Celebrate BFI Film Classics’ 20th Anniversary
Twelve fabulous anniversary editions
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Introduction Welcome to the 2012 BFI Publishing catalogue. This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series with twelve special editions of nine backlist and three new titles – see more details of these and other titles in the Film Classics series on page 2. We’re delighted to be launching our new BFI Film Stars series with three titles: Star Studies: A Critical Guide by Martin Shingler, and individual star studies of Nicole Kidman by Pam Cook and Elizabeth Taylor by Susan Smith. Find out more on p 13. We are proud to be publishing three outstanding new books on British cinema: Behind the Scenes at the BBFC (p.21), a unique history of the British Board of Film Classification in its centenary year; Ealing Revisited, a reappraisal and celebration of this much-loved British film studio (p.22), and Colour Films in Britain, a major new history by Sarah Street (p.22). We hope you enjoy reading these books as much as we have enjoyed publishing them.
Rebecca Barden Senior Publisher
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BFI Film Classics
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BFI TV Classics
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BFI Screen Guides
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BFI Film Stars
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BFI Silver
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BFI World Directors
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Cultural Histories of Cinema
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International Screen Industries
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Film Studies
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Film Theory and Criticism
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British and Irish Cinema
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European Cinema
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World Cinema
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Television Theory and Criticism
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Teaching Film and Media Studies
BFI Film Classics The BFI Film Classics series introduces, interprets and celebrates landmarks of world cinema. Each volume offers an argument for the film’s ‘classic’ status, together with discussion of its production and reception history, its place within a genre or national cinema, an account of its technical and aesthetic importance, and in many cases, the author’s personal response to the film.
20th Anniversary Editions
Editoral Advisory Board: Geoff Andrew, Edward Buscombe, William P. Germano, Lalitha Gopalan, Lee Grieveson, Nick James, Laura Mulvey, Alastair Phillips, Dana Polan, B. Ruby Rich and Amy Villarejo
Il conformista (The Conformist)
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August 2012 | 100pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844573691
Christopher Wagstaff Bernardo Bertolucci’s Il conformista (1970) is widely recognised as a masterpiece of post-war cinema. Christopher Wagstaff’s illuminating study of the film traces its pre-production and production history, considering how Bertolucci adapted Alberto Moravia’s source novel for the screen. It provides a careful analysis of Il conformista’s formal, stylistic and aesthetic strategies, paying close attention to editing, lighting and mise en scène, and their contribution to the film’s impact. Chris Wagstaff is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian, University of Reading, UK.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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August 2012 | 128pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844574759
Eric Smoodin Based on extensive research in materials from the period of the film’s production and distribution, Eric Smoodin’s study presents a careful history of the events that led up to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the trajectory of Disney’s career that made this extraordinary project a logical next step, the reception of the film in the US and around the world, and its impact on so many aspects of contemporary culture. Eric Smoodin is Director of the American Studies Program and a Professor of American Studies and Film Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA.
La Règle du jeu V.F. Perkins
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September 2012 | 96pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9780851709659
La Règle du jeu was a disaster at its premiere in 1939, just weeks before the outbreak of war. Renoir had to wait twenty years for his vindication. In 1959, a reconstructed print triumphed in its first screening at the Venice Film Festival. Since then it has claimed its place among the cinema’s most profound and fascinating achievements. V.F. Perkins traces the film’s fortunes from the time of its production. He offers a nuanced account that explores its shifting moods, the depth of its themes and the uniqueness of its style. V.F. Perkins has lectured on Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK since 1978.
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2nd Edition
August 2012 | 72pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844574971
Laura Mulvey With a new foreword by the author
Laura Mulvey illuminates the richness of Citizen Kane, both thematically and stylistically, relating it to Welles’s political background and its historical context. She also investigates the psychoanalytic structure that underlies the film’s presentation of Kane’s biography. Laura Mulvey is a Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
Don’t Look Now
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2nd Edition
20th Anniversary Editions
Citizen Kane
August 2012 | 88pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844575152
Mark Sanderson With a new foreword by Jason Wood
In this account Mark Sanderson describes the collaboration between director and actors that sustained the emotional richness of Don’t Look Now. He returns to du Maurier’s original text and to the traditions of Gothic writing that underpin the film’s combination of horror, melodrama, and black comedy, and examines the intricate visual style of the film. Mark Sanderson is a writer and freelance journalist.
Metropolis
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2nd Edition
August 2012 | 100pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844575015
Thomas Elsaesser With a new foreword by the author
Thomas Elsaesser explores the cultural phenomenon of Metropolis: its different versions (there is no definitive one), its changing meanings, and its role as a database of twentieth-century imagery and ideologies. In his foreword to this special edition Elsaesser discusses the impact of the 27 minutes of ‘lost’ footage discovered in Buenos Aires in 2008. Thomas Elsaesser is Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and since 2006 is Visiting Professor at Yale University, USA.
Singin’ in the Rain
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2nd Edition
August 2012 | 72pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844575145
Peter Wollen With a new foreword by Geoff Andrew, BFI
Singin’ in the Rain remains one of the best loved films ever made. In a shot-by-shot analysis of the famous title number, Peter Wollen shows how Gene Kelly binds the dance and musical elements into the narrative, and convincingly argues that the film was the high point in the careers of those who worked on it. Peter Wollen taught film at UCLA, USA and is the author of several books on cinema.
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20th Anniversary Editions
Taxi Driver
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2nd Edition
August 2012 | 80pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844574995
Amy Taubin With a new foreword by the author
Taxi Driver is one of the major films of the 1970s, which established Martin Scorcese’s reputation as a prominent American director. In her foreword to this special edition Amy Taubin considers Taxi Driver anew in the context of contemporary politics of race and masculinity in the US, and draws on an exclusive interview with Robert De Niro about his memories of making the film. Amy Taubin is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and writes frequently for Art Forum.
Vertigo
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2nd Edition
August 2012 | 88pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844574988
Charles Barr With a new foreword by the author
Although it can be seen as Hitchcock’s most personal film, Charles Barr argues that Vertigo is at the same time a triumph not so much of individual authorship as of creative collaboration. He highlights the crucial role of screenwriters Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor and, by a combination of textual and contextual analysis, explores the reasons why Vertigo continues to inspire such fascination. Charles Barr is an Adjunct Professor at the John Huston Centre for Film and Digital Media, National University of Ireland in Galway.
Went the Day Well?
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2nd Edition
August 2012 | 72pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844575008
Penelope Houston With a new foreword by Geoff Brown
Went the Day Well? is one of the most unusual Ealing Studios pictures, a distinctly unsentimental war film made in the darkest days of WWII. Houston studies why the film avoids the cosy Ealing trademark. In his foreword to this special edition, Geoff Brown pays homage to Penelope Houston’s astute study, and places the book in the context of Went the Day Well?’s changing critical reception. Penelope Houston is a British film critic and journal editor.
