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Cover image is from the book Plants by Numbers: Art, Computation, and Queer Feminist Technoscience (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023)

It's a Wonderful Life

Michael Newton, Leiden University, Netherlands

Michael Newton's study of Frank Capra's muchloved 1946 classic of despair and redemption investigates the source of the film's extraordinary power and its long-lasting impact He begins by introducing the key figures in the movie’s production - notably director Capra and star James Stewart - and traces the making of the film, and then provides a brief synopsis of the film, considering its aesthetic processes and procedures, touching on all those things that make it such an astonishing film. Newton's careful analysis explores all those aspects of the film that are fundamental to our understanding of it, particularly the way in which the film brings tragedy and comedy together.

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781839023484 • £11 99 / $15 95 ePub 9781839023491 • £10 79 / $14 84 ePdf 9781839023507 £10 79 / $14 84

Point Blank

Eric G. Wilson, Wake Forest University, USA

This compelling study of Point Blank (1967) examines its significance to New Hollywood cinema He argues that director John Boorman revises traditional Hollywood crime films by probing a second connotation of 'point blank' On the one hand, it is a neo-noir that aptly depicts close range violence, but, it also points toward blankness, a nothingness that is the consequence of corporate America unchecked, where humans are reduced to commodities and stripped of agency and playfulness

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 112 pages • 60 colour illus

PB 9781839025761 • £11 99 / $15 95 ePub 9781839025754 • £10 79 / $14 84 ePdf 9781839025730 • £10 79 / $14 84

Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

• 136 pages • 60 bw illus

Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute

The Deer Hunter

Brad Prager, University of Missouri, USA

Brad Prager's study of Michael Cimino's 1978 movie

The Deer Hunter considers the film's significance as a Vietnam war movie and contextualizes its critical reception Drawing on an archive of contemporaneous materials, Prager examines the film’s problematic blurring of the lines between fact and fiction. He considers how the formal elements of the film were influenced by the western and neo-realist films of directors such as John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, Luchino Visconti, and others, and explores how Cimino’s employment of realist conventions were used to bolster many of the problematic elements in his depictions of war and race

UK September 2023 US September 2023 120 pages 60 colour illus

PB 9781839025419 £11 99 / $15 95 ePub 9781839025426 £10 79 / $14 84 ePdf 9781839025433 • £10 79 / $14 84

Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute

John Akomfrah

James Harvey, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

John Akomfrah is one of the most important figures in British art and Black British filmmaking, and this is the first scholarly book to engage with his work comprehensively James Harvey provides a sustained close engagement with the artist’s core thematic preoccupations and aesthetic tendencies His analysis negotiates the contextual and theoretical layers of Akomfrah’s rich and complex films, from the intermedial diaspora aesthetics of Handsworth Songs (1986) to the intersectional spatial ecopolitics of Purple (2017)

UK September 2023

PB 9781839023217

• US September 2023

• £22 99 / $30 95 ePub 9781839023231 ePdf 9781839023248

British Film Institute

• 256 pages

• 30 bw illus

• HB 9781839023224

• £20 69 / $28 34

• £20 69 / $28 34

Black Boys

• £70 00 / $95 00

The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film

Clive Chijioke Nwonka, University College

London, UK

Black Boys is the first dedicated analysis that seeks to understand the emergence and allure of the Black urban film genre for filmmakers, broadcasters and audiences in the contemporary British mediascape Clive Nwonka draws on film studies, sociological and media studies perspectives, while also looking at the historical context He examines a range of key films such as Attack the Block and Bullet Boy to provide a strong textual analysis, including discussions of architecture and space, allegory, crime discourses and popular music

UK September 2023

PB 9798765105849

• US September 2023

• £24 99 / $34 95 ePub 9781501352836

• 39 bw illus

• 320 pages

• HB 9781501352829

• £26 46 / $31 45 ePdf 9781501352843 £26 46 / $31 45

Bloomsbury Academic

Global Exploitation Cinemas

• £90 00 / $120 00

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 September 2023

PB 9781911239611

• US September 2023

• £22 99 / $30 95

• 192 pages • 100 colour illus

• HB 9781911239628 • £70 00 / $95 00 ePub 9781911239635 • £20 69 / $28 34 ePdf 9781911239642 • £20 69 / $28 34

Series: British Screen Stories • British Film Institute

The British Trauma Film

Psychoanalysis and Popular British Cinema in the Immediate Aftermath of the Second World War

Adam Plummer, Queen Mary University of London, UK

The British Trauma Film examines the central position that psychoanalysis occupies in British cinema in the years after the Second World War using critical theory, ordered around the psychoanalytic concepts of trauma and anxiety, sexual difference, and object relations theory While the book defines psychoanalysis as a normative force – as historical, as well as a narative, a cultural, and an ideological discourse - it also demonstrates that this is countered by a subversive discursive force immanent to the films themselves.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 240 pages • 55 bw illus

HB 9798765100479

• £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9798765100486 ePdf 9798765100493

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

Austin Fisher, Bournemouth University, UK & Johnny Walker, Northumbria University, UK

Adult Themes

British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s

Edited by Anne Etienne, University College

Cork, Ireland, Benjamin Halligan, University of Wolverhampton, UK & Christopher Weedman, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Adult Themes is the first volume entirely devoted to the exploration of British X certificate films across this transformative period, since identified as ‘the long 1960s’. Contributors to this collection take us to swinging parties, on youthful crime sprees, into local council meetings, on police raids of cinemas, and around Soho strip clubs and introduce us to mass murderers, lesbian vampires, apoplectic protestors, eroticised middle-aged women, and rebellious working-class men to examine both the workings and negotiations of British film censorship, the limits of artistic expression, and a wider culture of X certificate cinema.

