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Rebel Without a Cause
Glyn Davis, University of St Andrews, UK
Glyn Davis situates Nicholas Ray's 1955 portrayal of youth rebellion as both a foundational teen pic and a canonical drama of queer representation He also examines aspects of the film that have previously been critically neglected; its mixture of performance styles, particularly those of stars James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo; its relationship to Eisenhower’s politics and the post-war ‘culture of plenty’, and its depiction of suburban Los Angeles Davis unpacks the role of director Nicholas Ray, alongside that of other key members of the film’s production, and considers the reasons for its cult status and resonance with contemporary audiences
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 96 pages • 60 colour illus
PB 9781839027765 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839027772 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839027789 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Chinatown
Michael Eaton
Michael Eaton's compelling study of Roman Polanski's 1974 neo-noir situates Chinatown in relation to a history of fictional detectives, from Sophocles to Edgar Allen Poe and Alfred Hitchcock. In an absorbing account of the film's narrative development and visual style, he traces Chinatown's relationship to the pessimism of American cinema (and, by extension, in wider American culture) in the mid-1970s, and the source of the film's narrative and visual impact. In his afterword to this new edition, Eaton considers Chinatown's 1990 sequel The Two Jakes and also the movie's changing fortunes in the years since its release
UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 96 pages • 60 colour illus
PB 9781839028151 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839028168 £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839028175 £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Jaws
Antonia Quirke
Antonia Quirke's study of Steven Spielberg's 1975 feature Jaws, about a killer shark's terrorising a New England tourist town, traces how the young prodigy crafted a thriller so effective that for some time Jaws was the highest-grossing film of all time. It was also instrumental in establishing the concepts of the event movie and the summer blockbuster In her reading of the film, Quirke argues that interpretations of the film as either infantile or fraught with psychosexual meanings obscure its success simply as a work of art In Jaws, Spielberg's ability to blend genres combined with his precocious technical skill to create a genuine masterpiece
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 104 pages
PB 9781839023637 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839023644 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839023651 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
The 'Before' Trilogy
Lucas Hilderbrand, University of California, Irvine, USA
Lucas Hilderbrand’s study provides a close reading of each of the Before films; Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013), considering the extent to which they operate beyond the generic norms of romantic comedy or melodrama, incorporating aspects of realism and naturalism through their location shooting, long takes, and near-real time temporality He explores how the films’ formal and aesthetic choices were influenced by Linklater's use of time as a framing structure for the characters’ relationship and life stages
UK November 2025 US November 2025 112 pages 60 colour illus
PB 9781839028021 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839028038 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839028045 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Die Hard
Jon Lewis, Oregon State University, USA
This new BFI Film Classic on Die Hard (1988) provides a close textual analysis of the action classic, focusing on the impact and importance of the film’s producer, Joel Silver and his "whammy theory" of narrative. John Lewis considers the film's ending in all its complicated and conflicting detail, situating it within the contexts of Reaganism and its distrust of government bureaucracy, post-Vietnam male panic and the 'Iron John' men's movement, and the search for new villains in the aftermath of the Cold War
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus
PB 9781839026522 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839026539 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839026546 £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute
Nashville
Heather Hendershot, Northwestern University, USA
Heather Hendershot's in-depth study addresses Robert Altman’s movie, which follows its large cast of characters in the days leading up to a fundraising gala concert in aid of a presidential candidate, as a sprawling endeavor full of big, panoramic moments, and also a tight picture about small moments of intimacy—and alienation—in close-up Hendershot situates Nashville in the context of 1970s Hollywood, charts it as an auteurist production, and, finally and most crucially, analyzes the movie as a text both personal and political, as a film about failed attempts at intimacy and human connection, all within the context of a wider, American moment of failure In spite of those failures, and Altman’s trademark cynicism, she argues that the film ultimately offers fleeting moments of connection and of guarded hopefulness
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus
PB 9781839028946 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839028953 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839028960 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute
Pulp Fiction
Dana Polan, New York University, UK
Dana Polan's compelling analysis sets out to uncover the style and technique of Pulp Fiction He shows how broad Tarantino's points of reference are, and analyzes the film's narrative accomplishment and complexity Where some critics dismissed Pulp Fiction for its violence and its worship of a certain brand of cool, Polan shows how the film exemplifies new kinds of engagement with cultural and social codes, such as those around racial identity In addition, Polan argues that the film's celebration of macho attitudes is more nuanced than might first appear
UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 112 pages • 60 colour illus
PB 9781839027598 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839027604 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839027611
Series:
£11 69 / $16 19
Billy Elliot
James Leggott, Northumbria University, UK
James Leggott's study of Billy Elliot (2000), a coming-of-age drama set against the bitter backdrop of the 1984-5 miners' strike, examines the film's peculiarities of tone, depiction of tensions over class and gender roles, and its portrayal of family dynamics In doing so, he challenges the film's categorisation as an example of 'feel good' northern realism. Instead, through close readings of key scenes, Leggott argues that the film's bold, often transgressive humour, aligns it more with contemporaneous developments in American independent cinema and British ‘dark’ television comedy than a more obvious alignment with an British social realist tradition
