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Film & Media
A Taste of Honey
Melanie Williams, University of East Anglia, UK This new BFI Film Classic takes a close look at Tony Richardson's A Taste of Honey (1961), which focuses on a young female protagonist, Jo (Rita Tushingham), who finds herself pregnant after a brief romance with Jimmy (Paul Danquah), a Black sailor passing through Salford’s docks. Melanie Williams analyses the many ways in which the film was innovative and explores how teenage playwright Shelagh Delaney's strikingly original dramatic visions came to be a landmark film of the British New Wave.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 104 pages • 60 bw illus PB 9781839021558 • £12.99 / $15.95 ePub 9781839021565 • £10.79 / $15.10 ePdf 9781839021589 • £10.79 / $15.10 Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute Robert B. Ray, University of Florida, USA & Christian Keathley, Middlebury College, USA This new BFI Film Classic provides an in-depth look into Alan Pakula's 1976 political thriller All the President's Men starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. Robert Ray and Christian Keathley's close reading of the film shows how its narrative power works through a series of controlled oppositions: silence vs noise; stationary vs moving camera; dark scenes vs well-lit scenes, and shallow focus vs deep focus, tracing how all these elements combine to create an underlying formal design that is crucial to the movie’s achievement.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 120 pages • 60 colour illus PB 9781839024047 • £12.99 / $15.95 ePub 9781839024054 • £10.79 / $15.10 ePdf 9781839024061 • £10.79 / $15.10 Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Eraserhead
Claire Henry, Massey University, New Zealand A surreal and darkly humorous vision, Eraserhead has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Drawing on original archival research and providing an in-depth analysis of the film’s production history, its rich mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound, and its embeddedness in visual art and screen culture, Henry not only affirms Eraserhead's significance as an auteurist debut, but advances a wider case for its status as a film classic.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 104 pages • 50 bw illus PB 9781839025600 • £12.99 / $15.95 ePub 9781839025617 • £10.79 / $15.10 ePdf 9781839025624 • £10.79 / $15.10 Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Memories of Underdevelopment
Memorias del Subdesarrollo
Darlene J. Sadlier, Indiana University, USA This study of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s 1968 film is divided into five thematic sections, situating the film in its historical context, discussing how Cuban political history affected and informed the production of the film, particularly its use of archival footage; discussing the film as an adaptation of Edmundo Desnoes’s first-person novel ; providing a detailed analysis of the film’s narrative, particularly focusing on the protagonist, Sergio’s, unique “ways of seeing” and how this positions him as an idle, yet curious, flâneur, and finally, focusing on the unique style of the film, highlighting the film’s lasting impact and its role in defining Latin American “new cinema”.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 104 pages • 60 bw illus PB 9781839024979 • £12.99 / $15.95 ePub 9781839024993 • £10.79 / $15.10 ePdf 9781839025006 • £10.79 / $15.10 Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
The Guerilla Filmmaker's Guide to Screenwriting
Andrew Zinnes, Independent Scholar, USA & Genevieve Jolliffe, Independent Scholar, USA This book looks at the most important part of the filmmaking process from the point of view of those who grind away at a keyboard or notepad trying to bring new ideas and perspectives to an increasingly diversified world. Using The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook's tried and tested Q&A style, this book chronicles story theory, formatting, business issues and the creative process itself. Whether you’re a seasoned scribe or an inexperienced writer, this book will give you perspectives and tips that get your creative juices flowing.
UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 304 pages PB 9781501363276 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501363283 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501363313 • £19.65 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501363306 • £19.65 / $26.95 Series: The Guerilla Filmmaker’s Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic The Insider’s Guide to Screenwriting
Ted Wilkes, Regent's University London, UK & Phil Hughes, Regent's University London, UK Character is Structure explores the mechanics at the heart of classic film genres and equips screenwriters with the creative tools required to subvert and reinvent them. Through detailed case studies on films that span all genres, from mainstream franchises like The Hunger Games (2012-2015) and Shrek (2001-2010) to art house films such as Toto Le Heros (1991) and Eraserhead (1977), the authors reveal the dramatic imperative behind the central choices or dilemmas faced by every protagonist in every classic feature length narrative.
UK April 2023 • US May 2023 • 240 pages • 13 bw illus PB 9781839024818 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781839024825 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781839024832 • £17.99 / $24.72 ePdf 9781839024849 • £17.99 / $24.72 British Film Institute
On Kubrick
Revised Edition
James Naremore, Indiana University, USA In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, from his earliest feature, Fear and Desire (1953), to the posthumously-produced A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001). Naremore offers provocative analyses of each of Kubrick's films, together with new information about their production histories and cultural contexts, providing a concise yet thorough discussion that will be useful to students of Kubrick's filmmaking and cinephiles who seek a deeper insight into the work of this perfectionist genius.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 320 pages • 68 bw illus PB 9781839023996 • £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9781839024009 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781839024016 • £24.29 / $34.34 ePdf 9781839024023 • £24.29 / $34.34 British Film Institute
Claude Lanzmann’s 'Shoah' Outtakes
Holocaust Rescue and Resistance
Sue Vice, University of Sheffield, UK This book focuses on the interviews with the former partisan Abba Kovner, wartime activist Hansi Brand, Kovno Ghetto leader Leib Garfunkel, rescuer Tadeusz Pankiewicz and members of Roosevelt’s War Refugee Board. Sue Vice contends that watching and analysing the wholly excluded footage from Shoah gives us a new insight into the making of the documentary. Furthermore, she argues that these outtakes show the potential for new filmic forms envisaged on Lanzmann’s part to represent this crucial subject.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 352 pages • 9 colour & 30 bw illus PB 9781350357464 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781350187078 ePub 9781350187092 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350187085 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Secret Violences
The Political Cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960-75
Slawomir Maslon, University of Silesia, Poland The book offers a re-evaluation of Antonioni’s most important films, interpreted as political cinema engaged with issues still crucial in the 21st century. Far from being politically neutral, Antonioni’s oblique and “abstract” approach makes possible the prising open and devaluation of the morally and politically constrictive “organic” narrative structures. Additionally, Maslon illuminates Antonioni's overthrowing of the primacy of character and plot by showing them to be emanations of the spectral materiality of capital while allowing for an opening into the utopian dimension, implying engagement in the rethinking of our attachments to the world.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages HB 9781501398230 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501398247 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501398254 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Polish)
Impressions of Cinema
Murray Pomerance, Independent scholar, Canada This book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film, as distinct from existing approaches which tend to emphasize either technical processes or histories of film coloration, or the meaning of color as metaphor or symbol. Murray Pomerance regards the various ways of thinking about color; not ways of framing it as a production trick or a symbolic language, but ways of wondering how the color effect on-screen can work in the act of viewing itself.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 360 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781501383083 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501383113 ePub 9781501383106 • £85.90 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501383090 • £85.90 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic Edited by Glyn Davis, University of St Andrews, UK & Jaap Kooijman, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Richard Dyer Reader brings together for the first time key writings by this vital and influential figure, many of which are not otherwise available. The anthology guides readers through Dyer’s prolific and rich output through six thematic selections of essays and extracts, each centered on a key theme in Dyer's work: stardom and the image; entertainment and ideology; gay politics and representation; whiteness; the pleasures of popular entertainment, and textual analysis. A seventh section comprises a selection of interviews conducted across the span of his career, as well as a new interview with editors Glyn Davis and Jaap Kooijman.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 416 pages • 114 bw illus PB 9781839023163 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781839023170 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781839023187 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781839023194 • £22.49 / $31.59 British Film Institute
Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze
Transnational Imaginaries, Media Aesthetics, and Social Thought
Robert Stam, New York University, USA Against the long historical backdrop of 1492, Columbus, and the Conquest, Robert Stam's wide-ranging study traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples, often as a form of resistance and rebellion to colonialist or neoliberal capitalism, across an eclectic range of forms of media, arts, and social philosophy.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 416 pages PB 9781350282353 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350282360 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350282377 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350282384 • £22.49 / $31.59 Bloomsbury Academic
The Story of Victorian Film
Bryony Dixon, British Film Institute, UK Lavishly illustrated with material from the BFI's unique archive, this book tells the fascinating story of Victorian film, from the earliest non-fiction footage of delicate spider webs and rolling waves to imaginative fiction films that give us a glimpse into the Victorians' inner worlds. As well as focusing in on key films from the era, BFI curator Bryony Dixon outlines the invention, business, aesthetics and impact of this new medium from 1895 to 1901.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 192 pages • 100 colour illus PB 9781911239611 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781911239628 • £70.00 / $95.00 ePub 9781911239635 • £20.69 / $28.84 ePdf 9781911239642 • £20.69 / $28.84 Series: British Screen Stories • British Film Institute
The History of German Literature on Film
Christiane Schönfeld, University of Limerick, Ireland Detailing the comprehensive and multi-layered story of adaptations of German literature on film between 1896-2010, this indispensable study shows how these adaptations emerge from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history. The History of German Literature on Film includes an online comprehensive chronology of film adaptations spanning the history of the cinema, allowing students to follow the main trunk of analysis and to quickly contextualize adaptations in film history, providing opportunities for independent research.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 576 pages • 50 bw illus HB 9781628923766 • £110.00 / $150.00 ePub 9781628923759 • £99.00 / $135.00 ePdf 9781628923742 • £99.00 / $135.00 Series: The History of World Literatures on Film • Bloomsbury Academic
The Metropolitan Police and the British Film Industry, 1919-1956
Public Relations, Collaboration and Control
Alexander Charles Rock, Derby QUAD, UK Using newly-declassified internal Metropolitan Police and Home Office correspondence, Alexander Charles Rock tells the story of the Metropolitan Police’s project to manipulate the British film industry into producing propaganda under the guise of mainstream entertainment cinema. In doing so he offers a radical re-reading of the context of production of a number of canonical British films such as The Blue Lamp (1950), I Believe In You (1952) and Street Corner (1953).
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus HB 9781350295087 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350295094 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350295100 • £76.50 / $105.78 British Film Institute
How the Mirisch Company Changed Cinema
Paul Kerr, Middlesex University, UK Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing films like Some Like it Hot (1959) and West Side Story (1961) as irresistible talent packages. Whilst they helped make the names of a new generation of stars and banked on the reputations of established auteurs, they were also pioneers in attracting new audiences with films about race, gender and sexuality. The Mirisch Company bridges the gap between the end of the studio system (1960) and the emergence of a new cinema (mid-1970s) dominated by the "Movie Brats."
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 312 pages HB 9781501336751 • £96.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501336768 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501336775 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy
Edited by Nathan Abrams, Bangor University, UK & Gregory Frame, Bangor University, UK This collection seeks to reinvigorate debate around this fascinating period of film history - the American New Wave. It also looks in part to demonstrate the legacy of aesthetic experimentation and political radicalism after 1980 as part of the ‘legacy’ of the New Wave. Thanks to important new work that questions received scholarly wisdom, the book reveals previously marginalised filmmakers, considers new genres, personnel, and films under the banner of ‘New Wave, New Hollywood’, and reevaluates the traditional approaches and perspectives on the films that have enjoyed most critical attention.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 272 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781501372728 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501360404 ePub 9781501360398 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501360381 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Art in the Cinema
The Mid-Century Art Documentary
Edited by Steven Jacobs, Ghent University and Antwerp University, Belgium, Birgit Cleppe, Ghent University, Belgium & Dimitrios Latsis, Ryerson University, Canada Art in the Cinema discusses the most lyrical, experimental and influential post-war art documentaries, connecting them to contemporaneous museological developments and Euro-American cultural and political relationships. With contributors with expertise across art history and film studies, this book draws attention to film projects by André Bazin, Ilya Bolotowsky, Paul Haesaerts, Carlo Ragghianti, John Read, Dudley Shaw Aston, Henri Storck and Willard Van Dyke among others.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 256 pages • 44 bw illus PB 9781350357518 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781788313674 ePub 9781350160316 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350160309 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Academic
Ukrainian Cinema
Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw
Joshua First, University of Mississippi, USA. Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian poetic cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. He argues that film-makers working at the Alexander Dovzhenko feature film studio in Kiev were obsessed with questions of identity and demanded that the Soviet film industry and audiences alike recognize Ukrainian cultural difference.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 264 pages • 19 bw illus PB 9781350371491 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781780765549 ePub 9780857736260 • £90.00 / $125.02 ePdf 9780857726704 • £90.00 / $125.02 Series: KINO - The Russian and Soviet Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Now About All These Women in the Swedish Film Industry
Louise Wallenberg, Stockholm University, Sweden, Frantzeska Papadopoulou, Stockholm University, Sweden, Maaret Koskinen, Stockholm University, Sweden & Tytti Soila, Stockholm University, Sweden This open access book tells the history of the rise of gender equality efforts by the Swedish Film Institute and analyzes women’s possibilities to claim and manage the rights to their work. It investigates the statistics and explores the complex cultural, legal and political conditions under which women have entered a maledominated industry. It discusses women’s strategies and efforts to promote change while examining how women’s presence has challenged the industry. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Örebro universitet.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 224 pages • 22 bw illus HB 9781501366215 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501366208 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781501366192 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Romanian Cinema
Thinking Outside the Screen
Doru Pop, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania An in-depth analysis of contemporary cinematic practices in European cinema-thinking, with a focus on Romanian filmmaking. This book explores the philosophical and metaphysical manifestations of contemporary cinema, featuring close examinations of the works of world-renowned directors like Cristi Puiu and Adina Pintilie. Starting with the hypothesis that movies provide an experience that is both a pathway into the thinking mechanisms of modern humans and into our collective psyche, this study focuses on the elements that form the “Romanian cinematic mind” as part of the larger European way of thinking about cinema.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 280 pages • 17 bw illus PB 9781501375033 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501366253 ePub 9781501366246 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501366239 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
From The Triplets of Belleville to The Illusionist
Maria Katsaridou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece This open access book provides the first in-depth analysis of Sylvain Chomet's animation films and contribution to contemporary animation. It examines important elements of the artist’s life, studies and previous works, along with his influences and important collaborations. Special attention is paid to the production processes, as well as the historical and socioeconomic context in which they were created, to provide the reader with a comprehensive study of the films and to highlight their contribution to the advancement of contemporary animation. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Hilary Neroni, University of Vermont, USA This book offers a concise introduction to realist film theory and shows how this theory can be engaged to interpret Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves. Through three key concepts—Hollywood and realism, early realist theories and their influence, and realism and its relationship to melodrama—the book lays bare the debates and approaches within the vibrant history of realist film theory. In this way, the book provides a point of entry to realist film theory from its inception to today as well as a new way to conceive of realism.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 208 pages PB 9781501378591 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781501378607 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781501378584 • £13.10 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501378577 • £13.10 / $17.95 Series: Film Theory in Practice • Bloomsbury Academic
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 224 pages • 26 bw illus HB 9781501363993 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501363986 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781501363979 • £0.00 / $0.00 Series: Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers • Bloomsbury Academic
From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond
Edited by Russell J.A. Kilbourn, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada & Julia A. Empey, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada This collection places posthumanism and feminist theory into direct conversation as mediated through contemporary science fiction film and media from the 1980s to the present. Both posthumanism and feminism aim to counter or dismantle a masculinist, patriarchist Enlightenment Humanism and the productive dialogue between these seemingly disparate schools of thought has only intensified in recent science fiction film and media. The original analyses presented pay close attention to audiovisual style, including game mechanics, facilitating the critical interrogation of the issues and questions around posthumanism.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages • 48 bw illus HB 9781501398407 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501398414 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501398421 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Let's Go Stag!
A History of Pornographic Film from the Invention of Cinema to 1970
Dan Erdman, Media Burn Archive, Chicago, USA Let's Go Stag!, as Cinema Retro states "gives fascinating and non-judgemental insight into the secret world of the twentieth century American male." It reveals the secrets of the underground world of hardcore pornographic "stag films". Using the archives of civic groups, law enforcement, bygone government studies and similarly neglected evidence, archivist Dan Erdman reconstructs the means by which stag films were produced, distributed and exhibited, as well as demonstrate the way in which these practices changed with the times, eventually paving the way for the pornographic explosion of the 1970s and beyond.
The Cinema of Discomfort
Disquieting, Awkward and Uncomfortable Experiences in Contemporary Art and Indie Film
Geoff King, Brunel University London, UK How do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty? While the commercial mainstream provides comforting viewing experiences – or moments of discomfort that exist to be overcome – The Cinema of Discomfort analyses films in which discomfort is offered in a sustained manner. Through close textual analysis, it also asks how we should understand the appeal of such work to certain viewers and how the existence of films of this kind can be explained, as products of both their sociocultural context and the more particular institutional realms of art and indie film.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 304 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781501385735 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501359309 ePub 9781501359293 • £85.90 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501359286 • £85.90 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 232 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781501386473 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501333019 ePub 9781501333026 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501333033 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas • Bloomsbury Academic
Catherine Lester, University of Birmingham, UK Horror Films for Children examines the history, aesthetics and generic characteristics of children’s horror films, and identifies the ‘horrific child’ as one of the defining features of the genre, where it is as much a staple as it is in adult horror but with vastly different representational, interpretative and affective possibilities. Through analysis of case studies including blockbuster hits (Gremlins), cult favourites (The Monster Squad) and indie darlings (Coraline), Catherine Lester asks, what happens to the horror genre, and the horrific children it represents, when children are the target audience?
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 232 pages • 26 bw illus PB 9781350265127 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350135260 ePub 9781350135284 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350135277 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio
Edited by Kathryn McDonald, Bournemouth University, UK & Hugh Chignell, Bournemouth University, UK The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio presents exciting new research on radio and audio, including broadcasting and podcasting. Divided into 7 sections, it covers: Communities; Entertainment; Democracy; Emotions; Listening; Studying Radio; and Futures. The Handbook offers academics, researchers and practitioners an international, comprehensive collection of original essays written by experts, new scholars and industry practitioners. Each essay begins with an introduction by the editors, putting into context each contribution, mapping the discipline and capturing new directions of radio research, while providing an invaluable resource for radio studies.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 544 pages HB 9781501385315 • £140.00 / $190.00 ePub 9781501385308 • £125.21 / $171.00 ePdf 9781501385292 • £125.21 / $171.00 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic Edited by Julian Petley, Brunel University London, UK & Xavier Mendik, Birmingham City University, UK Shocking Cinema of the 70s casts a transnational net to focus on films from a variety of countries, and from the marginal to the mainstream, which, by tackling various ‘difficult’ subjects, have proved to be controversial in one way or another. Julian Petley and Xavier Mendik assess how the production values, narrative features and critical receptions of these 'controversial' films can be linked to the wider historical and social forces that were dominant during this decade and continue to resonate in our current historical moment.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 336 pages • 26 bw images PB 9781350194489 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350136311 ePub 9781350136304 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350136298 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape
Lisa M. Anderson, Arizona State University, USA Lisa M. Anderson chronicles the gradual shifts in television representation since the 1950s, exploring the steps Black women, as actors, directors, and producers, have taken to improve representations of Black people on the small screen. Beginning with The Beulah Show, Anderson articulates the interrelationship between US culture and the televisual, demonstrating the conditions under which Black women, and Black people generally, exist in popular culture.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 192 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781501393631 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781501393624 • £60.00 / $80.00 ePub 9781501393648 • £15.28 / $20.65 ePdf 9781501393655 • £15.28 / $20.65 Bloomsbury Academic
Media Technologies and Posthuman Intimacy
Jan Stasienko, University of Lower Silesia, Poland Constructing a theory of intimacy describing processes occurring between a ‘human’ subject and information creations, Stasienko shows in what way and in what phases that relationship is built and what its nature is. He discusses technologies and genres related to the construction of a new television message, composition of the film image and specificity of cinematic technologies. This diversity is prompted by the desire to show that, on the one hand, the building of intimacy protocols is not the domain of the digital era, and on the other hand, that the posthumanism of media apparatus is a wideranging problem.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 304 pages • 43 illus PB 9781501380556 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501380518 ePub 9781501380525 • £85.90 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501380532 • £85.90 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Polish)
Male and Female Violence in Popular Media
Elisa Giomi, Roma Tre University, Italy & Sveva Magaraggia, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy This book proposes that men engage in violent conduct at a significantly higher rate than women because they are socially and culturally ‘programmed’ to do so. They argue that popular culture representations play a crucial role in this process: TV series, films, pop music and videos, advertising commercials and tabloids, all tend to normalise violence against women as an allegedly natural inclination of males. By examining popular culture’s depiction of men and women in their opposite, yet complementary, roles of perpetrators and victims, the authors show unexplored interconnections, namely that gender ‘does’ violence and violence ‘does’ gender.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 256 pages • 3 bw tables HB 9781350168756 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350168770 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350168763 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms
Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities
Ellie Tomsett, Birmingham City University, UK What are the barriers to women’s participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era? In this book, Ellie Tomsett considers how the origins of stand-up comedy still impact on current live comedy production, and explains how the contemporary stand-up scene still reflects wider societal stereotypes about the capabilities of women.
UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages • 5 bw illus and 7 tables HB 9781350302280 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350302297 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350302303 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Alice Guilluy, MetFilm School, UK Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy in Britain, France and Germany. She offers a new look at the romantic comedy genre through a qualitative study of its consumption by actual audiences, focusing on Sweet Home Alabama (2002, dir. Andy Tennant). In doing so, she attempts to challenge traditional critiques of the genre as trite “escapism” at best, and dangerous “guilty pleasure” at worst. This book makes a valuable contribution to scholarly debates on gender representation in the contemporary romantic comedy, and brings a fresh approach to genre studies through its focus on audience research.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350240353 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350163034 ePub 9781350163058 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350163041 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
