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Black Girl (La noire de...)
Vlad Dima, Syracuse University, USA
Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest, most groundbreaking filmmakers in the history of cinema, an acclaimed novelist, and the most renowned African director of the twentieth century . Black Girl was his brilliant, blistering debut Released in 1966, it won the Prix Jean Vigo at the Cannes Film Festival that year. The film is about a young Senegalese woman, played powerfully by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family as a nanny, but quickly discovers that life in their apartment is a prison, both figuratively and literally; but it is also a searing, nuanced critique of the lingering colonialism in the supposedly postcolonial world
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Pulp Fiction
Dana Polan, New York University, UK
Dana Polan's compelling analysis sets out to uncover the style and technique of Pulp Fiction
He shows how broad Tarantino's points of reference are, and analyzes the film's narrative accomplishment and complexity Where some critics dismissed Pulp Fiction for its violence and its worship of a certain brand of cool, Polan shows how the film exemplifies new kinds of engagement with cultural and social codes, such as those around racial identity In addition, Polan argues that the film's celebration of macho attitudes is more nuanced than might first appear
UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 112 pages •
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Wanda
Elena Gorfinkel, King's College London, UK
This new BFI Film Classic on Barbara Loden’s 1970 film Wanda, argues the film's status as a singular work in American film history, a road movie following its dispossessed working-class heroine, played by Loden herself, as she drifts through an American landscape rarely seen on screen Elena Gorfinkel's study traces the trajectory of Loden’s acting career before and leading up to the film, her entry into filmmaking, the film’s production, reception and circulation both in the 1970s and after, as well as the critical, industrial and feminist responses to the film and its legacies for contemporary film practice.
UK May 2025 US May 2025 104 pages 60 colour illus
PB 9781839023040 £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839023057 • £11 69 / $16 19
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Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Chinatown Michael Eaton
Michael Eaton's compelling study of Roman Polanski's 1974 neo-noir situates Chinatown in relation to a history of fictional detectives, from Sophocles to Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. In an absorbing account of the film's narrative development and visual style, he traces Chinatown's relationship to the pessimism of American cinema (and, by extension, in wider American culture) in the mid-1970s, and the source of the film's narrative and visual impact. In his afterword to this new edition, Eaton considers Chinatown's 1990 sequel The Two Jakes and also the movie's changing fortunes in the years since its release
UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 96 pages • 60 colour illus
PB 9781839028151 £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839028168 £11 69 / $16 19
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Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Riddles of the Sphinx
Kimberly Lamm, Duke University, USA
This BFI Film Classic on Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) delves into the cultural context of the film's production and reception. Positioning it as an essay film, Kimberly Lamm analyses Mulvey's and Wollen's formal experimentations, including the use of direct address and found footage; 360-degree pans and the rejection of continuity editing; the rhyming structures and poetic voice overs; and the haunted sonic landscape created by the film’s electronic score.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus
PB 9781839026850 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839026867 • £11 69 / $16 19
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Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute
100 Queer Films Since Stonewall
Chelsea McCracken, State University of New York at Oneonta, NY, USA. & Matt Connolly, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA.
100 Queer Films identifies 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema, connected with larger movements, and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. In addition to those films that already hold significant places in queer film canons, this volume examines often-overlooked titles By highlighting hidden gems alongside well known classics, this book makes a valuable, accessible contribution to queer film studies.
BlacKkKlansman
Movies Minute by Minute
Alex Zamalin, Rutgers University, USA
This book places Spike Lee’s film, BlacKkKlansman, in dialogue with political questions that have been considered by a swathe of thinkers, including Plato, Marx, Freud, Fanon, Butler, and Davis to investigate how this film works as a text of political thought. Some questions include: what is the meaning of freedom under social constraint? How does racism and anti-Blackness structure the parameters of conversation and belonging? Is power dispersed, and, if it is, how must resistance be decentralized? What is political about speech, and how exactly does language have a performative political function? How to build solidarity and imagine political commitment?