UK September 2025 US November 2025 104 pages 60 colour illus
PB 9781839027802 £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839027819 £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839027826 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers)
Lalitha Gopalan, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Lalitha Gopalan's study of Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers) (1959) explores its visual style and experimentation with expressive forms of melodrama, including song picturisations and heightened performances by Guru Dutt and Waheeda Rehman Drawing on interviews with practitioners and people close to Dutt, she sketches the original contexts of the film's production and reception. Positioning the film as an archive of filmmaking, Gopalan uses it as a lens through which to assess Dutt's influence on popular Indian cinema in the long decade of the 1950s, and global melodrama more broadly
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 104 pages • 60 bw illus
PB 9781839027062 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839027086 £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839027093 £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Hester Street
Julia Wagner
Filmed in black and white and with a largely Yiddish script, Joan Micklin Silver’s 1975 debut feature film Hester Street represents the world according to Gitl (Carol Kane), a poor, young, Jewish immigrant to New York at the end of the 19th century who finds that on reuniting with her already-assimilated husband , they now have little in common Julia Wagner's insightful study examines the film's portrayal of the immigrant experience and its exploration of Jewish identity, assimilation, and cultural adaptation
UK October 2025 US October 2025 112 pages 60 bw illus
PB 9781839028069 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839028076 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839028083 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Dilwale Dulhania le Jayenge
Anupama Chopra, Film Companion, India Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, universally known as DDLJ, opened to huge popular acclaim in India in 1995. Anupama Chopra's study of the film argues that it is a paradoxical film which affirms oldfashioned values of pre-marital chastity and family authority, affirming the idea that Westernisation need not affect an essential Indian identity
UK November 2025 • US December 2025 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus
PB 9781839028328 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839028335 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839028342 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Grey Gardens
Matthew Tinkcom, Georgetown University, USA
Matthew Tinkcom argues that the Maysles' Grey Gardens (1975) reshaped documentary cinema by moving the non-fiction camera to the heart of the household, a private space into which film-makers had seldom previously ventured The brothers’ visual record of a summer spent in the household of ‘Big Edie’ Beale and her daughter ‘Little Edie’, living in genteel poverty in their decaying East Hampton mansion, reveals the two women not as victims of their reduced circumstances but rather as artists who were willing to make seemingly any sacrifice for their singing and dancing talents
UK September 2025 US September 2025 96 pages
PB 9781839029295 £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839029318 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839029301 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
Wanda
Elena Gorfinkel, King's College London, UK
This new BFI Film Classic on Barbara Loden’s 1970 film Wanda, argues the film's status as a singular work in American film history, a road movie following its dispossessed working-class heroine, played by Loden herself, as she drifts through an American landscape rarely seen on screen Elena Gorfinkel's study traces the trajectory of Loden’s acting career before and leading up to the film, her entry into filmmaking, the film’s production, reception and circulation both in the 1970s and after, as well as the critical, industrial and feminist responses to the film and its legacies for contemporary film practice.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 120 pages • 60 colour illus
PB 9781839023040 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839023057 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839023064 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute
BFI Screen Guides
100 Cult Films: The Sequel
Ernest Mathijs & Xavier Mendik, Birmingham City University, UK
Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik provide a guide to one hundred more incredible films from the history and present of cult cinema around the world, from the 1911 Italian silent Dante's Inferno to Jordan Peele's 2017 horror classic Get Out. They address the work of filmmakers including Stanley Kubrick, Paul Verhoeven, Julien Temple, Ana Lily Amirpour, Lizzie Borden, Rob Reiner and John Carpenter, and movies from countries ranging from Iran to Peru, South Korea to Sweden, Japan to the USA. The films represent genres including sci-fi, romance, horror, vampire, comedy and action, and in their subject matter and through the debates (and sometimes controversies) that surrounds them raise issues about identity, home, belonging, exoticism, censorship and what it means to be 'weird'
UK
PB 9781839023026
Series:
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Black Girl (La Noire de...)
Vlad Dima, Syracuse University, USA
Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest, most groundbreaking filmmakers in the history of cinema, an acclaimed novelist, and the most renowned African director of the twentieth century Black Girl was his brilliant, blistering debut Released in 1966, it won the Prix Jean Vigo at the Cannes Film Festival that year. The film is about a young Senegalese woman, played powerfully by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop, who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family as a nanny, but quickly discovers that life in their apartment is a prison, both figuratively and literally; but it is also a searing, nuanced critique of the lingering colonialism in the supposedly postcolonial world
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 104 pages • 60 bw illus
PB 9781839027352 • £12 99 / $17 95
ePub 9781839027369 • £11 69 / $16 19
ePdf 9781839027376 • £11 69 / $16 19
Series: BFI Film Classics British Film Institute
100 Queer Films Since Stonewall
Chelsea McCracken, State University of New York at Oneonta, NY, USA. & Matt Connolly, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA.
100 Queer Films identifies 100 films that shaped the trajectory of queer cinema, connected with larger movements, and showcased the artistry of queer filmmaking. In addition to those films that already hold significant places in queer film canons, this volume examines often-overlooked titles By highlighting hidden gems alongside well known classics, this book makes a valuable, accessible contribution to queer film studies.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages • 100 bw and colour illus
Smith, University of Sunderland, UK & Claire Nally, Northumbria University, UK
Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis
The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity
Jessica Martin, University of Leeds, UK. Campaigners and researchers have long made the case that austerity policies have had a disproportionate impact on women in the UK But how are these policies reinforced and resisted through popular culture? Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis explores how the revival of domestic, traditionally feminine activities such as crafting, baking and sewing has gone hand-in-hand with the repoliticisation of domestic culture during an era of austerity Jessica Martin provides an in-depth analysis of key public figures who forged their public personas by co-opting the harsh conditions of austerity, turning them into a ‘popular’ brand of neoliberal feminism
UK October 2025
• US October 2025 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781350332225 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350332232 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350332249 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Globalized Queerness
Identities and Commodities in Queer Popular Culture
Helton Levy, London Metropolitan University, UK
In Globalized Queerness, Helton Levy revisits popular media characters such as Calamity Jane (1953), the Daffyd Thomas character from the BBC comedy Little Britain (2003-2007), Brazilian drag queen Pabblo Vittar, French singer Christine and the Queens, and the Italian-Egyptian rapper Mahmood He argues that such characters have gradually blended in the public's perception and the assumption that queer publics live and consume only through a global set of references, including gay parades and rainbow flags, for example, erases the personal complexities of immigration, homophobia, poverty and societal exclusion
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages • 12 bw illus
PB 9781350292826 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350292789
ePub 9781350292796 £26 09 / $36 44
ePdf 9781350292802 £26 09 / $36 44
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Angela
Bringing
Song and Dance to the Screen
Directors
Musicals
of Golden Age Hollywood
Thomas S. Hischak, State University of New York College at Cortland, USA
In Bringing Song and Dance to the Screen, Thomas S Hischak looks at the contribution that twenty-seven Hollywood directors made to the art of the movie musical during the exciting and prolific golden age of cinema. This book covers movie musicals made from the first talkies up through the 1950s, from The Jazz Singer in 1927 to Gigi in 1958. Some directors flourished in this niche genre, while others floundered. Hischak explores them all, highlighting the directors' careers and film musicals chronologically and providing biographical information Readers will learn about both famous and obscure film musicals, making this the perfect guide for movie and musical fans alike
UK
HB 9781538195826
Bloomsbury Academic
Home Screens
Public Housing in Global Film & Television
Edited by Lorrie Palmer, Towson University, Maryland, USA
This is the first book-length study of the ways in which socialized housing projects are represented on screen. International scholars of film and media, sociology, architecture, history, race, class, gender and urban planning explore documentary and fictional portrayals of the architecture of public housing, and the communities that inhabit it, from the 1950s to the present Spanning a wide, international range of film and media texts, essays within this book examine public and private attitudes toward socialised housing, explaining how onscreen representations shape perceptions of these ubiquitous, oftenstigmatized urban locations
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 296 pages • 24 bw illus
PB 9781350253940 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350253957
ePub 9781350253964 • £26 09 / $36 44
ePdf 9781350253971 • £26 09 / $36 44
Bloomsbury Academic
Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts
Twenty-First-Century Screen Horror and the Historical Imagination
Edited by Amanda Howell, Griffith University, Australia & Stephanie Green, Griffith University, Australia
Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts demonstrates how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, through horror, in public discourses of history, the social and creative work of reshaping popular understanding of our world through the lens of the past The essays address 21st-century screen horror's fascination with and concern for the historical - its recurrent reimagining of the relation between the past and present They are concerned with the historical work of horror’s spectral occupations, its visceral threats of violence and its capacity for exploring repressed social identities, as well as the ruptures and impositions of colonization and nationhood
UK November 2025 US November 2025 280 pages 10 bw illus
PB 9781501394447 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501394409
ePub 9781501394416 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501394423 • £87 01 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Adapting Sex on Screen
The Cinematic Biographies of Lulu, La Ronde and Venus in Furs
Julian Preece, Swansea University, UK
Julian Preece’s Sex on Screen: Adapting ‘Lulu’, ‘La Ronde’ and ‘Venus in Furs’ explores how three controversial works—Venus in Furs, Reigen, and Lulu—were adapted for cinema, provoking debates about sexuality and censorship Through detailed case studies, Preece examines how filmmakers like Max Ophüls and Roman Polanski challenged societal norms and reflected shifting attitudes towards sex This concise and insightful book is essential reading for those interested in the intersection of literature, film, and sexual politics across Europe and North America
UK October 2025 • US December 2025 • 272 pages
HB 9781350538139 • £85 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350538146 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350538153 • £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
Edge of the Screen
Murray Pomerance, Independent scholar, Canada
This book is a series of seventeen mediations that revolve around the notion of the viewer’s placement at the edge of the screen to reconsider what it is that we watch when we watch a film, what happens to us, and how we make sense of and appreciate it This book analyzes several films, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Memento, Zabriskie Point, An American in Paris, Planet of the Apes (1968), Superman (1978), Possessed, The Jungle Book (1942), The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, The Toll of the Sea, Rope, among others
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 312 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9798765128329 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765128336
ePub 9798765128367 • £94 20 / $117 00
ePdf 9798765128350 £94 20 / $117 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Neon Knight Forever
The Legacy of Joel
Schumacher’s
Batman Duology
Tomasz Zaglewski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
This book accounts for the initial rejection of Joel Schumacher's version of Batman and explores modern attempts to rehabilitate the 'Neon Knight' as yet another acceptable idea for Batman By uncovering the formal foundations underlying both Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, the criticism it received and a kind of renaissance of Schumacher's vision in recent DC Films projects, Neon Knight Forever is a detailed study of one of the most misunderstood superhero series and dares to ask the most heretical question for Bat-fans: what if Batman & Robin is actually an impressive artistic achievement in big-budget superhero cinema?