The Wizard of Oz
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2nd Edition
August 2012 | 80pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844575169
Salman Rushdie With a new foreword by the author
The Wizard of Oz ‘was my very first literary influence,’ writes Salman Rushdie in his account of the great MGM children’s classic. For Rushdie The Wizard of Oz is more than a children’s film, and more than a fantasy. It is a story whose driving force is the inadequacy of adults, where the weakness of grown-ups forces children to take control of their own destinies. Salman Rushdie is an award-winning novelist.
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Blade Runner
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2nd Edition
August 2012 | 112pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844575220
Scott Bukatman With a new foreword by the author
Scott Bukatman details the making of Blade Runner and its steadily improving fortunes following its release in 1982. He situates the film in terms of debates about postmodernism, which have informed much of the criticism devoted to it, but argues that its tensions derive also from the quintessentially twentieth-century, modernist experience of the city. Scott Bukatman is a cultural theorist and Professor of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University, USA.
Salesman
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J.M. Tyree
September 2012 | 96pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844573875
Released in 1968, the Maysles’ Salesman is widely acknowledged as a landmark in documentary film. In his compelling and detailed study, J.M. Tyree discusses the film’s various technical and artistic innovations, tracing their theoretical roots and enduring influence. J.M. Tyree is Writer-at-Large for Film Quarterly and the co-author (with Ben Walters) of the BFI Film Classic on The Big Lebowski
Olympia
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2nd Edition
February 2012 | 128pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844574704
Taylor Downing In this new edition Taylor Downing provides an indispensible guide to one of the most controversial films ever made, Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia. Incorporating discussion of new material and new archival information about its development, Downing also gives a film-maker’s insights into the logistical and technical problems faced by the production. Taylor Downing is a Managing Director and Head of History at Flashback Television. He co-founded Flashback in 1982.
Caché (Hidden) Catherine Wheatley
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January 2012 | 96pp Paperback | £10.99 | 9781844573493
Catherine Wheatley’s study of Michael Haneke’s 2005 thriller Caché (‘Hidden’) explores how, in depicting the relationship between an affluent Parisian family and the Algerian outsider Majid, the film raises questions about home and the family, France’s ‘hidden’ post-colonial past, spectatorship and screens. Catherine Wheatley is a Lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London, UK.
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Praise for the BFI Film Classics ‘Magnificently concentrated examples of flowing freeform critical poetry.’ – Uncut ‘A formidable body of work collectively generating some fascinating insights into the evolution of cinema.’ – Times Higher Education Supplement ‘The series is a landmark in film criticism.’ – Quarterly Review of Film and Video
Selected Backlist
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Amores Perres Paul Julian Smith 9780851709734
Back to the Future Andrew Shail & Robin Stoate 9781844572939
The Best Years of Our Lives Sarah Kozloff 9781844573264
The Big Lebowski J.M. Tyree & Ben Walters 9781844571734
The Birds Camille Paglia 9780857106511
Bringing up Baby Peter Swaab 9781844570706
The Exorcist Mark Kermode 9780815709673
The Godfather Jon Lewis 9781844572922
Far From Heaven John Gill 9781844572878
Grey Gardens Matthew Tinkcom 9781844573950
Groundhog Day Ryan Gilbey 9781844570324
Jaws Antonia Quirke 9780851709291
La Grande Illusion Julian Jackson 9781844572854
The Matrix Joshua Clover 9781844570454
Meshes of the Afternoon John David Rhodes 9781844573776
Night of the Living Dead Ben Hervey 9781844571741
Pulp Fiction Dana Polan 9780851708089
The Searchers Edward Buscombe 9780851708201
The Servant Amy Sargeant 9781844573820
Shoah Sue Vice 9781844573257
The Shawshank Redemption Mark Kermode 9780851709680
The Thing Anne Billson 9780851705668
Star Wars Will Brooker 9781844572779
Victim John Coldstream 9781844574278
Paperback £10.99 For a full list of titles available in this series visit www.palgrave.com/bfi Withnail & I Kevin Jackson 9781844570355
2001: A Space Odyssey Peter Krämer 9781844572861
8½ D.A. Miller 9781844572311
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BFI TV Classics BFI TV Classics are a series of books celebrating key individual television programmes and series. Television scholars, critics and novelists provide critical readings underpinned with careful research, alongside a personal response to the programme and a case for its ‘classic’ status. Editorial Advisory Board: Stella Bruzzi, Glyn Davis, Mark Duguid, Jason Jacobs, Karen Lury, Toby Miller, Rachel Moseley and Phil Wickham
The World at War
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Taylor Downing The World at War is the most successful history series ever produced by British television. TV producer and writer Taylor Downing explores the style, ethos, television context and impact of the programme, in a study that draws on interviews with the producer, Jeremy Isaacs, and original archive research. Taylor Downing is a Managing Director and Head of History at Flashback Television. He co-founded Flashback in 1982. Oct 2012 | 192pp | Paperback £14.99 | 9781844574834
The Beiderbecke Affair
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William Gallagher The Beiderbecke Affair was an immensely popular 1980s television drama, which, unusually, led to sequels, novels, albums and even jazz tours. Written by a personal friend of Alan Plater, this book is the first to be published about the drama. It explores its making, impact and influence. William Gallagher is a writer and journalist. Sept 2012 | 144pp | Paperback £14.99 | 9781844574698
Bleak House
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Christine Geraghty Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens’s darker works: a vision of London as the polluted, diseased heart of an industrialising nation. In 2005, the BBC announced broadcast a major new adaptation, scripted by Andrew Davies, which controversially combined the suspense of soap opera with visual innovation, careful attention to period detail, and outstanding performances. Christine Geraghty’s revealing study strongly makes the case for the contemporary BBC adaptation of Bleak House as a true television classic. Christine Geraghty is a Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK, and a part time lecturer in Film Studies at the University of London, UK.