UK February 2025 US February 2025 120 pages 10 bw illus
PB 9798765103807 £17 99 / $24 95 HB 9798765103814 £60 00 / $80 00
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Series: Timecodes • Bloomsbury Academic
David Lynch’s American Dreamscape
Music, Literature, Cinema
Mike Miley, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
David Lynch’s American Dreamscape expands the interpretive horizons of David Lynch’s filmography by addressing the questions: How are Lynch’s films as much a part of literary tradition as the cinematic tradition? How can his films be read as songs? This book positions his work as a compendium of popular literary and musical cultures, including David Foster Wallace and Nine Inch Nails who have successfully grafted Lynch’s cinematic sensibility onto their own projects; a site through which these texts interact with other texts; and a channel through which the subconscious of American life finds its way into full and unaltered view
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 288 pages • 57 bw illus
PB 9798765102893 £21 99 / $29 95 HB 9798765102930 £90 00 / $120 00
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The Jurassic Park Book
New Perspectives on the Classic 1990s Blockbuster
Edited by Matthew Melia, Kingston University, UK
To mark the film's 30th anniversary, this illustrated collection of essays interrogates the Jurassic Park phenomenon from a diverse range of critical, historical, and theoretical angles The primary focus is on Jurassic Park itself but there is also discussion of the franchise and its numerous spin-offs
As well as leading international scholars of film studies and history, contributors include experts in special effects, science on screen, fan studies, and palaeontology Comprehensive, up to date, and accessible, this book appeals to students, scholars of Hollywood and contemporary culture, and the global audience of fans of the greatest of all dinosaur movies
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 360 pages • 45 bw illus
PB 9781501384837 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501384868
ePub 9781501384851 £94 20 / $117 00
ePdf 9781501384844 £94 20 / $94 20 Bloomsbury Academic
Abbas Kiarostami and Iranian National Cinema
Hossein Khosrowjah
Challenging prevailing auteurist readings of Abbas Kiarostami’s work, Hossein Khosrowjah firmly anchors his filmmaking within the historical context of Iranian national cinema Through a close reading of key films, including Close-Up (1990), Taste of Cherry (1997), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Ten (2002), he explores Kiarostami’s radically anti-allegorical representational strategies In doing so, he argues that it is his resistance to any singular national identity that sparks controversy and even hostility within Iran and exilic Iranian communities, provoking critical discourse among both scholars and the public
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781784535773 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350274372 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
Home Screens
Public Housing in Global Film &
Television
Edited by Lorrie Palmer, Towson University, Maryland, USA
This is the first book-length study of the ways in which socialized housing projects are represented on screen. International scholars of film and media, sociology, architecture, history, race, class, gender and urban planning explore documentary and fictional portrayals of the architecture of public housing, and the communities that inhabit it, from the 1950s to the present Spanning a wide, international range of film and media texts, essays within this book examine public and private attitudes toward socialised housing, explaining how onscreen representations shape perceptions of these ubiquitous, oftenstigmatized urban locations
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 296 pages • 24 bw illus
PB 9781350253940 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350253957
ePub 9781350253964 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350253971 £76 50 / $76 50 Bloomsbury Academic
The Lost Decade
Altman, Coppola, Friedkin and the Hollywood Renaissance Auteur in the 1980s
Chris Horn, University of Leicester, UK
This book provides an analysis of Hollywood from a fresh viewpoint that shows the careers of Robert Altman, Francis Coppola, William Friedkin, and others in the 1980s as far from conforming to a monolithic pattern of decline, but rather as diverse and complex responses to political and industrial changes Behind the homogenous picture of the decline of the auteur in 1980s American cinema are films and careers that merit greater attention, and this book offers a new way to perceive individual films, American film history, and the viability of sustained authorial creativity within post-studio era Hollywood
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9781501394492 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501394454
ePub 9781501394461 • £87 01 / $108 00
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Neon Knight Forever
The
Legacy of Joel Schumacher’s Batman
Duology
Tomasz Zaglewski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
This book accounts for the initial rejection of Joel Schumacher's version of Batman and explores modern attempts to rehabilitate the 'Neon Knight' as yet another acceptable idea for Batman By uncovering the formal foundations underlying both Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, the criticism it received and a kind of renaissance of Schumacher's vision in recent DC Films projects, Neon Knight Forever is a detailed study of one of the most misunderstood superhero series and dares to ask the most heretical question for Bat-fans: what if Batman & Robin is actually an impressive artistic achievement in big-budget superhero cinema?
