The History of World Literatures on Film

Greg M. Colón Semenza, University of Connecticut, USA & Bob Hasenfratz, University of Connecticut, USA

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 July 2023 US July 2023 576 pages 50 bw illus

HB 9781628923766 £130 00 / $175 00 ePub 9781628923759 • £130 68 / $157 50 ePdf 9781628923742 • £130 68 / $157 50

Series: The History of World Literatures on Film • Bloomsbury Academic

Resisting James Bond

Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era

Edited by Christoph Lindner, University College

London, UK & Lisa Funnell, Mohawk College, Canada

While popular with critics and fans, the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films relay troublesome messages about identity and power Resisting James Bond explores how these films - ranging from 2006's Casino Royale to 2021's No Time to Die - constructs and mobilizes conditions of power, privilege, and social injustice Engaging with issues of racism, national/ethnic sovereignty, sexual violence, LGBTQIA+ rights, immigration, corporate capitalism, and more, this is a transdisciplinary collection that explores inequality and oppression in the world of 007 through a range of critical and theoretical approaches

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781501388309

The History of Russian Literature on Film

David Gillespie, University of Bath, UK & Marina Korneeva, Moscow City Pedagogical University, Russia

Unlike most previous studies of literature and film, which tend to privilege particular authors, texts, or literary periods, David Gillespie considers the multiple functions of filmed Russian literature as a cinematic subject in its own right—one reflecting the specific political and aesthetic priorities of different national and historical cinemas. In this first and only comprehensive study of cinema’s various engagements of Russian literature focusing on the large period 1895-2015, The History of Russian Literature on Film highlights the ways these adaptations emerged from and continue to shape the social, artistic, and commercial aspects of film history.

UK January 2024 US January 2024 304 pages 80 bw illus

HB 9781501316883 £110 00 / $150 00 ePub 9781501316906 • £112 48 / $135 00 ePdf 9781501316890 • £112 48 / $135 00

Series: The History of World Literatures on Film • Bloomsbury Academic

Screening Solidarity

Neoliberalism and Transnational Cinemas

Helga Druxes, Williams College, USA, Alexandar Mihailovic, Brown University and Hofstra University, USA & Patricia Anne Simpson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Screening Solidarity devotes its attention to the transnational history of networks of solidarity as represented in cinema across European borders The directors and writers discussed imagine progressive alternatives under rogue capitalist conditions They re-examine understandings of a new social contract focused on the common good and ethical standards for the social state that Western neoliberalism sought to deny or erode, as a means to achieve and protect solidarity across different groups With its focus on recent film, this study examines the representation of neoliberal subjects from contemporary European, Russian and American cinema

• 208 pages

• £21 99 / $29 95 ePub 9781501388279 ePdf 9781501388286

Bloomsbury Academic

• 28 bw illus

• HB 9781501388262

• £22 32 / $26 95

• £22 32 / $26 95

• £65 00 / $90 00

Remembering Annie Hall

Edited by Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield, UK & Ana María Sánchez-Arce, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Since its release, Annie Hall has been a key film for Woody Allen’s career and the history of romantic comedy more generally This collection brings a new ethical and philosophical perspective to bear on Allen’s work quite different from previous generations of scholars. While exploring the film’s continuing influence on contemporary cinema, the book’s contributors engage explicitly and implicitly with ongoing debates about Allen’s cinematic output following the renewed accusations against Allen by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in 2014 and 2018 The book includes debates about the limits of auteur theory and the role of the spectator

UK September 2023

HB 9781501358494

• US September 2023

• £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9781501358487 ePdf 9781501358470

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

• 20 bw illus

• 264 pages

UK May 2023

• US May 2023 • 256 pages

HB 9798765101414 • £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9798765101445 • £90 15 / $108 00 ePdf 9798765101438 • £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Filmmakers on Film

Global Perspectives

Edited by André Rui Graça, University of Beira Interior, Portugal, Manuela Penafria, University of Beira Interior, Portugal & Eduardo Baggio, Unespar - Paraná State University, Brazil

Filmmakers on Film bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers’ thoughts and reflections on their own artwork Bringing together a curated selection of essays from contributors across the globe, this book reinvigorates film theory by approaching it from the perspective of the filmmakers themselves. Utilising invaluable primary sources such as interviews, books, texts and manifestos alongside a theoretical reading of the ‘filmmaker’ as a concept, this book brings new breadth to the understanding of film.

