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Heat
Nick James, Sight & Sound Magazine, UK
This new edition of Nick James' study of Michael Mann's operatic 1995 heist thriller unpacks the pleasures and virtues of Heat - its vision of male teamwork, its meticulously orchestrated setpieces, its rhapsody to Los Angeles - alongside the ways in which the film engages with a particular kind of bombastic machismo
In his afterword to this new edition, published to coincide with the film's 30th anniversary, Nick James reflects upon Heat's lasting impact and on Michael Mann's subsequent film-making career.
Some Like It Hot
Steven Cohan, Syracuse University, USA
Steven Cohan's study of Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959) disentangles its production history and subsequent notoriety from the film itself, reconsidering the ways in which it playfully challenged generic and gender conventions of the 1950s Cohan provides an indepth analysis of the film's near perfect comedic structure, Wilder's aesthetic choices and self-reflexive star performances by Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 104 pages • 60 bw illus
PB 9781839027314 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839027338 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839027321 • £11 69 / $11 69
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Hanyo (The Housemaid)
Youngmin Choe
The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house Soon Mr Kim begins an affair with the nameless ‘housemaid’, who drags the entire family into a terrible tragedy… Kim Ko-young’s 1960 masterpiece, Hanyo (The Housemaid), is today widely regarded as one of the greatest South Korean films of all time. In this book, Youngmin Choe argues that Hanyo encapsulates the mood of social change in postwar South Korea, and explores the questions it raises about class mobility, gender oppression and women’s work
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 104 pages • 60 bw illus
PB 9781839025860 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839025877 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839025884 £11 69 / $11 69
Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag)
Jon Hughes
Jon Hughes' study of People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1930), directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G Ulmer, and with a script by Billy Wilder, addresses a film now widely recognised as a landmark of Weimar cinema in its cultural contexts, drawing on archival research to provide an in-depth account of the film's production history and lasting influence.
UK March 2025 • US April 2025 • 104 pages • 60 bw illus
PB 9781839027550 • £12 99 / $15 95
ePub 9781839027567 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839027574 • £11 69 / $11 69
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
In the Mood for Love
[Huayang Nianhua]
Tony Rayns
Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) tells the story of Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, neighbours in Hong Kong tenement apartments, who fall in love but never quite manage to be together In his sharp and revealing analysis, Tony Rayns draws on his expertise in East Asian cinema and on his proximity to Wong Kar-wai and his colleagues at production company Jet Tone during the film's long and complicated genesis to provide an illuminating account of the film and its production, complete with insights into Wong's idiosyncratic working methods and influences. This new edition features an afterword by the author, looking back on In the Mood for Love 25 years after its first release.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus
PB 9781839028281 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839028298 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839028304 • £11 69 / $11 69
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki)
Catherine Russell
Catherine Russell's study of When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) provides an in-depth analysis of Mikio Naruse's distinctive filmmaking, from his use of two-shots in confined spaces, unique lighting techniques, and his "invisible" and "rhythmic" editing style Russell analyses the recurring motif of a woman’s whitestockinged feet climbing stairs, considering how this symbolizes the the social dynamics of the high-class Japanese sex industry that sustains the hostess bar culture
UK March 2025 • US April 2025 • 88 pages • 60 bw illus
PB 9781839026430 • £12 99 / $15 95
ePub 9781839026447 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839026454 • £11 69 / $11 69
Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute
The Cinematic Enfant Terrible Rule Breaking Children and Teenagers in French Cinema
Karolina Westling, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
This is a groundbreaking study of rule breakers in French cinema, discussing the enfant terrible – young people labelled 'terrible' (awful) by the adult generation—and charts its evolution from a negative label to a sympathetically-viewed figure of anti-authoritarian resistance. It explores a range of films, including Jean Vigo’s Zéro de conduite (1933), François Truffaut’s Les Quatre cents coups (1959), Catherine Breillat's 36 fillette (1988), and Ladj Ly's Les Misérables (2019) Young people on screen are seen in the light of wider social transformations to clarify the interplay between individual protests and cultural currents such as existentialism, feminism and ethnic conflicts.
