F I L M & M E D I A - Hollywood & US Cinema
Hollywood Online
A History of Movie Websites, 1994-2014 Ian London, Independent Scholar, UK By examining the strategic role of websites in blockbuster marketing, the involvement of filmmakers in their production, and ultimately the commercial value placed upon these sites by the six major studios themselves, Hollywood Online demonstrates that movie websites were best understood as advertising for the ancillary markets of home entertainment and not as drivers for box-office ticket sales. Combining industry history, detailed textual analysis and interviews with practitioners in the US, Ian London shows how websites became crucial elements in the Hollywood industry’s goal to establish the internet as a viable film delivery system. UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus HB 9781501337758 • £96.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501337765 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501337772 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Walls without Cinema
State Security and Subjective Embodiment in Twenty-First-Century US Filmmaking Larrie Dudenhoeffer, Kennesaw State University, USA
Costume, Gender & Identity in the World of 007 Llewella Chapman, University of East Anglia, UK This book questions why costumes are an important tool for analysing and evaluating film, both in terms of the development of gender in the James Bond film franchise and how it evokes the desire in audiences to become part of a specific lifestyle construct through the wearing of fashions as seen on screen. It researches the agency of the costume department, director, producer and actor in creating the look and characterisation of James Bond, the villains, the Bond girls and the henchmen who inhibit the world of 007. UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 250 pages HB 9781350145481 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350164666 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350164659 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic
Hollywood and the Invention of England Projecting the English Past in American Cinema, 1930-2017 Jonathan Stubbs, Cyprus International University, Cyprus
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 as a timely counterpoint to the xenophobic rhetoric and abusive, carceral security conditions that characterize the Trump administration’s management of the MexicoU.S. border situation.
Beginning with an overview of the social and cultural dimensions of the so-called 'special relationship' between Hollywood and Britain, each chapter features an extended case study examining a key production from each filmmaking cycle in greater detail. Written from an intercultural perspective and drawing on extensive archival research, Hollywood and the Invention of England examines the surprising affinity for British history in Hollywood cinema and asks what this can tell us about both British and American culture in general.
UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 256 pages • 25 bw illus HB 9781501364198 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501364181 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501364174 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
UK August 2020 • US August 2020 • 224 pages • 13 bw illus PB 9781501368134 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501305870 ePub 9781501305849 • £29.22 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501305856 • £29.22 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
American Eccentric Cinema
Kim Wilkins, The University of Sydney, Australia Since the late 1990s a new language has emerged in film scholarship and criticism in response to the popularity of American directors such as Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman, and David O. Russell. Increasingly, adjectives like ‘quirky’, ‘cute’, and ‘smart’ are used to describe these American films, with a focus on their ironic (and sometimes deliberately comical) stories, character situations and tones. Kim Wilkins argues that, beyond the seemingly superficial descriptions, American eccentric cinema presents a formal and thematic eccentricity that is distinct to the American context. UK August 2020 • US August 2020 • 224 pages • 21 bw illus PB 9781501368110 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501336911 ePub 9781501336928 • £29.22 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501336935 • £29.22 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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Fashioning James Bond
The City in American Cinema Film and Postindustrial Culture
Edited by Johan Andersson, King's College London, UK & Lawrence Webb, University of Sussex, UK Cinema and cities have become increasingly intertwined in the era of urban branding, cultural industries, and ‘creative cities’. Spanning four decades of US urban history, from decline and crisis in the 1970s and 1980s to neoliberal restructuring, galloping globalization and accelerated gentrification in the 1990s and beyond, this volume considers the complex, evolving relationship between moving image cultures and the urban environment in key cinematic cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit, with case studies of films including Desperately Seeking Susan and Frances Ha. UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 400 pages • 28 bw illus PB 9781350194748 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788313186 ePub 9781350115620 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350115637 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic
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