UK June 2025 US June 2025 160 pages
PB 9798765100615 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765100608
ePub 9798765100578 • £28 73 / $35 95
ePdf 9798765100585 • £28 73 / $35 95
Bloomsbury Academic
Reappraising Cult Horror Films
From Carnival of Souls to Last Night in Soho
Edited by Lee Broughton, University of Leeds, UK
Identities key cult horror films from around the world and reappraises them by approaching and interrogating them in new ways The contributors look beyond their selected horror film’s cult movie status to critically analyze, assess and pass comment on previously overlooked aspects through myriad theoretical and analytical approaches Covering cult horror classics such as The Shining and Plan 9 From Outer Space to more obscure films like Killer Klowns from Outer Space and Dream Home, Broughton curates an international selection of case studies to show the prevalence of the cult horror subgenre
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 288 pages • 13 bw illus
PB 9781501387555 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501387586
ePub 9781501387579 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501387562 • £87 01 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
The Non-Professional Actor Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond
Catherine O'Rawe, Bristol University, UK
Italian post-war cinema has been widely celebrated by critics and scholars: films such as Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948) and Paisan (Rossellini, 1946) remain globally influential, particularly for their use of non-professional actors This book provides the first critical overview of acting, stardom, and performance in postwar Italian film (1945-54), with special attention to the figure of the non-professional actor, who looms large in neorealist filmmaking. This period of regeneration of Italian cinema initiated the boom in cinemagoing that made cinema an important vector of national and gender identity for audiences
UK June 2025 US June 2025 264 pages 17 bw illus
PB 9781501394393 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501394355
ePub 9781501394362 • £28 73 / $35 95
ePdf 9781501394379 • £28 73 / $35 95
Bloomsbury Academic
The American Blockbuster Movies That Defined Their Generations
Benjamin Crace, Tennessee Technological University, USA
In an age marked by tension and division, Americans of all ages and backgrounds have turned to film to escape the pressures of everyday life. Yet, beyond escapism, popular cinema is both a mirror and microscope for our collective psyche. Examining the films that have made billions of dollars through a new lens reveals that popular culture is a vital source for understanding what it means to be an American Providing an indispensable resource for students and general readers, this book serves as an entry point for a conversation on America's favorite pastime, focusing in on generational differences and the evolution of American identity
UK June 2025 US June 2025 232 pages
PB 9798765167045 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781440877803
ePub 9798216184188 • £28 73 / $35 95
ePdf 9781440877810 • £28 73 / $35 95
Bloomsbury Academic
World English
Women's Leadership in Popular Culture
Edited by Tracy Everbach, Gwendelyn S. Nisbett & Newly Paul
This edited volume examines mass media portrayals of women leaders and other powerful women in popular culture Contributors from varied disciplinary backgrounds argue that increased media visibility and representation can lead to more widespread acceptance of women as societal leaders The book employs an interdisciplinary, intersectional, and international approach to its coverage of these portrayals and their meanings for society and gender norms Through a feminist lens, these cultural representations are examined within the context of gender, race, sexuality, and social class/economic status
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 304 pages • 4 bw illus and 3 tables
HB 9781666965063 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781978759565 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798216268444 £87 01 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Displacement of (M)others in Twenty-First-Century US 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 November 2025 • US November 2025 • 256 pages • 68 bw illus
HB 9798765126424 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765126462 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765126455 • £87 01 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Quiet Pictures
Women and Silence in Contemporary British and French Cinema
Sarah Artt, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Quiet Pictures approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadžhalilovic through the lens of silence. It looks at uses of silence and how this creates a space for innovative practices that establish new ways of looking, staring, and gazing The deployment of silence allows for reciprocal gazes that counteract the typically gendered and binary ways in which women and femme-presenting people tend to be portrayed on screen
Quiet Pictures draws on the political legacy of feminist film theory to explore and conceptualise what it means to not just look back, but to share the gaze
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 184 pages • 33 bw illus
PB 9798765113851 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501347214
ePub 9781501347221 • £79 83 / $99 00
ePdf 9781501347238 • £79 83 / $99 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Marvel Age of Comics
Daredevil: Born Again
Chris Ryall, San Diego, USA
In Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s Daredevil: Born Again, the comic’s titular hero has his life destroyed after his most menacing enemy learns his real identity His attempts to rebuild his life and sanity result in one of the most gripping and impactful super hero storylines of all time Released in 1986, the storyline is an extraordinary exploration of what happens when a hero’s identity is revealed, and his personal life completely annihilated We see Daredevil reduced to the lowest depths in the character’s history, but we also follow his painstaking path toward redemption This entry in MARVEL AGE OF COMICS explores Daredevil: Born Again’s gorgeous and unique artwork, the lasting impact of its story and art, and how it forever changed the ways super hero characters and their secret identities have functioned .