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages • 21 bw illus
HB 9798765105436 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765105443 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765105450 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Displacement of (M)others in Twenty-First Century U.S. Films Impact on Maternal Identities of ‘Other’ Subjectivities
Jessica M. Rodríguez-Colón, The School of Visual Arts, USA
This book retraces maternal philosophy by presenting an alternative genealogy, providing a concrete definition of the term (m)other and introducing a new theory of The Gaze Economy while presenting a concrete application of it for evaluating characters in films and its effect on the subjects. It discusses maternal politics and the dispossession of maternal bodies into certain spaces to understand the importance of looking into the performativity of the maternal in both, fictional and non-fictional spaces.
UK October 2025 US October 2025 256 pages 69 bw illus
HB 9798765126424 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765126462 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765126455 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Holocaust Cinema Since 2000
Depictions of the Nazi Genocide and National Identity
Gary Jenkins, Newcastle University, UK
Aiming to understand the ways in which depictions of the Nazi genocide relate to the societies that produce them, Holocaust Cinema Since 2000 combines detailed analyses of films such as The Unknown Soldier (2006), Waltz with Bashir (2008), and Inglourious Basterds (2009) with a comprehensive understanding of political events in Israel, Germany, and the US, to explore the relationship between post-2000 Holocaust Cinema and formations of national identity Gary Jenkins demonstrates that, in their challenging of the dominant values that underpin such formations, a number of recent Holocaust films reveal a crisis in collective identity in these three countries
UK January 2026 US January 2026 256 pages 45 bw illus
HB 9781501356254 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501356247 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501356230 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
The Contemporary American Survival Film
Cassice Last, University of St Andrews, UK
This book examines this survival space across film, television, video games, literature and online, asking four questions Firstly, what does the post 2000s survival space look and behave like, how is it new or distinct? Secondly, how responsible is the setting for triggering narrative events, does the character have any agency? Thirdly, the environment damages the human body How does this corporeal destruction interact with the notion of a specifically American fleshiness of the American survivor? Finally, could/would one ever willingly choose to enter the survival space and why? How is this survival space employing, rejecting and reworking past rubrics?
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages • 18 bw illus
HB 9781501393174 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501393198 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501393181 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
From Victimhood to Empowerment
Representing Women in 1920s Soviet Georgian Cinema
Salome Tsopurashvili, Ilia State University, Georgia
From Victimhood to Empowerment brings the cinematographic works of Georgia’s State Film Industry from the margins of Soviet film studies to the center, focusing on women’s representations and exploring how the gender roles were modified throughout the decade according to the new social and political ideals through discourse analysis, postcolonial perspectives, and psychoanalytical feminist film theories. It surveys to what extent women’s screen images were emancipated and what the functional meaning of this emancipation was in its context, how the new ideals of New Soviet woman were inscribed in films, and how these ideals were combined with Georgian nationality
UK July 2025 US July 2025 256 pages 39 bw illus
HB 9781501383175 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501383168 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501383151 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
World All Languages (except Georgian)
Studio Ghibli Animation as Adaptations
Investigating How the Japanese Animation Powerhouse Reimagines
Stories
Edited by Dominic J. Nardi, George Washington University, USA & Keli Fancher, Signum University, USA
This collection, the first English-language volume to focus on Studio Ghibli films as adaptations, investigates how Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and other Ghibli storytellers have approached the process of reimagining literary sources for animation The first section focuses on Hayao Miyazaki’s tendency to make significant story changes when adapting literature to animation The second section discusses Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata, whose work has received less scholarly attention than Miyazaki’s. The final part explores films adapted from European novels - Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo (2008), Tales from Earthsea (2006) - and how they were adapted for Japanese audiences
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 320 pages • 12 bw illus
HB 9798765127063 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765127094 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765127087 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
South African Horror Cinema
From Apartheid to District 9 and Beyond
Calum Waddell, University of Lincoln, UK
This book focuses on ever-changing identities and perspectives and embraces the frequently carnivalesque and grotesque elements of a most unique lineage in macabre motion pictures It includes discussions of a wide range of horror films, including: Jannie Totsiens (Jans Rautenbach, 1970), The Demon (Percival Rubens, 1979), District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009), The Tokoloshe (Jerome Pikwane, 2018), Fried Barry (Ryan Kruger, 2020) and beyond, to argue that South Africa should finally obtain its rightful place in the canon of wider genre studies and horror cinema fandom
