European & British Cinema

Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan

Peter C. Pugsley, University of Adelaide, Australia & Ben McCann, University of Adelaide, Australia Exploring multiple aesthetic and cultural links between French and Japanese cinema, The Cinematic Influence includes vivid case studies of films by Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Claire Denis, Naomi Kawase, Michel Gondry and others. It illustrates the vast array of cinematic connections that mark a long history of mutual influence and reverence between filmmakers in France and Japan. The book provides new insights into the ways that national cinemas resist Hollywood to maintain and strengthen their own cultural practices and how these national cinemas inform and enlighten other cultures about what it means to be French or Japanese.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 224 pages HB 9781501382949 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501382956 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501382963 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Black Boys

The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film

Clive Nwonka, University College London, UK The first dedicated exploration of British urban cinema, this book analyses the emergence of the Black urban film/TV genre within the context of broader developments in British media industries since the 2000s, and the political imperatives that have helped to shape them. Featuring case studies of key films such as Attack the Block and Bullet Boy, the author moves beyond sociologicallydominated frameworks and approaches the films through alternative analytical optics including architecture and space, allegory, crime discourses and popular music.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 176 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781501352829 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501352836 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501352843 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic The Production Artist and the Material Environment in Silent Era Film

Eleanor Rees, University College London, UK Designing Russian Cinema highlights the significant role played by production artists when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. Through a detailed analysis of film designs, this book uncovers Russian cinema’s connections with other art forms, examining how production artists drew on both aesthetic traditions and modernist experiments in architecture, painting, and theatre as they explored the new medium of cinema and its potential to engender new models of perception and forms of audience engagement.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 256 pages • 25 bw illus HB 9781350246362 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350246379 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350246386 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic

Costa-Gavras

Encounters with History

John J. Michalczyk, Boston College, USA & Susan A. Michalczyk, Boston College, USA Costa-Gavras: Encounters with History explores the life and work of the director intertwined with historical and socio-political events, from the early stages of his career: emigrating to France from Greece in 1955 and first studying at the Sorbonne, then focusing on filmmaking at IDHEC, now La Fémis. In this overview of the director’s films, the authors shed light on his encounters with history from his youth in war-torn Greece to his later films on immigration, unemployment, global capitalistic greed, and the abuse of political and economic power in Europe.

UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 272 pages • 33 bw illus HB 9781501390951 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501390944 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501390937 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Ingmar Bergman at the Crossroads

Between Theory and Practice

Edited by Maaret Koskinen, Stockholm University, Sweden & Louise Wallenberg, Stockholm University, Sweden Ingmar Bergman at the Crossroads provides in-depth interviews with Bergman’s longtime collaborators Katinka Faragó and Måns Reuterswärd, who have first-hand experience of working intimately as producers in film and television with Bergman over 5 decades. In an open exchange between individual and institutional perspectives, this book bridges the often-rigid boundaries between theoreticians and practitioners, pointing Bergman studies in new directions. Art practitioners (Ang Lee, Margarethe von Trotta), film and opera director Atom Egoyan, and film producer/ screenwriter James Schamus are brought together with academics, musicologist Alexis Luko, and playwright/performance studies scholar Allan Havis to discuss Bergman’s work from unique perspectives.

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 256 pages • 21 bw illus HB 9781501389641 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501389627 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501389634 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema

Temenuga Trifonova, York University, Canada Argues that a case can be made for re-orienting the study of contemporary European cinema around the figure of the migrant viewed both as a symbolic figure and as a figure occupying an increasingly central place in European cinema in general rather than only in what is usually called ‘migrant and diasporic cinema’. By drawing attention to the structural and affective affinities between the experience of migrants and non-migrants, Europeans and nonEuropeans, Trifonova shows that it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate stories about migration from stories about life under neoliberalism in general.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 288 pages PB 9781501392962 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501362514 ePub 9781501362507 • £26.20 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501362491 • £26.20 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic