of the booming Italian film sector of the period, as well as contextual data from popular and specialized magazines.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 240 pages • 25 bw illus PB 9781501369339 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501347689 ePub 9781501347696 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501347702 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Topics and Issues in National Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Black Boys
The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film
Clive James Nwonka, University College London, UK The first dedicated exploration of British urban cinema, this book analyses the emergence of the Black urban film/TV genre within the context of broader developments in British media industries since the 2000s, and the political imperatives that have helped to shape them. Featuring case studies of key films such as Attack the Block and Bullet Boy, the author moves beyond sociologically-dominated frameworks and approaches the films through alternative analytical optics including architecture and space, allegory, crime discourses and popular music.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 176 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781501352829 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501352836 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501352843 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Cinema and Brexit
The Politics of Popular English Film
Neil Archer, Keele University, UK Neil Archer’s study makes a timely and politicallyengaged intervention in debates about national cinema and national identity. Structured around key examples of ‘culturally English cinema’ in the years up to and following the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union, discussing the diverse ideas about national identity evident in films and TV series including Skyfall, Dunkirk, the Paddington movies and The Crown, Cinema and Brexit examines the peculiarities and paradoxes marking this era of filmmaking.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 304 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781350274341 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501351334 ePub 9781350104488 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350104495 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Cinema and Society • Bloomsbury Academic
Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s
Rachel Garfield, University of Reading, UK In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist Punk audiovisual culture of the 1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick, Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful, deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist femininity, creating a new "Punk audio visual aesthetic".
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 288 pages • 40 bw illus PB 9781350293083 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781788313995 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350197657 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePdf 9781350197640 • £22.49 / $29.96 Bloomsbury Academic Violence, Spectatorship and Identification in American Cinema, 1970-76
Cary Edwards, Boston College, USA Cary Edwards provides a detailed examination of the rise of the vigilante thriller film in American cinema of the 1970s. Against the back-drop of New Hollywood experimentation, the box-office success of vigilante films suggests a hunger for films that directly addressed problems of law and order. This book explores the contextual factors that led to the cycle of films (Joe [1970], The French Connection [1971], Dirty Harry [1971] and Taxi Driver [1976]) emerging, and engages with the contemporaneous critical arguments that these were fascist texts likely to inspire copycat violence.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages • 26 bw illus HB 9781501364129 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501364112 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501364105 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda
Feminist Practice and Pedagogy
Edited by Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Bilkent University, Turkey & Feride Çiçekoglu, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda brings together contributions from an international team of scholars to explore the recurring and insistent themes of sustainability and self reflection in her work. The volume is a celebration of the feminist legacy of her cinematic and visual art, ranging from the classic feature film Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) to her documentaries The Beaches of Agnès (2008) and Faces Places (2017). It concludes with 10 short, personal essays on teaching Varda, with case studies of the varied ways in which her work can be communicated to and shared with a student audience.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350240902 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350240919 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350240926 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
The Cinema of Manoel de Oliveira
Modernity, Intermediality and the Uncanny
Hajnal Király, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania Organized by tropes and topics, rather than chronological order, this volume creates a unique lens with which to focus on the links between cinema, literature, painting, and other art forms in Manoel de Oliveira's work. Hajnal Király reads the films in relation to 20th-century Portuguese, European and global history. Many of Oliveira's over 50 films are discussed, including Rite of Spring (1963) and Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (2009). The only book to cover his later films, this book uncovers the persistent topics that permeates his oeuvre.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 208 pages • 65 bw illus HB 9781501378652 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501378645 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501378638 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinematic Sensibility