UK November 2025 US November 2025 160 pages 42 color images
Series: Marvel Age of Comics • Bloomsbury Academic
Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic
Stuart Moore, Freelance Writer, USA
Doctor Strange, one of Marvel’s most fascinating early characters, began at the hands of co-creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and his ethereal voyages through other dimensions made him an important figure in 1960s culture. From his first appearance in 1963, Strange captivated a wide range of readers. Over his first ten years, a succession of writers and artists—including Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Gardner F Fox, P Craig Russell, Marie Severin, and notably Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner—expanded on Ditko’s original mind-bending concepts This entry in the MARVEL AGE OF COMICS explores Strange’s changing roles as a mystic, super hero, and leader of a chaotic team called the Defenders, and the rise of his popularity, in parallel with the counterculture of the 1960s
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 144 pages • 33 color images
Series: Marvel Age of Comics • Bloomsbury Academic
The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s
Paul Cornell, Writer, UK
The Avengers was the comic book of the 1970s From Civil Rights to Women’s Lib, battles for the soul of America became battles between super heroes Writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby co-created the all-star group of six super heroes in September 1963 From there, just three main writers chronicled Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in that most turbulent of decades: Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, and Jim Shooter, each with differing approaches The Avengers quickly became the pivot around which the Marvel Universe turned To look back through its issues is to get a crash course in ’70s pop culture Illustrated with full-color art from this legendary run, Paul Cornell’s entry in the MARVEL AGE OF COMICS series explores how the Mighty Avengers became icons during a time of immense change and upheaval
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 120 pages • 26 color illustrations
Series: Marvel Age of Comics • Bloomsbury Academic
Stan Lee
A Life, Centennial Edition
Bob Batchelor, historian In Stan Lee: A Life, award-winning cultural historian Bob Batchelor offers an in-depth and complete look at this iconic visionary Born in the Roaring Twenties, growing up in the Great Depression, living and thriving through the American Century, and dying in the twenty-first century, Stan Lee’s life is a unique representation of recent American history Batchelor examines Lee’s fascinating American life by drawing out all its complexity, drama, heartache, and humor, revealing how Lee introduced the world to heroes that were just as fallible and complex as their creator—and just like all of us
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 264 pages • 30 b/w photos
PB 9798881808860 £12 99 / $16 95
ePub 9798881854744 £12 77 / $15 25
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Bloomsbury Academic World English
Wicked Witch of the West
The Enduring Legacy of a Feminist Icon
Lona Bailey, independent researcher
Wicked Witch of the West: The Enduring Legacy of a Feminist Icon reimagines the Wicked Witch of the West as a powerful symbol of radical feminism, highlighting her defiance against oppression. By exploring her story as a timeless icon, this book inspires readers to challenge societal norms and embrace their autonomy Throughout the book, Bailey explores the growth of the iconic character, first introduced in 1900 by L. Frank Baum, from The Wizard of Oz through to Wicked More than a villain, she symbolizes rebellion and resistance, evolving through adaptations while remaining relevant in today’s fight for justice and equality.
UK October 2025 US October 2025 224 pages 5 bw photos
HB 9798881808228 • £24 99 / $34 00
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Bloomsbury Academic World English
Projected Fears
Horror Films and American Culture
Kendall R. Phillips, Syracuse University, USA
This expanded second edition traces the cultural history of the American horror film, focusing on films that helped to (re)define the genre: Dracula (1931), The Thing (1951), Psycho (1960), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Exorcist (1973), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Halloween (1978), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Scream (1996), The Sixth Sense (1999), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Saw (2004), and Get Out (2017) Situating each film in relation to the history of the genre and its cultural context(s), this book explains why certain horror films create a connection with a wide audience
UK November 2025 US November 2025 336 pages 26 bw illus
Edited by Caroline Alphin, E. Leigh McKagen & Shelby Ward
This edited volume explores the global political, cultural, and societal narratives of future space(s), complicating the cultural logic of systemic futures that are outside of dominant political imaginaries, including new spatial and virtual politics The book suggests critiques of narratives and discourses within and about virtual and metaspaces, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and even the colonization of space and planets can provide needed insights about global futures and our perceived experiences of space and time, especially as they inform how - and who - ought to live in the present with environmental destruction, information capitalism, neoliberalism, and colonialism
Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China explores the dynamic networks of art cinema in China in the 21st century by highlighting the cultural practices of intermediaries such as independent exhibitors, internet critics, and fan translators
UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 208 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781350370104
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ePub 9781350370111 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Global East Asian Screen Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Nostalgia and Paranoia in Recent American Popular Culture
Owen Cantrell
In this book, Owen Cantrell interprets American popular culture of the past four decades through the lens of paranoia and nostalgia - twin structures of feeling Cantrell argues that these culturallypervasive emotions stem from the United States' fraught political relationship to history during this period as a result of the backlash to the Second Reconstruction (1980-2008) and the Third Reconstruction (2008-present)
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 1 pages
HB 9781666957259 • £90 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781978765184 • £79 83 / $99 00
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Bloomsbury Academic World English
Caught on Screen
Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television
James Findlay, The University of Sydney, Australia
Caught on Screen traverses the history of convict representation for the first time. Through archival research into their production and reception, the book explores engaging case studies produced in Australia and internationally, including the work of Douglas Sirk, Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Andrikidis and Jennifer Kent From innocent criminals to radical revolutionaries, feisty feminists to manly pioneers, egalitarian settlers to violent invaders, it shows how the shape-shifting convict emerged on screen as a potent historical symbol that intersected with, and helped to direct, major debates about nationalism, the legacies of colonisation, Indigenous dispossession and the origins and character of Australian society
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages • 30 bw illus
Cinema and the Indian National Emergency Histories and Afterlives
Edited by Parichay Patra, IIT Jodhpur, India & Dibyakusum Ray, IIT Ropar, India
Cinema and the Indian National Emergency examines the strained relationship between the state and the Indian film industry during this period of political upheaval Each of the essays, written from a broad range of critical perspectives, analyse controversial films such as Aandhi (1975), Nasbandi (1978), and Kissa Kursi Ka (1977), which were all subject to state censorship It considers the cinematic representations and afterlives, and the possible modes of archiving and remembering the cinema of the Indian Emergency
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 264 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781350371132 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350371149 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Weimar Slapstick and Hollywood Comedy Transformed
Paul Flaig, University of St. Andrews, UK
In Hollywood and Weimar Slapstick, Paul Flaig reassesses the films of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat, the Marx Brothers, and Frank Capra in light of their circulation and citation among German filmmakers, philosophers, advertisers, politicians, artists, playwrights and poets
Drawing on a diverse range of German-language sources, including avant-garde manifestoes, arts journals, feuilletons, trade press reports and academic studies, Flaig investigates the historical context, intellectual foundations, and cultural and political underpinnings that contributed to the fascination with American comic cinema in Weimar Germany
UK October 2025
• US October 2025 • 304 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781350439153 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350439160 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Thai Cinema
The Complete Guide
Edited by Mary J. Ainslie & Katarzyna Ancuta
In the first ever book devoted solely to Thai cinema, experts on contemporary and historic Thai film provide a timely overview and discussion of key films, directors and current movements in the region in a comprehensive encyclopaedia format
Featuring contributions on Thai visionaries such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Wisit Sasanatieng and providing rare insight into early Thai cinema, this is an essential scholarly guide to a vibrant aspect of Southeast Asian cinema - its history, industry and aesthetic trends - for scholars and students alike
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 284 pages • 19 bw integrated
PB 9781350543362
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ePub 9781838609252 • £26 09 / $36 44
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Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
Women and Global Documentary Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century
Edited by Shilyh Warren, University of Texas at Dallas, USA & Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi, Old Dominion University, USA
Women and Global Documentary answers the urgent need to reevaluate not only the significance of women’s documentary practices and their contributions to feminist world-building, but also the state of documentary studies as it engages with political, aesthetic, and industrial developments arising as a result of an increasing number of women’s documentaries
UK February 2025 • US March 2025 • 312 pages • 30 bw illus
Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo, CY Cergy Paris Université, France
Contemporary Chilean Filmmaking explores how the generation of filmmakers born in the aftermath of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) use cinema to navigate and narrate the complex legacies of their country's turbulent past Eva-Rosa Ferrand Verdejo examines the work of the Novísimo Cine Chileno, providing close readings of key films such as Fernando Guzzoni’s Carne de Perro (2013), Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s La Casa Lobo (2018), Manuela Martelli’s 1976 (2022), and Pablo Larraín’s El Conde (2023)
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781350528024 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350528031 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: World Cinema • Bloomsbury Academic
A History of India’s North-East Cinema
Deconstructing the Stereotypes
Parthajit Baruah, Renaissance Junior College, India
This book depicts the journey from the first Assamese film (1935) to the present. It addresses the peripheral status and identity crisis of North-Eastern people in mainland India and examines the role of Bollywood in the construction and misrepresentation of this region in popular Hindi cinema Part I looks at how the people of the North-East are constructed as 'foreigners’ or ‘outsiders' by mainland Indians Part II discusses the socio-political and cultural shifts in the Assam region Part III traces the journey of cinema in the other seven North-Eastern states, narrating the regions’ socio-political phenomena and the unique cultural discourses
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 336 pages • 34 bw illus
HB 9798765127667 • £90 00 / $120 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Towards a Film Theory from Below
Archival
Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-Up
Jiri Anger, Queen Mary University of London, UK
This book explores the weird shapes that emerge when material elements interact with figurative content of the moving image. Employing the digitized first Czech films by Jan Kríženecký prompted the questions: is it possible to do film theory from below, from the perspective of a film object? Could we treat accidents in moving images as full-fledged actors with distinctive aesthetic forms and functions? In these films, analog elements impinge upon the form and content of the moving images to create generative figures and shapes. Using digital technology, we can isolate these features and experiment with how they can be reimagined
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 232 pages • 63 colour illus
PB 9798765107270 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Series: Thinking Media Bloomsbury Academic
Timecodes
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 • 288 pages • 31 bw illus
Boljkovac, University of Colorado, USA & Nicholas Rombes, University of Detroit Mercy, USA
BlacKkKlansman
Movies Minute by Minute
Alex Zamalin, Rutgers University, USA
This book places Spike Lee’s film, BlacKkKlansman, in dialogue with political questions that have been considered by a swathe of thinkers, including Plato, Marx, Freud, Fanon, Butler, and Davis to investigate how this film works as a text of political thought. Some questions include: what is the meaning of freedom under social constraint? How does racism and anti-Blackness structure the parameters of conversation and belonging? Is power dispersed, and, if it is, how must resistance be decentralized? What is political about speech, and how exactly does language have a performative political function? How to build solidarity and imagine political commitment?
