British Film Institute

Lost in Translation

Suzanne Ferriss, Nova Southeastern University, USA

This new BFI Film Classic takes a close look at Sofia Coppola's celebrated Lost in Translation (2003), an evocative film that brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencing a personal crisis Mirroring the film's structuring metaphors of travel, Suzanne Ferriss' analysis takes the form of a trip, from planning to departure. Throughout, her emphasis is on establishing the film not only as a cinema classic, but as classic Coppola

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus PB 9781839024917 • £1199 / $1595 ePub 9781839024924 • £1079 / $1510 ePdf 9781839024931 • £1079 / $1510 Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

Eraserhead

Claire Henry, Massey University, New Zealand A surreal and darkly humorous vision, Eraserhead has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s Drawing on original archival research and providing an in-depth analysis of the film’s production history, its rich mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound, and its embeddedness in visual art and screen culture, Henry not only affirms Eraserhead's significance as an auteurist debut, but advances a wider case for its status as a film classic

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 104 pages • 50 bw illus PB 9781839025600 • £1199 / $1595 ePub 9781839025617 • £1079 / $1510 ePdf 9781839025624 • £1079 / $1510 Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

All the President’s Men

Robert B. Ray, University of Florida, USA & Christian Keathley, Middlebury College, USA This new BFI Film Classic provides an in depth look into Alan Pakula's 1976 political thriller All the President's Men. Christian Keathley and Robert Ray's close reading of the film shows how its narrative power works through a series of controlled oppositions: silence vs noise; stationary vs moving camera; dark scenes vs well-lit scenes, and shallow focus vs deep focus, tracing how all these elements combine to create an underlying formal design that is crucial to the movie’s achievement

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 120 pages • 60 colour illus PB 9781839024047 • £1199 / $1595 ePub 9781839024054 • £1079 / $1510 ePdf 9781839024061 • £1079 / $1510 Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

The Metropolitan Police and the British Film Industry, 1919-1956

Public Relations, Collaboration and Control

Alexander Charles Rock, Derby QUAD, UK Using newly-declassified internal Metropolitan Police and Home Office correspondence, Alexander Charles Rock tells the story of the Metropolitan Police’s project to manipulate the British film industry into producing propaganda under the guise of mainstream entertainment cinema In doing so he offers a radical re-reading of the context of production of a number of canonical British films such as The Blue Lamp (1950), I Believe In You (1952) and Street Corner (1953)

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 272 pages • 3 bw illus HB 9781350295087 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350295094 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350295100 • £7650 / $10578 British Film Institute