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BFI Publishing
New and Key Backlist Titles
Coming in October:
Gothic BFI Film Classics
New titles: The Shining • Pan’s Labyrinth • Nosferatu (1922) • The Innocents
New second editions: Vampyr • Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari • Nosferatu (1979) • Cat People
Publishing to coincide with the BFI’s Gothic season in late 2013
Front and back cover credits:
Tron (Steven Liseberger, 1982), © Walt Disney Productions
The Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol, 1966), Factory Films
BFI Publishing 2013
Welcome to the 2013 BFI Publishing catalogue. In July of this year we are publishing
a new Screen Guide, 100 Science Fiction Films, which provides an indispensible guide to
100 of the best films from this hugely popular genre.
BFI Film Classics
BFI TV Classics
BFI Screen Guides
This fall we will be publishing a new set of BFI Film Classics, including
The Shining, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Innocents and Nosferatu (1922), to coincide with
BFI Southbank’s Gothic season on influential horror and gothic films.
Film Stars
Students and academics will be interested in The Documentary Film Book, a major new
collection of essays exploring the field, The Italian Cinema Book, and a new addition to
our International Screen Industries series: Hollywood in the New Millennium.
Cultural Histories of Cinema
We hope you enjoy the books.
The BFI Publishing team.
Jenna Steventon, Senior Commissioning Editor and Head of Humanities |
[email protected]
BFI Silver
Film Studies
British and Irish Cinema
European Cinema
World Cinema
Jenni Burnell, Commissioning Editor | [email protected]
Contact Jenni to discuss projects and proposals
Film Makers
Sophie Contento, Senior Production Editor | [email protected]
Television Studies
Kara Kikel, Marketing Manager | [email protected]
*Prices are correct at the time of print
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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.
Editoral Advisory Board: Geoff Andrew, Edward
Buscombe, William Germano, Lalitha Gopalan,
Lee Grieveson, Nick James, Laura Mulvey, Alastair
Phillips, Dana Polan, B. Ruby Rich and Amy Villarejo
Written on the Wind
Peter William Evans,
Emeritus Professor of
Film, Queen Mary,
University of London,
UK
This is the first single
study of Douglas Sirk’s
1956 film Written on the
Wind, a melodrama
about an alcoholic
playboy who marries
the woman his
best friend secretly
loves. Peter Evans
incorporates original archival research to examine
the production, promotion and reception of this
masterpiece of Hollywood melodrama.
May 2013
Paperback
New
2
104pp
$17.95 (C$19.95)
978-1-84457-420-9
The Tales of Hoffmann
Salesman
William Germano,
Professor of English
Literature and Dean of
the Faculty of
Humanities and Social
Sciences, Cooper Union
for the Advancement
of Science and Art,
USA
The Tales of Hoffmann
(1951) is a unique and
important film, both
in the history of British
cinema and in the
history of interdisciplinary art-making. It is the first
full-throttle presentation of an opera on screen: a
Technicolor exploration of romance, fantasy, and
failure, more danced than sung.
June 2013
Paperback
120pp
$17.95 (C$19.95)
J.M. Tyree, Writer-atLarge for Film
Quarterly
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.
October 2012
Paperback
104pp
$17.95 (C$19.95)
978-1-84457-387-5
978-1-84457-446-9
New
“
Praise for the BFI Film Classics:
‘Magnificently concentrated examples of flowing
freeform critical poetry.’ - Uncut
‘The series is a landmark in film criticism.’ Quarterly Review of Film and Video
‘A formidable body of work collectively generating
some fascinating insights into the evolution of
cinema.’ - Times Higher Education Supplement
Olympia
20th Anniversary Editions
2nd edition
Taylor Downing,
Television Producer,
Writer and co-founder
of Flashback Television
‘...it’s hard to think of
what more a reader
would want without
straying too far from
the film in hand. This
is as thorough and
detailed an account of
a classic as you could
hope for.’ - The Digital
Fix
‘...this is a timely updated edition of filmmaker
Downing’s excellent study of Leni Riefenstahl’s
controversial documentary about the 1936 Berlin
Olympics.’ - P.D. Smith, The Guardian
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.
March 2012
Paperback
128pp
$17.95 (C$19.95)
La Règle du jeu
V.F. Perkins, Honorary
Professor of Film
Studies, Warwick
University, UK
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.
September 2012
Paperback
112pp
$14.95 (C$16.95)
Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs
Eric Smoodin,
Professor of American
Studies and Cinema
and Technocultural
Studies, University of
California, Davis, USA
‘...gives us the essential
background...’ - Total
Film
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.
978-0-85170-965-9
September 2012
Paperback
112pp
$14.95 (C$16.95)
978-1-84457-475-9
978-1-84457-470-4
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20th Anniversary Editions
Don’t Look Now
The Wizard of Oz
Blade Runner
2nd edition
2nd edition
2nd edition
Mark Sanderson,
Literary Critic, London
Evening Standard and
Sunday Telegraph
With a new foreword
by Jason Wood
Don’t Look Now, released
in 1973, confirmed
director Nicolas Roeg as
one of the most stylish
and innovative British
directors of the postwar
period. The book
includes an exclusive interview with Roeg as well
as rare unpublished comments from Julie Christie.
September 2012
Paperback
88pp
$14.95 (C$16.95)
Salman Rushdie,
Award-winning
Novelist
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.
978-1-84457-515-2
September 2012
Paperback
4
Scott Bukatman,
Cultural Theorist and
Professor of Film and
Media Studies,
Stanford University,
USA
80pp
$14.95 (C$16.95)
978-1-84457-516-9
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 twentiethcentury, modernist experience of the city.
September 2012
Paperback
112pp
$14.95 (C$16.95)
978-1-84457-522-0
20th Anniversary Editions
Citizen Kane
Metropolis
Singin’ in the Rain
2nd edition
2nd edition
2nd edition
Laura Mulvey,
Professor of Film and
Media Studies,
Birkbeck College,
University of London,
UK
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.
September 2012
Paperback
104pp
$14.95 (C$17.95)
978-1-84457-497-1
Thomas Elsaesser,
Emeritus Professor,
University of
Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
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.
September 2012
Paperback
112pp
$14.95 (C$16.95)
Peter Wollen,
formerly, University of
California at Los
Angeles, USA
With a new foreword
by Geoff Andrew
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.
September 2012
Paperback
88pp
$14.95 (C$16.95)
978-1-84457-514-5
978-1-84457-501-5
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20th Anniversary Editions
Taxi Driver
Vertigo
Went the Day Well?
2nd edition
2nd edition
2nd edition
Amy Taubin,
Contributing Editor,
Film Comment and
Sight & Sound and
Writer, Artforum
Charles Barr,
Adjunct Professor, John
Huston Centre for Film
and Digital Media,
National University of
Ireland
With a new foreword
by the author
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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.
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.
September 2012
Paperback
September 2012
Paperback
88pp
$14.95 (C$16.95)
978-1-84457-499-5
104pp
$14.95 (C$16.95)
978-1-84457-498-8
Penelope Houston,
British Film Critic
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.
September 2012
Paperback
72pp
$14.95 (C$16.95)
978-1-84457-500-8
Selected Backlist
Caché (Hidden)
The Shawshank Redemption
Catherine Wheatley
Mark Kermode
978-1-84457-349-3
978-0-85170-968-0
Back to the Future
The Exorcist
Star Wars
Andrew Shail & Robin Stoate
Mark Kermode
Will Brooker
978-1-84457-293-9
978-0-85170-967-3
978-1-84457-277-9
The Big Lewbowski
The Godfather
Withnail and I
J.M. Tyree & Ben Walters
Jon Lewis
Kevin Jackson
978-1-84457-173-4
978-1-84457-292-2
978-1-844570-35-5
The Birds
Jaws
2001: A Space Odyssey
Camille Paglia
Antonia Quirke
Peter Krämer
978-0-85170-651-1
978-0-85170-929-1
978-1-84457-286-1
For a full list of titles available in this
series visit http://us.macmillan.com/
series/BFIFilmClasics
Paperback • $17.95 (C$19.95) each
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BFI TV CLASSICS
BFI TV Classics is 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
Taylor Downing,
Television Producer,
Writer and co-founder
of Flashback Television
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 program,
in a study that draws on
interviews with the producer, Jeremy Isaacs, and
original archive research.
November 2012
Paperback
8
192pp
$23.95 (C$27.95)
978-1-84457-483-4
Bleak House
The Beiderbecke Affair
Christine Geraghty,
Honorary Professorial
Fellow, University of
Glasgow, UK and
Honorary Research
Fellow, Goldsmiths,
University of London,
UK
Bleak House is one of
Charles Dickens’s
darker works: a vision of
London as the polluted,
diseased heart of an
industrializing nation.
In 2005, the BBC 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.
October 2012
Paperback
152pp
$19.95 (C$22.95)
978-1-84457-417-9
William Gallagher,
Journalist and
Television Historian
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 the
making, impact and influence of the series.
October 2012
Paperback
144pp
$22.95 (C$26.95)
978-1-84457-469-8
Deadwood
Selected Backlist
Jason Jacobs, Reader
in Cultural History,
School of English,
Media Studies and Art
History, University of
Queensland, Australia
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. July 2012
Paperback
200pp
$15.00 (C$17.00)
978-1-84457-362-2
Prime Suspect
For a full list of titles available in this
series visit http://us.macmillan.com/
series/BFITVClassics
Deborah Jermyn
978-1-84457-305-9
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Seinfeld
Steven Cohan
Nicholas Mirzoeff
978-1-84457-255-7
978-1-84457-201-4
Edge of Darkness
Seven Up
John Caughie
Stella Bruzzi
978-1-84457-200-7
978-1-84457-196-3
Queer as Folk
Star Trek
Glyn Davis
Ina Rae Hark
978-1-84457-199-4
978-1-84457-214-4
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BFI SCREEN GUIDES
100 Science Fiction Films
100 Cult Films
Barry Keith Grant, Professor of Film and Popular Culture, Brock
University, Canada
An indispensible guide to 100 of the best science fiction films. With
an in-depth exploration of each film, this is an accessible but rigorous
exploration both for fans who want to know more and for students.
Contents: Introduction • Aelita • Alien • Alphaville • Altered States
• Avatar • Back to the Future • The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
• Blade Runner • Born in Flames • A Boy and his Dog • Brazil •
The Brother From Another Planet • The Cabin in the Woods • A
Clockwork Orange • Close Encounters of the Third Kind • Colossus:
The Forbin Project • The Damned • Dark City • Dark Star • The Day the Earth Stood Still •
Destination Moon • District 9 • Dune • Enemy Mine • E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial • Fahrenheit
451 • Fantastic Voyage • The Fifth Element • Flash Gordon (serial) • The Fly • Forbidden Planet
• Frankenstein • Frau im mond (Woman in the Moon) • Galaxy Quest • Ghost in the Shell •
Gojira (Godzilla) • The Host • The Incredible Shrinking Man • I Am Legend • Invaders From
Mars • Invasion of the Body Snatchers • The Invisible Man • Island of Lost Souls • La Jetée
• Jurassic Park • Just Imagine • Last Night • Liquid Sky • Mad Max • The Man Who Fell to
Earth • Mars Attacks! • The Matrix • Metropolis • Nineteen Eighty-Four • Paris qui dort • Plan
9 From Outer Space • Planet of the Apes • Quatermass and the Pit • The Quiet Earth • The
Road • Robo-cop • Seconds • Signs • Silent Running • The Silent Star • Slaughterhouse-Five
• Sleep Dealer • Sleeper • Solaris • Soylent Green • Star Trek: The Motion Picture • Star Wars
• Starship Troopers • Strange Days • Superman • The Terminator • Tetsuo: The Iron Man •
Them! • They Live • The Thing From Another World • The Thing • Things to Come • THX 1138
• The Time Machine • Total Recall • Tribulation 99: Alien Anomolies Under America • Tron •
The Tunnel • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea • 2001: A Space Odyssey • Videodrome • Village
of the Damned • Le Voyage dans la lune • WALL-E • The War Game • The War of the Worlds
• Westworld • When Worlds Collide • X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes • Zardoz • Notes •
Further Reading
July 2013
Paperback
New
10
256pp
$20.00 (C$23.00)
978-1-84457-457-5
Ernest Mathijs,
Associate Professor of
Film Studies,
University of British
Columbia, Canada and
Xavier Mendik,
Director of the
Cine-Excess
International Film
Festival and DVD
label, University of Brighton, UK
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.
December 2011
Paperback
256pp
$21.00 (C$24.00)
978-1-84457-408-7
100 Silent Films
100 Film Musicals
Bryony Dixon, Senior
Curator at the BFI
National Archive
‘This is no bluffer’s
guide. The enjoyment of
silent cinema is Dixon’s
priority. As Dixon says
when discussing Hell’s
Hinges (1916): ‘Nearly
everything in current
cinema can be traced
back to the silent era.’
And that’s why this
guide is so valuable 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 - Charlie Chaplin mournfully
eating his shoelaces in The Gold Rush (1925) or the
woodland chase in People on Sunday (1930) - with
an infectious joy.’ - Lucian Robinson, 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.
August 2011
Hardback
Paperback
272pp
$80.00 (C$92.00)
$21.00 (C$24.00)
978-1-84457-309-7
978-1-84457-308-0
100 Animated Feature Films
Jim Hillier and
Douglas Pye, Visiting
Fellows in the
Department of Film,
Theatre and Television,
University of Reading,
UK
A selection of 100
films from one of the
best-loved genres of
Hollywood and world
cinema, with entries
ranging from Gold
Diggers of 1933 to High
School Musical of 2006, and from the Reggae classic
The Harder They Come to Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa (1957).
The authors’ introduction outlines the history and
key features of the film musical.
August 2011
Paperback
296pp
$21.00 (C$24.00)
978-1-84457-378-3
Andrew Osmond,
Journalist and writer,
Sight & Sound
‘…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
‘...a learned attempt at an overview of full-length
cinematic animation from the sublime to the
whimsical...’ - The Evening Standard
‘...a thoughtful romp through every animation
discipline...If you want animation-buff status, seeing
this ton of ‘toons armed with Osmond’s insights is a
pretty good place to start.’ - Empire Magazine
The animated feature film has been long underrepresented 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.
April 2010
Hardback
252pp
$30.00 (C$34.50)
978-1-84457-340-0
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100 American Independent
Films
100 Film Noirs
Jim Hillier, Visiting
Fellow, Department of
Film and Television
Studies, University of
Reading, UK and
Alastair Phillips,
Associate Professor,
Department of Film
and Television Studies,
University of Warwick,
UK
2nd edition
Jason Wood, Director
of Programming for
Curzon Cinemas
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.
September 2009
Hardback
Paperback
272pp
$90.00 (C$104.00)
$20.95 (C$23.95)
978-1-84457-290-8
978-1-84457-289-2
‘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.’ - P.D. Smith, The Guardian
Apps
100 Cult Films: BFI Screen Guides
‘As has already been indicated, this is an
authoritative work, as one might expect with
the imprint of the British Film Institute. It is
extremely readable in style and is recommended
for students of film studies in school, college, or
university, as well as for public libraries where it
would be eagerly read by lovers of film noir.’ - Eric
Jukes, Reference Reviews
This BFI Screen Guide provides an accessible, richlyillustrated 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.
June 2009
Paperback
296pp
$20.95 (C$23.95)
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BFI Screen Guides
978-1-84457-216-8
100 American Independent Films:
BFI Screen Guides
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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 addresses
both child and adult stardom.
Series Editors: Martin Shingler and Susan Smith,
both at University of Sunderland, UK
Barbara Stanwyck
Andrew Klevan,
University of Oxford,
UK
During her Hollywood
career, Barbara
Stanwyck starred in
many major genres
including film noir,
melodrama, and
Western. Andrew
Klevan considers
Stanywck the performer,
and also offers a fresh
way of approaching the
achievements of Classic Hollywood cinema, and
Hollywood film performance more generally.
October 2013
Paperback
New
170pp
$22.95 (C$26.50)
978-1-84457-348-7
Brigitte Bardot
Carmen Miranda
Ginette Vincendeau,
Professor in Film
Studies, King’s College
London, UK
In this original and
illuminating study, film
scholar and Brigitte
Bardot fan Ginette
Vincendeau explores
the star’s complex and
revolutionary image
of femininity, her film
career and her lasting
and controversial
celebrity. Analyzing all Bardot’s output,
encompassing popular comedies and melodramas,
work with New Wave directors Louis Malle and
Jean-Luc Godard, and international productions
such as Dear Brigitte (1965) and Shalako (1968),
Vincendeau shows how Bardot’s enduring fame is
based on her status as a sexual, lifestyle, musical,
and fashion role model and even, in her guise as
Marianne, the emblem of the French Republic, an
icon of national identity. Finally, she considers the
ageing Bardot’s continued prominence in popular
culture through her own writings and animal rights
activism, arguing that, as well as a glamorous film
star, Bardot was one of the inventors of modern
celebrity.
April 2013
Paperback
New
184pp
$19.95 (C$22.95)
978-1-84457-492-6
Lisa Shaw, University
of Liverpool, UK
Lisa Shaw’s study of
Miranda’s film career
and star persona traces
her emergence as one
of the first stars of the
Brazilian film industry
and her subsequent
triumph in Hollywood.
Shaw charts Miranda’s
transition from singer to
film star, analyzing how
her star persona drew on
performance techniques honed during her singing
career. She examines shifts in Miranda’s star identity
after her move to Broadway in 1939, and Hollywood
a year later, with her identification as an ‘ethnic’
star emphasized by extravagant baiana costumes.
Shaw shows how Miranda consciously constructed
an identity that both endorsed and subverted
stereotypes about Latin America during the era of
the ‘Good Neighbor Policy’, and explores Miranda’s
appeal across mainstream and marginalised
audiences, both in the US and Brazil. Finally, she
examines Miranda’s impact on material culture,
particularly women’s fashions, both during her
lifetime and until the present day, and the role played
in the consecration of her ‘tropical’ star persona by
imitators, ranging from Bugs Bunny, Lucille Ball and
Mickey Rooney, to contemporary Carmen Miranda
imitators of both genders.
April 2013
Paperback
168pp
$19.95 (C$22.95)
978-1-84457-432-2
New
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Elizabeth Taylor
Nicole Kidman
Susan Smith, Senior
Lecturer in Film
Studies, University of
Sunderland, UK
Pam Cook, Professor
Emerita in Film,
University of
Southampton, UK
‘Smith packs her slim
volume with telling
detail and a vivid
re-evaluation of the
actress’ incredible
flair for engaging with
audiences.’ - Total Film
Nicole Kidman
is a high-profile,
successful exponent
of contemporary
commodity stardom,
and a product of
fundamental changes
in the media industries
over the last two
decades. Pam Cook
vividly brings to life her journey from Australian
actress to global superstar, looking at her work
in different contexts from film and television
to fashion, commercials, philanthropy and the
Internet. In-depth analysis of key films such as
Dead Calm, To Die For, Eyes Wide Shut and The Hours
reveals Kidman’s development of an ‘actorly’
performance style that enables her to combine
stardom and celebrity with award-winning acting.
Cook delves into the intricate media networks that
circulate Kidman’s image and story, assessing the
contribution of her Australian identity to building
her personal brand, the Botox controversy, her
recent move into production and her cultural
impact. This absorbing case study unveils a star
narrative as compelling as any that appears in her
films.
Elizabeth Taylor was
one of the major film
stars of the twentieth
century, embodying all the glamour and allure
of Hollywood stardom. Yet her achievements as
an actress have often been overshadowed by her
beauty and tumultuous life off-screen. To redress
this imbalance, Susan Smith offers an illuminating
study of Elizabeth Taylor’s work in film, exploring
her fascinating trajectory from child to adult star.
Smith reveals the influence that Taylor’s early
work exerted over her later career and the ways
in which her on-screen identity is profoundly
rooted in her association with animals and nature.
Smith carefully unpicks what made Taylor such
a distinctive and dynamic on-screen performer
– from the expressive use she made of her eyes
to the dramatic significance of her voice – and
considers the importance of certain professional
collaborations that Taylor forged during her
career, most notably her acting partnership with
Montgomery Clift.
September 2012
Paperback
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Star Studies
184pp
$19.95 (C$22.95)
978-1-84457-486-5
August 2012
Paperback
160pp
$19.95 (C$22.95)
978-1-84457-488-9
A Critical Guide
Martin Shingler,
Senior Lecturer in
Radio and Film
Studies, University of
Sunderland, UK
This book provides a
lively introduction to
the major approaches
and key developments
within this 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.
Comparing the stars and star systems of
Hollywood, Bollywood, China and many European
countries, Martin Shingler considers the multiple
functions of stars: as an elite workforce within the
film industry, as actors and performers, as role
models and cultural representatives, as icons and
images, as transnational and national symbols,
and as commodities. This book provides a cogent
overview of star studies, while suggesting some
useful avenues for further research. Star Studies
provides an essential theoretical and historical
companion to the individual star volumes in the
Film Stars series.
September 2012
Paperback
240pp
$20.00 (C$23.95)
978-1-84457-490-2
bfi silver
Signs and Meaning in the
Cinema
Fetishism and Curiosity
A Mirror for England
Cinema and the Mind’s Eye
British Movies from Austerity to Affluence
5th edition
2nd edition
2nd edition
Laura Mulvey,
Birkbeck College,
University of London,
UK
Peter Wollen,
formerly, University of
California, USA
With a new foreword
by D.N. Rodowick
First published in 1969,
Signs and Meaning in the
Cinema transformed
the emerging discipline
of film studies.
Remarkably eclectic
and informed, Peter
Wollen’s highly
influential and groundbreaking work remains
a brilliant and accessible theorization of film
as an art form and as a sign system. This fifth
edition brings together material from the four
previous editions, inviting the reader to trace
the development of Wollen’s thinking, and the
unfolding of the discourse of cinema.
May 2013
Hardback
Paperback
New
288pp
$85.00 (C$98.00)
$29.95 (C$34.50)
978-1-84457-361-5
978-1-84457-360-8
Raymond Durgnat,
(1932–2002) was the
author of many
groundbreaking books
about the cinema
With a new foreword
by the author
This new edition of
Laura Mulvey’s classic
work of feminist theory
contains writings which
range from analyses
of Xala, Citizen Kane,
and Blue Velvet to an
extended engagement with the work of American
Indian artist Jimmie Durham and the feminist
photographer Cindy Sherman. The essays explore
the concept of fetishism as developed by Marx
and Freud, and how it relates to the ways in which
artistic texts work. Mulvey here returns to some of
the knottier issues in contemporary cultural theory,
especially the links between looking, fantasy and
theorization, on the one hand, and the processes
of historical change on the other. What are the
modes of address that characterize ‘societies of
the spectacle’? How might ‘curiosity’ be directed
towards deciphering the politics of popular culture?
These are some of the questions raised in this
brilliant and subtle collection.
August 2013
Hardback
Paperback
New
256pp
$85.00 (C$98.00)
$19.95 (C$22.95)
978-1-84457-509-1
978-1-84457-508-4
With a foreword by
Kevin Gough-Yates
Raymond Durgnat’s
classic study of British
films from the 1940s
to the 1960s, first
published in 1970,
remains one of the
most important books ever written on British
cinema. Durgnat used Mirror to assert the validity of British cinema against its dismissal by the
critics of Cahiers du cinéma and Sight & Sound.
His analysis takes in classics such as In Which
We Serve (1942), A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
and The Blue Lamp (1949), alongside ‘B’ films and
popular genres such as Hammer horror. Durgnat makes a cogent and compelling case for
the success of British films in reflecting British
predicaments, moods and myths, at the same
time as providing some disturbing new insights
into a national character by whose enigmas and
contradictions we continue to be perplexed and
fascinated.
December 2011
Hardback
Paperback
416pp
$95.00 (C$109.00)
$25.95 (C$29.95)
978-1-84457-454-4
978-1-84457-453-7
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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 analyzing
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
Shadow Economies of
Cinema
Mapping Informal Film Distribution
Ramon Lobato,
Swinburne University
of Technology,
Australia
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.
April 2012
Hardback
Paperback
176pp
$85.00 (C$98.00)
$25.95 (C$29.95)
978-1-84457-412-4
978-1-84457-411-7
Empire and Film
October 2011
Hardback
Paperback
304pp
$100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-422-3
$30.00 (C$34.50)
978-1-84457-421-6
Film and the End of Empire
November 2011
Hardback
Paperback
320pp
$95.00 (C$109.00)
$29.95 (C$34.50)
978-1-84457-424-7
978-1-84457-423-0
Edited by Lee Grieveson, Director of Film
Studies, University College London, UK and
Colin MacCabe, Distinguished Professor of
English and Film, University of Pittsburgh and
Associate Director of the London Consortium 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.
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film studies
The Cinema Book
New Vampire Cinema
3rd edition
Edited by Pam Cook,
Professor Emerita in
Film, University of
Southampton, UK
‘With excellent essays,
close textual analysis
of films and further
reading lists from some
of the leading lights in
the area, the book has
proved an invaluable
asset for those
negotiating their way
through the minefield
of ideas and conflicting theories that make up the
study of film...This weighty, yet still surprisingly
succinct tome also has an excellent sense of
design allowing the reader to dip in and out and
pull out the relevant information as they wish...
obvious must for any student of film...excellent
resource.’ - Laurence Boyce, Films and Festivals
The Cinema Book is widely recognized as the
ultimate guide to cinema. Authoritative and
comprehensive, the third edition has been
extensively revised, updated and expanded in
response to developments in cinema and cinema
studies. Lavishly illustrated in color, this edition
features a wealth of exciting new sections and indepth case studies.
December 2007
Paperback
450pp
$47.95 (C$54.95)
978-1-84457-193-2
Ken Gelder,
University of
Melbourne, Australia
New Vampire Cinema lifts
the coffin lid on forty
contemporary vampire
films, charting the
evolution of the genre.
Ken Gelder’s study
begins by looking at
Francis Ford Coppola’s
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
and Fran Rubel Kuzui’s
Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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 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.
December 2012
Hardback
Paperback
168pp
$85.00 (C$98.00)
$24.95 (C$29.95)
978-1-84457-441-4
978-1-84457-440-7
What If I Had Been the Hero?
Investigating Women’s Cinema
Sue Thornham,
University of Sussex,
UK
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. 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.
August 2012
Hardback
Paperback
248pp
$74.95 (C$86.00)
$24.95 (C$28.95)
978-1-84457-364-6
978-1-84457-363-9
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Film Moments
Shadows of Progress
Criticism, History, Theory
Documentary Film in Post-War Britain
Edited by James
Walters, Lecturer in
Film and Television
Studies, University of
Birmingham, UK and
Tom Brown, Lecturer,
Department of Film,
Theatre and Television,
University of Reading,
UK
‘Certain moments in
films stay with us, and
often we don’t know
why. Here is an array of such memorable moments,
with an array of notable critics and scholars
endeavoring to tell us why. Concise like the
moments that inspired them, the essays gathered
here open our eyes in various ways to the meaning
of moving images. This is a book full of insights into
the details that make all the difference.’ - Gilberto
Perez, Sarah Lawrence College, USA
‘...a terrific collection of short essays which
each address a specific sequence in a movie...’ lluminations
Film Moments brings together specially commissioned
essays by leading international scholars to provide a
close analysis of key films of world cinema, including
The Wizard of Oz, United 93, 8 1/2, Wild Strawberries
and Magnolia. The essays represent a range of critical
approaches to and concepts in film studies. December 2010
Hardback
Paperback
192pp
$95.00 (C$109.00)
$29.95 (C$34.50)
978-1-84457-336-3
978-1-84457-335-6
Edited by Patrick
Russell, Senior
Curator (Non-Fiction),
BFI National Archive
and James Piers
Taylor, Independent
Curator and Film
Historian
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.
November 2010
Hardback
Paperback
448pp
$105.00 (C$121.00) 978-1-84457-322-6
$42.95 (C$49.50)
978-1-84457-321-9
The Documentary Film
Book
Edited by Brian
Winston, Lincoln
Chair of
Communications,
University of Lincoln,
UK
Powerfully posing
questions of ethics,
ideology, authorship
and form, documentary
cinema has never
been more popular
than it is today. Edited
by the leading British
authority in the field, The Documentary Film Book
is an essential guide to current thinking on
documentary film. In a series of fascinating essays,
key international experts discuss the theory of
documentary, outline current understanding
of the history of documentary (from before
Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital
‘i-Docs’), survey documentary production (from
Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to
Asia), consider documentaries by marginalized
minority communities, and assess documentary’s
contribution to other disciplines and other arts.
Brought together here in one volume, these
scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over
the last decades, documentary has come to the
centre of screen studies.
October 2013
Hardback
Paperback
New
18
400pp
$95.00 (C$109.00)
$29.95 (C$34.50)
978-1-84457-342-4
978-1-84457-341-7
Claiming the Real
From IBM to MGM
Ephemeral Media
Documentary: Grierson and Beyond
Cinema at the Dawn of the Digital Age
Transitory Screen Culture from Television
to YouTube
2nd edition
Andrew Utterson,
Senior Lecturer in Film
and Digital Media,
Canterbury Christ
Church University, UK
Brian Winston,
Lincoln Chair of
Communications,
University of Lincoln,
UK
Claiming the Real
describes the origins,
development and
current state of
documentary cinema,
and the social, political,
industrial and ethical
factors that determine
its production. This
edition addresses the ethical quagmires, digital
technologies and proliferating forms that have
transformed documentary cinema.
January 2009
Hardback
Paperback
336pp
$100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-272-4
$29.95 (C$34.50)
978-1-84457-271-7
‘...a stimulating and
very engaging read.’ Illuminations
‘Utterson adroitly
draws out the tensions
between ‘technophobic’
film portrayals of
computers and an
avant-garde of digital utopians engaged in
computer-aided art (spare a thought for the sad
fate of the ‘lightpen’), who tempted directors
to adopt their technology, as with Westworld’s
pixellated point-of-view shots. Quirky technoanecdotes abound: the hacking of scavenged
second-world-war ballistics computers; the
origin of ASCII art; talk of a computer that makes
a ‘Freudian slip’; and even an evocative appeal to
‘robotic ontology’. Is it time to watch The Matrix
again yet?’ - The Guardian
Edited by Paul
Grainge, Associate
Professor of Film and
Television Studies,
University of
Nottingham, UK 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.
November 2011
Hardback
Paperback
248pp
$95.00 (C$109.00)
$25.95 (C$29.95)
978-1-84457-435-3
978-1-84457-434-6
Andrew Utterson’s unique study charts the
beginnings of digital cinema, addressing both how
filmmakers 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.
February 2011
Hardback
Paperback
184pp
$100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-324-0
$35.95 (C$41.50)
978-1-84457-323-3
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Cinema and Colour
The Saturated Image
Paul Coates,
University of Western
Ontario, Canada
A study of the use of
color in film, and of the
ways in which color
has been theorized,
both as a concept and
specifically in terms of
cinema. Paul Coates
focuses on the use of
color in films ranging
including All that Heaven
Allows, Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle, Three
Colours: Red and The Wizard of Oz.
November 2010
Hardback
Paperback
184pp
$100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-315-8
$30.95 (C$35.50)
978-1-84457-314-1
A History of Experimental
Film and Video
Edited by Steven
Cohan, Professor of
English, Syracuse
University, USA
2nd edition
A.L. Rees, Research
Tutor in Visual
Communication, Royal
College of Art, UK
This revised and
updated edition
covers the history of
avante-garde film and
video, ranging from
Cezanne and dada, via
Cocteau, Brakhage and
Le Grice, to the new
wave of British video
artists from the 1990s
to the present day. The
author also reconstitutes the avante-garde film as
an independent form of art practice with its own
internal logic and aesthetic discourse.
November 2011
Hardback
Paperback
208pp
$70.00 (C$81.00)
$30.00 (C$34.50)
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The Sound of Musicals
978-1-84457-437-7
978-1-84457-436-0
‘...a rewarding volume
of recent papers...’ Illuminations
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. December 2010
Hardback
Paperback
232pp
$85.00 (C$98.00)
$25.95 (C$29.95)
978-1-84457-347-9
978-1-84457-346-2
BRITISH AND IRISH CINEMA
Behind the Scenes at the BBFC
Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age
Edited by Edward Lamberti, Information Services Manager,
BBFC
With a foreword by Mark Kermode
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
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 organization’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 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.
December 2012
Paperback
240pp
$29.95 (C$34.50)
978-1-84457-476-6
Ealing Revisited
Edited by Mark
Duguid, Senior
Curator at the BFI
National Archive, Lee
Freeman, PhD
Student in Ealing
Studios, University of
Hull, UK, Keith
Johnston, Senior
Lecturer in Film and
Television and
Melanie Williams,
Lecturer in Film and
Television Studies,
both at University of East Anglia, UK
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
Hardback
Paperback
304pp
$100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-511-4
$29.95 (C$34.50)
978-1-84457-510-7
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British Trash Cinema
I.Q. Hunter, De
Montfort University,
UK
Written by one of the
leading scholars in the
field, British Trash Cinema
is the first book to offer
a comprehensive survey
of the full range of
British exploitation and
paracinema, looking
beyond horror and
sexploitation, to social
problem films, art house camp, ‘badaptations’,
unregarded Hammer, erotic adaptations and
private eye and spy films.
August 2013
Hardback
Paperback
New
256pp
$85.00 (C$98.00)
$25.00 (C$29.00)
978-1-84457-416-2
978-1-84457-415-5
Colour Films in Britain
British Colour Cinema
The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-1955
Practices and Theories
Sarah Street,
Professor of Film,
University of Bristol,
UK
Technical Appendix by
Simon Brown
‘Sarah Street’s
groundbreaking
study is that rare film
history text which
is at once absolutely
authoritative, and
pitched at a very high level in terms of discourse,
but still readily accessible to the general reader.
In addition, the volume is richly — and I mean
intensely – illustrated with numerous, exquisitely
printed frame blowups from the many films it
examines, all in full colour, and Street’s analysis
of the development of colour, not only in the
commercial British cinema, but also in the the
experimental work of artists such as Len Lye,
is meticulous and detailed.’ - Wheeler Winston
Dixon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Sarah Street provides an economic, cultural and
aesthetic study of commercial color films in Britain,
from silent cinema to the 1950s, presenting a
detailed history of color processes and a textual
analysis of individual color films, including The
Open Road and Black Narcissus, and their place in
British film culture.
November 2012
Hardback
Paperback
22
Edited by Simon
Brown, Director of
Studies for Film and
Television and New
Broadcasting Media,
Kingston University,
UK, Sarah Street,
Professor of Film,
University of Bristol,
UK and Liz Watkins,
Lecturer, University of
Leeds, UK
320pp
$100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-313-4
$34.95 (C$39.95)
978-1-84457-312-7
Created as a companion
volume to Colour Films in Britain, this book
features a series of unique interviews conducted
by Simon Brown, Sarah Street and Liz Watkins
with practitioners who worked in the UK with
Technicolor and/or Eastmancolor during the
1930s-1950s.
June 2013
Hardback
Paperback
New
320pp
$90.00 (C$104.00)
$29.95 (C$43.50)
978-1-84457-414-8
978-1-84457-413-1
The Projection of Britain
Ken Loach
The British Cinema Book
A History of the GPO Film Unit
The Politics of Film and Television
3rd edition
Edited by Scott
Anthony, Journalist
and Historian, Christ’s
College, University of
Cambridge, UK and
James G. Mansell,
Historian and Lecturer
in Cultural Studies,
University of
Nottingham, UK
‘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
Hardback
Paperback
352pp
$100.00 (C$115.00) 978-1-84457-375-2
$32.95 (C$37.95)
978-1-84457-374-5
John Hill, Professor of
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‘Not only offers a
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[This is] clearly the most important addition to
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‘Hill’s definitive study of Loach’s television and
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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.
August 2011
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Edited by Robert
Murphy, Professor of
Film Studies, De
Montfort University,
UK ‘The third edition of this
excellent, illustrated
collection of essays on
British cinema provides
an overview of the key
issues, debates and
history. First published
in 1997, it has been
expanded to include case studies of individual
films, and several new essays on subjects such
as the representation of women in 1950s cinema
and the birth of British Asian cinema in the 90s. Its
range is impressive.’ - Peter Smith, The Guardian
‘...a delightful gateway into the rich world of
British cinema.’ - Simon Brown, Viewfinder
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.
April 2009
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The British ‘B’ Film
Steve Chibnall,
Professor of British
Cinema at De Montfort
University, UK and
Brian McFarlane,
Adjunct Associate
Professor, Monash
University, Melbourne,
Australia and Visiting
Professor, University of
Hull, UK
‘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
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.
British Film Posters
An Illustrated History
Sim Branaghan,
Information Librarian
and Steve Chibnall,
Professor of British
Cinema, De Montfort
University, UK The first complete
history of illustrated
film posters in the UK
covers every aspect
of design, printing
and display from the
Victorian era to the
arrival of DeskTop
Publishing in the 1980s. British Film Posters
examines the contribution ‘vintage’ film posters
have made to British popular art of the twentieth
century.
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european cinema
The Italian Cinema Book
Edited by Peter
Bondanella,
Distinguished
Professor Emeritus of
Comparative
Literature, Film
Studies and Italian,
Indiana University,
USA
The Italian Cinema Book
provides an accessible,
dynamic, innovative
guide to the major
critical issues in the
study of Italian cinema. It brings together some of
the most distinguished and innovative scholars,
critics, and film historians in the field to consider
a number of historical, cultural, and theoretical
issues. Moving beyond familiar approaches,
the book showcases a number of new critical
methodologies through detailed exploration of case
studies and analysis of key filmic texts. Chapters
span the history and evolution of the Italian film
culture over a century. The silent era, the birth
of ‘talkies’, realism during the Fascist period, the
golden age of the art film, and the age of crisis up
to 2010 are all discussed. The Italian Cinema Book
offers a diverse range of original perspectives on
the rise of Italian film stars, the structure of the film
industry, the importance of the art and the genre
film, and the representation of Italian culture and
history in cinema.
November 2013
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Antonioni
Nino Rota
Centenary Essays
Music, Film and Feeling
Edited by Laura
Rascaroli, Senior
Lecturer in Film
Studies, University
College Cork, Republic
of Ireland and John
David Rhodes, Senior
Lecturer in Literature
and Visual Culture,
University of Sussex,
UK
‘The essays collected in
this volume reappraise
the centrality and
continuing influence of Antonioni’s unique,
demanding, and controversial language to world
filmmakers. They testify that, even from a cultural
and historical moment different from ours, his
films can give us insights that allow to look with
new eyes at the complexities and contradictions
of late-modernity.’ - British Universities Film & Video
Council
Richard Dyer, King's
College London, UK
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.
September 2010
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$85.00 (C$98.00)
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This collection of essays by leading film scholars
addresses Michelangelo Antonioni as a preeminent 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.
December 2011
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978-1-84457-385-1
978-1-84457-384-4
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The French New Wave
The French Cinema Book
Critical Landmarks
Edited by Peter
Graham, Critic and
Writer and Ginette
Vincendeau,
Professor of Film
Studies, King’s College
London, UK
‘This is an
indispensable point of
reference for anyone
interested in the
movement.’ - Sight&
Sound
‘...the re-printed essays
in The French New Wave encapsulate an exciting
time of cultural change with their fierce opinions
and alternative approach towards reading film.’
- Scope
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, they are accompanied by critical
and contextualizing commentary by the editors,
leading authorities in the field.
May 2009
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978-1-84457-283-0
978-1-84457-282-3
Edited by Michael
Witt, University of
Surrey, UK and
Michael Temple,
Birkbeck College,
University of London,
UK
‘French cinema has...
been the subject of
numerous academic
studies over the years,
but I doubt if any
offer quite such an
accessible and arresting
introduction as The French Cinema Book. Its editors,
Michael Temple and Michael Witt, state that the 25
contributors pledged to avoid the academic jargon
and footnotes, and the approach has produced
wonderful results.’ - Christopher Wood, Times
Higher Education Supplement
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.
February 2008
Paperback
294pp
$32.95 (C$37.95)
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The German Cinema Book
978-1-84457-012-6
Edited by Tim
Bergfelder, Lecturer in
Film Studies, University
of Southampton, UK,
Erica Carter, Professor
of Film Studies and
German, Kings College
London, UK and Deniz
Göktürk, Associate
Professor of German,
University of California,
Berkeley, USA
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.
January 2003
Paperback
304pp
$29.95 (C$34.50)
978-0-85170-946-8
WORLD CINEMA
INTERNATIONAL SCREEN INDUSTRIES
The Chinese Cinema Book
Edited by Song Hwee
Lim, University of
Exeter, UK and
Founding Editor,
Journal of Chinese
Cinemas and Julian
Ward, University of
Edinburgh, UK and
Associate Editor,
Journal of Chinese
Cinemas
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. 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.
June 2011
Hardback
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232pp
$95.00 (C$109.00)
$28.95 (C$33.50)
978-1-84457-345-5
978-1-84457-344-8
Series Editors: Michael Curtin, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Paul McDonald,
University of Nottingham, UK
Hollywood in the New
Millennium
The American Television
Industry
Tino Balio, Emeritus
Professor of
Communication Arts,
University of
Wisconsin-Madison,
USA
This book examines
the challenges facing
the contemporary film
industry. It explores
the merging of the
major old-line studios
such as Warner Bros.
and Paramount
into entertainment
conglomerates, the impact of globalization, new
distribution methods, franchises, and attempts to
reach new markets. Filled with case studies, this
comprehensive study is a must-read.
May 2013
Hardback
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176pp
$85.00 (C$98.00)
$25.00 (C$29.00)
978-1-84457-381-3
978-1-84457-380-6
Michael Curtin,
Mellichamp Professor
of Global Media,
Department of Film
and Media Studies,
University of
California, Santa
Barbara, USA and
Jane Shattuc,
Professor of Visual and
Media Arts, Emerson
College, USA
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.
December 2009
Hardback
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208pp
$90.00 (C$104.00)
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978-1-84457-338-7
978-1-84457-337-0
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FILM MAKERS
Warhol in Ten Takes
Edited by Glyn Davis,
University of
Edinburgh, UK and
Gary Needham,
Senior Lecturer in Film
and Television,
Nottingham Trent
University, UK
A collection of ten
essays by leading
scholars of film, art
and culture which
provide fresh and
unique perspectives
on the cinema of Andy
Warhol. Drawing on original research in the Warhol
archives, this unique volume casts new light on
Warhol’s filmmaking career and offers new insights
and contexts for a number of the director’s films.
September 2013
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978-1-84457-402-5
978-1-84457-401-8
BFI WORLD DIRECTORS
Baz Luhrmann
Lars von Trier
Pam Cook, Professor
Emerita in Film,
University of
Southampton, UK
This is the first major
book-length study of the
work of Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann,
one of the most exciting
and controversial
personalities working in
World Cinema today.
May 2010
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216pp
$90.00 (C$104.00)
$27.95 (C$31.95)
978-1-84457-157-4
978-1-84457-158-1
Jack Stevenson,
American Critic,
Curator and Lecturer
With the international
success of Breaking
the Waves and Dancer
in the Dark, Lars von
Trier has established
himself as one of the
most provocative and
daring film directors.
In this study, Jack
Stevenson explores the
achievements as well as
the paradoxes of Lars von Trier.
September 2008
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Also available in the series:
Pedro Almodovar, by Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz
Wong Kar-Wai, by Stephen Teo
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232pp
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978-0-85170-902-4
978-0-85170-903-1
TELEVISION studies
No Known Cure
Small Screen Aesthetics
The Comedy of Chris Morris
From Television to the Internet
Edited by James
Leggott and Jamie
Sexton, Senior
Lecturers in Film and
Television Studies,
Northumbria
University, UK
Chris Morris is one of
the most singular and
controversial figures in
recent UK media, at one
point being described
as the ‘most hated
man in Britain’ for his
corrosive media satire. With shows such as the
notorious spoof Brass Eye, this writer, performer, DJ
and director has not only pushed boundaries of taste
and acceptability, but altered perceptions of current
affairs broadcasting, moral panics and celebrity
culture. At the same time, cult programs such as Blue
Jam, Jam and Nathan Barley have pushed conventional
comedy formats such as sketch comedy and sitcom
to the limits of possibility. In the first full-length
scholarly book on the comedy of Chris Morris, writers
discuss his early DJ career, his pioneering radio satire,
his television mockumentary, his experimental black
comedy and his more recent move into filmmaking.
No Known Cure approaches the work of Chris Morris
from a diverse range of perspectives in order to fully
grapple with his wide-ranging and groundbreaking
media output.
June 2013
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New
272pp
$90.00 (C$104.00)
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Reality Television and
Class
Edited by Helen
Wood, Reader in
Media and
Communication, De
Montfort University,
UK and Beverley
Skeggs, Professor of
Sociology, Goldsmiths,
University of London,
UK
Glen Creeber, Senior
Lecturer in Film and
Television Studies,
University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, UK
This new study provides
an introduction to
tv aesthetics and
viewership from the
1940s to the present
day, at a time when
television as a medium
is ‘converging’ with the
PC and laptop. August 2013
Hardback
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New
256pp
$90.00 (C$104.00)
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978-1-84457-410-0
978-1-84457-409-4
This is the first book
about reality television
to make class its
central focus. Despite
popular and media debate about the ‘classed’
behavior 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 labor – 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.
December 2011
Hardback
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264pp
$90.00 (C$104.00)
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978-1-84457-397-4
978-1-84457-480-3
978-1-84457-479-7
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The Television Genre Book
Tele-visions
2nd edition
An Introduction to Studying Television
Edited by Glen
Creeber, Senior
Lecturer in Film and
Television Studies,
University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, UK
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.
January 2009
Hardback
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30
240pp
$105.00 (C$121.00) 978-1-84457-217-5
$27.95 (C$31.95)
978-1-84457-218-2
Glen Creeber, Senior
Lecturer in Film and
Television Studies,
University of Wales,
Aberystwyth, UK
An authoritative
introductory guide
to television studies
written by many of the
key international figures
in the field. Gives an
insight to how television
is produced, broadcast,
controlled, consumed and critically examined and
offers an expansive and clearly structured account
of both how and why we study television.
May 2006
Paperback
208pp
$32.95 (C$37.95)
978-1-84457-086-7
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