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 120 pages • 10 bw illus
David Lynch’s American Dreamscape expands the interpretive horizons of David Lynch’s filmography by addressing the questions: How are Lynch’s films as much a part of literary tradition as the cinematic tradition? How can his films be read as songs? This book positions his work as a compendium of popular literary and musical cultures, including David Foster Wallace and Nine Inch Nails who have successfully grafted Lynch’s cinematic sensibility onto their own projects; a site through which these texts interact with other texts; and a channel through which the subconscious of American life finds its way into full and unaltered view
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 288 pages • 57 bw illus
A minute-by-minute analysis of one episode (Part 8) of David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) After placing the work in this specific context, set during the world’s first atomic explosion, the Trinity Test, this book examines every minute of Lynch’s Part 8 of this series With David Lynch’s Part 8, a cultural circuit is completed, from the idiosyncratic and personal—or Lynchian—to the shared space of what theorist Paul Virilio describes as “cosmic fear”— or an emergency of social media
UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 136 pages • 10 bw illus
Overlooked Films, Television Shows, and Commercials
Edited by Phillip Sipiora, University of South Florida, USA & Gary D. Rhodes, Oklahoma Baptist University, USA
This collection examines over a dozen of Martin Scorsese’s most overlooked works, including the television shows, music videos, television commercials, and feature films that have been largely ignored by film critics and/or the moviegoing public It reclaims the director's less-appreciated works, giving them the respect and attention they deserve This book argues that Scorsese’s lengthy career has produced individual works that have been neglected— those Scorsese films that were underappreciated by mainstream critics, by mainstream audiences, by scholars, or by any combination of the three—even while others have been lauded
UK October 2025 US October 2025 312 pages 49 bw illus
HB 9798765128138 • £90 00 / $120 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Nadine
Paul Verhoeven’s Cinema of Violence
Steven Rybin, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA
Paul Verhoeven's Cinema of Violence takes a careful and nuanced look at Paul Verhoeven’s body of work and its penchant for violence of various kinds
Exploring the breadth of this director’s career, this book encompasses everything from his early short works as a student filmmaker in the 1960s to the most recently completed Benedetta (2021) Through this comprehensive approach, Paul Verhoeven’s Cinema of Violence offers a passionate, nuanced, and comprehensive critical look at the cinematic output of one of the Netherlands’ – and Hollywood’s – most vital contemporary filmmakers.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 288 pages • 38 bw illus
HB 9781501399084 • £95 00 / $130 00
ePub 9781501399053 • £94 20 / $117 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Abbas Kiarostami and Iranian National Cinema
Hossein Khosrowjah
Challenging prevailing auteurist readings of Abbas Kiarostami’s work, Hossein Khosrowjah firmly anchors his filmmaking within the historical context of Iranian national cinema Through a close reading of key films, including Close-Up (1990), Taste of Cherry (1997), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), and Ten (2002), he explores Kiarostami’s radically anti-allegorical representational strategies In doing so, he argues that it is his resistance to any singular national identity that sparks controversy and even hostility within Iran and exilic Iranian communities, provoking critical discourse among both scholars and the public
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781784535773 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350274372 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
Terence Davies Screenplays, Volume 1
Autobiography and Biography
Terence Davies
This collection of Terence Davies's screenplays brings together his powerful autobiographical work, from the films that comprise The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983) to his 2008 poetic documentary Of Time and the City of 2008, and his biopics of the poets Emily Dickinson and Siegfried Sassoon The screenplays are supported by new critical introductions and by film stills and previously unpublished material from Terence Davies's personal archive
UK October 2025 • US January 2026 • 512 pages • 40 bw illus
This volume offers the first study of the FrenchSwiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard’s vast body of over 350 unmade, unfinished and abandoned projects over the course of his career from the late 1940s to the 2020s Drawing on extensive research on the surviving traces of these projects in archives and private collections, Michael Witt's comprehensive survey establishes the extent and constitution of the Godardian corpus of unrealised and abandoned works for the first time and examines them in detail in six key perspectives: literature, cinema, television, theatre, politics and history A full annotated list of his unrealised and abandoned projects is included as an appendix
UK October 2025 • US December 2025 • 456 pages • 60 bw illus
HB 9781350494596 • £170 00 / $230 00
ePub 9781350494602 £153 00 / $207 89
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Bloomsbury Academic
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Taxidermy
Fashioning Corpses
Subarna Mondal, The Sanskrit College and University Kolkata, India
There are numerous scholarly works on Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960); however, no detailed effort has yet been made to explore one of its major motifs –taxidermy Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Taxidermy focuses on taxidermy as a cultural practice in both Victorian and modern times and how it has been employed both metaphorically and literally in Hitchcock’s films, especially Psycho It also situates Psycho as a crucial film in the filmic continuum of body horrors where death and docility share a troubled relationship
UK October 2025 US October 2025 168 pages 10 bw illus
PB 9798765101223 £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9798765101193 • £72 64 / $90 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
The Screen Actor's Audition
The Craft of Film & Television Auditioning in Any Medium
Jay Scully, Casting director and teacher, Los Angeles, USA
Jay Scully has worked with veteran and novice actors alike in virtually every area of today’s business: as a casting director; as an instructor of acting technique at the university level and in private one-on-one instruction; and as an on-set coach on features for acclaimed directors like J J Abrams (Super 8), James Wan (Furious 7), Judd Apatow (This Is 40), and Davis Guggenheim (Still: A Michael J Fox Movie)
The Screen Actor’s Audition is Scully’s practical guide for screen actors at all career stages, sharing indispensable guidance on wowing directors, producers, and casting directors to land roles at a time of unprecedented technological and economic tumult in the industry
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Hollywood Online Internet Movie Marketing Before and After The Blair Witch Project
Ian London, Independent Scholar, UK
This book challenges three major narratives which continually surface in studies about online film marketing: Hollywood’s major studios and independents had no significant relationship to the internet in the 1990s; online film promotions only took off after 1999 because of Blair; and Hollywood cashed-in by initiating a cycle of imitators and scaling up corporate activities online Hollywood Online tests these assumptions by exploring internet marketing (Pre-Blair, 1993-1999), then by examining the period immediately after Blair (Post-Blair, 2000-2008) which broadly coincides with the rise and decline of DVD and the emergence of social media sites
