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European & World 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
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 fi rst feature fi lm, 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 fi lmmakers 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 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 fi lms with international status. Using socio-cultural data, box-offi ce fi gures and analysis of critical reception, she reveals the ways in which these fi lms mirror shifting attitudes towards gender roles within French society, as well as the increasingly important interrelation between French national cinema and transnational fi lmmaking 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
Screening Soviet Nationalities
Kulturfi lms from the Far North to Central Asia
Oksana Sarkisova, Central European University, EU This book examines the non-fi ctional representations of Soviet borderlands from the Far North to the Northern Caucasus and Central Asia from 1925-1940. Oksana Sarkisova rediscovers fi lms by Vladimir Erofeev, Vladimir Shneiderov, and other fi lmmakers 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 fi ction 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 investigates the rise of the unique new wave of genre fi lms from Spain, and how they have recycled, reshaped and renewed the stunning visual tropes, wild narratives and imaginative other worlds inherent to an increasingly infl uential cinematic fi eld. 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 fl uidity. This new cinema has given voice to a generation, both beholden to and yet breaking away from their historical and cultural roots.
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
Realism in Greek Cinema
From the Post-War Period to the Present
Vrasidas Karalis, University of Sydney, Australia Focusing on the works of six major fi lmmakers 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 fi lm, 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 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
An Intellectual Biography
David Brancaleone, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland David Brancaleone presents a vital portrait of the screenwriter of Sciuscià, Miracle in Milan, and Bicycle Thieves for the fi rst time, exploring his history as an active Neo-realist organizer, Modernist writer, political protestor, and celebrated fi lmmaker in the light of unprecedented access to archival material. Through a multidisciplinary lens that examines Zavattini's cultural politics, interventions into press, television, and journalism, experimental fi lmmaking, and personal history, Brancaleone reconstructs the extent of Zavattini's contribution to cinema and culture.
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 368 pages HB 9781501316975 • £86.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501317002 • £95.81 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501316982 • £95.81 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Ida Lupino, Filmmaker
Edited by Phillip Sipiora, University of South Florida, USA Ida Lupino, Filmmaker begins with an exploration of biographical studies and analytical treatments of Lupino’s fi lm and television work as director, moving forward to assess Lupino’s career in fi lm and television with particular attention given to Lupino’s singular, pioneering achievements and her role(s) within the cultural milieu(s) of her time, particularly the representation of women in cinema. Each chapter includes a close analysis of the fi lm or television work with insights drawn from fi lm history and cultural/gender studies to demonstrate that Lupino was a signifi cant directorial fi gure in the development of fi lm, especially in the late 1940s and early 1950s— and in television extending well into the 1960s.
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 272 pages • 63 bw illus HB 9781501352089 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501352096 • £88.50 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501352102 • £88.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings
Edited by David Brancaleone, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland Cesare Zavattini: Selected Writings provides, for the fi rst time in English, a substantive selection of Zavattini's writings across two volumes. Through translation and detailed cultural and contextual commentary, translator and editor David Brancaleone traces not only Zavattini's theory of the screen, but also his experimentation in new fi lm practices, including the fl ash-fi lm (fi lm lampo), the inquiry fi lm (fi lm inchiesta), cinema as encounter (cinema d’incontro), the diary fi lm (fi lm diario), the confessional fi lm (fi lm-confessione), and the grass-roots community fi lm (cinema insieme or cinema di tanti per tanti).
UK April 2021 • US May 2021 • 848 pages HB Pack 9781501317187 • £166.00 / $250.00 ePub 9781501319938 • £182.69 / $224.99 ePdf 9781501319921 • £182.69 / $224.99 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind
Edited by David LaRocca, Binghamton University, USA In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavell’s writing on fi lm gather to use his landmark contributions to help us read new fi lms—from Hollywood and elsewhere—fi lms that exist beyond his immediate reach and reading. Through a series of interpretive vignettes, the contributers situate, for the expert and beginner alike, how Cavell’s writing on fi lm can profi tably enrich one’s experience of cinema and also inform how we might continue the practice of serious philosophical criticism of specifi c fi lms mindful of his sensibility.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 344 pages HB 9781501351914 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501351938 • £95.81 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501351921 • £95.81 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld
A Semiotic Analysis
Warren Buckland, Oxford Brookes University, UK Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of what makes the fi lms of Wes Anderson distinctive. It pulls apart each of Anderson’s narratives to pursue the proposition that they all share the same deep underlying symbolic values – a common symbolic storyworld. Taking the polemical strategy of outlining and employing Claude Lévi-Strauss’s distinguished work on myth and kinship to analyze eight of Anderson’s fi lms, Warren Buckland unearths the peculiar symbolic structure of each fi lm, plus the circuits of exchange, tangible and intangible gift giving, and unusual kinship systems that govern the lives of Anderson’s characters.
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 224 pages • 14 bw illus PB 9781501377327 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501316524 ePub 9781501316531 • £84.44 / $103.50 ePdf 9781501316548 • £84.44 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
The Lost Worlds of John Ford
Beyond the Western
Jeffrey Richards, Lancaster University, UK Jeffrey Richards develops and broadens our understanding of John Ford's fi lm-making oeuvre by studying his non-Western fi lms through the lens of Ford’s life and abiding preoccupations. Ford's other cinematic worlds included Ireland, the Family, Catholicism, War and the Sea, which share with his westerns the recurrent themes of memory and loss, the plight of outsiders and the tragedy of family breakup. Richards' revisionist study both provides new insights into familiar fi lms such as The Fugitive (1947); The Quiet Man (1952), Gideon’s Way and The Informer (1935) and reclaims neglected masterpieces, among them Wee Willie Winkie (1937) and the extraordinary The Long Voyage Home. (1940).
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 352 pages • 24 bw illus PB 9781350194960 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350114708 ePub 9781350114692 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350114685 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Cinema and Society • Bloomsbury Academic