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 160 pages
PB 9798765100615 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765100608
ePub 9798765100578 • £79 83 / $99 00
ePdf 9798765100585 £79 83 / $79 83 Bloomsbury Academic
The Non-Professional Actor Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond
Catherine O'Rawe, Bristol University, UK
Italian post-war cinema has been widely celebrated by critics and scholars: films such as Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948) and Paisan (Rossellini, 1946) remain globally influential, particularly for their use of non-professional actors This book provides the first critical overview of acting, stardom, and performance in postwar Italian film (1945-54), with special attention to the figure of the non-professional actor, who looms large in neorealist filmmaking. This period of regeneration of Italian cinema initiated the boom in cinemagoing that made cinema an important vector of national and gender identity for audiences
UK June 2025 US June 2025 264 pages 17 bw illus
PB 9781501394393 £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9781501394362 • £87 01 / $108 00
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Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China
Xiang Fan, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China explores the dynamic networks of art cinema in China in the 21st century by highlighting the cultural practices of intermediaries such as independent exhibitors, internet critics, and fan translators
A History of India’s North-East Cinema
Deconstructing the Stereotypes
Parthajit Baruah, Renaissance Junior College, India
This book depicts the journey from the first Assamese film (1935) to the present. It addresses the peripheral status and identity crisis of North-Eastern people in mainland India and examines the role of Bollywood in the construction and misrepresentation of this region in popular Hindi cinema Part I looks at how the people of the North-East are constructed as 'foreigners’ or ‘outsiders' by mainland Indians Part II discusses the socio-political and cultural shifts in the Assam region Part III traces the journey of cinema in the other seven North-Eastern states, narrating the regions’ socio-political phenomena and the unique cultural discourses
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 336 pages • 34 bw illus
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World Cinema
Nagib & Julian Ross, Leiden University, Netherlands
Japanese Cinema and Punk Intermedial Exchanges
Mark Player, University of Reading, UK
In Japanese Cinema and Punk, Mark Player explores how the do-it-yourself ethos of punk empowered a new generation of Japanese filmmakers during a time of crisis and change for Japan’s film industry.
Analyzing key examples such as Burst City (1982), Robinson’s Garden (1987) and Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), he traces the changing sociocultural position of Japan’s punk movement throughout the 1980s, from its euphoric early-80s highpoint to a growing dysphoria brought about by its co-opting and convergence by the mainstream
UK April 2025 US April 2025 272 pages
HB 9781350378568 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350378575 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350378582 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Women and Global Documentary Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century
Edited by Shilyh Warren, University of Texas at Dallas, USA & Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi, Old Dominion University, USA
Women and Global Documentary answers the urgent need to reevaluate not only the significance of women’s documentary practices and their contributions to feminist world-building, but also the state of documentary studies as it engages with political, aesthetic, and industrial developments arising as a result of an increasing numbers of women’s documentaries
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 312 pages • 30 bw illus
PB 9781350422896 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350422902 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350422919 £22 49 / $31 04
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Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Thai Cinema The Complete Guide
Edited by Mary J. Ainslie & Katarzyna Ancuta
In the first ever book devoted solely to Thai cinema, experts on contemporary and historic Thai film provide a timely overview and discussion of key films, directors and current movements in the region in a comprehensive encyclopaedia format Featuring contributions on Thai visionaries such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Wisit Sasanatieng and providing rare insight into early Thai cinema, this is an essential scholarly guide to a vibrant aspect of Southeast Asian cinema - its history, industry and aesthetic trends - for scholars and students alike
UK January 2025 US January 2025 284 pages 19 bw integrated
PB 9781350543362 £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9781838609252 • £81 00 / $110 69
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Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Cinema and the Indian National Emergency
Histories and Afterlives