Erin O'Donnell, East Stroudsburg University, USA Filmmaker Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (1925-1976) is considered throughout Bengali, Indian and world cinema to be an innovative, revolutionary master of the cinematic medium who possessed a singular cinematic sensibility. From his first film, Nagarik (1953) through his final film, Jukti Takko ar Gappo (1974), Ghatak constructed detailed visual and aural filmic commentaries about modern Bengali culture and society. In Ghatak’s films, the ambivalence and contradictions of Bengali society in post-1947, post-Partition, post-Independence India are pointedly portrayed. Against this frequently adverse milieu, Bengal’s modern cultural memory, identity, and history are interrogated and continually reassessed in his cinema.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 224 pages HB 9781501359262 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501359255 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501359248 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos
Films, Form, Philosophy
Edited by Eddie Falvey, Plymouth College of Art, UK With directorial credits ranging from festival hits The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer to Academy Award-winning epics like The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos has demonstrated a sustained preoccupation with trauma, grief, loss, loneliness, sex and violence that continue to be the thematic currency of his work. Yet little scholarly attention has been devoted to his films. This volume fills this gap in scholarship by examining the clear authorial continuity between Lanthimos's texts and his trademark contravention of aesthetic, thematic and generic boundaries. Featuring renowned scholars like Nathan Abrams, Alexios Lykidis, Savina Petkova and more, The Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos delivers an exciting and long overdue examination of the acclaimed filmmaker.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 272 pages HB 9781501375491 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501375484 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501375477 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption
EL Putnam, University of Ireland Galway, Ireland Bringing together philosophies of the maternal with digital technology may appear to be an arbitrary pairing. However, reading them intertextually through select artistic practices reveals how both encompass an aesthetics of interruption that becomes a novel means of understanding subjectivity. EL Putnam investigates how certain artists’ digital performances, including Aideen Barry, Amanda Coogan, Natalie Loveless, and Megan Wynne rupture existing representations of the maternal. These artists take advantage of the formal properties of digital media in order to interrupt visual and aural constructions through an immanent merging of the performing body with digital technology.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 224 pages • 7 bw illus/16 color illus HB 9781501364822 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501364815 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501364808 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic From Monstrous Births to the Birth of the Monster
Sunny Hawkins, University in Indianapolis, USA Applying Deleuze’s schizoanalytic techniques to film theory, Deleuze and the Gynesis of Horror demonstrates how an embodied approach to horror film analysis can help us understand how film affects its viewers and distinguish those films which reify static, hegemonic, “molar” beings from those which prompt fluid, nonbinary, “molecular” becomings. It does so by analyzing the politics of reproduction in contemporary films such as Ex Machina; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Mad Max: Fury Road; the Twilight saga; and the original Alien quadrilogy and its more recent prequels, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 208 pages PB 9781501369322 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501358456 ePub 9781501358449 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501358432 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Claire Nally, Northumbria University, UK and Angela Smith, University of Sunderland, UK
Feel-Bad Postfeminism
Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture
Catherine McDermott, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK In Feel-Bad Postfeminism, McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like, and outlines the continuing postfeminist legacy of resilience in girlhood comingof-age narratives. Her analysis includes subjects as diverse as Gone Girl (2012), Girls (2012-2017), Appropriate Behaviour (2012), The Hunger Games (2008-2010), Girlhood (2014) and Catch Me Daddy (2014).
Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance
Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film and Television
Lea Gerhards, Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, Germany Lea Gerhards traces the connections between three recent vampire romance series that have tremendous discursive and ideological power - the Twilight film series (2008-2012) and two TV series, The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) and True Blood (2008-2014) - to explore the cultural politics of these extremely popular texts. She uses contemporary vampire romance to examine postfeminist ideologies and discuss gender, sexuality, subjectivity, agency and the body.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 24 bw illus HB 9781350224988 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350224995 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350225008 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Film Bodies
Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
Katharina Lindner, Late of University of Stirling, UK Lindner provides a welcome guide through new terrain. Deftly navigating the challenge of bringing feminist and queer thought together, Film Bodies raises important questions about how the social, spatial and corporeal coordinates of cinematic being are imbricated. - Film-Philosophy The representation of gender and sexuality is well-explored territory in film studies. In Film Bodies, Katharina Lindner takes existing debates into a new direction and integrates queer and feminist theory with film phenomenology. Drawing on a broad range of sources, Lindner's study explores the female body's presence in a range of genres including the dance film, the sports film and queer cinema.
UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 320 pages • 26 bw illus PB 9781350258365 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784536244 ePub 9781838608545 • £85.50 / $112.04 ePdf 9781838608552 • £85.50 / $112.04 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 272 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350215689 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350215665 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350215658 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies
Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity
Gemma Commane, Birmingham City University, UK What makes a woman ‘bad’ is commonly linked to certain ‘qualities’ or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. Gemma Commane explores the social, sexual and political significance of women who are labelled ‘bad,’. From neo-burlesque, sex-positive and queer performance art, to explicit entertainment and areas of popular culture; Commane situates ‘bad’ women as sites of power, possibility and success. The case studies (including Rockbitch, Empress Stah, RubberDoll) offer an important insight, where alternative women and femininities challenge societal expectations.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350185357 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788311267 ePub 9781350117341 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350117358 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Brainmedia
One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920-2020
Flora Lysen, Maastricht University, the Netherlands Will we ever be able to see the brain at work? Can we observe thinking and feeling as if we were watching a live broadcast in the human head? Brainmedia uncovers past and present examples of scientists and science educators who conceptualize and demonstrate the active human brain guided by new media technologies. Drawing on original archival material, Brainmedia outlines a new history of “live brains” and argues that practices of and ideas about mediation impacted the imagination of seeing the brain at work. In five carefully researched and illustrated historical case studies, Flora Lysen shows the conceptual but also practical assembling of brains and media.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 272 pages • 40 bw illus HB 9781501378751 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501378744 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501378737 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic
Videographic Cinema
An Archaeology of Electronic Images and Imaginaries
Rediscovering forgotten films like Anti-Clock (1979) and reassessing ones like Lost Highway (1997), Jonathan Rozenkrantz charts neglected chapters of video history, including self-confrontation techniques in psychiatry, their complex relation with surveillance, and the invention/ discovery of the “videographic psyche” by artists, therapists and filmmakers. Spanning six decades, Videographic Cinema discovers an epistemic shift from prospective imaginaries of surveillance and control conditioned on video as a medium for live transmission, to retrospective ones concerned with videotape as a recording memory.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 232 pages PB 9781501369315 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501362422 ePub 9781501362415 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501362408 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic
Mediated Interfaces
The Body on Social Media
Edited by Katie Warfield, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada, Crystal Abidin, Curtin University, Australia & Carolina Cambre, Concordia University, Canada Images of faces, bodies, selves and digital subjectivities abound on new media platforms like Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, and others—these images represent our new way of being online and of becoming socially mediated. Mediated Interfaces examines digital embodiment, digital representations, and visual vernaculars as a mode of identity performance and management online in a cohesive collection, compiling all of these contemporary philosophies into one reader for students and scholars.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 272 pages • 33 bw illus PB 9781501391156 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501356186 ePub 9781501356193 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501356209 • £90.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen
Myths and Allegories in the Digital Age
Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough, University of Sydney, Australia Working from the assumption that capitalism rather than God is the highest power, this book examines mythic anticipations of the screen and digital technology from European literature, poetry, folklore and philosophy. Digital technology and social media are approached not as reflections of human nature but capitalist ideology’s power to enchant. To this end, Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen also surveys a diverse variety of films, digital media and contemporary artworks to understand and critique how myths are reimagined today.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 232 pages • 3 bw illus PB 9781501372445 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501356414 ePub 9781501356407 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501356391 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Discourses of Care
Media Practices and Cultures
Edited by Amy Holdsworth, University of Glasgow, UK, Karen Lury, University of Glasgow, UK & Hannah Tweed, University of York, UK Bringing together scholars from film and television studies, media and cultural studies, literary studies, medical humanities, and disability studies, Discourses of Care collectively examines how the analysis of media texts and practices can contribute to scholarship on and understandings of health and social care, and how existing research focusing on the ethics of care can inform our understanding of media. Featuring a critical introductory essay and 13 specially commissioned original chapters, this is the first edited collection to address the relationship between media and the concept and practice of care and caregiving.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781501389849 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501342820 ePub 9781501342844 • £27.60 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501342837 • £27.60 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
Resistance in Digital China
The Southern Weekly Incident