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 256 pages • 0 illus

HB 9781839024870 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781839024887 ePdf 9781839024894

British Film Institute

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media

From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond

Edited by Russell J.A. Kilbourn, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada & Julia A. Empey, University of Cambridge, UK

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 September 2023

• US September 2023

HB 9781501398407 • £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9781501398414 • £90 15 / $108 00 ePdf 9781501398421 • £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

• 288 pages • 48 bw illus

Hollywood Online Internet Movie Marketing Before and After The Blair Witch Project

Ian London, Independent Scholar, UK

By examining the strategic role of websites in blockbuster marketing, the involvement of filmmakers in their production, and the commercial value of these sites by the six major studios, Hollywood Online demonstrates that movie websites were best understood as advertising for the ancillary markets of home entertainment and not as drivers for box-office ticket sales. Combining industry history, detailed textual analysis and interviews with practitioners in the US, Ian London shows how websites became crucial elements in the Hollywood industry’s goal to establish the internet as a viable film delivery system, one that directly returned revenues to the studios themselves

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus

HB 9781501337758 • £96 00 / $120 00 ePub 9781501337765 £90 15 / $108 00 ePdf 9781501337772 £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Robert Pippin and Film Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism

Dominic Lash, University of Bristol, UK

Dominic Lash demonstrates the ways that film has been crucial to Pippin's thought on important philosophical topics such as political psychology, ethics, and self-knowledge He also explores the implications of Pippin's methodological commitments to clear language and to maintaining close contact at all times with the details of the films in question. In so doing, Lash brings Pippin's work on film to a wider audience and contributes to current debates both within film studies and beyond, including those concerning the relationships between film and philosophy, criticism and aesthetics, and individual subjectivity and political consciousness

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 280 pages • 22 bw illus

PB 9781350290167 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350182899 ePub 9781350182912 £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350182905 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Film Thinks • Bloomsbury Academic

An Atonal Cinema Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine

Robert G. White, Kingston, University of London, UK

An Atonal Cinema theorises contemporary Palestinian cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to decentre and respond to texts from Europe, South America and Israel which have co-opted its images Drawing on the literature of Edward Said, Ghassan Kanafani, Jean Genet and Carlo Levi, and the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, Menahem Golan and Miguel Littín; this book examines recent responses by Ayreen Anastas, Basma Alsharif, Elia Suleiman, Kamal Aljafari and Annemarie Jacir

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781501385018

Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence

Douglas Mulliken, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Pablo Trapero and the Politics of Violence is the first book to explore the function of violence within the films of the Argentinian screenwriter-director.

Douglas Mulliken contends that, through his representation of objective violence, Pablo Trapero has emerged as a distinctly political filmmaker. By focusing on several previously understudied elements of Trapero’s films, Mulliken highlights the ways in which the director’s work represents present-day concerns about social inequalities and injustice in neoliberal Argentina on-screen

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

PB 9781350290150

• 264 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350163386 ePub 9781350163409 ePdf 9781350163393

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic

• 29 bw illus

• 25 bw illus

• 208 pages

• £80 00 / $110 00 ePub 9781501385001

• £82 70 / $99 00 ePdf 9781501384998 • £82 70 / $99 00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Film Archipelago

Islands in Latin American Cinema

Edited by Antonio Gómez, Tulane University, USA & Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Durham University, UK

The Film Archipelago argues that the islands and archipelagos of Latin American cinema constitute a critically interesting, analytically complex, and historically suggestive angle to explore issues of marginality and peripherality, remoteness and isolation, fragility and dependency

As a whole, the collection demonstrates through a series of rigorous and nuanced analyses to what extent the combined insular and archipelagic lens can re-frame and re-figure both longstanding and recent discussions on the spaces of Latin American cinema

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781350281752

• 360 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

• 30 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350157965 ePub 9781350157989 ePdf 9781350157972

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic

Anime A History

Jonathan Clements, Author/Scriptwriter, UK

This comprehensive, critically-acclaimed history traces the production and reception history of anime, from a handful of hobbyists in the early 20th century to the Oscar-winning Spirited Away and up to the present day, with anime established as a global medium This new edition has been revised and updated throughout, with full colour illustrations and new chapters addressing the rising economic power of otaku subcultures, the development of anime in China, and the transformation of distribution and exhibition accompanying the dominance of Netflix and other globalised streaming platforms

UK September 2023 US September 2023 416 pages 100 colour illus

PB 9781839025129 £28 99 / $39 95 HB 9781839026706 £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9781839025136 £26 09 / $36 44 ePdf 9781839025143 • £26 09 / $36 44