Edited by Parichay Patra, IIT Jodhpur, India & Dibyakusum Ray, IIT Ropar, India
Cinema and the Indian National Emergency examines the strained relationship between the state and the Indian film industry during this period of political upheaval Each of the essays, written from a broad range of critical perspectives, analyse controversial films such as Aandhi (1975), Nasbandi (1978), and Kissa Kursi Ka (1977), which were all subject to state censorship It considers the cinematic representations and afterlives, and the possible modes of archiving and remembering the cinema of the Indian Emergency
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781350371132 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350371149 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Lúcia
Pandemics in American Popular Culture
Depicting Disease and Confronting Contagion
James Craig Holte, East Carolina University, USA
This engaging reference book analyzes and contextualizes portrayals of epidemics and pandemics across a wide range of American media Here, readers will discover more than 90 books, movies, television shows, video games, and other forms of media that focus on historical or fictional disease outbreaks and their devastating results Each entry begins with a concise plot summary before delving deeper into the work’s key thematic elements and cultural impact Across a diverse spectrum of media and varied representations of contagion, readers will also better understand the common thematic threads – human fragility and resilience, social responsibility and the search for a cure –connecting these portrayals
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 368 pages
HB 9781440880940 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9798765114377 • £72 64 / $90 00
ePdf 9781440880957 £72 64 / $72 64 Bloomsbury Academic
Sex Education
School's Out for Netflix
Edited by Deborah Shaw, University of Portsmouth, UK & Rob Stone, University of Birmingham, UK
This collection maps the origins of the Netflix series Sex Education in relation to the genre of teenage high school dramas and comedies, exploring the four-season narrative arc and analysing the principal themes and characters It considers the aesthetics of the series and its main philosophical, ethical and political aspects It investigates the creative process behind the ground-and-taboo-breaking series, examining it as a cultural product that is both old and new in that it relies on tried and tested generic formulae while also being responsive to new identity formations
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus
HB 9798765107317
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ePub 9798765107324 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765107331 £87 01 / $87 01 Bloomsbury Academic
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Claire Nally, Northumbria University, UK & Angela Smith, University of Sunderland, UK
Love Wars
Television Romantic Comedy
Mary Irwin
Love Wars is the first dedicated overview of the international television romantic comedy genre
Mary Irwin explores the genre’s key recurrent themes: evolving attitudes to love, relationships, sex, class and money, feminism and post-feminism, changes in the nuclear family (dramatised through contrasting romantic relationships) and shifting discourses of masculinity, situating them within the specific socio-historic and cultural context in which the series are set
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages • 15 b&w integrated
HB 9781784533465 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350120150 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350120143 £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture Bloomsbury Academic
Sylvain Chomet’s Distinctive Animation
From The Triplets of Belleville to The Illusionist
Maria Katsaridou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
This open access book provides the first in-depth analysis of Sylvain Chomet's animation films and contribution to contemporary animation It examines important elements of the artist’s life, studies and previous works, along with his influences and important collaborations Special attention is paid to the production processes, as well as the historical and socioeconomic context in which they were created, to provide the reader with a comprehensive study of the films and to highlight their contribution to the advancement of contemporary animation
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages • 26 colour illus
PB 9781501374562 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501363993
ePub 9781501363986 • £0 00 / $0 00
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Series: Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers • Bloomsbury Academic
The Legacy of The X-Files
Edited by James Fenwick, Sheffield Hallam University, UK & Diane A. Rodgers, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The X-Files, this collection examines the content and production of the show, its reception, its use of legend and folklore, its contemporary resonance in politics and society of the 21st century, and its impact and legacy on film, television, the Internet and beyond The collection serves as an all-encompassing, multi-disciplinary, contemporary account of The X-Files, reflecting upon critical, historical, political, and social contexts, and featuring an in-depth and comprehensive introduction making it a vital work for researchers and students alike
UK June 2025 US June 2025 352 pages 8 bw illus
PB 9781501387609 • £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9781501387623 • £94 20 / $117 00
ePdf 9781501387616 • £94 20 / $94 20 Bloomsbury Academic
Globalized Queerness
Identities and Commodities in Queer
Popular Culture
Helton Levy, London Metropolitan University, UK
In Globalized Queerness, Helton Levy revisits popular media characters such as Calamity Jane (1953), the Daffyd Thomas character from the BBC comedy Little Britain (2003-2007), Brazilian drag queen Pabblo Vittar, French singer Christine and the Queens, and the Italian-Egyptian rapper Mahmood He argues that such characters have gradually blended in the public's perception and the assumption that queer publics live and consume only through a global set of references, including gay parades and rainbow flags, for example, erases the personal complexities of immigration, homophobia, poverty and societal exclusion
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages • 12 bw illus
PB 9781350292826 • £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9781350292796 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350292802 £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Eco-Theory and Annihilation
Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University, USA
Eco-theory and Annihilation is part of the Film Theory in Practice series, which blends the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film and provides discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis
This book offers a concise introduction to ecotheory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Alex Garland’s controversial film adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s hit novel Annihilation. This book illuminates the deep history of eco-theory, maps its contemporary coordinates, and demonstrates how it can shed light on Garland’s provocative eco-sci-fi thriller
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages
PB 9781501376610 • £14 99 / $19 95 • HB 9781501376627 • £55 00 / $75 00
ePub 9781501376603 • £14 36 / $17 95
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Series: Film Theory in Practice Bloomsbury Academic
Film, Negation and Freedom
Capitalism and Romantic Critique
Will Kitchen, University of Southampton, UK
This book explores cinema in relation to the critical tradition in modern philosophy and its heritage in Romantic aesthetics Using a variety of discursive fields and traditions, this book outlines a radical new interpretation of Romanticism in reference to the films of Arthur Penn and Lindsay Anderson – cultural texts previously underexplored by academic studies, such as Mickey One, O Lucky Man! and The Missouri Breaks This book offers an enriched and revitalised understanding of Romanticism’s relevance to both the filmic texts of the 20th century, and also the aesthetic, philosophical and political conditions of modern subjectivity and spectatorship
UK May 2025 US May 2025 264 pages
PB 9798765105542 £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9798765105573 • £87 01 / $108 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Make / Believe
We and They on a Digital Planet
John Hartley, University of Sydney, Australia
Hartley’s groundbreaking take on interdisciplinary humanities at planetary scale focuses an analytical lens on the world of weaponised make-believe, in fact and fiction. Make/Believe opens with an account of children’s collective activism in an era when their futures are jeopardized by our stories, then disentangles strategic stories in science, journalism, and popular culture, among zombies, aliens, class struggle, policy discourses, aircraft carriers, submarines, truth-warriors, and lifestyle journalism The take-out message is that culture makes groups, groups make knowledge, and knowledge makes enemies
UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 288 pages • 24 bw illus
HB 9798765128039 • £95 00 / $130 00
ePub 9798765128060 • £94 20 / $117 00
ePdf 9798765128053 • £94 20 / $94 20
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Internet-ontologies-Things
Smart Objects, Hidden Problems, and Their Symmetries
Sungyong Ahn, University of Queensland, Australia
While recent post-humanist philosophies support the elevation of algorithmic objects to autonomous and sentient beings, this philosophical discourse is overlooked as well as the transformation that has happened to the materiality of our everyday lives embedded with these smart objects
Sungyong Ahn discovers the new form of economic and political power whose algorithmic governance finds its justification from our newly-cultivated paranoia about unknown computational problems It argues how this power mobilizes various algorithmic and ontological objects—from a smartwatch to a smart building—to identify a greater number of hidden problems within the physical domains of the Internet of Things
UK May 2025 US May 2025 208 pages
PB 9781501399282 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501399244
ePub 9781501399251 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501399268 • £87 01 / $87 01