Sally Xiaojin Chen, University of Sussex, UK Chen’s in-depth analysis of the Southern Weekly Incident ties together overlapping debates in internet studies, Chinese studies, social movement studies, political communication, and cultural studies to discuss issues of the public sphere, collective action, connective action, emotions, and embodiment. Resistance in Digital China not only provides a theoretical framework for understanding how the internet may promote civic participation and a democratic culture in China, but also demonstrates a useful methodology for conducting an in-depth empirical examination of a significant on- and off-line act of resistance.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 208 pages PB 9781501391163 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501337673 ePub 9781501337680 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501337697 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Angels, Aliens and Amazons
Catriona Miller, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK From Mrs Peel in The Avengers to the first female Doctor Who, this book offers a timely focus on the popular phenomenon of the cult TV heroine. Established cult TV favourites such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer are examined alongside more contemporary offerings such as Wynonna Earp, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. This book both challenges and celebrates the cult TV heroine and looks to the role of fantasy in helping us to imagine what might be possible for women in contemporary culture.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 224 pages • 17 bw illus PB 9781350194175 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350163904 ePub 9781350163928 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350163911 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture
The Sounds of British Broadcasting over the Decades
Martin Cooper, University of Huddersfield, UK Ever since the first public wireless broadcasts, people have been writing about the radio: often negatively, sometimes full of praise, but always with an eye and an ear to explain, and offer an opinion about what they think they have heard. Examining work by novelists, film-makers, TV producers and songwriters, this book uncovers the manner in which the radio – and the act of listening – has been written about for the past 100 years.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 264 pages • 11 bw illus HB 9781501360442 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501360435 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501360428 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Indie Games in the Digital Age
Edited by M.J. Clarke, Cal State LA, USA & Cynthia Wang, Cal State LA, USA Reduced cost production tools, open distribution platforms, and ubiquitous connectivity have engendered the growth of indie games among makers and users, forcing critics to reconsider the question of who makes games and why. Taking seriously this new mode of cultural production compels analysts to reconsider the blurred boundaries and relations of makers, users and texts as well as their respective relationship to cultural power and hierarchy. The contributions to Indie Games in the Digital Age consider these questions and examine a series of firms, makers, games and scenes, to chart the productive and instructive disruption that this new site of cultural production offers.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 240 pages PB 9781501388545 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501356452 ePub 9781501356445 • £27.60 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501356438 • £27.60 / $35.95 Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies • Bloomsbury Academic Mabel Constanduros and the Development of Popular Entertainment on the BBC, 1925-57
Jennifer J. Purcell, Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA Mabel Constanduros was one of the first British radio comediennes and a beloved star of the early BBC. In this, the first significant biography of Constanduros, Jennifer J Purcell explores her career and influence on the shaping of popular British entertainment alongside the history of the nascent BBC. She provides new insights into programming decisions and content on the early BBC, deepening our understanding of the history and evolution of situation comedy and soap opera. Further, the author considers class in the representation of the British people on BBC radio, the gendered experience and performance of radio celebrity, and the intersections between BBC entertainment and other forms of popular media prior to the advent of television.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus PB 9781501389856 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501346507 ePub 9781501346538 • £27.60 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501346514 • £27.60 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
Romy Schneider
A Star Across Europe
Marion Hallet, King’s College London, UK This book explores the star image of Austrian born actress Romy Schneider (1938-1982). Her evolving role – sweet Viennese girl, Parisienne, ‘modern’ and ‘tragic’ woman – together with her acting choices and events in her private life, led her career into varied and fascinating directions within European and Hollywood cinemas. Romy Schneider shows how the representations of women stemming from Schneider’s star image supported specific and shifting cultural and social agendas regarding femininity, from the 1950s to the 1980s. This book explores the significance of Schneider’s image both when she was working and since, within Western European film culture and celebrity culture.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781501378850 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501378843 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501378836 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
The Destruction and Creation of Michael Jackson
Ellis Cashmore, Aston University, UK However people remember Jackson, no one can deny that, in cultural terms, Jackson remains a compelling subject: an icon of the late 20th century, he reflects not only the changes in the circumstances of the African American population, but changes in white America. Jackson was idolized, perhaps even objectified into an extraordinary being for whom there were no established reference points in whites’ conceptions. This book posits that Jackson was a creation of, at first, American and, later, global culture at a time when it seemed desirable, if not necessary to exalt a Black person on merit. America had become a society in which someone of Jackson’s indisputable genius not only can, but must, rise to the top.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 352 pages • 23 bw illus HB 9781501363580 • £19.99 / $27.00 ePub 9781501363566 • £19.17 / $24.30 ePdf 9781501363634 • £19.17 / $24.30 Bloomsbury Academic