British Film Institute

World All Languages (except Russian)

Esfir Shub

Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking

Ilana Shub Sharp, Independent Scholar, Australia

Esfir Shub was the only prominent female director of nonfiction film present at the dawning of the Soviet film industry. She was, in fact, the first woman both to write critical texts on cinema and then practically apply these theorisations in her own films. Her syncretism of cinema theory and praxis inspired her to ask questions regarding both the nature of nonfiction film, such as the problem of authenticity and reality, and the function of the artist in society. This book demonstrates Shub’s position not only as a significant filmmaker and recognised member of the early Soviet avant-garde but also as a key figure in global cinema history and as a pioneer of the theory and practice of documentary filmmaking.

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 344 pages • 46 bw illus

PB 9781501376481 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501376511 ePub 9781501376504 • £97 59 / $117 00 ePdf 9781501376498

Bloomsbury Academic

Semiotics for Screenwriters Break Down Your Favorite Movies, Then Write Your Own

Michael Tierno, East Carolina University, USA

Semiotics for Screenwriters takes budding screenwriters on a unique journey through 25 classic films that shows the hidden universal language of plot character and theme at work in them This method reveals the mechanics of cinema story, then shows the reader how to apply this knowledge to their own screenwriting Semiotics is a powerful system of analysis applied in many fields, including literature and psychology In this book screenwriters learn to deploy this method to break down classic films then apply it to writing, developing and correcting their own screenplays

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 352 pages • 50 bw illus

PB 9781501390999 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9781501391002 • £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9781501390982 • £22 32 / $26 95 ePdf 9781501390975 • £22 32 / $26 95

Bloomsbury Academic

Materializing Digital Futures

Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision

Edited by Toija Cinque, Deakin University, Australia & Jordan Beth Vincent, Deakin University, Australia

The advent of ‘big data’ (and small data) technologies and social media have inexorably altered the boundaries between private and public life, and profoundly altered our sense of self Materialising Digital Futures considers how the former techniques of connection to community (traditional health, education, cultural and leisure activities) are reconfigured through this changing landscape of digital media visibility, data agglomerations and personal engagement with an empirical digital self

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 352 pages • 12 illus

PB 9781501388088 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501361258 ePub 9781501361265 • £97 59 / $117 00 ePdf 9781501361272 • £97 59 / $117 00

Bloomsbury Academic

• £97 59 / $117 00

Thinking Media

Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany & Patricia Pisters

Anthropologies of Entanglements

Media and Modes of Existence

Edited by Christiane Voss, Lorenz Engell & Tim Othold, all Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany

This volume brings together a range of thinkers from international backgrounds and puts these important reflections and ideas in the spotlight. More specifically, the volume explores the concept of "anthropomedial entanglements." It aims to foster an understanding of human bodies, experiences, and media as being immanently entangled and mutually constituting, prior to any possible distinction between them The different contributions thus open up a dialogue between empirical case studies and media-historical research on the one hand and the conceptual work of media and cultural philosophies and aesthetics on the other hand

UK September 2023 US September 2023 320 pages 57 bw illus

HB 9781501375149 £95 00 / $130 00 ePub 9781501375132 £97 59 / $117 00 ePdf 9781501375125

Series: Thinking Media

• £97 59 / $117 00

• Bloomsbury Academic

Imperfections

Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures

Edited by Caleb Kelly, University of New South Wales, Australia & Jakko Kemper & Ellen Rutten, both University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

This open access book synthesizes the swiftly growing but fragmented critical scholarship on mistakes, glitches, and other aesthetics and logics of imperfection into the first transdisciplinary, transnational framework of imperfection studies With this framework, the editors offer scholars and students across various disciplines tools to craft more historically grounded and critically informed conceptualizations of the imperfect

The ebook editions of this book are available on www. bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Netherlands Scientific Organization.

