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The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger
Edited by Nathalie Morris, BFI, UK & Claire Smith, BFI, UK
Delving into their magical, mystical and obsessive worlds, this lavishly illustrated publication presents fresh perspectives on the visionary film-making duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, shining the spotlight not only on them, but also on their circle of talented collaborators, those who had an impact on the pair's creative development, and the vast range of contemporary voices who have found themselves haunted by their stories and images Drawing on the BFI’s stunning design and archive collections, as well as key objects held in other public and private collections, many of the images presented here are unique, previously unseen and unpublished
UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 216 pages • 250 colour illus
HB 9781838719173 • £30 00 / $40 00
ePub 9781838719166 • £27 00 / $37 79
ePdf 9781838719159 • £27 00 / $37 79
British Film Institute
World English
The Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
Scripts, Working Documents, Interpretation
Edited by Oliver Fuke, Independent researcher, UK
This collection of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s film scripts vividly evokes the close connection between their influential work as theorists and their work as filmmakers. It includes scripts for all six of Mulvey and Wollen’s collaborative films, Wollen’s solo feature film, Friendship’s Death (1987), and Mulvey’s later collaborative work, with new commentaries on the films by Nora M. Alter, Kodwo Eshun, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, Esther Leslie, Laura Mulvey, Volker Pantenburg, Griselda Pollock, B Ruby Rich and Sukhdev Sandhu
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 384 pages
PB 9781839025259 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781839025242 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781839025266 • £22 49 / $31 04
ePdf 9781839025273 • £22 49 / $31 04
British Film Institute
The Cinema of Manoel de Oliveira
Modernity, Intermediality and the Uncanny
Hajnal Király, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania
Organized by tropes and topics, rather than chronological order, this volume creates a unique lens with which to focus on the links between cinema, literature, painting, and other art forms in Manoel de Oliveira's work. Hajnal Király reads the films in relation to 20th-century Portuguese, European and global history. Many of Oliveira's over 50 films are discussed, including Rite of Spring (1963) and Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (2009) The only book to cover his later films, this book uncovers the persistent topics that permeates his oeuvre
UK December 2023 US December 2023 192 pages 65 bw illus
PB 9781501378621 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501378652
ePub 9781501378645
ePdf 9781501378638
Bloomsbury Academic
Powell and Pressburger’s War
The Art of Propaganda, 1939-1946
Greg M. Colón Semenza, University of Connecticut, USA & Garrett A. Sullivan Jr., Penn State University, USA
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger are widely hailed as two of the greatest filmmakers in British cinema history This book shows that they saw no contradiction between their aesthetic ambitions and their cinematic war work: propaganda imperatives were highly conducive to their objectives as both commercial cinema practitioners and artists. This book charts three phases in their wartime career: firsttime collaborators striving to reconcile popular cinematic forms with notions of effective propaganda; accomplished, sometimes controversial, propagandists whose movies center upon Britain’s relations with its enemies and allies; filmmakers who focus on both propaganda requirements of the late war and the post-war future.
UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus
HB 9798765105733 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765105740 £90 15 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765105757 £90 15 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Filming Ritual, Death and Dissent
The Cinema of Ashish Avikunthak
Edited by Sarunas Paunksnis, Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania & Erin O'Donnell, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA
This volume explores the diverse aspects of Ashish Avikunthak’s work, whose films are art as resistance. The essays rigorously interrogate, contextualize, theorize, and interpret Avikunthak’s multi-decade sustained artistic output. The current global assertion of authoritarianism and one-dimensional interpretations of cultural history and practice provide a timely and essential historical moment in which to dialogue with Avikunthak’s films, because Avikunthak’s cinema consciously contests totalizing historical and artistic narratives and constructs frameworks of existential uncertainty and fragmentation that force us to reflect on the increasing political, economic, social, and climate chaos that is infusing and shaping our early 21st century global ontology
UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9798765105610
The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda
Feminist Practice and Pedagogy
Edited by Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Bilkent University, Turkey & Feride Çiçekoglu, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda brings together contributions from an international team of scholars to explore the recurring and insistent themes of sustainability and self reflection in her work The volume is a celebration of the feminist legacy of her cinematic and visual art, ranging from the classic feature film Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) to her documentaries The Beaches of Agnès (2008) and Faces Places (2017) It concludes with 10 short, personal essays on teaching Varda, with case studies of the varied ways in which her work can be communicated to and shared with a student audience
UK November 2023 US November 2023 224 pages 20 bw illus
PB 9781350240940 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350240902
ePub 9781350240919 • £76 50 / $103 94
• £82 70 / $99 00
• £82 70 / $99 00
ePdf 9781350240926 • £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
The Red Shoes
Pamela Hutchinson, freelance writer and critic, London, UK
Pamela Hutchinson's study of The Red Shoes (1948) examines the film's breathtaking use of Technicolor, music, choreography, editing and art direction at the zenith of Powell and Pressburger’s capacity for ‘composed cinema’ Through a close reading of key scenes, particularly the film's famous extended ballet sequence, she considers the unconventional use of ballet as uncanny spectacle and the feminist implications of the central story of female sacrifice.
