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World Cinema
Ghost in the Well
The Hidden History of Horror Films in Japan Michael Crandol, Leiden University, the Netherlands Ghost in the Well is the first study to provide a full history of the horror genre in Japanese cinema, from the silent era to Classical period movies such as Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953) to the contemporary global popularity of J-horror pictures like the Ring and Ju-on franchises. Michael Crandol draws on a wide range of Japanese language sources and considers the development of 'kaiki eiga', the Japanese form meaning 'weird' or 'bizarre' films that most closely corresponds to Western understandings of 'horror'. The result is a study that sheds new light on one of Japanese cinema's best known genres, while also serving as a fascinating case study of how popular film genres are reimagined across cultural divides.
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 256 pages • 38 bw illus PB 9781350178731 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350178748 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350178755 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781350178762 • £17.99 / $22.16 Bloomsbury Academic
Performing Silence in World Cinemas
Roberto Cavallini, Yasar University, Turkey Providing an historical and critical analysis of internationally acclaimed directors such as Marguerite Duras, Chantal Akerman, Agnés Varda, and Lisandro Alonso, this is the first volume to configure a theoretical framework to consider cinematic silence in sound film within a transcultural and transnational perspective. Along with an examination of specific films and contexts, Roberto Cavallini provides a timely examination of silence from a number of methodological perspectives and provides a framework to understand its aesthetic and epistemic implications for contemporary critical thought and cinema.
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 288 pages HB 9781501333095 • £96.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501333101 • £87.69 / $107.99 ePdf 9781501333118 • £87.69 / $107.99 Bloomsbury Academic
Eastern Approaches to Western Film
Asian Reception and Aesthetics in Cinema Stephen Teo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Eastern Approaches to Western Film offers a renewed critical outlook on Western classic film directly from the pantheon of European and American masters. Within it, author Stephen Teo uses an ‘Eastern approach’ - arguments following principles of Eastern thought - to the analysis of the contents and narratives of a range of classic Western films, made in Europe and America by a auteur directors including Hitchcock, Peckinpah, Ford, Welles and Dreyer.
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 2021 • US May 2021 • 272 pages • 75 bw illus PB 9781501369308 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501343537 ePub 9781501343544 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501343551 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Lúcia Nagib, University of Reading, UK and Julian Ross, Programmer at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence
Douglas Mulliken, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence is the first book to explore the function of violence within the films of the Argentinian screenwriter-director. Douglas Mulliken contends that, through his representation of objective violence, Pablo Trapero has emerged as a distinctly political filmmaker. By focusing on several previously understudied elements of Trapero’s films, Mulliken highlights the ways in which the director’s work represents present-day concerns about social inequalities and injustice in neoliberal Argentina on-screen.
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 256 pages HB 9781350163386 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350163409 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
ePdf 9781350163393 • £76.50 / $94.85
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 304 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781350194762 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784539825 ePub 9781350113305 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350113312 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
The Politics of Beauty James S. Williams, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema reveals the possibility for new, nonconceptual kinds of beauty in African cinema: abstract, material, migrant, erotic, convulsive, queer. Within it, author James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and embrace the concept of cinematic beauty by not reducing it to ideological critique or the old ideals of pan-Africanism.
UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 376 pages • 36 b&w PB 9781350194403 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784533359 ePub 9781350105065 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350105058 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Isabelle Huppert
Stardom, Performance and Authorship Edited by Darren Waldron, University of Manchester, UK & Nick Rees-Roberts, ParisSorbonne Nouvelle, France Deconstructs Isabelle Huppert’s star persona and public profile through critical and theoretical analysis of her various screen roles. This collection remedies the lack of coverage of the multi-award winning actress, despite being Oscar-nominated and winning prizes at the BAFTA awards and festivals of Cannes, Venice and Berlin. By focussing on a number of theoretical questions that relate to image, identity, sexuality and place, this volume situates Huppert’s star persona in the more practical creative contexts of performance, authorship, genre and collaboration.
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus HB 9781501348914 • £96.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501348921 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501348938 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Allegory in Iranian Cinema
The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance Michelle Langford, University of New South Wales, Australia Allegory in Iranian Cinema explores the allegorical aesthetics of Iranian cinema, explaining how it has emerged from deep cultural traditions and how it functions as a strategy for both supporting and resisting dominant ideology. Michelle Langford provides a theoretical framework for detailed analyses of films by renowned directors of the pre-and post-revolutionary eras including Masoud Kimiai, Dariush Mehrjui, Ebrahim Golestan, Kamran Shirdel, Majid Majidi, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Meshkini, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Rakhshan BaniEtemad and Asghar Farhadi.
Mass Producing European Cinema
Studiocanal and Its Works Christopher Meir, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago In this volume, Christopher Meir delves into StudioCanal, the foremost European company in the contemporary film and television industries, and chronicles its rise from a small production subsidiary of Canal Plus to being the most important global challenger to Hollywood’s dominance. Equal parts historical study, industrial analysis and critical survey of some of the most important films and television programs in recent European history, this book gives readers an overview of the development and output of this important company while also giving them a ringside seat for the latest round of the oldest battle in the film business.
UK August 2020 • US August 2020 • 272 pages • 14 bw illus PB 9781501368103 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501327124 ePub 9781501327100 • £29.22 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501327094 • £29.22 / $35.95
Bloomsbury Academic
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 296 pages • 61 bw illus PB 9781350194250 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781780762982 ePub 9781350113268 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350113275 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic
Cinematic Dialogues Between the US and the USSR Marina L. Levitina 'Russian Americans' in Soviet Film analyses the content, reception and underlying influences of over 60 Soviet and American films, exploring new territory in Soviet cinema studies and American-Russian cultural relations. It presents groundbreaking archival research encompassing Soviet audience surveys, Soviet film journals and reviews, memoirs and articles by Soviet filmmakers, and scripts, among other sources. The book reveals that values of optimism, technological skill, efficiency and self-reliance - perceived as quintessentially American - were incorporated into new Soviet ideals through channels of cross-cultural dissemination, resulting in cultural synthesis.
UK September 2020 • US September 2020 • 336 pages • 21 bw integrated PB 9781350200050 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784530310 ePub 9780857729699 • £85.50 / $105.94 ePdf 9780857727701 • £85.50 / $105.94 Series: KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