UK September 2023

HB 9781501375279

• US September 2023

• £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9781501375286 ePdf 9781501375262

• 15 bw illus

• 264 pages

Mario Bava

The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur

Leon Hunt, Brunel University, UK

This book is framed by the question of how to approach a controversial figure like the"Master of Italian Horror" Mario Bava, but also uses his films to broaden our understanding of key issues in film studies. What issues do his films raise for authorship? How might he be understood in relation to genre, one of which he is sometimes seen to have pioneered? This book seeks both to be a study of Bava’s films but also to use them to explore broader issues in film studies.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023

PB 9781501390852 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501356544 ePub 9781501356537 £90 15 / $108 00 ePdf 9781501356520 £90 15 / $108 00

• 240 pages • 15 bw illus

Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas Bloomsbury Academic

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas • Bloomsbury Academic

Death in the Desert

The Complete Guide to Spaghetti Westerns

Howard Hughes

UK September 2023 and white illustrations

HB 9781784537746

I B Tauris

• US September 2023

• £25 00 / $35 00

• 400 pages

• 45 black

Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze

Interrogating and Reconceptualizing Dominant Modes of Thought

Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough, University of Lincoln, UK

This book analyses three Japanese horror films— Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Audition (1999) and Kairo (2001)—from the horror “boom” period of the late 1990s and early 2000s using a Deleuzian perspective. In the past, Japanese horror films have been understood through theories of national, transnational and world cinema and through genre theories and psychoanalysis Whilst proving very fruitful, this text argues that these understandings of Japanese horror cinema can be developed and extended in new ways through the philosophy of Deleuze

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781501375026

• 264 pages • 45 bw illus

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501368295 ePub 9781501368301

• £90 15 / $108 00 ePdf 9781501368318 £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood A Social Semiotics of Bodies and Worlds

Evdokia Stefanopoulou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood examines 21st-century American films to provide a more precise definition for the genre, situated in the social semiotics and historical context Using the semiotic square theory outlined by Algirdas J Greimas, this book proposes a new taxonomy and definition of the contemporary American science fiction film. The articulation of the semiotic analysis with the exo-semiotic research points to the pivotal role of the science fiction film in both the preservation and transformation of contemporary Hollywood

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

HB 9781501380235

• 24 bw illus

• 250 pages

• £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9781501380228 ePdf 9781501380211

Bloomsbury Academic

City Limits

Filming Belfast, Beirut and Berlin in Troubled Times

Stephanie Schwerter, Université Polytechnique

Hauts-de-France, France

Belfast, Beirut and Berlin are notorious for their internal boundaries and borders As symbols for political disunion, the three cities have inspired scriptwriters and directors from diverse cultural backgrounds Despite their different histories, they share a wide range of features central to divided cities Following a comparative approach, the book concentrates on the cinematographic representations of Belfast, Beirut and Berlin Making use of a variety of genres reaching from thriller to comedy, Schweter explores the three cities’ internal and external borders, as well as the psychological boundaries existing between citizens belonging to different communities

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781501380426

• 50 bw illus

• 312 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501380457 ePub 9781501380440 ePdf 9781501380433

Bloomsbury Academic

• £97 59 / $117 00

• £97 59 / $117 00

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• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

Cinema Memories

A People's History of Cinema-going in 1960s Britain

Melvyn Stokes, University College London, UK, Matthew Jones, De Montfort University, UK & Emma Pett, University of York, UK

Drawing on first-hand memories from over 1000 cinema-goers, Cinema Memories reveals what it was like to watch films in British cinemas in the 1960s. Positioning their study within debates about memory, 1960s cinema, and the seemingly transformative nature of this decade of British history, the authors reflect on the methodologies deployed, the use of memories as historical sources, and the various ways in which cinema and cinema-going came to mean something to its audiences

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781839025297

• £27 99 / $37 95

Previously published in HB 9781911239895 ePub 9781911239918 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781911239888 • £76 50 / $103 94

British Film Institute

Walled Life Concrete, Cinema, Art

Jenny Stümer, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Walled Life investigates the mediation of material and imagined border walls through cinema and art practices The book reads political walls as more than physical obstruction, instead treating the wall as an affective screen, capable of negotiating the messy feelings, personal conflicts, and haunting legacies that make up “walled life” as an evolving signpost in the current global border regime The book shows that if we read political walls as forms of affective media, they become legible as projective surfaces that negotiate the interaction of psychological barriers with political structures through cinema, art, and, of course, the wall itself

UK September 2023

PB 9781501380402

• US September 2023

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501380365 ePub 9781501380372 ePdf 9781501380389

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

• 272 pages