UK October 2023 US October 2023 112 pages 60 colour illus
PB 9781839026065 £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839026072 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839026089 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Rushmore
Kristi Irene McKim, Hendrix College, USA
Rushmore, the second film of the American independent filmmaker Wes Anderson, won immediate critical and commercial success on its release in 1998, and quickly gained the status of a cult classic Kristi McKim's compelling study of the melancholic coming-of-age comedy explores how the film both typifies the relentless drive of its hero Max as he pursues his many and varied extra-curricular passions, and foregrounds 'transcendent moments' of stillness and quiet connection
UK October 2023 • US October 2023
PB 9781839024498
• £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839024504
• 120 pages • 60 colour illus
• £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839024511 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Mean Streets
Demetrios Matheou, journalist, critic and programmer, UK
Demetrios Matheou's study of Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) considers the contexts of the film's production, namely that of the New Hollywood and the rise of a young generation of film school-educated directors striving to break the stale mold of studio pictures. He analyses the significance of Scorsese’s background as a Catholic Italian-American living in Little Italy and how this influenced the film’s themes; its production history; the particular aspects of his filmmaking process and style; his relationships with stars De Niro and Harvey Keitel and writer Mardik Martin, the film's reception and its subsequent influence on film and TV crime drama
• US October 2023
UK October 2023
PB 9781839022951
• £12 99 / $17 95
American Disaster Movies of the 1970s Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity
Scott Freer, University of Leicester, UK
Scott Freer contextualizes the 1970s disaster cycle, drawing on the longer cultural history of modernist reactions to modern anxieties including the widespread dependence on technology and corporate power He introduces a historicist perspective by placing the film genre within the immediate context of American high modernity whilst engaging with relevant philosophical, theological and eco-critical ideas on evil, determinism, and human nature Freer explores the aesthetic theories of modern tragedy as a means of explaining the power of disaster movies as a form of ethical criticism
UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus
HB 9781501336836 • £96 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501336850 • £90 15 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501336843 £90 15 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
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 December 2023 • US December 2023 • 288 pages • 45 bw illus
HB 9781501384868 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501384851 • £90 15 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501384844 • £90 15 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
The American Abroad
The Imperial Gaze in Postwar Hollywood
Cinema
Anna Cooper, University of Arizona, USA
• 112 pages • 60 colour illus
ePub 9781839022968 £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839022975 £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics
• British Film Institute
The American Abroad offers a fresh way of thinking about Hollywood film aesthetics. It explores how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western colonial formations of vision influenced classical Hollywood film style, and thus provides a new and unique perspective on the origins of the cinematic gaze Anna Cooper explores how postwar Hollywood cinema adopted elements of British and French imperial visual culture, transforming them to suit a new United Statesian context Cooper argues that four visual discourses in particular—the sublime, the ethnographic, the picturesque, and glamour—became building blocks in the development of a new American visual language
UK October 2023 US October 2023 216 pages 30 bw illus
PB 9781501391729 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501314476
ePub 9781501314483 • £82 70 / $99 00
ePdf 9781501314490 • £82 70 / $99 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema
Mirrors to the Unconscious Guillermo Rodríguez-Romaguera, Santa Clara University, USA
This book argues that cinema has the power to unveil to the spectator their own hidden thoughts It does so by examining case studies from various cultures in conversation with Spain Framed around critical readings of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Diego Velázquez’ Las meninas and Luis Buñuel’s Un chien andalou, the book examines contemporary films by Víctor Erice, Carlos Saura, Bigas Luna, Alejandro Amenábar, Lucrecia Martel, Krzysztof Kieslowski, David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Spike Jonze, Andrzej Zulawski, Fernando Pérez, Alfred Hitchcock, Wes Craven and David Cronenberg to illustrate how self-reflexivity in film unbridles the mental repression of film spectators.
