Transnational Imaginaries, Media Aesthetics, and Social Thought Robert Stam, New York University, USA Against the long historical backdrop of 1492, Columbus, and the Conquest, Robert Stam's wide-ranging study traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples, often as a form of resistance and rebellion to colonialist or neoliberal capitalism, across an eclectic range of forms of media, arts, and social philosophy. UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 368 pages PB 9781350282353 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350282360 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350282377 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350282384 • £22.49 / $31.59 Bloomsbury Academic
I’m Not a Film Star David Bowie as Actor
Edited by Ian Dixon, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & Brendan Black, Independent scholar, Australia For the first time, Bowie’s considerable filmography is systematically examined. Classic films such as The Prestige and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, cult hits Labyrinth and The Man Who Fell To Earth, as well as lesser-known roles in The Image, Christiane F. and Broadway hit The Elephant Man are viewed, not simply through the lens of Bowie’s mega-stardom, but as the work of a serious actor with inimitable talent. Including tributes to Bowie’s performance craft in other media forms this compelling analysis celebrates the risk-taking intelligence and bravura of David Bowie: actor, mime, mimic and icon. UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 304 pages • 56 bw illus HB 9781501368684 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781501368677 • £85.90 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501368660 • £85.90 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
The Biopic and Beyond
Hollywood Independent
Melanie Piper, University of Queensland, Australia
Paul Kerr, Middlesex University, UK
Celebrities as Characters in Screen Media
Using case studies such as Mark Zuckerberg and The Social Network, Sarah Palin and Saturday Night Live, and Louis C.K. and Louie, The Biopic and Beyond uncovers the process that turns the distant public figures that populate news and entertainment into screen characters that we can engage with and try to understand a little better. Biopics and docudramas are not the only places on screen that give us access to the fake person behind the real person, with media as varied as sketch comedy, fan fiction, and the celebrity cameo contributing to the ways we understand media figures. UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 192 pages PB 9781501393990 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781501361494 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501361487 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501361470 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
Patrick Fuery, Chapman University, USA Combining two distinct philosophical fields to the study of cinema, Patrick Fuery shows how phenomenology and psychoanalysis, so often seen as contradistinctive, are explored through their commonalities rather than differences. Using three interconnected themes—intimacy, anxiety, and flesh—, he illustrates that anxiety is a driving process in all cinema, and for it to take place there must be a relationship of intimacy. Discussing such films as Tree of Life, Don’t Look Now, Gravity and Roma, Fuery demonstrates why combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis to the study of cinema is necessary for studying film. UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 240 pages HB 9781501376351 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501376344 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501376337 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
F I L M & M E D I A – Film History & Theory
Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze
How the Mirisch Company Changed Cinema Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing films like Some Like it Hot (1959) and West Side Story (1961) as irresistible talent packages. Whilst they helped make the names of a new generation of stars and banked on the reputations of established auteurs, they were also pioneers in attracting new audiences with films about race, gender and sexuality. The Mirisch Company bridges the gap between the end of the studio system (1960) and the emergence of a new cinema (mid-1970s) dominated by the Movie Brats. UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 240 pages HB 9781501336751 • £96.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501336768 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501336775 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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 April 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781911239895 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781911239918 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781911239888 • £76.50 / $105.78 British Film Institute
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