UK September 2025 US September 2025 272 pages 55 bw illus
HB 9781501385063 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501385056 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501385049 • £87 01 / $87 01
Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas • Bloomsbury Academic
American Disaster Movies of the 1970s
Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity
Scott Freer, University of Lincoln, UK
Scott Freer contextualizes the 1970s disaster cycle, drawing on the longer cultural history of modernist reactions to modern anxieties including the widespread dependence on technology and corporate power He introduces a historicist perspective by placing the film genre within the immediate context of American high modernity whilst engaging with relevant philosophical, theological and eco-critical ideas on evil, determinism, and human nature Freer explores the aesthetic theories of modern tragedy as a means of explaining the power of disaster movies as a form of ethical criticism
UK July 2025 US July 2025 272 pages 20 bw illus
PB 9781501375620 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501336836
ePub 9781501336850 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501336843 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Swedish Film Feminism Between Grassroots Movements and Welfare Policies
Ingrid Ryberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Drawing on rich archival materials, this open access book offers the first in-depth historical account of the feminist film movement in Sweden in the 1970s. She contributes to feminist film studies by providing case studies of crucial contexts of production, distribution and reception; key films and directors including Mai Zetterling's The Girls; and reassessments of central debates in feminist film theory.
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 The University of Gothenburg.
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus
HB 9781350186316 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350186330 • £00 00 / $00 00
ePdf 9781350186323 • £00 00 / $00 00 Bloomsbury Academic
Hollywood and the Nazis on the Eve of War
The Case of The Mortal Storm
Alexis Pogorelskin, University of MinnesotaDuluth, USA
This book establishes the global cultural and political significance of MGM’s 1940 film The Mortal Storm, which exposed the anti-Semitism that underwrote Congressional antipathy to the film industry. Integrating detailed accounts of this fraught political context into the struggles to make the film, this book resets our understanding of Hollywood’s complicated responses to the global threat of Nazism Set among other anti-Nazi films of the period, the story of this extraordinary struggle illuminates the fears, hostility, and heroic efforts of everyone involved in making The Mortal Storm.
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 352 pages
PB 9798765108093 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765108109
ePub 9798765108130 £94 20 / $117 00
ePdf 9798765108123 • £94 20 / $94 20
Bloomsbury Academic
The Drive-In
Outdoor Cinema in 1950s America and the Popular Imagination
Guy Barefoot, University of Leicester, UK
This book contrasts the drive-in’s reputation as a space for dating or delinquent teenagers and for screening subsequent run or exploitation films with how it was promoted as entertainment for audiences who felt excluded from indoor cinemas Through a study of the drive-ins’ roadside locations, what facilities they provided, who attended and what they saw, it provides a detailed picture of a particular form of post-war American cinema-going and an analysis of the complexities that underlie images of the American 1950s
UK July 2025 US July 2025 272 pages 14 bw illus
PB 9781501375019 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501365928
ePub 9781501365911 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501365904 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Network Theory and Nashville
Zachary Tavlin, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
This book offers an accessible introduction to network theory and shows how this theory can be used to understand Robert Altman’s Nashville (1975) Through three key theoretical subcategories—assemblage theory, actor-network theory, and network formalism—the book demonstrates how analyzing the ubiquitous characteristics of networks changes the way film fans, students, and scholars understand cinema’s storytelling possibilities It models a method of interpretation (focusing on character, cinematography, and sound) that students can practice with other feature films. Moreover, it situates film within a larger discourse about art and society, offering students the tools for analyzing other large-form cultural objects
UK January 2026 • US January 2026 • 208 pages
PB 9781501388200 • £17 99 / $24 95 • HB 9781501388217 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9781501388194 • £18 35 / $22 45
ePdf 9781501388187 £18 35 / $18 35
Series: Film Theory in Practice Bloomsbury Academic
Global Screen Worlds
Conversations across Cinema Cultures
Edited by Lindiwe Dovey, SOAS University of London, UK, Kate Taylor-Jones, The University of Sheffield, UK & Georgia Thomas-Parr, SOAS University of London, UK
Global Screen Worlds brings together scholars from around the world to collaborate on comparative studies of African and Asian cinemas and audiovisual narrative media
This open access collection advances the concept of “screen worlds” rather than “world cinema” to acknowledge and reckon with the impact of new technologies on cinema and everyday life, adopting a decolonial feminist approach that insists on localized, intersectional analyses that combine discussions of race, gender, and class with critiques of historical and contemporary abuses of power
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 The European Research Council.
UK October 2025 • US December 2025 • 352 pages • 39 bw illus
HB 9798765126288 £95 00 / $130 00
ePub 9798765126325 £00 00 / $00 00
ePdf 9798765126318 • £00 00 / $00 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Film, In Theory
The BFI Education Department and Film Culture
Colm McAuliffe, Kingston University, UK Film, in Theory tells the story of Paddy Whannel and Peter Wollen's revolutionary work at the BFI’s Education Department and how this led to the establishment of film studies, theory and education in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s Colm McAuliffe explores how Whannel and Wollen refashioned the BFI as a modern and progressive laboratory of ideas, hosting experimental seminars, revamping BFI Summer Schools, and launching the Cinema One series (co-edited by Whannel and Penelope Houston, editor of Sight & Sound magazine) Through extensive archival research and interviews with key figures, McAuliffe explores how the department became "a crucible for the future of film theory."
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 208 pages • 26 bw illus
HB 9781839026331 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781839026348 £67 50 / $91 79
ePdf 9781839026355 £67 50 / $67 50 Bloomsbury Academic
Cinema and Secularism
Edited by Mark Cauchi, York University, Canada Cinema and Secularism is the first collection to make the relationship between cinema and secularism thematic, utilizing myriad methodological approaches Prompted by the recent emergence of critical secular studies, this book sets out to rectify the assumption within film studies that cinema is secular and to invite critical reflection upon its titular terms. The collection poses for the first time in the study of film the questions: Is cinema secular? And what would that mean?
Chapters in this book engage with film thinkers and traditions of thought, the relationship between cinema and enchantment, and distinct manifestations of secularism
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 288 pages • 14 bw illus
PB 9781501388842 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501388873
ePub 9781501388866 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501388859 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Film Figures An Organological Approach
Warwick Mules, Southern Cross University, Australia
Film Figures develops a figural account of the memory structure of films. Employing theoretical concepts drawn from a range of sources, including French post-humanist philosophy and German Idealism, the book undertakes an organology of film guided by the work of Bernard Stiegler whose philosophy of mnemotechnesis provides the framework of analysis
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 200 pages • 25 bw illus
PB 9798765112465 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501361210
ePub 9781501361234 £79 83 / $99 00
ePdf 9781501361227 £79 83 / $79 83
Bloomsbury Academic
A Dream Come True
The Collaboration of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti
Stephan Eicke, Axel Springer Media Corporation, Germany
The book analyses David Lynch the filmmaker through the lens of Angelo Badalamenti’s music via extensive creative biographies of both, in-depth investigations into how the individual music pieces and scores came to be, how they were altered and changed during the editing process, and what clues both music and sound design can give to unlock the mysteries of individual works The result is an insightful collage of exclusive interviews with many of Lynch’s and Badalamenti’s colleagues and friends, transcribed music examples, direct quotes, previously unpublished photographs, dialogue taken from the films, and a careful examination of secondary—sometimes contradictory—
sources
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages • 31 bw illus
PB 9798765129043 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9798765129050 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765129081 • £25 54 / $31 45
ePdf 9798765129074 £25 54 / $25 54
Bloomsbury Academic
Transnational Arab Stardom
Glamour, Performance and Politics
Edited by Kaya Davies Hayon, University of Lincoln, UK & Stefanie Van de Peer, Queen Margaret University, UK
This book is the first dedicated entirely to Arab stars across diverse media, regions, and eras It addresses a gap in existing scholarship – usually focused on isolated studies of iconic Egyptian stars – and advances the field, bringing feminist and transnational film and star studies to bear on Arab stars Transnational Arab Stardom sheds new light on major stars across the Arab world and broadens contemporary understandings to include queer celebrities and social media influencers. The collection adds exciting perspectives, exploring Arab artists’ intertexts, audiences, receptions and after-lives, and proposing new concepts such as group star power and producer-power
UK July 2025 US July 2025 320 pages
PB 9781501393266 £24 99 / $34 95
Previously published in HB 9781501393228
ePub 9781501393242 • £94 20 / $117 00
ePdf 9781501393235 • £94 20 / $94 20 Bloomsbury Academic
Pop Goes the Decade
The Sixties
Martin Kich, Wright State University Lake Campus, USA & Aaron Barlow