UK September 2023
• US September 2023
HB 9798765101391 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765101360 • £90 15 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765101377 £90 15 / $108 00
• 20 bw illus
• 208 pages
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.
• US November 2023
UK November 2023
HB 9781501394454
ePub 9781501394461 • £90 15 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501394478 • £90 15 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Romy Schneider A Star Across Europe
Marion Hallet, King’s College London, UK
This book explores the star image of Austrian born actress Romy Schneider (1938-1982). Her evolving role – sweet Viennese girl, Parisienne, ‘modern’ and ‘tragic’ woman – together with her acting choices and events in her private life, led her career into varied and fascinating directions within European and Hollywood cinemas Romy Schneider shows how the representations of women stemming from Schneider’s star image supported specific and shifting cultural and social agendas regarding femininity, from the 1950s to the 1980s. This book explores the significance of Schneider’s image both when she was working and since, within Western European film culture and celebrity culture
• US November 2023
UK November 2023
PB 9781501378829
• £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501378850
ePub 9781501378843
ePdf 9781501378836
Bloomsbury Academic
World Cinema On Demand
Global Film Cultures in the Era of Online Distribution
Edited by Stefano Baschiera, Queen’s University
Belfast, Northern Ireland & Alexander Fisher, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
World Cinema on Demand brings together diverse contributions by leading film and media scholars to examine world cinema’s dialogue with the transformations that took place during 2010-2014, engaging directly with ongoing debates surrounding national cinema, transnational identity, and cultural globalization, as well as ideas about genre, fandom and cinephilia The volume sheds light on geo-politically specific issues of film circulation, consumption and preservation within a range of culturally diverse filmmaking contexts, including case studies from India, Nigeria, Mexico and China
UK December 2023
• US December 2023 • 232 pages • 5 b/w illus
PB 9781501392399 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501348594
ePub 9781501348600 • £82 70 / $99 00
ePdf 9781501348617 • £82 70 / $99 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Uncanny Cinema Agonies of the Viewing Experience
Murray Pomerance, Independent scholar, Canada
Murray Pomerance's new book explores a wide range of films and television shows to demonstrate how difficult the process of conveying the experience of viewing cinema through words and the medium of text is The book begins with this problem before delving into three exploratory ‘movements’ arranged to challenge, inspire, and confound the reader Through several case studies, Pomerance presents the moments where the viewer is faced with disturbances, ruptures, and surprises that occur, analyzing each so that we reconsider what we do and do not (or, possibly, cannot) know, particularly as we think, talk, and write about cinema
UK November 2023 US November 2023 344 pages 60 bw illus
PB 9781501398780 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501398742
ePub 9781501398759 • £97 59 / $117 00
ePdf 9781501398766 • £97 59 / $117 00
Bloomsbury Academic
• £90 15 / $108 00
• £90 15 / $108 00
• 280 pages • 15 bw illus
Multi-Camera Cinematography and Production Camera, Lighting and Other Production Aspects for Multiple Camera Image Capture
David Landau, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA & Bruce Finn, USC School of Cinematic Arts, USA
Multi-Camera Cinematography and Production provides practical lighting techniques and camera set-ups to enhance your own productions and keep viewers interested and focused on the content being presented
Through clear instructions, assignments and exercises at the end of each chapter, readers can practice each style of lighting and camera work after learning about it in the book Featuring genres including sitcom, news, reality, interview, talk show and corporate video, the book will leave readers feeling fully equipped to embark on a variety of multi-camera television projects.
UK January 2024 US January 2024 304 pages 176 bw illus
PB 9781501374647 £24 99 / $34 95 HB 9781501374654 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501374623 £26 46 / $31 45
Series: The CineTech Guides to the Film Crafts • Bloomsbury Academic
Cinema and Secularism
Edited
by Mark Cauchi, York University, CanadaCinema and Secularism is the first collection to make the relationship between cinema and secularism thematic, utilizing myriad methodological approaches Prompted by the recent emergence of critical secular studies, this book sets out to rectify the assumption within film studies that cinema is secular and to invite critical reflection upon its titular terms. The collection poses for the first time in the study of film the questions: Is cinema secular? And what would that mean?
