Experimental Film / World & European Cinema

Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and '80s

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 • 272 pages • 40 bw illus HB 9781788313995 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350197657 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350197640 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic Envisioning the Nation

Sheldon Lu, University of California, Davis, USA Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging study explores the representation of the modern Chinese nation in the contemporary cinema and visual arts of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He considers how filmmakers and artists have addressed questions of class, gender, sexual and national identity as well as materialism and consumerism in China's transition from a socialist to a capitalist, globalized state that also maintains rigid controls over artistic expression.

UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 256 pages • 40 bw illus HB 9781350234185 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350234192 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350234208 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Global East Asian Screen Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

Fertile Visions

The Uterus as a Narrative Space in Cinema from the Americas

Anne Carruthers, Newcastle University, UK Fertile Visions conceptualises the uterus as a narrative space so that the female reproductive body can be understood beyond the constraints of a gendered analysis. Unravelling pregnancy from notions of maternity and mothering demands that we think differently about narratives of reproduction, which is crucial in the current global political climate wherein the gender-specificity of pregnancy contributes to how bodies that reproduce are marginalised, controlled, and criminalised. Anne Carruthers demonstrates fascinating and insightful close analyses of films such as Juno, Birth, and Arrival as examples of uterus as a narrative space.

UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 240 pages • 73 bw illus HB 9781501358579 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501358562 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501358555 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Thinking Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic

Jews, Nazis and the Cinema of Hungary

The Tragedy of Success, 1929-1944

David Frey This original cultural and political history examines the birth, unexpected ascendance, and wartime collapse of Hungary's early sound cinema by placing it within a complex international nexus. Detailing the interplay of Hungarian cultural and political elites, Jewish film professionals and financiers, Nazi officials, and global film moguls, David Frey demonstrates how the transnational process of forging an industry designed to define a national culture proved particularly contentious and surprisingly contradictory in the heyday of racial nationalism and antisemitism.

UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 480 pages • 30 integrated bw, 1 map PB 9781350248069 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781780764511 ePub 9781786720610 • £85.50 / $112.04 ePdf 9781786730619 • £85.50 / $112.04 Bloomsbury Academic

Screen Industries in East-Central Europe

Petr Szczepanik, Charles University, Prague

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Petr Szczepanik provides an in-depth study into the audiovisual media industries of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, offering broad insights into the ways the screen industries of Eastern and Central Europe are positioned in and are responding to globalization and digitalization.

UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781839022739 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781839022746 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781839022753 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: International Screen Industries • British Film Institute

Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe

Film Cultures and Histories

Edited by Dorota Ostrowska, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, Francesco Pitassio, University of Udine, Italy & Zsuzsanna Varga, University of Glasgow, UK This important book provides both a history and a contemporary account of East Central European cinema in the pre-WW2, socialist, and post-socialist periods. By looking closely at genre, stardom, cinema exhibition, production strategies and the relationship between the popular and the national, it charts the remarkable evolution and transformation of popular cinema in Hungary, the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia and Poland, from the award-winning Cosy Dens to cult favourite Lemonade Joe, and from 1960s Polish Westerns to Hollywood-influenced Hungarian movies.

UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 384 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781350244269 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784533977 ePub 9781786722393 • £85.50 / $112.04 ePdf 9781786732392 • £85.50 / $112.04 Bloomsbury Academic