Film Directors / Screenwriting

Independent Filmmaking in the 21st Century

Michael Winterbottom, film director, UK Writing as the director of award-winning feature films including Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People and The Road to Guantanamo as well as the hugely popular The Trip series, Michael Winterbottom provides an insider's view of the workings of international film funding and distribution, revealing how the studios that fund film production and control distribution networks also work against a sustainable independent film culture and limit innovation in filmmaking style and content. Winterbottom also interviews leading contemporary filmmakers including Lynne Ramsay, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Asif Kapadia and Joanna Hogg about their filmmaking practice.

UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 224 pages PB 9781839023392 • £16.99 / $22.95 ePub 9781839023408 • £15.29 / $20.83 ePdf 9781839023415 • £15.29 / $20.83 British Film Institute

Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye

The Biography of a Master Film-Maker

Andrew Robinson, writer, UK Andrew Robinson's definitive biography of the great Bengali director Satyajit Ray traces Ray's early life and provides a rich context for his film-making career. Robinson provides a film-by-film analysis of Ray's oeuvre, which spanned almost every genre, from drama and documentaries to comedies, musicals and detective films, with chapters on films including The 'Apu' Trilogy, The Music Room, Charulata, Days and Nights in the Forest, The Chess Players and The Stranger. In a career spanning over thirty years, from the classic Pather Panchali in 1955 until his death in 1992, Ray won almost every major prize in cinema, including an Academy Award for lifetime achievement just before his death in 1992.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 464 pages • 50 bw illus PB 9781350258495 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350258501 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350258518 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePdf 9781350258525 • £22.49 / $29.96 Bloomsbury Academic

SceneWriting

The Missing Manual for Screenwriters

Chris Perry, Hampshire College, USA & Eric Henry Sanders, Hampshire College, USA This thorough and effective guide will help master the most critical and overlooked part of the screenwriting process: the art and craft of writing scenes. With step-by-step instruction, and numerous exercises, you will learn how to transform an outline into a fully-developed script. Learn how to prepare scenes for writing, construct sparkling, naturalistic dialogue, utilize scene description and the unique structure of the screenplay format to maximum advantage, and polish your scenes so that your idea becomes the script you always imagined it could be.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 208 pages PB 9781501352126 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781501352133 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501352140 • £17.63 / $22.45 ePdf 9781501352157 • £17.63 / $22.45 Bloomsbury Academic A Filmmaker’s Legacy

Edited by Jeremi Szaniawski, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Taking at its starting point the idea that Kubrick’s cinema has constituted an intellectual, cerebral, and philosophical maze in which many filmmakers, but also thinkers, and a substantial fringe of the general public, have gotten lost at one point or another, this collection looks at the legacy of Kubrick’s films in the 21st century. The contributions coalesce around the concept of a Kubrickian substrate, rich and complex, which permeates our Western cultural landscape very much to this day, informing and sometimes announcing/reflecting it in twisted ways, 20 years after the director’s death.

UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 320 pages • 42 bw illus PB 9781501383557 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501347641 ePub 9781501347658 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501347665 • £90.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Esfir Shub

Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking

Ilana Leah Shub-Sharp, Independent Scholar, Australia

Esfir Shub was the only prominent female director of nonfiction film present at the dawning of the Soviet film industry. She was, in fact, the first woman both to write critical texts on cinema and then practically apply these theorisations in her own films. Her syncretism of cinema theory and praxis inspired her to ask questions regarding both the nature of nonfiction film, such as the problem of authenticity and reality, and the function of the artist in society. This book demonstrates Shub’s position not only as a significant filmmaker and recognised member of the early Soviet avant-garde but also as a key figure in global cinema history and as a pioneer of the theory and practice of documentary filmmaking.

UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 320 pages • 46 bw illus HB 9781501376511 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501376504 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501376498 • £90.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic