Film Media Studies New Books July-Sept 2023

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It's a Wonderful Life

Michael Newton, Leiden University, Netherlands

Michael Newton's study of Frank Capra's muchloved 1946 classic of despair and redemption investigates the source of the film's extraordinary power and its long-lasting impact He begins by introducing the key figures in the movie’s production - notably director Capra and star James Stewart - and traces the making of the film, and then provides a brief synopsis of the film, considering its aesthetic processes and procedures, touching on all those things that make it such an astonishing film. Newton's careful analysis explores all those aspects of the film that are fundamental to our understanding of it, particularly the way in which the film brings tragedy and comedy together.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781839023484 • £11 99 / $15 95

ePub 9781839023491 • £10 79 / $14 84

ePdf 9781839023507 £10 79 / $14 84

Point Blank

Eric G. Wilson, Wake Forest University, USA

This compelling study of Point Blank (1967) examines its significance to New Hollywood cinema He argues that director John Boorman revises traditional Hollywood crime films by probing a second connotation of 'point blank' On the one hand, it is a neo-noir that aptly depicts close range violence, but, it also points toward blankness, a nothingness that is the consequence of corporate America unchecked, where humans are reduced to commodities and stripped of agency and playfulness

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 112 pages • 60 colour illus

PB 9781839025761 • £11 99 / $15 95

ePub 9781839025754 • £10 79 / $14 84

ePdf 9781839025730 • £10 79 / $14 84

Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

• 136 pages • 60 bw illus

Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute

The Deer Hunter

Brad Prager, University of Missouri, USA

Brad Prager's study of Michael Cimino's 1978 movie

The Deer Hunter considers the film's significance as a Vietnam war movie and contextualizes its critical reception Drawing on an archive of contemporaneous materials, Prager examines the film’s problematic blurring of the lines between fact and fiction. He considers how the formal elements of the film were influenced by the western and neo-realist films of directors such as John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, Luchino Visconti, and others, and explores how Cimino’s employment of realist conventions were used to bolster many of the problematic elements in his depictions of war and race

UK September 2023 US September 2023 120 pages 60 colour illus

PB 9781839025419 £11 99 / $15 95

ePub 9781839025426 £10 79 / $14 84

ePdf 9781839025433 • £10 79 / $14 84

Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

John Akomfrah

James Harvey, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

John Akomfrah is one of the most important figures in British art and Black British filmmaking, and this is the first scholarly book to engage with his work comprehensively James Harvey provides a sustained close engagement with the artist’s core thematic preoccupations and aesthetic tendencies His analysis negotiates the contextual and theoretical layers of Akomfrah’s rich and complex films, from the intermedial diaspora aesthetics of Handsworth Songs (1986) to the intersectional spatial ecopolitics of Purple (2017)

UK September 2023

PB 9781839023217

• US September 2023

• £22 99 / $30 95

ePub 9781839023231

ePdf 9781839023248

British Film Institute

• 256 pages

• 30 bw illus

• HB 9781839023224

• £20 69 / $28 34

• £20 69 / $28 34

Black Boys

• £70 00 / $95 00

The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film

Clive Chijioke Nwonka, University College

London, UK

Black Boys is the first dedicated analysis that seeks to understand the emergence and allure of the Black urban film genre for filmmakers, broadcasters and audiences in the contemporary British mediascape Clive Nwonka draws on film studies, sociological and media studies perspectives, while also looking at the historical context He examines a range of key films such as Attack the Block and Bullet Boy to provide a strong textual analysis, including discussions of architecture and space, allegory, crime discourses and popular music

UK September 2023

PB 9798765105849

• US September 2023

• £24 99 / $34 95

ePub 9781501352836

• 39 bw illus

• 320 pages

• HB 9781501352829

• £26 46 / $31 45

ePdf 9781501352843 £26 46 / $31 45

Bloomsbury Academic

Global Exploitation Cinemas

• £90 00 / $120 00

The Story of Victorian Film

Bryony Dixon, British Film Institute, UK

Lavishly illustrated with material from the BFI's unique archive, this book tells the fascinating story of Victorian film, from the earliest non-fiction footage of delicate spider webs and rolling waves to imaginative fiction films that give us a glimpse into the Victorians' inner worlds As well as focusing in on key films from the era, BFI curator Bryony Dixon outlines the invention, business, aesthetics and impact of this new medium from 1895 to 1901

UK September 2023

PB 9781911239611

• US September 2023

• £22 99 / $30 95

• 192 pages • 100 colour illus

• HB 9781911239628 • £70 00 / $95 00

ePub 9781911239635 • £20 69 / $28 34

ePdf 9781911239642 • £20 69 / $28 34

Series: British Screen Stories • British Film Institute

The British Trauma Film

Psychoanalysis and Popular British Cinema in the Immediate Aftermath of the Second World War

Adam Plummer, Queen Mary University of London, UK

The British Trauma Film examines the central position that psychoanalysis occupies in British cinema in the years after the Second World War using critical theory, ordered around the psychoanalytic concepts of trauma and anxiety, sexual difference, and object relations theory While the book defines psychoanalysis as a normative force – as historical, as well as a narative, a cultural, and an ideological discourse - it also demonstrates that this is countered by a subversive discursive force immanent to the films themselves.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 240 pages • 55 bw illus

HB 9798765100479

• £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9798765100486

ePdf 9798765100493

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

Austin Fisher, Bournemouth University, UK & Johnny Walker, Northumbria University, UK

Adult Themes

British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s

Edited by Anne Etienne, University College

Cork, Ireland, Benjamin Halligan, University of Wolverhampton, UK & Christopher Weedman, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Adult Themes is the first volume entirely devoted to the exploration of British X certificate films across this transformative period, since identified as ‘the long 1960s’. Contributors to this collection take us to swinging parties, on youthful crime sprees, into local council meetings, on police raids of cinemas, and around Soho strip clubs and introduce us to mass murderers, lesbian vampires, apoplectic protestors, eroticised middle-aged women, and rebellious working-class men to examine both the workings and negotiations of British film censorship, the limits of artistic expression, and a wider culture of X certificate cinema.

UK September 2023

HB 9781501375279

• US September 2023

• £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501375286

ePdf 9781501375262

• 15 bw illus

• 264 pages

Mario Bava

The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur

Leon Hunt, Brunel University, UK

This book is framed by the question of how to approach a controversial figure like the"Master of Italian Horror" Mario Bava, but also uses his films to broaden our understanding of key issues in film studies. What issues do his films raise for authorship? How might he be understood in relation to genre, one of which he is sometimes seen to have pioneered? This book seeks both to be a study of Bava’s films but also to use them to explore broader issues in film studies.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023

PB 9781501390852 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501356544

ePub 9781501356537 £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501356520 £90 15 / $108 00

• 240 pages • 15 bw illus

Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas Bloomsbury Academic

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas • Bloomsbury Academic

Death in the Desert

The Complete Guide to Spaghetti Westerns

Howard Hughes

UK September 2023

and white illustrations

HB 9781784537746

I B Tauris

• US September 2023

• £25 00 / $35 00

• 400 pages

• 45 black

Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze

Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought

Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough, University of Lincoln, UK

This book analyses three Japanese horror films— Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Audition (1999) and Kairo (2001)—from the horror “boom” period of the late 1990s and early 2000s using a Deleuzian perspective. In the past, Japanese horror films have been understood through theories of national, transnational and world cinema and through genre theories and psychoanalysis Whilst proving very fruitful, this text argues that these understandings of Japanese horror cinema can be developed and extended in new ways through the philosophy of Deleuze

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781501375026

• 264 pages • 45 bw illus

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501368295

ePub 9781501368301

• £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501368318 £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood A Social Semiotics of Bodies and Worlds

Evdokia Stefanopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood examines 21st-century American films to provide a more precise definition for the genre, situated in the social semiotics and historical context Using the semiotic square theory outlined by Algirdas J Greimas, this book proposes a new taxonomy and definition of the contemporary American science fiction film. The articulation of the semiotic analysis with the exo-semiotic research points to the pivotal role of the science fiction film in both the preservation and transformation of contemporary Hollywood

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

HB 9781501380235

• 24 bw illus

• 250 pages

• £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501380228

ePdf 9781501380211

Bloomsbury Academic

City Limits

Filming Belfast, Beirut and Berlin in Troubled Times

Stephanie Schwerter, Université Polytechnique

Hauts-de-France, France

Belfast, Beirut and Berlin are notorious for their internal boundaries and borders As symbols for political disunion, the three cities have inspired scriptwriters and directors from diverse cultural backgrounds Despite their different histories, they share a wide range of features central to divided cities Following a comparative approach, the book concentrates on the cinematographic representations of Belfast, Beirut and Berlin Making use of a variety of genres reaching from thriller to comedy, Schweter explores the three cities’ internal and external borders, as well as the psychological boundaries existing between citizens belonging to different communities

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781501380426

• 50 bw illus

• 312 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501380457

ePub 9781501380440

ePdf 9781501380433

Bloomsbury Academic

• £97 59 / $117 00

• £97 59 / $117 00

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• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

Cinema Memories

A People's History of Cinema-going in 1960s Britain

Melvyn Stokes, University College London, UK, Matthew Jones, De Montfort University, UK & Emma Pett, University of York, UK

Drawing on first-hand memories from over 1000 cinema-goers, Cinema Memories reveals what it was like to watch films in British cinemas in the 1960s. Positioning their study within debates about memory, 1960s cinema, and the seemingly transformative nature of this decade of British history, the authors reflect on the methodologies deployed, the use of memories as historical sources, and the various ways in which cinema and cinema-going came to mean something to its audiences

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781839025297

• £27 99 / $37 95

Previously published in HB 9781911239895

ePub 9781911239918 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781911239888 • £76 50 / $103 94

British Film Institute

Walled Life Concrete, Cinema, Art

Jenny Stümer, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Walled Life investigates the mediation of material and imagined border walls through cinema and art practices The book reads political walls as more than physical obstruction, instead treating the wall as an affective screen, capable of negotiating the messy feelings, personal conflicts, and haunting legacies that make up “walled life” as an evolving signpost in the current global border regime The book shows that if we read political walls as forms of affective media, they become legible as projective surfaces that negotiate the interaction of psychological barriers with political structures through cinema, art, and, of course, the wall itself

UK September 2023

PB 9781501380402

• US September 2023

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501380365

ePub 9781501380372

ePdf 9781501380389

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

• 272 pages

The History of World Literatures on Film

Greg M. Colón Semenza, University of Connecticut, USA & Bob Hasenfratz, University of Connecticut, USA

The History of German Literature on Film

Christiane Schönfeld, University of Limerick, Ireland

Detailing the comprehensive and multi-layered story of adaptations of German literature on film between 1896-2010, this indispensable study shows how these adaptations emerge from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history The History of German Literature on Film includes an online comprehensive chronology of film adaptations spanning the history of the cinema, allowing students to follow the main trunk of analysis and to quickly contextualize adaptations in film history, providing opportunities for independent research

UK July 2023 US July 2023 576 pages 50 bw illus

HB 9781628923766 £130 00 / $175 00

ePub 9781628923759 • £130 68 / $157 50

ePdf 9781628923742 • £130 68 / $157 50

Series: The History of World Literatures on Film • Bloomsbury Academic

Resisting James Bond

Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era

Edited by Christoph Lindner, University College

London, UK & Lisa Funnell, Mohawk College, Canada

While popular with critics and fans, the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films relay troublesome messages about identity and power Resisting James Bond explores how these films - ranging from 2006's Casino Royale to 2021's No Time to Die - constructs and mobilizes conditions of power, privilege, and social injustice Engaging with issues of racism, national/ethnic sovereignty, sexual violence, LGBTQIA+ rights, immigration, corporate capitalism, and more, this is a transdisciplinary collection that explores inequality and oppression in the world of 007 through a range of critical and theoretical approaches

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781501388309

The History of Russian Literature on Film

David Gillespie, University of Bath, UK & Marina Korneeva, Moscow City Pedagogical University, Russia

Unlike most previous studies of literature and film, which tend to privilege particular authors, texts, or literary periods, David Gillespie considers the multiple functions of filmed Russian literature as a cinematic subject in its own right—one reflecting the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas. In this first and only comprehensive study of cinema’s various engagements of Russian literature focusing on the large period 1895-2015, The History of Russian Literature on Film highlights the ways these adaptations emerged from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 304 pages 80 bw illus

HB 9781501316883 £110 00 / $150 00

ePub 9781501316906 • £112 48 / $135 00

ePdf 9781501316890 • £112 48 / $135 00

Series: The History of World Literatures on Film • Bloomsbury Academic

Screening Solidarity

Neoliberalism and Transnational Cinemas

Helga Druxes, Williams College, USA, Alexandar Mihailovic, Brown University and Hofstra University, USA & Patricia Anne Simpson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Screening Solidarity devotes its attention to the transnational history of networks of solidarity as represented in cinema across European borders The directors and writers discussed imagine progressive alternatives under rogue capitalist conditions They re-examine understandings of a new social contract focused on the common good and ethical standards for the social state that Western neoliberalism sought to deny or erode, as a means to achieve and protect solidarity across different groups With its focus on recent film, this study examines the representation of neoliberal subjects from contemporary European, Russian and American cinema

• 208 pages

• £21 99 / $29 95

ePub 9781501388279

ePdf 9781501388286

Bloomsbury Academic

• 28 bw illus

• HB 9781501388262

• £22 32 / $26 95

• £22 32 / $26 95

• £65 00 / $90 00

Remembering Annie Hall

Edited by Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield, UK & Ana María Sánchez-Arce, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Since its release, Annie Hall has been a key film for Woody Allen’s career and the history of romantic comedy more generally This collection brings a new ethical and philosophical perspective to bear on Allen’s work quite different from previous generations of scholars. While exploring the film’s continuing influence on contemporary cinema, the book’s contributors engage explicitly and implicitly with ongoing debates about Allen’s cinematic output following the renewed accusations against Allen by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in 2014 and 2018 The book includes debates about the limits of auteur theory and the role of the spectator

UK September 2023

HB 9781501358494

• US September 2023

• £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501358487

ePdf 9781501358470

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

• 20 bw illus

• 264 pages

UK May 2023

• US May 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9798765101414 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9798765101445 • £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9798765101438 • £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Filmmakers on Film

Global Perspectives

Edited by André Rui Graça, University of Beira Interior, Portugal, Manuela Penafria, University of Beira Interior, Portugal & Eduardo Baggio, Unespar - Paraná State University, Brazil

Filmmakers on Film bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers’ thoughts and reflections on their own artwork Bringing together a curated selection of essays from contributors across the globe, this book reinvigorates film theory by approaching it from the perspective of the filmmakers themselves. Utilising invaluable primary sources such as interviews, books, texts and manifestos alongside a theoretical reading of the ‘filmmaker’ as a concept, this book brings new breadth to the understanding of film.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 256 pages • 0 illus

HB 9781839024870 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781839024887

ePdf 9781839024894

British Film Institute

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media

From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond

Edited by Russell J.A. Kilbourn, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada & Julia A. Empey, University of Cambridge, UK

This collection places posthumanism and feminist theory into direct conversation as mediated through contemporary science fiction film and media from the 1980s to the present. Both posthumanism and feminism aim to counter or dismantle a masculinist, patriarchist Enlightenment Humanism and the productive dialogue between these seemingly disparate schools of thought has only intensified in recent science fiction film and media. The original analyses presented pay close attention to audiovisual style, including game mechanics, facilitating the critical interrogation of the issues and questions around posthumanism

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

HB 9781501398407 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501398414 • £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501398421 • £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

• 288 pages • 48 bw illus

Hollywood Online Internet Movie Marketing Before and After The Blair Witch Project

Ian London, Independent Scholar, UK

By examining the strategic role of websites in blockbuster marketing, the involvement of filmmakers in their production, and the commercial value of these sites by the six major studios, Hollywood Online demonstrates that movie websites were best understood as advertising for the ancillary markets of home entertainment and not as drivers for box-office ticket sales. Combining industry history, detailed textual analysis and interviews with practitioners in the US, Ian London shows how websites became crucial elements in the Hollywood industry’s goal to establish the internet as a viable film delivery system, one that directly returned revenues to the studios themselves

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781501337758 • £96 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501337765 £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501337772 £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Robert Pippin and Film Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism

Dominic Lash, University of Bristol, UK

Dominic Lash demonstrates the ways that film has been crucial to Pippin's thought on important philosophical topics such as political psychology, ethics, and self-knowledge He also explores the implications of Pippin's methodological commitments to clear language and to maintaining close contact at all times with the details of the films in question. In so doing, Lash brings Pippin's work on film to a wider audience and contributes to current debates both within film studies and beyond, including those concerning the relationships between film and philosophy, criticism and aesthetics, and individual subjectivity and political consciousness

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 280 pages • 22 bw illus

PB 9781350290167 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350182899

ePub 9781350182912 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350182905 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Film Thinks • Bloomsbury Academic

An Atonal Cinema Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine

Robert G. White, Kingston, University of London, UK

An Atonal Cinema theorises contemporary Palestinian cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to decentre and respond to texts from Europe, South America and Israel which have co-opted its images Drawing on the literature of Edward Said, Ghassan Kanafani, Jean Genet and Carlo Levi, and the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, Menahem Golan and Miguel Littín; this book examines recent responses by Ayreen Anastas, Basma Alsharif, Elia Suleiman, Kamal Aljafari and Annemarie Jacir

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781501385018

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 August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350290150

• 264 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350163386

ePub 9781350163409

ePdf 9781350163393

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic

• 29 bw illus

• 25 bw illus

• 208 pages

• £80 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781501385001

• £82 70 / $99 00

ePdf 9781501384998 • £82 70 / $99 00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Film Archipelago

Islands in Latin American Cinema

Edited by Antonio Gómez, Tulane University, USA & Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Durham University, UK

The Film Archipelago argues that the islands and archipelagos of Latin American cinema constitute a critically interesting, analytically complex, and historically suggestive angle to explore issues of marginality and peripherality, remoteness and isolation, fragility and dependency

As a whole, the collection demonstrates through a series of rigorous and nuanced analyses to what extent the combined insular and archipelagic lens can re-frame and re-figure both longstanding and recent discussions on the spaces of Latin American cinema

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350281752

• 360 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

• 30 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350157965

ePub 9781350157989

ePdf 9781350157972

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic

Film Theory / Hollywood / World Cinema

World Cinema

Lúcia Nagib & Julian Ross, Leiden University, Netherlands

Anime A History

Jonathan Clements, Author/Scriptwriter, UK

This comprehensive, critically-acclaimed history traces the production and reception history of anime, from a handful of hobbyists in the early 20th century to the Oscar-winning Spirited Away and up to the present day, with anime established as a global medium This new edition has been revised and updated throughout, with full colour illustrations and new chapters addressing the rising economic power of otaku subcultures, the development of anime in China, and the transformation of distribution and exhibition accompanying the dominance of Netflix and other globalised streaming platforms

UK September 2023 US September 2023 416 pages 100 colour illus

PB 9781839025129 £28 99 / $39 95 HB 9781839026706 £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781839025136 £26 09 / $36 44

ePdf 9781839025143 • £26 09 / $36 44

British Film Institute

World All Languages (except Russian)

Esfir Shub

Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking

Ilana 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 July 2023

• US July 2023

• 344 pages • 46 bw illus

PB 9781501376481 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501376511

ePub 9781501376504 • £97 59 / $117 00

ePdf 9781501376498

Bloomsbury Academic

Semiotics for Screenwriters Break Down Your Favorite Movies, Then Write Your Own

Michael Tierno, East Carolina University, USA

Semiotics for Screenwriters takes budding screenwriters on a unique journey through 25 classic films that shows the hidden universal language of plot character and theme at work in them This method reveals the mechanics of cinema story, then shows the reader how to apply this knowledge to their own screenwriting Semiotics is a powerful system of analysis applied in many fields, including literature and psychology In this book screenwriters learn to deploy this method to break down classic films then apply it to writing, developing and correcting their own screenplays

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 352 pages • 50 bw illus

PB 9781501390999 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9781501391002 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501390982 • £22 32 / $26 95

ePdf 9781501390975 • £22 32 / $26 95

Bloomsbury Academic

Materializing Digital Futures

Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision

Edited by Toija Cinque, Deakin University, Australia & Jordan Beth Vincent, Deakin University, Australia

The advent of ‘big data’ (and small data) technologies and social media have inexorably altered the boundaries between private and public life, and profoundly altered our sense of self Materialising Digital Futures considers how the former techniques of connection to community (traditional health, education, cultural and leisure activities) are reconfigured through this changing landscape of digital media visibility, data agglomerations and personal engagement with an empirical digital self

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 352 pages • 12 illus

PB 9781501388088 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501361258

ePub 9781501361265 • £97 59 / $117 00

ePdf 9781501361272 • £97 59 / $117 00

Bloomsbury Academic

• £97 59 / $117 00

Thinking Media

Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany & Patricia Pisters

Anthropologies of Entanglements

Media and Modes of Existence

Edited by Christiane Voss, Lorenz Engell & Tim Othold, all Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany

This volume brings together a range of thinkers from international backgrounds and puts these important reflections and ideas in the spotlight. More specifically, the volume explores the concept of "anthropomedial entanglements." It aims to foster an understanding of human bodies, experiences, and media as being immanently entangled and mutually constituting, prior to any possible distinction between them The different contributions thus open up a dialogue between empirical case studies and media-historical research on the one hand and the conceptual work of media and cultural philosophies and aesthetics on the other hand

UK September 2023 US September 2023 320 pages 57 bw illus

HB 9781501375149 £95 00 / $130 00

ePub 9781501375132 £97 59 / $117 00

ePdf 9781501375125

Series: Thinking Media

• £97 59 / $117 00

• Bloomsbury Academic

Imperfections

Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures

Edited by Caleb Kelly, University of New South Wales, Australia & Jakko Kemper & Ellen Rutten, both University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

This open access book synthesizes the swiftly growing but fragmented critical scholarship on mistakes, glitches, and other aesthetics and logics of imperfection into the first transdisciplinary, transnational framework of imperfection studies With this framework, the editors offer scholars and students across various disciplines tools to craft more historically grounded and critically informed conceptualizations of the imperfect

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UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 344 pages • 24 bw illus

PB 9781501380310 £28 99 / $39 95

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Media and Everyday Life Second Edition

Tim Markham, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

This innovative introduction to media studies challenges conventional accounts of what media do to people – focusing instead on what people do with media This 2nd edition incorporates recent developments, including new social media platforms, new technologies and the spread of algorithms It investigates the environmental impact of digital media and its hidden infrastructures, as well as our engagement with social issues and movements Media and Everyday Life offers an accessible overview for students of media, communication and cultural studies looking to explore how modernday media practices impact everyday life, making this the essential companion to introductory media studies courses

UK December 2022 US December 2022 336 pages 10 bw illus

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Hideo Kojima

Progressive Game Design from Metal Gear to Death Stranding

Bryan Hikari Hartzheim, Waseda University, Japan

This book explores the influential work of Hideo Kojima, creator of cinematic titles such as the blockbuster Metal Gear Solid franchise, which has moved over 50 million units globally, Death Stranding, and Snatcher Drawing on archives of interviews in English and Japanese with Kojima and his team, as well as academic discourses of social/political games and cinematic narrative/world-building, this book examines Kojima’s “progressive game design” as it applies to four key areas: socially-relevant narratives, cinematic aesthetics, thematicallyconnected systems, and reflexive spaces.