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Sept 2012 | 144pp | Paperback £13.99 | 9781844574179
Deadwood
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Jason Jacobs Jason Jacobs’ study of Deadwood (HBO, 2004-6) combines an in-depth production and reception history with astute analysis of the series’ key themes and aesthetic strategies to argue that the show not only marked a radical revision of the Western genre but an outstanding work of television art. Jason Jacobs is Reader in Cultural History in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia. June 2012 | 144pp | Paperback £16.99 | 9781844573622
Series Backlist
Civilisation Jonathan Conlin 9781844572700
Cracker Mark Duguid 9781844572632
CSI Steven Cohan 9781844572557
Doctor Who Kim Newman 9781844570904
Prime Suspect Deborah Jermyn 9781844573059
Queer as Folk Glyn Davis 9781844571994
Seinfeld Nicholas Mirzoeff 9781844572014
Star Trek Ina Rae Hark 9781844572144
The League Of Gentlemen Leon Hunt 9781844572694
The Office Ben Walters 9781844570911
Paperback £13.99 For a full list of titles in this series visit www.palgrave.com/bfi
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BFI Screen Guides 100 Cult Films Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik The essential guide to 100 of world cinema’s most fascinating and influential cult films. This lavishly illustrated guide provides an entertaining and eye-opening account of 100 cult favourites, from a range of genres and directors. It features entries on films from 1920 to the present, including The Wizard of Oz, This is Spinal Tap, Donnie Darko, Dirty Dancing, Suspiria and Night of the Living Dead. Drawing on exclusive interviews with some of the world’s most iconic cult creators and performers, and featuring a foreword by cult director Joe Dante, 100 Cult Films is your ultimate ticket to the midnight movie show.
October 2011 | 224pp 70 colour and b/w photographs Paperback | £16.99 9781844574087
Ernest Mathijs is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero (2008), co-author of Cult Cinema (with Jamie Sexton, 2011) and co-editor of The Cult Film Reader (with Xavier Mendik, 2008). Xavier Mendik is Director of the Cine-Excess International Film Festival and DVD label at Brunel University, UK. He is the editor of Shocking Cinema of the Seventies (2002) and the co-editor of Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945 (with Ernest Mathijs, 2004), Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon (with Steven Jay Schneider, 2002) and The Cult Film Reader.
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100 Film Musicals Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye
May 2011 | 280pp Hardback | £50.00 | 9781844573790 Paperback | £12.99 | 9781844573783
100 Film Musicals provides a stimulating overview of the genre’s development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, this guide includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as Moulin Rouge! and High School Musical, demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye are Visiting Fellows in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading, UK.
100 Silent Films Bryony Dixon
May 2011 | 280pp Hardback | £50.00 | 9781844573790 Paperback | £12.99 | 9781844573783
‘This is no bluffer’s guide. The enjoyment of silent cinema is Dixon’s priority… Anyone interested in how cinema became what it is today will find many of the answers here, both in Bryony Dixon’s illuminating book and the films you will rush to watch the minute you put it down.’– Silent London ‘Dixon captures some of silent cinema’s most sublime moments with an infectious joy.’ – The Times Literary Supplement
This illuminating guide provides a selection of one hundred key films of the silent period (1895–1930), featuring films from a variety of countries, genres and directors, together with an introductory overview and useful filmographic and bibliographic information. Bryony Dixon is Senior Curator in Silent Film at the BFI National Library and Archive.
100 Animated Feature Films Andrew Osmond
December 2010 | 288pp Hardback | £20.00 | 9781844573400
‘…this compendium couldn’t be better timed. Flaunting both excellent taste and in-depth knowledge, Osmond’s book certainly won’t disappoint aficionados...’ – Total Film ‘...The effect is that we consider not only the individual title in question, but also the history of animated cinema as a whole; for Osmond it is all interconnected, and rightly so.’ – The Digital Fix
The animated feature film has been long under-represented in film criticism. Yet animated films have probably never been a stronger force in world cinema than they are today. This book discusses 100 key animated films from around the world, from Shrek to Svankmajer. Andrew Osmond is a freelance journalist and has written for a range of publications including Sight & Sound, Empire, SFX and The Guardian.
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100 American Independent Films
August 2009 | 304pp 40 b/w images | Paperback | £14.99 9781844572892
2nd edition
Jason Wood This revised and updated edition provides a guide to 100 of the most interesting and influential American independent films, from Bonnie and Clyde to Junebug by way of Reservoir Dogs and The Blair Witch Project, with an introduction to the genre and a rich selection of images from the films discussed, plus key credits. Jason Wood is Director of Programming for Curzon Cinemas. His books include 100 Road Movies (2006) and Talking Movies: Contemporary World Directors in Interview (2007). He contributes to a range of publications including Sight & Sound and The Guardian.
100 Film Noirs Jim Hillier and Alastair Phillips
May 2009 | 296pp 35 b/w images | Paperback | £14.99 9781844572168
‘100 Film Noirs offers many insights into the history and visual grammar of the genre and provides the perfect excuse to revisit some classics and discover some forgotten masterpieces.’ – PD Smith, The Guardian
100 Film Noirs provides an accessible, richly-illustrated introduction to 100 key noir films, from Hollywood classics such as Double Indemnity to more recent titles such as Sin City, as well as examples from Europe, Japan, India and Mexico, together with an editorial overview of the genre and its key debates. Jim Hillier is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Reading, UK. Alastair Phillips is Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
100 Documentary Films Barry Keith Grant and Jim Hillier
April 2009 | 280pp 35 b/w images | Paperback | £14.99 9781844572649
‘The first book to offer concise and authoritative individual critical commentaries on some of the key documentary films.’ – Sight & Sound
100 Documentary Films provides concise and authoritative analysis of 100 key non-fiction films of world cinema, from the Lumière brothers to Michael Moore. The volume features an introduction to the history and concerns of documentary film-making, as well as extensive cross-referencing and a wealth of images from the films discussed. Jim Hillier is Visiting Lecturer in Film in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading, UK. Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Film and Popular Culture, Brock University, Canada.