Analyzing complex social and political issues through their manifestations in popular culture, this book provides readers a strong foundational knowledge of the 1960s as a decade The title explores the cultural and social framework of the 1960s, addressing film, television, sports, technology, media/advertising, fashion, art, and more Entries are presented in encyclopedic fashion, organized into such categories as controversies in pop culture, game changers, technology, and the decade's legacy. A timeline highlights significant cultural moments, while an introduction and a conclusion place those moments within the contexts of preceding and subsequent decades
UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 344 pages • 25 bw illus
PB 9798765141151 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781440862847
ePub 9798216130406 • £72 64 / $90 90
ePdf 9781440862854 • £72 64 / $72 64
Series: Pop Goes the Decade • Bloomsbury Academic World English
Mad Max: Fury Road
Movies Minute by Minute
Alix Olson, Emory University- Oxford College, USA
This first book-length analysis of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) reads the film as an anti-capitalist, feminist manifesto Alix Olson mobilizes an unconventional and eclectic archive of radical democratic, ecofeminist and queer theory, feminist poetry, and Afro-futurist literature to elicit the film’s relevance as a guide for radical political struggle The book is particularly attuned to Mad Max’s depiction of “another world as possible,” a slogan which serves as an aspirational impetus for activism, and to the nature of radical social change more broadly
UK January 2026 • US January 2026 • 128 pages
PB 9798765104316 • £17 99 / $24 95 • HB 9798765104323 • £60 00 / $80 00
ePub 9798765104354 • £18 35 / $22 45
ePdf 9798765104347 £18 35 / $18 35
Series: Timecodes Bloomsbury Academic
The Sound of Silence
Ryan Gosling, Expressionism and the Silent Hero in 21st-Century Film
Nancy Epton, Independent Scholar, UK
This book analyses the enduring popularity of the silent figure and ask why we are drawn to characters who are motivated by action rather than speech
To consider this question in more depth, the recent career of Ryan Gosling is analysed in detail, arguing that it is Gosling’s expressive capabilities that keep audiences compelled With the use of non-verbal silence – combined with its counterbalance, sound – a more active, emotive audience response can be achieved The book demonstrates that the sound of silence is one of the most meaningful cinematic sounds of all
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 200 pages • 86 bw illus
PB 9798765108048 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765108055
ePub 9798765108086 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765108079 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Pop Goes the Decade
The 2000s
Richard A. Hall
Pop Goes the Decade: The 2000s starts with a timeline of major historical pop culture events of the 2000s, followed by an introduction describing what the U S was like at the beginning of the new millennium and how it would change throughout the decade Next come chapters broken down by medium: television, sports, music, movies, literature, technology, media, and fashion and art A chapter on controversies in popular culture is followed by a chapter on game-changers, featuring 20 individuals who made a major impact on the U S in the 2000s Finally, a conclusion shows the impact that pop culture in the 2000s has had on the U S in the years since
UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 304 pages
PB 9798765141168 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781440868122
ePub 9798216130352 • £72 64 / $90 90
ePdf 9781440868139 • £72 64 / $72 64
Series: Pop Goes the Decade Bloomsbury Academic World English
The Pop Documentary Since 1980
Aesthetics, Performance, Creativity
Richard Wallace, University of Warwick, UK
Richard Wallace examines the representation of music, musicians and music-making in documentary film. He draws together conceptual frameworks from within and outside of film and television studies to provide an interrogation of the central issues in this genre He explores a selection of texts beyond the traditional canon Nina Simone looks out of the past of the archive, while Geri Halliwell begs Molly Dineen’s lens for validation Taylor Swift struts across the stage alongside David Byrne Depeche Mode fans rubs up against the suits of the Japanese salarymen as the fans under scrutiny in the music documentary’s varied forms
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9781350214231 £26 99 / $36 95 HB 9781350214248 £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350214255 £24 29 / $33 74
ePdf 9781350214262 £24 29 / $24 29
Bloomsbury Academic
Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation
The Adaptation of Children’s Novels into the World Masterpiece Theater Series
Maria Chiara Oltolini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation is the first academic work to examine World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku Gekijô, 1969-2009), which popularized the practice of adapting foreign children's books into long-running animated series and laid the groundwork for powerhouses like Studio Ghibli In particular, the series played a role in shaping the pop culture image of a young girl (shôjo) Examining the series through the lens of animation studies as well as adaptation studies, Oltolini sheds new light on this long-neglected staple of Japanese animation history