Chapters in this book engage with film thinkers and traditions of thought, the relationship between cinema and enchantment, and distinct manifestations of secularism
UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 272 pages • 3 bw illus and 11 colour illus
HB 9781501388873 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501388866 • £90 15 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501388859 £90 15 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Sportswomen in Cinema
Film and the Frailty Myth
Nicholas Chare
Sportswomen in Cinema considers both documentary and fiction films from a variety of periods and cultures, by directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Gurinder Chadha, Im Soon-rye, George Kukor, Ida Lupino, and Leni Riefenstahl Drawing from psychoanalytic and phenomenological theories, the book presents a series of landmark close readings of films featuring a variety of different forms of athletic activity, including baseball, basketball, bodybuilding, boxing, climbing, football, rollerderby, surfing, tennis and track and field. In focusing on themes such as gesture, screen space and sound, it moves beyond a purely narrative analysis of sports films. What's more, as well as building on existing scholarship in sports studies to argue that sport should always be conceived of as more than simply competitive, the book also contributes to ongoing efforts in film theory to foster new feminist discourses on sexual difference
UK June 2023 US June 2023 258 pages 30 integrated bw
PB 9781350418998 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781784530129
ePub 9780857738455
ePdf 9780857728470
Bloomsbury Academic
Film Figures
An Organological Approach
Warwick Mules, Southern Cross University, Australia
Film Figures offers the reader fresh insights into cinematic worlds through the figural analysis of narrative film. Drawing on the work of Deleuze, Lacan and Benjamin, this book offers new concepts to engage in film analysis. Each chapter undertakes an extensive analytical reading of a key film, including those by Murnau, Hitchcock, Lang, Lynch and Haneke, guided by a concept to follow the negentropic movement of figures through the world of the film. This book explores technological, cultural and philosophical concerns through the plight of figures as symptomatic of the estrangement of modern life
UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 192 pages • 25 bw illus
HB 9781501361210 £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781501361234 £82 70 / $99 00
ePdf 9781501361227 £82 70 / $99 00
Bloomsbury Academic
The Dark Interval Film Noir, Iconography, and Affect
Padraic Killeen, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Invoking key concepts from Deleuze and Agamben, The Dark Interval examines a subtle but distinct iconography of passivity, stillness and profound self-affection that recurs across noir films of every era. It identifies the emergence of a specific cinematic figure – the ‘intervallic’ noir protagonist exposed to the redemptive force of his or her own passion The book locates a series of iconographic gestures, performance traditions and affective tonalities at once specific to noir and yet resonant with a deeper cultural and philosophical heritage It is a meditation that uniquely grapples with the look and the feel of noir, and which dares to detect a unique quality of ‘beatitude’ that runs through a certain strain of noir films. In doing so, it illuminates why film noir remains one of the most provocative and affecting visual milieus of our time
UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 280 pages • 38 bw illus
PB 9781501393037 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501349683
ePub 9781501349690 • £90 15 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501349706 • £90 15 / $108 00
Series: Thinking Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
• £108 00 / $147 14
• £108 00 / $147 14
Screenwriters Advice From Popular and Award Winning Film, TV, and Streaming Shows
Andrew Zinnes, Independent Scholar, UK & Genevieve Jolliffe, Independent Scholar, UK
This book looks at the most important part of the filmmaking process from the point of view of those who grind away at a keyboard or notepad trying to bring new ideas and perspectives to an increasingly diversified world.
Using The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook's tried and tested Q&A style, this book chronicles story theory, formatting, business issues and the creative process itself Whether you’re a seasoned scribe or an inexperienced writer, this book will give you perspectives and tips that get your creative juices flowing.