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Film Stars Each book in this major new BFI series focuses on an international film star, tracing the development of their star persona, their career trajectory and their acting and performance style. Some also examine the cultural significance of a star’s work, as well as their lasting influence and legacy. The series ranges from silent to contemporary cinema and from Hollywood to Asian cinemas, and adresses both child and adult stardom. Series Editors: Martin Shingler and Susan Smith, both at University of Sunderland, UK
Elizabeth Taylor
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Susan Smith This is the first in-depth academic analysis of Elizabeth Taylor’s work in film. It examines her distinctive features as a performer and shows how various aspects of her performance repertoire evolved along with her star persona during the course of her career, both on and off screen. Susan Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK. July 2012 | 156pp Paperback | £12.99 | 9781844574865
Nicole Kidman Pam Cook
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Pam Cook’s study of the star persona of Nicole Kidman traces Kidman’s career trajectory through an examination of her (sometimes controversial) film choices and places her in the context of a globalised media and celebrity culture. Pam Cook is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton, UK. July 2012 | 112pp Paperback | £12.99 | 9781844574889
Star Studies: A Critical Guide
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Martin Shingler Star Studies: A Critical Guide provides a lively introduction to the major approaches and key developments within this key area of film studies. It identifies a number of dominant themes, explains major theories, concepts and methodologies, and explores the diversity of approaches that have helped shape the international study of stars and stardom. Published in the BFI Film Stars series, Star Studies provides an essential theoretical and historical companion to the individual star volumes in the series. Martin Shingler is a Senior Lecturer in Radio and Film Studies, University of Sunderland, UK July 2012 | 192pp Paperback | £12.99 | 9781844574902
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BFI Silver Representing the very best in critical writing on films and film-makers, these beautifully presented new editions and reissues of classic titles from BFI Publishing feature new introductions by leading film critics and scholars. Fetishism and Curiosity
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2nd edition
Laura Mulvey With a new foreword by the author
This new edition of Laura Mulvey’s classic work of feminist theory features a new introduction and new illustrations. Mulvey’s discussion ranges from analyses of Xala, Citizen Kane, and Blue Velvet and the work of American artist Jimmie Durham to the feminist photography of Cindy Sherman. Laura Mulvey is a Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. October 2012 | 256pp Hardback | £50.00 | 9781844575091 Paperback | £12.99 | 9781844575084
Signs and Meaning in the Cinema
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5th edition
Peter Wollen First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema helped transform the discipline of film studies by incorporating the methodology of structuralism and semiotics. Featuring a new foreword by David Rodowick, this new BFI Silver edition explores the way in which a new approach to the cinema can be combined with a new approach to aesthetics. Peter Wollen is a film theorist and writer. October 2012 | 272pp Hardback | £55.00 | 9781844573615 Paperback | £16.99 | 9781844574537
A Mirror for England 2nd edition
Raymond Durgnat With a foreword by Kevin Gough-Yates
Raymond Durgnat’s classic study of how the middle-class view of life as expressed in British cinema transformed our understanding of British films. Raymond Durgnat (1932-2002) was the author of many groundbreaking books about the cinema. November 2011 | 288pp Hardback | £55.00 | 9781844574544 Paperback | £16.99 | 9781844574537
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BFI World Directors Baz Luhrmann Pam Cook This is the first major book-length study of the work of Australian film-maker Baz Luhrmann, one of the most exciting and controversial personalities working in World Cinema today. Pam Cook is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton, UK. May 2010 | 228pp Hardback | £55.00 | 9781844571574 Paperback | £17.99 | 9781844571581
Pedro Almodovar Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz Provides a detailed introduction to the essential themes, style, and aesthetics of Pedro Almodóvar’s films, put in the context of Spain’s profound cultural transitions since 1980. This book covers the major concerns of the most successful of all Spanish film directors and makes direct, clear connections to the logic of Almodóvar’s choices. Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz is Associate Professor of Film Studies, Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder, UK. April 2007 | 328pp Hardback | £52.50 | 9781844571581 Paperback | £16.99 | 9781844571505
Lars von Trier Jack Stevenson
Wong Kar-Wai: Auteur of Time Stephen Teo
August 2002 | 232pp Hardback | £57.50 | 9780851709024 Paperback | £18.99 | 9780851709031
January 2005 | 191pp Paperback | £18.99 | 9781844570294
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Cultural Histories of Cinema This series examines the relationship between cinema and culture. It features interdisciplinary scholarship that focuses on the national and transnational trajectories of cinema as a network of institutions, representations, practices and technologies. Of primary concern is analysing cinema’s expansive role in the complex social, economic and political dynamics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Series Editors: Lee Grieveson, University College London, UK, and Haidee Wasson, Concordia University, Canada Edited by Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergence of cinema at the height of imperialism, to moments of decolonization and the ending of formal imperialism in the post-Second World War period. Lee Grieveson is Director of Film Studies at University College London, UK.
October 2011 | 304pp Hardback | £60.00 9781844574223 Paperback | £18.99 9781844574216
November 2011 320pp Hardback | £60.00 9781844574247 Paperback | £18.99 9781844574230
Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh, USA and Associate Director of the London Consortium, UK. About Empire and Film:
‘This superb collection of new scholarship shows how cinema both communicated and aided the imperialist agenda throughout the twentieth century. In doing so, it shows film can be understood as one of the tools of empire, as much as the technology of weaponry or modes of administration: a means of education and indoctrination in the colonies and at home.’ - Tom Gunning, University of Chicago, USA
Shadow Economies of Cinema Mapping Informal Film Distribution
March 2012 | 156pp Hardback | £55.00 | 9781844574124 Paperback | £16.99 | 9781844574117
Ramon Lobato Shadow Economies of Cinema examines how films travel through time and space, both inside and outside established circuits of audiovisual trade. Combining industrial and cultural analysis, this book looks at distribution circuits from across the Americas, Africa and the Asia-Pacific, and explains how they shape film culture in their own image. Ramon Lobato is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
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International Screen Industries This unique series provides original profiles of film, television, and digital media industries in a variety of countries and regions throughout the world. Series Editors: Michael Curtin, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and Paul McDonald, Unversity of Nottingham, UK
The American Television Industry
November 2009 | 208pp Paperback | £20.99 | 9781844573370
Michael Curtin and Jane Shattuc Two high profile US television scholars provide a concise and accessible introduction to TV production, programming, advertising, and distribution in the United States. This up-to-date study incorporates recent developments and current issues, and includes useful case studies and illustrations. Michael Curtin is Mellichamp Professor of Global Media in the Department of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Jane Shattuc is Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, USA.
Arab Television Industries
November 2009 | 200pp Paperback | £20.99 | 9781844573028
Marwan M. Kraidy and Joe Khalil Arab Television Industries captures the fascinating metamorphosis of Arab television from separate state-owned terrestrial channels to a vibrant, panArab, commercial satellite industry, and explores the momentous social and political implications of this transformation. Marwan M. Kraidy is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Joe Khalil is a PhD candidate at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.
East Asian Screen Industries Darrell William Davis and Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
March 2008 | 192pp Paperback | £20.99 | 9781844571819
In this insightful guide to the film industries of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the PRC, the authors examine how local production has responded to global trends and explore the effects of widespread de-regulation and China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation. Darrell William Davis is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Media & Film, UNSW, Australia. Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh is Associate Professor, Cinema-TV, Hong Kong Baptist University.
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Film Studies New Vampire Cinema
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Ken Gelder New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vibrant, inauthentic and ‘original’, insubstantial and self-sustaining. Ken Gelder’s fascinating study begins by looking at Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Fran Rubel Kuzui’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer – films that seemed for a moment to take vampire cinema in completely opposite directions.
