CRITICAL & PRIMARY SOURCES – Film Studies / Drama

Critical and Primary Sources 4-Volume Set

Edited by Chris Pallant, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Animation: Critical and Primary Sources is a major multi-volume work of reference that brings together seminal writings on animation studies. Gathering historical and contemporary texts from a wide-ranging number of sources, the volumes provide a key resource in understanding and studying the past and future directions of animation studies. The four volumes thematically trace animation studies from its many definitions, or a lack thereof, to the institutional nature of animation production, to establishing greater space within animation discourse for the consideration of broadcast and interactive animation, and finally, giving greater contextual understanding of the field of animation studies.

Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £595.00 / $804.00

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 4 vols • c. 1,536 pages HB Pack 9781501305757 • £660.00 / $890.00 Series: Critical and Primary Sources • Bloomsbury Academic

South Korean Film

Critical and Primary Sources 3-Volume Set

Edited by Hyon Joo Yoo, The University of Vermont, USA South Korean Film: Critical and Primary Sources is an essential three-volume reference collection representing three distinct phases in the development of South Korean national cinema. Volume I covers the “Golden Age”, referring to the cinematic era that covers the postKorean War period from 1955 to 1972. Volume II comprises the phase that produced what critics sum up as New Korean Cinema produced since the 1990s, and which has led to the commercial and critical success of recent South Korean cinema. Volume III, while continuing the thematic and stylistic development distinct in New Korean Cinema, calls for a new epochal conceptualization that emphasizes South Korean film’s global location.

Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £445.00 / $600.00

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 3 vols • c. 1,232 pages HB Pack 9781501322617 • £495.00 / $669.00 Series: Critical and Primary Sources • Bloomsbury Academic

Modern and Contemporary World Drama

Critical and Primary Sources 4-Volume Set

Edited by Esther Kim Lee, Duke University, USA Bringing together over 80 major critical articles, this work collects scholarly articles, reviews and critical interventions that are indispensable to anyone wishing to gain an understanding of world drama from the past 150 years. Contesting a Eurocentric reading or history of modern drama, the articles underscore the importance of migration and transnational movements of dramatic forms, and place emphasis on the transmission and circulation of dramatic theories around the world. Modern drama is revealed as a worldwide phenomenon in which a diverse array of artists and writers participated and in which modernism is seen to have affected all parts of the world in ways that are much more complex and multi-directional than what has been assumed in Eurocentric models. The 4 volumes are arranged both thematically and chronologically to give readers a sense of how world modern and contemporary drama began and how it has been studied.

Special introductory offer (valid up to three months after publication): £595.00 / $804.00

UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 4 vols • c.1.056 pages HB Pack 9781350121942 • £660.00 / $890.00 Series: Critical and Primary Sources • Bloomsbury Academic