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 344 pages • 24 bw illus

PB 9781501380310 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501380341 ePub 9781501380334 £0 00 / $0 00 ePdf 9781501380327

• £0 00 / $0 00

Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic

Media and Everyday Life Second Edition

Tim Markham, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

This innovative introduction to media studies challenges conventional accounts of what media do to people – focusing instead on what people do with media This 2nd edition incorporates recent developments, including new social media platforms, new technologies and the spread of algorithms It investigates the environmental impact of digital media and its hidden infrastructures, as well as our engagement with social issues and movements Media and Everyday Life offers an accessible overview for students of media, communication and cultural studies looking to explore how modernday media practices impact everyday life, making this the essential companion to introductory media studies courses

UK December 2022 US December 2022 336 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350348509 £28 99 / $39 95 HB 9781350348516 £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9781350348523 £26 09 / $36 44 ePdf 9781350348530 • £26 09 / $36 44

Bloomsbury Academic

Hideo Kojima

Progressive Game Design from Metal Gear to Death Stranding

Bryan Hikari Hartzheim, Waseda University, Japan

This book explores the influential work of Hideo Kojima, creator of cinematic titles such as the blockbuster Metal Gear Solid franchise, which has moved over 50 million units globally, Death Stranding, and Snatcher Drawing on archives of interviews in English and Japanese with Kojima and his team, as well as academic discourses of social/political games and cinematic narrative/world-building, this book examines Kojima’s “progressive game design” as it applies to four key areas: socially-relevant narratives, cinematic aesthetics, thematicallyconnected systems, and reflexive spaces.

UK September 2023

PB 9798765101698

News Media Influence on Rail Infrastructure Policy

Tracing Mediatization Through Actor–Network Theory

Nicholas Richardson, University of New South Wales, Australia

This book offers a method for guiding large-scale policy and projects through the complex and changing landscape of a 24/7 news media It focuses on three metro-style rail infrastructure case studies in Sydney, Australia and Montreal, Canada Employing Actor-Network Theory, Richardson identifies the influential actors and alliances at play when policy is subjected to media discourse and proposes a framework for tracing and managing them This framework is vital for both the successful negotiation of policy and projects in the media and to an (r)evolutionary recasting of public, expert and media actors in the development and decision-making process

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 256 pages

HB 9781501387487 • £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9781501387470 • £90 15 / $108 00 ePdf 9781501387463 • £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

The History and Allure of Interactive Visual Novels

Mark Kretzschmar, University of Wyoming, USA & Sara Raffel, University of Central Florida, USA

Visual novels, a ludic video game genre that pairs textual fiction stories with anime-like images and varying degrees of interactivity, have increased in popularity among Western audiences in recent years. Arranged in three segments, this book identifies how and why this modest mode of storytelling penetrated the wider gaming industry and even inspired blockbuster series like Metal Gear Solid Whether a long-standing fan of the genre or a newcomer looking for a fresh experience, this book provides an accessible and criticallyengaging overview of a genre that’s rich in storytelling yet often overlooked by Western audiences

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 272 pages • 15 bw illus

• US September 2023

• £19 99 / $27 95 ePub 9798765101650

• 256 pages • 30 bw illus

• HB 9798765101681

• £21 50 / $25 15 ePdf 9798765101667 £21 50 / $25 15

• £65 00 / $90 00

Series: Influential Video Game Designers Bloomsbury Academic

The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader Communities, Cultures and Play

Edited by Mark R. Johnson, University of Sydney, Australia

The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and practices that have emerged around them, their activities and beliefs and interpersonal relationships, and how these games influence – both positively and negatively – the lives and careers of millions of game players around the world. It is the first of a new series of edited collections, Play Beyond the Computer, dedicated to exploring the play of games beyond computers and games consoles

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

PB 9781501384097

Theory / Game Studies

• 512 pages

• £28 99 / $39 95

• 21 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781501347252 ePub 9781501347269 ePdf 9781501347276

• £127 37 / $153 00

• £127 37 / $153 00

Series: Play Beyond the Computer

• Bloomsbury Academic

HB 9781501368646 • £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9781501368639 • £90 15 / $108 00 ePdf 9781501368622 • £90 15 / $108 00

Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies Bloomsbury Academic

Unstable Aesthetics

Game Engines and the Strangeness of Modding

Eddie Lohmeyer, University of Central Florida, USA

Eddie Lohmeyer investigates historical episodes of art modding practices—the alteration of a game system’s existing code or hardware to generate abstract spaces—situated around a recent archaeology of the game engine: software for rendering two and three-dimensional gameworlds. The artists highlighted throughout this book—Cory Arcangel, Krista Hoefle, and Brent Watanabe, among others—were attracted to the architectures of engines because they allowed them to explore vital relationships among abstraction, technology, and the body Through key moments in game engine history, Lohmeyer formulates a phenomenology of video games focusing on the liminal spaces of interaction among system and body

UK September 2023

PB 9781501374708

• US September 2023

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501364907 ePub 9781501364891 ePdf 9781501364884

Bloomsbury Academic

• £93 46 / $112 50

• £93 46 / $112 50

• 68 bw illus

• 216 pages