UK December 2023
• US December 2023
PB 9781501363276 • £21 99 / $29 95
• 304 pages
• HB 9781501363283 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501363313 • £22 32 / $26 95
ePdf 9781501363306
• £22 32 / $26 95
Series: The Guerilla Filmmaker’s Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
Invisible Digital
What Animation and Games Tell us about Software and Digital Culture
Aylish Wood, University of Kent, UK
Invisible Digital helps us makes sense of something we cannot see by presenting an innovative approach to digital images and culture At its heart is a novel method for exploring software used in the creation of moving images as markers of converging cultural, organizational and technological influences. The 3 main case studies are the animated feature Moana (2016) and the computer games No Man’s Sky (2016) and Everything (2017) These analyses of software provide a widely applicable method where moving image studies can contribute more fully to the wider and growing debates about algorithmic culture
UK February 2024 US February 2024 224 pages 10 bw illus
HB 9781501390906 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501390890 £90 15 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501390883 • £90 15 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution
Cristina Formenti, University of Udine, Italy
Cristina Formenti integrates a theoretical and a historical approach in order to shed new light on the animated documentary as a form as well as on the work of renowned studios such as The Walt Disney Studios, Halas & Batchelor, National Film Board of Canada and never before addressed ones, such as Corona Cinematografica. She also highlights the differences and the similarities existing among the animated documentaries created from the 1940s through the present day, demonstrating their evolution
• US November 2023
UK November 2023
PB 9781501376108
• £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501346460
ePub 9781501346484
• £97 59 / $117 00
ePdf 9781501346477 £97 59 / $117 00
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 • 288 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
Genndy Tartakovsky
Sincerity in Animation
Kwasu David Tembo, Independent Scholar, Zimbabwe
This open access book features Genndy Tartakovsky, widely regarded as a pioneer in contemporary Western animation of the 20th and 21st centuries His groundbreaking and prolific output has become a mainstay of contemporary animated programming This book draws attention to the comparatively mysterious figure creator, while simultaneously celebrating his singular vision, mastery of formal technique, genre sensitivity, personal stylistic flair, and how these aesthetic and narrative elements combine to produce what the author calls an 'animation of sincerity' in all his works
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
UK October 2023
• US October 2023
PB 9781501388415 • £28 99 / $39 95
• 296 pages • 64 bw illus
Previously published in HB 9781501356292
ePub 9781501356285 • £0 00 / $0 00
ePdf 9781501356278 • £0 00 / $0 00
Series: Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers • Bloomsbury Academic
• 47 bw illus
• 328 pages
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
• US November 2023
• £28 99 / $39 95
ePub 9781839022104
ePdf 9781839022098
British Film Institute
• 480 pages
• 51 colour illus, 14 bw illus
• HB 9781839022074
• £26 09 / $36 44
• £26 09 / $36 44
• £90 00 / $120 00
Podcast or Perish
Peer Review and Knowledge Creation in the 21st Century
Hannah McGregor, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Ian M. Cook, Central European University, Hungary & Lori Beckstead, Ryerson University, Canada
Podcast or Perish maps out a rationale for the deployment of podcasting as an outlet for open peer review and explores real-world workflows for such a practice. The authors take a novel approach to expanding the boundaries of scholarly knowledge by considering podcasting as a focal point for intellectual discussion, engagement, and exploration By investigating the historical development of the norms of scholarly communication, the unique affordances of sound-based scholarship, and the transformative potential of new modes of knowledge production, this book is a call to action, asking how podcasting might change the very ways we think about scholarly work
UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 192 pages
PB 9781501385209 • £19 99 / $27 95 • HB 9781501385216 • £65 00 / $90 00
ePub 9781501385193 • £21 50 / $25 15
ePdf 9781501385186 • £21 50 / $25 15
Series: Bloomsbury Podcast Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Adventures Across Space and Time
A Doctor Who Reader
Edited by Paul Booth, DePaul University, USA, Matt Hills, Huddersfield University, UK, Tansy Rayner Roberts, fantasy writer, Australia & Joy Piedmont, freelance writer, USA
Adventures Across Space and Time brings together key articles and new writing from 60 years of the popular science fiction TV series Doctor Who. This innovative anthology tracks social and cultural change in the lifetime of the show, all the Doctors, companions and collaborators, enemy and friendly life forms, institutions, showrunners and scriptwriters and fan communities that have enlivened the series It considers Doctor Who as a peculiarly British phenomenon but also one that has delighted, engaged and sometimes enraged viewers around the world
UK November 2023 US November 2023 256 pages 20 bw illus
PB 9781350288379 £24 99 / $34 95 HB 9781350288386 £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350288393 • £22 49 / $31 04
ePdf 9781350288409 • £22 49 / $31 04
Bloomsbury Academic
Fringe to Famous
Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries
Tony Moore, Monash University, Australia, Mark Gibson, Monash University, Australia, Chris McAuliffe, Australian National University, Australia & Maura Edmond, Monash University, Australia
Drawing on dozens of original interviews and close analyses of Australian artists sampled from across 40 years of “indie” music, comedy, film, computer games, and graphic design, Fringe to Famous explores how some of Australia’s leading cultural practitioners negotiate their position between the margins and the mainstream in the contemporary period
UK February 2024
• US February 2024
HB 9781501334887
• £96 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501334894
ePdf 9781501334900
Bloomsbury Academic
Never-Ending Watchmen
Adaptations, Sequels, Prequels and Remixes
Will Brooker, Kingston University, UK
Will Brooker explores the way that Watchmen expanded over time from the mid-1980s to the present day, drawing on theories of adaptation, intertextuality and deconstruction to argue that each addition subtly changes our understanding of the original Does it matter whether these adaptations are ‘faithful’? Can they ever be, as they cross over into another medium? How does each version enter a dialogue with the others? Can we relate the unstable, shifting stories of Watchmen to our contemporary climate of post-truth, where we have to weigh up contradictory versions of the facts and decide which we believe?
UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus
PB 9781350198739 • £22 99 / $30 95 • HB 9781350198746 • £70 00 / $95 00
ePub 9781350198753 • £20 69 / $28 34
ePdf 9781350198760 • £20 69 / $28 34
Bloomsbury Academic
Internet-ontologies-Things
Smart Objects, Hidden Problems, and their Symmetries
Sungyong Ahn, University of Queensland, Australia
• 256 pages
• £90 15 / $108 00
• £90 15 / $108 00
• 30 bw illus
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 October 2023
• US October 2023
HB 9781501399244
• 192 pages
• £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501399251
ePdf 9781501399268
Bloomsbury Academic
• £90 15 / $108 00
• £90 15 / $108 00
Transnational Arab Stardom Glamour, Performance and Politics
Edited by Kaya Davies Hayon, University of Lincoln, UK & Stefanie Van de Peer, Queen Margaret University, UK
This book is the first dedicated entirely to Arab stars across diverse media, regions, and eras It addresses a gap in existing scholarship – usually focused on isolated studies of iconic Egyptian stars – and advances the field, bringing feminist and transnational film and star studies to bear on Arab stars Transnational Arab Stardom sheds new light on major stars across the Arab world and broadens contemporary understandings to include queer celebrities and social media influencers. The collection adds exciting perspectives, exploring Arab artists’ intertexts, audiences, receptions and after-lives, and proposing new concepts such as group star power and producer-power.
UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 256 pages
HB 9781501393228 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501393242 • £90 15 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501393235 £90 15 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Claire Nally, Northumbria University, UK & Angela Smith, University of Sunderland, UK
Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film and Television
Lea Gerhards, Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, Germany
Lea Gerhards traces the connections between three recent vampire romance series that have tremendous discursive and ideological power - the Twilight film series (2008-2012) and two TV series, The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) and True Blood (2008-2014) - to explore the cultural politics of these popular texts. She uses contemporary vampire romance to examine postfeminist ideologies and discuss gender, sexuality, subjectivity, agency and the body
UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 288 pages • 15 bw illus
PB 9781350215696 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350215689
ePub 9781350215665 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350215658 £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture Bloomsbury Academic
Feel-Bad Postfeminism Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture
Catherine McDermott, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Catherine McDermott's analysis of Gone Girl (2012), Girls (2012–2017) and Appropriate Behaviour (2012) illuminates a major cultural turn in which the pleasures of postfeminist empowerment curdle into a profound sense of rage and resentment By contrast, close examination of The Hunger Games (2008–2010), Girlhood (2014) and Catch Me Daddy (2014) reveals that contemporary genres are increasingly constructing girls as uniquely capable of resiliently overcoming and adapting to unforgiving social conditions McDermott provides crucial insight into what growing up during empowerment postfeminism feels like
• US December 2023
UK December 2023
PB 9781350326712 £28 99 / $39 95
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 December 2023 • US December 2023 • 208 pages
HB 9798765101803 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765101773 • £90 15 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765101780 £90 15 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption
EL Putnam, Maynooth University, Ireland
Bringing together philosophies of the maternal with digital technology may appear to be an arbitrary pairing However, reading them intertextually through select artistic practices reveals how both encompass an aesthetics of interruption that becomes a novel means of understanding subjectivity EL Putnam investigates how certain artists’ digital performances, including Aideen Barry, Amanda Coogan, Natalie Loveless, and Megan Wynne rupture existing representations of the maternal These artists take advantage of the formal properties of digital media in order to interrupt visual and aural constructions through an immanent merging of the performing body with digital technology
UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 240 pages • 7 bw illus/16 color illus
PB 9781501392139 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501364822
ePub 9781501364815 £90 15 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501364808 £90 15 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
• 24 bw illus
• 280 pages
Previously published in HB 9781350224988
ePub 9781350224995 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350225008
• £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture
• Bloomsbury Academic