UK September 2023

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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 January 2024 • US January 2024 • 256 pages

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The History and Allure of Interactive Visual Novels

Mark Kretzschmar, University of Wyoming, USA & Sara Raffel, University of Central Florida, USA

Visual novels, a ludic video game genre that pairs textual fiction stories with anime-like images and varying degrees of interactivity, have increased in popularity among Western audiences in recent years. Arranged in three segments, this book identifies how and why this modest mode of storytelling penetrated the wider gaming industry and even inspired blockbuster series like Metal Gear Solid Whether a long-standing fan of the genre or a newcomer looking for a fresh experience, this book provides an accessible and criticallyengaging overview of a genre that’s rich in storytelling yet often overlooked by Western audiences

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Series: Influential Video Game Designers Bloomsbury Academic

The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader Communities, Cultures and Play

Edited by Mark R. Johnson, University of Sydney, Australia

The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and practices that have emerged around them, their activities and beliefs and interpersonal relationships, and how these games influence – both positively and negatively – the lives and careers of millions of game players around the world. It is the first of a new series of edited collections, Play Beyond the Computer, dedicated to exploring the play of games beyond computers and games consoles

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781501384097

Theory / Game Studies

• 512 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

• 21 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781501347252

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Series: Play Beyond the Computer

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Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies Bloomsbury Academic

Unstable Aesthetics

Game Engines and the Strangeness of Modding

Eddie Lohmeyer, University of Central Florida, USA

Eddie Lohmeyer investigates historical episodes of art modding practices—the alteration of a game system’s existing code or hardware to generate abstract spaces—situated around a recent archaeology of the game engine: software for rendering two and three-dimensional gameworlds. The artists highlighted throughout this book—Cory Arcangel, Krista Hoefle, and Brent Watanabe, among others—were attracted to the architectures of engines because they allowed them to explore vital relationships among abstraction, technology, and the body Through key moments in game engine history, Lohmeyer formulates a phenomenology of video games focusing on the liminal spaces of interaction among system and body

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The Television Genre Book

Edited by Glen Creeber, Aberystwyth University, UK

The Television Genre Book introduces the concept of 'genre' and then addresses the main televisual genres This new edition is illustrated in colour throughout with international case studies of classic and contemporary programming from each genre New chapters cover horror, the political thriller, Nordic noir, sadcom, historical documentaries, reality dating shows and consumption in the age of streaming New case studies include Stranger Things, Killing Eve, The Crown, Chernobyl, Black Mirror and Fleabag.

UK November 2023

PB 9781839022081

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• £28 99 / $39 95

ePub 9781839022104

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Art vs. TV

A Brief History of Contemporary Artists' Responses to Television

Francesco Spampinato, University of Bologna, Italy

While highlighting the prevailing role of television in Western societies, Art vs. TV maps and condenses a comprehensive history of the relationships of art and television With a particular focus on the link between reality and representation, Francesco Spampinato analyzes video art works, installations, performances, interventions and television programs made by contemporary artists as forms of resistance to and appropriation and parody of mainstream television These works and phenomena elicit a tension between art and television, exposing an incongruence; an impossibility not only to converge but at the very least to open up a dialogical exchange

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UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 368 pages

PB 9781501370540 • £28 99 / $39 95

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Show and Biz

The market economy in TV series and popular culture (2000-2020)

Edited by María Blanco, Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid, Spain & Alberto Mingardi, IULM University, Milan, Italy

This collection carries out an extensive study on the perception of the core institutions and cultural determinants of a market economy (private property, the contract regime, the private corporation, et cetera) in contemporary TV series, identifying recurring elements and trends in interpretation It presents the most successful TV series (2000-2020) from an entrepreneurial perspective, allowing the reader to approach every chapter as a case study A wide range of business and entrepreneur archetypes is covered throughout the book’s chapters, from the successful smalltown businessman to the revolutionary leader in a climate disaster dystopia

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9781501393778 • £90 00 / $120 00

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Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture

The Sounds of British Broadcasting over the Decades Martin Cooper, University of Huddersfield, UK Ever since the first public wireless broadcasts, people have been writing about the radio: often negatively, sometimes full of praise, but always with an eye and an ear to explain and offer an opinion about what they think they have heard Novelists including Agatha Christie and James Joyce wrote about characters listening to this new medium with mixtures of delight, frustration, and despair Clint Eastwood frightened moviegoers half to death in Play Misty for Me, whilst Good Morning, Vietnam exploded from the cinema screen with a raw energy all of its own Martin Cooper uses these movies, TV shows, songs, novels and more to explore the cultural fascination with radio; the act of listening as a cultural expression

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 264 pages • 11 bw illus

PB 9781501388231 • £28 99 / $39 95

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