November 2012 | 224pp Hardback | 9781844574414 | £55.00 Paperback | 9781844574407 | £16.99
New Vampire Cinema then examines what happened afterwards, across a remarkable range of reiterations of the vampire that take it far beyond its original Transylvanian setting: the suburbs of Sweden (Let the Right One In), the forests of North America (the Twilight films), New York City (Nadja, The Addiction), Mexico (Cronos, From Dusk Till Dawn), Japan (Blood: The Last Vampire, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust), South Korea (Thirst), New Zealand (Perfect Creature), Australia (Daybreakers), and elsewhere. In a series of exhilarating readings, Gelder determines what is at stake when the cinematic vampire and the modern world are made to encounter one another – where the new, the remake and the sequel find the vampire struggling to survive the past, the present and, in some cases, the distant future. Ken Gelder is Professor of English in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Understanding the Moving Image series
Understanding Audiences and the Film Industry Roy Stafford 9781844571413 £18.99
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Understanding Television Texts Phil Wickham
Understanding Film Texts Patrick Phillips
9781844571727 £18.99
9780851707990 £18.99
A History of Experimental Film and Video 2nd edition
A.L. Rees Avant-garde film is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In this book, A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the avant-garde film between, on the one hand, the cinema, and, on the other hand, modern art (with its postmodern coda). He also reconstitutes the avant-garde film as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse. This history of avant-garde film and video ranges from Cezanne and Dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British video artists in the 1990s. The second edition has been revised and updated to reflect developments in the practice and criticism of experimental film and video. October 2011 | 208pp Hardback | 9781844574377 | £45.00 Paperback | 9781844574360 | £18.99
A.L. Rees is a Research Tutor in Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Ephemeral Media Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube
Edited by Paul Grainge Ephemeral Media explores the practices, strategies and textual forms helping producers negotiate a fast-paced mediascape. Examining dynamics of brevity and evanescence in the television and new media environment, this book provides a new perspective on the transitory, and transitional, nature of screen culture in the early twenty-first century. Paul Grainge is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.
October 2011 | 248pp Hardback | 9781844574353 | £60.00 Paperback | 9781844574346 | £16.99
From IBM to MGM Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age
Andrew Utterson Andrew Utterson’s unique study charts the beginnings of digital cinema, addressing both how film-makers used new digital technologies and how attitudes and anxieties about the rise of the computer were represented in films such as Lang’s Desk Set, Godard’s Alphaville, Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Crichton’s Westworld. Andrew Utterson is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Digital Media at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
January 2011 | 1844pp Hardback | £62.50 | 9781844573240 Paperback | £19.99 | 9781844573233
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Film Theory and Criticism NEW
What If I Had Been the Hero? Investigating Women’s Cinema
July 2012 | 248pp Hardback | 9781844573646 | £50.00 Paperback | 9781844573639 | £16.99
Sue Thornham What happens when women tell their own stories in film? In What If I Had Been the Hero?, Sue Thornham addresses this question through an exploration of a wide range of films, from experimental feminist film to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 1970s to the present day, by film-makers including Sally Potter, Jane Campion, Deepa Mehta, Patricia Rozema and Lynne Ramsay. Her discussion takes in films from India and Argentina as well as Europe, Canada, Australia and the US. Not content to take the ‘post feminist’ makeover film or the figure of the ‘action chick’ as evidence of women’s increased power and status, Sue Thornham raises key issues about women as authors, subjects and heroes of their narratives. She argues that simple reversals of gendered positions of hero/heroine, active/passive, and subject/ object are not enough. Drawing on a wide range of feminist theoretical sources, What If I Had Been the Hero? makes an important intervention into contemporary debates, situating film-making within a rich history of female creativity, and insisting on the continuing importance of feminist theory. Sue Thornham is a Professor of Media and Film and Head of School at the University of Sussex, UK.
The Cinema Book 3rd edition
January 2007 | 624pp Hardback | 9781844571925 | £98.00 Paperback | 9781844571932 | £29.99
Edited by Pam Cook Widely recognised as the ultimate guide to cinema, this lavishly illustrated text features a wealth of original essays and in-depth case studies written by leading scholars from around the globe. All sections are supported by indepth analyses of films from the earliest days to the present. A must-have for students of film and film enthusiasts. Pam Cook is Professor Emerita in Film at the University of Southampton, UK.
The Sound of Musicals Edited by Steven Cohan
November 2010 | 232pp Hardback | 9781844573479 | £52.50 Paperback | 9781844573462 | £17.99
This collection addresses the film musical, a central genre in the Hollywood studio system, which has also been important within British, Hindi and Chinese cinema. Leading international scholars explore key issues, traditions, subgenres, stars and films of the musical film from the 1930s to the present. Steven Cohan is a Professor of English at Syracuse University, USA.
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British and Irish Cinema NEW Behind the Scenes at the BBFC Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age
Edited by Edward Lamberti With a foreword by Mark Kermode
November 2012 | 256pp Paperback | 9781844574766 | £16.99 Full colour throughout
Established by the film industry in 1912 as the nation’s only official and independent classifier of the moving image, the British Board of Film Classification (originally the British Board of Film Censors) has long been a source of fascination – and sometimes a bone of contention – for filmgoers, filmmakers and industry figures. This new book, published in the BBFC’s centenary year, addresses Britain’s film classification history, and marks an unparalleled collaboration between the Board and leading film critics, historians and cultural commentators. These writers, given unprecedented access to the BBFC’s archives, chart the organisation’s history alongside the cultural, social and political forces that have helped shape it. Together they explore shifting public attitudes towards cinema’s portrayal of sex and drugs, horror and violence; the different perspectives of the Board’s successive leaders; the impact of controversial decisions, and the ever-changing nature of moving image distribution and exhibition. The book also features unique case studies, written by BBFC staff, focusing on significant films that have provoked debate and controversy both within the BBFC and more widely - Battleship Potemkin, The Snake Pit, A Clockwork Orange, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and many more. Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age is an entertaining and invaluable insight into shifts in public attitudes over the last century, and how film classification shapes what we see on screen. Edward Lamberti is the Information Services Manager at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).