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus
PB 9781501389870 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501389900
ePub 9781501389894 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501389887 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
The Nightmares of Presence
Space and Place in Spanish Gothic and Horror Film
Ann Davies, University of Stirling, UK
This book explores the role of setting in inspiring fear and wonder through audiovisual media
With the primary aim of marrying the spatial turn in cultural and film studies with genre study of horror and Gothic film, Davies explores how different landscapes, spaces and places enable the subject to interact with the terrors they encounter and confront Case studies include The Devil’s Backbone (Guillermo del Toro), [.REC ](Jaume Balagueró), Insensibles (Painless, Juan Carlos Medina), Los cronocrímenes (Time Crimes, Nacho Vigalondo), and El día de la bestia (The Day of the Beast), among others
UK July 2025 US July 2025 224 pages 17 bw illus
HB 9781501327377 £80 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781501327353 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501327346 • £87 01 / $87 01 Bloomsbury Academic
Supply Chain Cinema
Producing Global Film Workers
Kay Dickinson, University of Glasgow, UK
Supply Chain Cinema shows how the production of big budget films across an array of seemingly dissociated sites exemplifies the principles of the supply chain, and in turn generates an increasingly transnational workforce keenly adapted to the demands of blockbuster moviemaking
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 0 bw illus
PB 9781839024665 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Series: International Screen Industries British Film Institute
The Rustling Image
Videographic and Photographic Witnessing of the Syrian Revolution
Meir Wigoder, Sapir College, Israel
This book discusses the aesthetic, philosophical, and political resonances of low-resolution digital images in connection to the popular and wider use of mobile phone cameras through the case study of citizen journalists and political activists during the Syrian civil war The role of blurry and underexposed images is to make us aware that there is a category of witnessing that reveals the significance of what is not visible; and to make us understand the sense of uncertainty that we feel towards our own inability to comprehend events that have been spiraling out of control in our post-truth world
UK September 2025 • US January 2026 • 240 pages • 15 bw illus
HB 9798765118597 • £90 00 / $120 00
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Fringe to Famous
Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries
Tony Moore, Monash University, Australia, Mark Gibson, RMIT University, Australia, Chris McAuliffe, Australian National University, Australia & Maura Edmond, Monash University, Australia
Drawing on dozens of original interviews and close analyses of Australian artists sampled from across 40 years of “indie” music, comedy, film, computer games, and graphic design, Fringe to Famous explores how some of Australia’s leading cultural practitioners negotiate their position between the margins and the mainstream in the contemporary period
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 280 pages • 30 bw illus
PB 9798765112472 £28 99 / $39 95
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Thinking Media
Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany & Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Frictionlessness
The Silicon Valley Philosophy of Seamless Technology and the Aesthetic Value of Imperfection
Jakko Kemper, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
This book examines imperfection as an aesthetic concept that highlights existential conditions of finitude and fragility as a particularly powerful counterweight to the dominant digital design philosophy of "frictionlessness " While frictionlessness aims to draw the user’s perception away from the exploitative and destructive conditions of digital production, imperfection forms an aesthetic source of friction that alerts users to the fragile nature of technology and the finite resources on which it relies Through case studies, this book underlines the value of technological aesthetics of imperfection and points to the need for a renewed ethics of care in relation to technology
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 200 pages
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Stillmoving
Jon Inge Faldalen, University of Oslo, Norway
This two-volume work explores a static long take, termed a still Einstellung, as well as coexistent still and moving imagery by Lumière, Welles and the MPEG compression codec, to contemplate the kind of image it generates The author embraces neologisms to capture specific aesthetic-technical phenomena more accurately than has hitherto been possible Stillmoving I is a film theoretical exploration of Einstellung where the author asks whether this image is a still image, or a moving image, or both, or neither, or, finally, what Faldalen terms stillmoving Stillmoving II explores Einstellung through a small set of specific case studies.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 560 pages • 46 bw illus
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Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic
The Emerging Contours of the Medium
Literature and Mediality
Edited by Richard Müller, Institute of Czech Literature, CAS, Czech Republic
What are the conditions for elaborating a mediatheoretical framework in which to situate literature as a medium? This collection explores this question in three sections Part I develops a perspective of the (pre)history of media thinking Part II develops the related perspectives of media philosophy and media anthropology Part III’s main focus is the way media provide the ground for making emergent media phenomena visible, whether it be between media, media artefacts, or human and apparatus The book was written by a collective of authors based in the Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
UK August 2025 US August 2025 520 pages
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Designing the BBC A
History of Motion Graphics
Edited by Iain Macdonald, Maynooth University, Ireland & Paula Williams, Ravensbourne University London, UK
Drawing on the unique holdings of the BBC Motion Graphics Archive, and first-hand perspectives of former BBC staff, this study provides a timely overview of over 50 years of the BBC Television Graphic Design Department In addition, this unique volume takes a thematic approach, considering the graphic design of a range of TV genres, including household favourites such as Doctor Who; sports programming such as Grandstand and big sporting events like the Olympics; children's television including Grange Hill; popular science programmes such as Tomorrow’s World; news output such as The Nine O'Clock News, Election Night specials, the weather and the channel idents of BBC 2
UK February 2025 • US April 2025 • 240 pages • 40 bw illus, 32 colour illus
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Gaming and Gamers in Times of Pandemic
Edited by Piotr Siuda & Jakub Majewski, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland & Krzysztof Chmielewski
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted virtually every aspect of our lives, regardless of where we live In the initial months, many industry reports noted the unexpected positive impact on online digital game sales Games were not just lockdown-proof, but boosted by lockdowns Stay-at-home orders triggered a rush toward games as an alternative form of entertainment, and the ubiquity of mobile phones allowed wider than ever participation
UK August 2025 US August 2025 288 pages 36 bw illus
PB 9798765110249 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Disruptive Information in Canada
Ahmed Al-Rawi, Simon Fraser University, Canada
This book examines Canadian news content that references different terms related to fake news and disinformation while providing an analysis of Canadian journalists’ views on how to report on fake news and its impact in today’s society This book offers a new theoretical conceptualization of our post-truth era by introducing the concept of “Disruptive Information” via focusing on news and social media content as well as journalists reporting on these issues With the use of a mixed methods approach, it provides different insights into this important topic
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 240 pages • 6 bw illus
HB 9798765132500 • £90 00 / $120 00
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Gender and Contemporary Television in Iberia and Latin America
Identities and Social Change
Edited by Anja Louis, Sheffield Hallam University, UK & Abigail Loxham, University of Liverpool, UK
This book provides an inclusive and intersectional look into television from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula Each of the essays, written by international scholars across various disciplines, offer close textual analyses of popular series from Mexico, Spain, Brazil and Cuba, these include La casa de papel (2017-2021), Drag Race España (2021-), Inés del alma mía (2020) and El ministerio del tiempo (2015) The detailed case studies of seminal local and global hits provide overdue critical attention to Latin American television programming, highlighting on screen representations of gendered identities and the role of online streaming in facilitating social change
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781350404649 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350404656 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350404663 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Invisible Digital
What Animation and Games Tell Us about Software and Digital Culture
Aylish Wood, University of Kent, UK
Invisible Digital helps us makes sense of something we cannot see by presenting an innovative approach to digital images and culture At its heart is a novel method for exploring software used in the creation of moving images as markers of converging cultural, organizational and technological influences. The 3 main case studies are the animated feature Moana (2016) and the computer games No Man’s Sky (2016) and Everything (2017) These analyses of software provide a widely applicable method where moving image studies can contribute more fully to the wider and growing debates about algorithmic culture
UK August 2025 US August 2025 200 pages 3 bw illus
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