F I L M & M E D I A – European & World Cinema
Romanian Cinema
Thinking Outside the Screen Doru Pop, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Romanian Cinema: Thinking Outside the Screen explores the philosophical and metaphysical manifestations of contemporary cinema. Starting with the hypothesis that movies provide an experience that is both a pathway into the thinking mechanisms of modern humans and into our collective psyche, this study focuses on the elements that form the “Romanian cinematic mind” as part of the European cinema-thinking. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 304 pages HB 9781501366253 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501366246 • £95.81 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501366239 • £95.81 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
From France With Love
Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy Mary Harrod, University of Warwick, UK In From France with Love, author Mary Harrod explores the contemporary phenomenon that is the romantic comedy genre, examining both local French hits and films with international status. Using socio-cultural data, box-office figures and analysis of critical reception, she reveals the ways in which these films mirror shifting attitudes towards gender roles within French society, as well as the increasingly important interrelation between French national cinema and transnational filmmaking paradigms. UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 288 pages • 16 bw illus PB 9781350225145 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784533588 ePub 9780857739902 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9780857726667 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic
KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema Birgit Beumers, University of Passau, Germany and Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Performing Femininity
Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema Rachel Morley, University College London, UK In this book, author Rachel Morley explores the near ubiquitous role of the female performer in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia. From the first feature film, Romashkov's Stenka Razin (1908), through the sophisticated melodramas of the 1910s, to Viskovsky's The Last Tango (1918). In doing so, Morley argues that early Russian filmmakers used the character of the female performer to explore key contemporary concerns from changing conceptions of femininity and the emergence of the so-called New Woman, to broader questions concerning gender identity. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 304 pages • 17 bw illus PB 9781350242869 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784531591 ePub 9781786720580 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781786730589 • £81.00 / $101.01 Series: KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Screening Soviet Nationalities
Kulturfilms from the Far North to Central Asia Oksana Sarkisova, Central European University, EU This book examines the non-fictional representations of Soviet borderlands from the Far North to the Northern Caucasus and Central Asia from 1925-1940. Oksana Sarkisova rediscovers films by Vladimir Erofeev, Vladimir Shneiderov, and other filmmakers who helped construct an image of Soviet ethnic diversity. Using unexplored archival evidence, Sarkisova examines constructions of exoticism, backwardness and Soviet-driven modernity through these underexplored historical travelogues. In doing so, she highlights changing ethnographic conventions of representation, looks at studies of diversity despite the homogenising ambitions of the Soviet project, and reexamines methods of blending reality and fiction as part of both ideological and educational agendas. UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 320 pages • 31 bw illus PB 9781350242456 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784535735 ePub 9781786720405 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781786730404 • £81.00 / $101.01 Series: KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
World Cinema The Spanish Fantastic
Contemporary Filmmaking in Horror, Fantasy and Sci-fi Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Independent researcher, Canada
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Realism in Greek Cinema
From the Post-War Period to the Present Vrasidas Karalis, University of Sydney, Australia
Shelagh Rowan-Legg investigates the rise of the unique new wave of genre films from Spain, and how they have recycled, reshaped and renewed the stunning visual tropes, wild narratives and imaginative other worlds inherent to an increasingly influential cinematic field. She argues that the emergence of the Spanish ‘fantastic’ is part of a new trend of post-national cinema, led by the fantastic, which approaches the national boundaries of cinema with an exciting sense of fluidity. This new cinema has given voice to a generation, both beholden to and yet breaking away from their historical and cultural roots.
Focusing on the works of six major filmmakers active from just after WWII to the present day, this book examines the development of cinema as an art form in the social and political contexts of Greece. Insights on gender in film, minority cinemas, stylistic richness and the representation of historical trauma are afforded by close readings of the work and life of such luminaries as Michael Cacoyannis, Nikos Koundouros, Yannis Dalianidis, Theo Angelopoulos, Antouanetta Angelidi, Yorgos Lanthimos, AthenaRachel Tsangari and Costas Zapas. The book examines how directors visually transmute reality to represent unstable societies, disrupted collective memories and national identity.
UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 224 pages • 18 bw illus PB 9781350242425 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781784536770 ePub 9781786720788 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781786730787 • £81.00 / $101.01 Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 304 pages • 26 bw illus PB 9781350242845 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781780767291 ePub 9781786720771 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781786730770 • £81.00 / $101.01 Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
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