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Ealing Revisited
NEW
Edited by Mark Duguid, Lee Freeman, Keith M. Johnston and Melanie Williams. Ealing Revisited provides a major reappraisal of one of British cinema’s best-loved institutions, Ealing Studios. During its heyday, Ealing produced a string of classic comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) and The Ladykillers (1955), but there is much more to Ealing than these films, as this volume of new writing on the studio shows. Addressing both known and less familiar aspects of Ealing’s story, its films, actors and technicians, the contributors uncover what has gone unexplored, or unspoken, in previous histories of the studio, and consider the impact that Ealing has had on British cultural life from the 1930s to the present. November 2012 | 304pp Hardback | 9781844575114 | £65.00 Paperback | 9781844575107 | £18.99 16pp Colour Section
Mark Duguid is a senior curator at the BFI National Archive. Lee Freeman is a PhD Student in Ealing Studios at the University of Hull, UK. Keith M. Johnston is a Senior Lecturer in Film & Television at the University of East Anglia, UK. Melanie Williams is a Lecturer in Film & Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Colour Films in Britain
NEW
The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-1955
Sarah Street
November 2012 | 320pp Hardback | 9781844573134 | £60.00 Paperback | 9781844573127 | £18.99 Full colour throughout
How did the coming of colour change the British film industry? Unlike sound, the arrival of colour did not revolutionise the industry overnight. For British film-makers and enthusiasts, colour was a controversial topic. While it was greeted by some as an exciting development – with scope for developing a uniquely British aesthetic – others were deeply concerned. How would audiences accustomed to seeing black-and-white films – which were commonly regarded as being superior to their garish colour counterparts – react? Yet despite this initial trepidation, colour captivated many British inventors and film-makers. Using different colour processes, these innovators produced films that demonstrated remarkable experimentation and quality. Sarah Street’s illuminating study is the first to trace the history of colour in British cinema, and analyses the use of colour in a range of films, both fiction and non-fiction, including The Open Road, The Glorious Adventure, This is Colour, Blithe Spirit, This Happy Breed, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffmann and Moulin Rouge. Beautifully illustrated with full colour film stills, this important study provides fascinating insights into the complex process whereby the challenges and opportunities of new technologies are negotiated within creative practice. The book also includes a Technical Appendix by Simon Brown, which provides further detail of the range of colour processes used by British Film-makers. Sarah Street is a Professor of Film at the University of Bristol, UK.
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Ken Loach
NEW
The Politics of Film and Television
John Hill ‘Hill’s definitive study of Loach’s television and film production from the mid-1960s to the present combines first-rate primary research with insightful thematic analysis to situate the director and his work within the political, institutional, and artistic contexts that gave the work form.’ – CHOICE
John Hill’s definitive study looks at the career and work of British director Ken Loach. From his early television work (Cathy Come Home) through to landmark films (Kes) and examinations of British society (Looking For Eric) this landmark study reveals Loach as one of the great European directors. John Hill is a Professor of Media at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. June 2011 | 256pp Hardback | 9781844572021 | £55.00 Paperback | 9781844572038 | £16.99
The Projection of Britain
NEW
A History of the GPO Film Unit
Edited by Scott Anthony and James G. Mansell Foreword by Sir Christopher Frayling ‘The Projection of Britain is, like the GPO Film Unit itself, a bold, fascinating, eccentric and ambitious endeavour...this is a fine tribute to an exciting and influential cultural project, and an essential companion to the films now available in lavishly packaged anthologies from the BFI.’ - Times Literary Supplement
This beautifully illustrated volume provides a comprehensive resource guide to the films, filmmakers and social and cultural importance of the GPO Film Unit. In addition to original essays by leading film and cultural historians, the volume reprints rare archival material about the work of the Unit, as well as a GPO filmography and profiles of key figures. October 2011 | 352pp Hardback | 9781844573752 | £65.00 Paperback | 9781844573745 | £22.50 Full colour throughout
Scott Anthony is a journalist and historian based at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, UK. James G. Mansell is an historian and lectures in Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.
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The British Cinema Book 3rd edition
Edited by Robert Murphy ‘...a delightful gateway into the rich world of British cinema.’ – Simon Brown, Viewfinder
March 2009 | 464pp Hardback | £65.00 9781844572762 Paperback | £20.99 9781844572755
The third edition of The British Cinema Book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history, key debates and genres in British cinema, from 1895 to the present. Individual articles by leading scholars are grouped in historical and thematic sections, illuminated by in-depth case studies of key films and a wealth of images. Robert Murphy is a Professor in Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK.
The British ‘B’ Film Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane Foreword by Rona Anderson ‘Both an invocation and a loving catalogue, the book is rich in detail drawn from the history of the Bs before changing taste, alterations in the law and the irresistible rise of television rendered the species extinct.’ – Times Literary Supplement
October 2011 | 248pp Hardback | £60.00 9781844574353 Paperback | £16.99 9781844574346
This is the first book to provide a thorough examination of the British ‘B’ movie, from the war years to the 1960s. The authors draw on archival research, contemporary trade papers and interviews with key ‘B’ filmmakers to map the ‘B’ movie phenomenon both as artefact and as industry product, and as a reflection on their times. Steve Chibnall is a Professor of British Cinema at De Montfort University, UK. Brian McFarlane is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and Visiting Professor, University of Hull, UK.
Shadows of Progress Documentary Film in Post-War Britain
Edited by Patrick Russell and James Piers Taylor This unique book addresses the sponsorship, production, distribution and key themes of British documentary cinema from 1945 to the early 1980s. It features contributions from the curatorial and academic worlds, providing profiles of major filmmakers of the period, outlining their career histories and key themes of their work. Patrick Russell is Senior Curator (Non-Fiction), BFI National Archive, UK.
October 2010 | 448pp Hardback | £62.50 9781844573226 Paperback | £20.99 9781844573219
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James Piers Taylor is an independent curator and film historian. He has worked previously in several film archives, including those of the BBC, the BFI, the Imperial War Museum, ITN, ITV and Reuters.
European Cinema Antonioni Centenary Essays
Edited by Laura Rascaroli and John David Rhodes ‘The editors of this centenary essay collection tackle the inherited critical view on Antonioni (“Interstitial, Pretentious, Alienated, Dead: Antonioni at 100”) in a helpful introduction, before opening the floor to a variety of specialised viewpoints.’ – The Daily Telegraph
November 2011 | 344pp Hardback | £60.00 9781844573851 Paperback | £22.99 9781844573844
This collection of new essays by leading film scholars addresses Michelangelo Antonioni as a pre-eminent figure in European art cinema, explores his continuing influence and legacy, and engages with his ability to both interpret and shape ideas of modernity and modern cinema. Laura Rascaroli is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. John David Rhodes is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Sussex, UK.
Nino Rota Music, Film and Feeling
Richard Dyer The great Italian composer Nino Rota wrote some of the loveliest and most beloved of all film music, including The Godfather trilogy, Zeffirelli’s Shakespeares and Fellini’s masterpieces 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita. Richard Dyer’s study of Rota’s life and work provides a detailed account of Rota’s aesthetic and of his unique genius. Richard Dyer is Professor of Film Studies at King’s College, London, UK.