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Invocational Media
Reconceptualising the Computer
Chris Chesher, University of Sydney, Australia
This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies
Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 280 pages
PB 9798765109762 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501363627
ePub 9781501363610 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501363603 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Revolutions in Communication
Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age
Bill Kovarik, Radford University, USA
Revolutions in Communication builds on the success of the previous two editions to provide an exploration of printing, imaging, electronic and digital media history within a framework of technological change and social impacts
This edition includes:
- Digital media technology, impacts and expectation updates since 2015
- Updated and additional information, including: the US news media’s record on civil rights, Gutenberg’s printing experiments in the 1440s, the role of the 1796 invention of lithography
- A sharper international focus
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 592 pages
PB 9798765107164 • £24 99 / $37 95 • HB 9798765107171 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765107201 • £27 93 / $34 15
ePdf 9798765107195 • £27 93 / $27 93
Bloomsbury Academic
News Media Influence on Rail Infrastructure Policy
Tracing Mediatization Through Actor–Network Theory
Nicholas Richardson, University of New South Wales, Australia
This book offers a method for guiding large-scale policy and projects through the complex and changing landscape of a 24/7 news media It focuses on three metro-style rail infrastructure case studies in Sydney, Australia and Montreal, Canada Employing Actor-Network Theory, Richardson identifies the influential actors and alliances at play when policy is subjected to media discourse and proposes a framework for tracing and managing them This framework is vital for both the successful negotiation of policy and projects in the media and to an (r)evolutionary recasting of public, expert and media actors in the development and decision-making process
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 304 pages
PB 9781501387456 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501387487
ePub 9781501387470 • £87 01 / $108 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Keiji Inafune
Mega Man, Soul Sacrifice, Yaiba: Ninja
Gaiden Z
Andrew Schartmann, New England Conservatory, USA
In this book, Andrew Schartmann explores seven core principles that permeate Inafune’s output and constitute his creative “voice ” He also draws on Inafune’s controversial persona to probe the very definition of “video game designer”—a term problematized by the Japanese cultural tendency to downplay individual creation, the collaborative aspect of game design, and the industry’s Wonka-esque obsession with secrecy .
UK February 2025 US February 2025 176 pages 22 bw illus
PB 9798765120569 • £19 99 / $27 95 • HB 9798765120576 • £65 00 / $90 00
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Series: Influential Video Game Designers • Bloomsbury Academic
Media Bias Examining the Facts
Thomas Arndt, The College of New Jersey, USA
Examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about the state, nature, and extent of media bias in American news media, including social media, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and other platforms The book provides students and other readers with a clear and accurate understanding of claims of media bias (both conservative and liberal) in the United States by refuting falsehoods, misunderstandings, and exaggerations surrounding this topic--and confirming the validity of other assertions. In addition, this sourcebook examines claims and assertions about media bias in other realms of American life, from popular entertainment to social media platforms
UK May 2025 US April 2025 240 pages
HB 9781440880353 • £55 00 / $75 00
ePub 9798216183013 • £54 28 / $67 50
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Series: Contemporary Debates • Bloomsbury Academic
Feminist Fandom
Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr
Briony Hannell, The University of Sheffield, UK Feminist Fandom is the first book of its kind to examine how fannish and feminist modes of cultural consumption, production, and critique are increasingly converging within the digital context, and are subsequently opening up informal, ordinary, and everyday spaces for young people to engage with feminism Adopting an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, bringing together feminist cultural studies, feminist theory, digital sociology, and fan studies, the book locates media fandom at the intersection of the multi-directional and co-constitutive relationship between popular feminisms, popular culture, and participatory networked digital cultures
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages
PB 9798765101810 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765101803
ePub 9798765101773 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765101780 £87 01 / $87 01
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