September 2010 | 232pp Hardback | £52.50 9781844572090 Paperback | £15.99 9781844572106
The French New Wave Critical Landmarks
Edited by Peter Graham and Ginette Vincendeau This expanded edition of a classic anthology on the French New Wave features original writings by and interviews with filmmakers and critics such as Godard, Truffaut and Bazin, some newly translated for this edition. The essays are accompanied by critical and contextualising commentary by the editors, leading authorities in the field. Peter Graham is a critic and writer, based in Mourjon, France. Ginette Vincendeau is a Professor of Film Studies and Director of the Film Studies Department at King’s College London, UK. April 2009 | 288pp Hardback | £57.50 9781844572830 Paperback | £17.99 9781844572823
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The French Cinema Book Edited by Michael Temple and Michael Witt The French Cinema Book is addressed to all lovers of French cinema, students and teachers, specialists and fans. It provides not only an accessible and innovative survey of key topics in French cinema from the 1890s to the twenty-first century but also new insights into familiar areas and sets out a fresh agenda for the study and appreciation of French cinema. Michael Temple teaches French at Birkbeck College, London, UK. He is the author of several books on French cinema.
May 2004 | 304pp Paperback | £20.99 9781844570126
Michael Witt is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK. He has published widely on French cinema.
The German Cinema Book Edited by Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter and Deniz Göktürk The German Cinema Book brings together film specialists from Europe and the United States to explore German film history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. This comprehensive and accessible book re-evaluates traditional areas of interest in German Cinema (such as Weimar cinema, Nazi propaganda, New German Cinema) and complements this with a fresh look at hitherto neglected aspects, including Early Cinema, the cinema of the GDR, popular genre traditions, questions of national cinema and identity, and German film’s transnational connections to Hollywood, as well as to exile and migrant cinemas. December 2002 | 304pp Paperback | £20.99 9780851709468
Tim Bergfelder is Head of Film at the University of Southampton, UK. Erica Carter is Professor of German at King’s College, London, UK. Deniz Göktürk is Associate Professor in German at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
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World Cinema The Chinese Cinema Book Edited by Song Hwee Lim and Julian Ward The Chinese Cinema Book provides an essential guide to the cinemas of the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora, from early cinema to the present day. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book is structured around five thematic sections: Territories, Trajectories, Historiographies; Early Cinema to 1949; The Forgotten Period: 1949–80; The New Waves; and Stars, Auteurs and Genres.
May 2011 | 232pp Hardback | £55.00 9781844573455 Paperback | £18.99 9781844573448
This important collection addresses issues of film production and exhibition and places Chinese cinema in its national and transnational contexts. Individual chapters examine major film movements such as the Shanghai cinema of the 1930s, Fifth Generation film-makers and the Hong Kong New Wave, as well as key issues such as stars and auteurs. The book will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars, as well as for anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of the cinemas of Greater China. Song Hwee Lim is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. Julian Ward is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas.
Chinese Films in Focus II Edited by Chris Berry The revised and expanded edition of this essential guide to Chinese cinema brings together thirty-five essays, including fourteen articles, by leading scholars, addressing key films from the 1930s to the present, including Hero, Farewell My Concubine and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Chris Berry is Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
November 2008 | 232pp Hardback | £65.00 9781844572366 Paperback | £20.99 9781844572373
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Television History and Criticism Reality Television and Class Edited by Helen Wood and Beverley Skeggs
December 2011 | 262pp Hardback | £60.00 9781844573981 Paperback | £19.99 9781844573974
This is the first book about reality television to make class its central focus. Despite popular and media debate about the ‘classed’ behaviour of reality stars such as Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty, and the class confrontations depicted in shows such as Wife Swap, class politics have been overlooked in much political and academic discussion of reality television. In their introduction, the editors spell out how reality television – by making visible new forms of performance labour – invites a serious discussion of class. Internationally-renowned media scholars and sociologists explore the ways in which ‘ordinary people’ enter the television frame, and how discourses of class are routed through national concerns and fears. Helen Wood is a Reader in Media and Communication at De Montfort University, UK. Beverley Skeggs is a Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
The Television Genre Book 2nd edition
Edited by Glen Creeber This key text brings together leading scholars to provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the debates, issues and concerns of television genre. It is structured in eleven sections which introduce the concept of ‘genre’ itself and how it has been understood in television studies, and then addresses in turn key genres: drama, soap opera, children’s television, animation, prime time and day time. Each section is illustrated throughout with case studies of classic and contemporary programming. November 2008 | 232pp Hardback | £62.50 9781844572175 Paperback | £19.99 9781844572182
Glen Creeber is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Wales, UK.
Tele-visions An Introduction to Studying Television
Edited by Glen Creeber An authoritative introductory guide to television studies for both general readers and students. In this book, key international figures in the field give an insight into how television is produced, broadcast, controlled, consumed and critically examined and offer an expansive and clearly structured account of both how and why we study television. Glen Creeber is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Wales, UK. March 2006 | 208pp Paperback | £20.99 9781844570867
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Teaching Film and Media Studies Primary Level Resources
Teaching Notes and DVD (Region 2) £45.83 (£51.27 Inc. VAT) 9781844572618
Teaching Notes and DVD (Region 2) £56.66 (£67.99 Inc. VAT) 9781844572441
Teaching Notes and DVD (Region 2) £45.83 (£51.27 Inc. VAT) 9781844572564
Teaching Notes and DVD (Region 2) £54.16 (£64.99 Inc. VAT) 9781844572458
Starting Stories
Starting Stories 2
Story Shorts
Story Shorts 2
Starting Stories explores and demonstrates the richness of short films as texts to support the development of children’s literacy and cine-literacy. It features five short films, accompanied by notes for teachers that support their use in the classroom.
The DVD includes a carefully selected collection of 12 short films between two and ten minutes long, aimed at children aged 3 and over. They cover a wide range of issues and topics and include animations and live action films from the early days of film to the present day.
Story Shorts explores and demonstrates the richness of short films as texts to support the development of children’s literacy and cine-literacy. Ideal for Key Stage 2, it features five short films, accompanied by notes for teachers that support their use in the classroom. The five short films in this DVD compilation offer a range of different styles and themes, including four animations and one live action film.
The DVD includes a carefully selected collection of 12 short films between two and ten minutes long, primarily aimed at children in years 3 to 6, but also suitable for older children, covering a wide range of issues and subjects, from early archive footage to 21st-century films.
For more details visit: www.palgrave.com/bfi/education
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Teaching Film and Media Studies Secondary Level Resources
Real Shorts
April 2008 | DVD video | £54.16 (£64.99 inc. VAT) | 9781844572410
Real Shorts consists of a DVD, a ‘starter’ booklet and an online teaching guide. The DVD includes a carefully selected collection of fifteen films suitable for students aged 11 and over (though some films can be used with younger age groups).These films are ideal for teaching a range of skills in media literacy, speaking, listening, reading and writing, and can also be used to explore aspects of the Media Studies syllabus. February 2008 | DVD video | £54.16 (£64.99 inc. VAT) | 9781844572403
Moving Shorts
Moving Shorts consists of a DVD with starter booklet and a teaching guide. The DVD includes a carefully selected collection of ten films, each between 3 and 10 minutes long suitable for students aged 12 and over. These films are ideal for teaching a range of skills and concepts relevant to the media component of the English curriculum, but also to developing speaking, listening, drama and writing skills and concepts.
March 2008 | DVD video | £45.82 (£54.98 inc. VAT) | 9781844572427
Screening Shorts
This teaching pack – including a DVD compilation accompanied by a teaching guide and support materials on an easy-to-use CD-Rom introduces innovative ways to teaching with film that support work in an English curriculum framework. This resource demonstrates how effective short films can be in enhancing students’ literacy skills and creativity, and will help you meet the National Curriculum for English requirement to study moving image media.
Teaching Film and Media Studies series Teaching TV Drama Jeremy Points 9781844571321 £28.99
Teaching Film and TV Documentary Sarah Casey Benyahi
Teaching Contemporary British Cinema Sarah Casey Benyahi
9781844572236 £28.99
9781844570614 £28.99
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Titles Index 100 American Independent Films
12
100 Animated Feature Films
11
100 Cult Films
10
100 Documentary Films 12 100 Film Musicals
11
100 Film Noirs
12
100 Silent Films
11
East Asian Screen
Seinfeld
9
Industries
17
The Searchers
7
Elizabeth Taylor
13
The Servant
7
Empire and Film
16
Ephemeral Media
19
Shadow Economies of Cinema
16
The Exorcist
6
Shadows of Progress
24
Far From Heaven
6
The Shawshank Redemption
7
Shoah
7
Fetishism and Curiosity 14
2001: A Space Odyssey
7
Film and the End of Empire
8 ½
7
The French Cinema Book 26
A History of Experimental Film and Video 19 A Mirror for England
14
The American Television Industry 17 Amores Perres
6
Antonioni
25
Arab Television Industries
17
Back to the Future
6
Baz Luhrmann
15
Behind the Scenes at the BBFC
21
16
Signs and Meaning in Cinema
14
Singin’ in the Rain
3 2
The French New Wave
25
From IBM to MGM
19
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The German Cinema Book
26
The Sound of Musicals 20 Spirited Away
The Godfather
6
Grey Gardens
6
Star Studies: A Critical Guide
Groundhog Day
6
Star Trek
Il conformista (The Conformist)
2
Star Wars
Jaws Ken Loach
6 23
La Grande Illusion
7 2
7 13 9 7
Starting Stories 2
29
Starting Stories
29
Story Shorts
29
Story Shorts 2
29
The Beiderbecke Affair
8
La Règle du jeu
The Best Years of Our Lives
6
Lars Von Trier
15
Law and Order
9
Teaching Contemporary British Cinema 30
The Big Lebowski
6
The Birds
6
The League of Gentlemen
9
Teaching Film and TV Documentary
30
Blade Runner
5
The Likely Lads
9
Teaching TV Drama
30
Bleak House
8
The Matrix
7
Tele-visions
28
Bringing up Baby
6
Meshes of the Afternoon 7
The Television Genre Book
28
The British ‘B’ Film
24
Metropolis
3
The British Cinema Book 24
Moving Shorts
30
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 9
New Vampire Cinema
18
Caché (Hidden)
5
Nicole Kidman
13
9
Night of the Living Dead 7
Cathy Come Home
Taxi Driver
4
Understanding Audiences and the Film Industry 18 Understanding Film Texts
18
Understanding Television Texts
18
Chinese Films in Focus II 27
Nino Rota
25
The Chinese Cinema Book
27
The Office
9
Vertigo
Olympia
5
Victim
7
The Cinema Book
20
Our Friends in the North 9
Went the Day Well?
4
What If I Had Been the Hero?
20
Citizen Kane
3
Pedro Almodovar
Civilisation
9
Prime Suspect
Colour Films in Britain
22
Cracker
9
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
9
Deadwood
8
15 9
4
The Projection of Britain 23
Withnail & I
7
Pulp Fiction
7
The Wizard of Oz
4
9
Wong Kar-Waj32ji
15
Real Shorts
30
The World at War
8
28
Queer as Folk
Doctor Who
9
Reality Television and Class
Don’t Look Now
3
Salesman
Ealing Revisited
22
Screening Shorts
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Authors Index Anderson, Rona
24
Khalil, Joe
Anthony, Scott
23
Kozloff, Sarah
Barr, Charles
4
Kraidy, Marwan M.
Bergfelder, Tim
26
Kramer, Peter
7
Utterson, Andrew
Berry, Chris
27
Lacey, Stephen
9
Vice, Sue
Billson, Anne
9
Lamberti, Edward
Brooker, Will
7
Lewis, Jon
Brunsdon, Charlotte
9
Lim, Song Hwee
27
Walters, Ben
6, 9
Bukatman, Scott
5
Lobato, Ramon
16
Ward, Julian
27
Buscombe, Edward
7
MacCabe, Colin
16
Wheatley, Catherine
Carter, Erica
26
Mansell, James G.
23
Wickham, Phil
18
Casey Benyahi, Sarah
30
Mathjis, Ernest
10
Williams, Melanie
22
Clover, Joshua
7
Mendik, Xavier
10
Witt, Michael
26
17 6 17
21 6
Thornham, Sue Tinkcom, Matthew Tyree, J.M.
20 6 5, 6
Vincendeau, Ginette Wagstaff, Christopher
19 7 25 2
5
Cohan, Steven 9, 20
Miller, D.A.
7
Wollen, Peter 3, 14
Coldstream, John
7
Mirzoeff, Nicholas
9
Wood, Helen
Conlin, Jonathan
9
Mulvey, Laura 3, 14
Wood, Jason
12
Cook, Pam 13, 15, 20
Murphy, Robert
24
Yueh-yu Yeh, Emilie
17
Creeber, Glen
28
Newman, Kim
9
Curtin, Michael
17
Osmond, Andrew 7, 11
Davis, Darrell William 17
Paglia, Camille
6
Davis, Glyn
9
Perkins, V.F.
2
Dixon, Bryony
11
Phillips, Alastair
12
Downing, Taylor 5, 8
Phillips, Patrick
18
Duguid, Mark 9, 22
Points, Jeremy
30
Dyer, Richard
25
Polan, Dana
7
9
Pye, Douglas
11
3
Quirke, Antonia
6
22
Rascaroli, Laura
25
Rees, A.L.
19
Eaton, Michael Elsaesser, Thomas Freeman, Lee Gallagher, William Gelder, Ken
8 18
Rhodes, John David 7, 25
Geraghty, Christine
8
Rushdie, Salman
Gilbey, Ryan
6
Russell, Patrick
6
Gill, John
4 24
Sanderson, Mark
3
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Sargeant, Amy
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