UK October 2025 US October 2025 296 pages
PB 9781501374449 £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9781501337765 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501337772 • £87 01 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Distribution Evolution
On-Demand and the Relocation of Specialized
Film
Elliott W. Nikdel, University of Southampton, UK
Distribution Evolution argues that VoD is profoundly marked by a strong sense of historical continuation, rather than radical disruption Taking into account the social, cultural and economic factors behind VoD, along with the insight of leading industry professionals, Distribution Evolution demonstrates that the restrictions of the ‘past’ are not simply abolished with the move online, but remain present in slightly new and interesting ways The resulting work paints a complex portrait of the on-demand landscape, one that challenges our perceptions of online distribution and questions how much control we really have in this supposed age of cultural democracy
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HB 9781501375514 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781501375521 • £79 83 / $99 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Taking Fiction Film Seriously A Philosophical Approach to Cinema Studies
Mario Slugan, Queen Mary University of London, UK
In Taking Fiction Film Seriously, Mario Slugan explores the significant misunderstandings concerning the categorisation of film, audience experience, and the real-life effects of fiction. He analyses the notion of 'fiction' from a theoretical and historical perspective, considering how it manifests in a broad range of films from the past 110 years, including The Arrival of a Train (Lumière brothers, 1895-1897), The Blair Witch Project (Myrick and Sánchez, 1999), and Waltz with Bashir (Folman, 2008)
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages • 30 bw illus
Culture, Capital and Carnival Modern Media and the Representation of Work
Will Kitchen, University of Southampton, UK
This book offers an interdisciplinary examination of how modern culture contextualises the values of labour It examines a diverse array of multimedia texts from the era of modern capitalism and addresses the ideological tensions surrounding the representation of work Chapters look at how culture’s attempts to ‘carnivalize’ the values of labour can be challenged and ask whether critical representations can perpetuate the values they seek to negate It adopts a radical critical perspective to explain how media products in the age of neoliberal capitalism can ‘carnivalize’ the values of modern capitalist labour even as they undermine economic and political freedom
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages • 24 bw illus
HB 9798765137338 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765137376 • £87 01 / $108 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Microutopias and Everyday Hope
Edited by Asbjørn Grønstad & Lene M. Johannessen
This book takes a positive approach to the increasingly everyday crises societies are facing around the globe by exploring the potential of utopic thinking and practice on smaller scales Through analysis across a variety of media, scholars demonstrate both theoretically and methodologically how hope persists in cultural and aesthetic expressions that can be detected, taught, learned, and adopted
UK March 2026 • US January 2026 • 240 pages • 4 bw illus
HB 9781666980516 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781666980523 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765154687 • £87 01 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Media Bias Examining the Facts
Thomas Arndt, The College of New Jersey, USA
A fact-checking resource that examines the facts concerning beliefs and charges made about the nature, extent, and impact of media bias in American news media Ranging across social media, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, podcasts, and other platforms, this book provides students and other readers with an impartial guide to the debates over media bias (both conservative and liberal) in the United States It does so by refuting falsehoods, misunderstandings, and exaggerations about ideological bias in the press—and by confirming the accuracy of other charges of bias The book also examines claims and assertions about the root causes of media bias, as well as the ways in which actual media bias has negatively impacted American journalism, politics, and public trust in government institutions
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 November 2025 US November 2025 180 pages 26 bw illus
HB 9781839026331 £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781839026348 • £67 50 / $91 79
ePdf 9781839026355 • £67 50 / $91 79
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Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory
A Study of Youssef Chahine's al-Mașīr
Robert K. Beshara, Northern New Mexico College, USA
Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory is the first book on decolonial film theory, which unpacks key concepts in decoloniality and decolonial aesthetics Decolonial film theory is then applied to Youssef Chahine’s (1997) historical drama al-Mașīr in an effort to juxtapose the Egyptian filmmaker (Chahine) and his decolonial cinema to the Andalusian polymath (Ibn Rushd) and his Islamic philosophy
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 192 pages
PB 9781501385087 • £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9781501385100 £87 01 / $108 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Film, Negation and Freedom Capitalism and Romantic Critique
Will Kitchen, University of Southampton, UK
This book explores cinema in relation to the critical tradition in modern philosophy and its heritage in Romantic aesthetics Using a variety of discursive fields and traditions, this book outlines a radical new interpretation of Romanticism in reference to the films of Arthur Penn and Lindsay Anderson – cultural texts previously underexplored by academic studies, such as Mickey One, O Lucky Man! and The Missouri Breaks This book offers an enriched and revitalised understanding of Romanticism’s relevance to both the filmic texts of the 20th century, and also the aesthetic, philosophical and political conditions of modern subjectivity and spectatorship
UK May 2025 US May 2025 264 pages
PB 9798765105542 £28 99 / $39 95
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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 November 2025 • US November 2025 • 352 pages • 34 colour illus
HB 9798765126288 £95 00 / $130 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Community Going Back to School with Television's Best Sitcom
Erin Giannini, independent scholar
Erin Giannini examines the cultural phenomenon that is Community, a series about a community college and, in the series own words, “the goofballs who run around stirring up trouble, and the eggheads that make a big deal out of it ” It’s a meta series with an active fandom and features an eclectic cast, part of a group of both comedies and dramas produced by Sony Pictures Television, who produced several series for broadcast as one of the few studios unaffiliated with a broadcast network Giannini highlights what Community influenced and was influenced by, the way it differentiated itself from other sitcoms and yet embraced the genre, the comedic generational divide embodied by the escalating tension between Chevy Chase and Dan Harmon, the ascendance of Donald Glover, and much more A must-read for fans of the cult-favorite show .
UK January 2026 US November 2025 232 pages 10 bw photos
HB 9781538191897 • £25 99 / $36 00
ePub 9781538191903 • £26 34 / $32 40
ePdf 9798881865566 • £26 34 / $32 40
Bloomsbury Academic
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Love Wars
Television Romantic Comedy
Mary Irwin
Love Wars is the first dedicated overview of the international television romantic comedy genre
Mary Irwin explores the genre’s key recurrent themes: evolving attitudes to love, relationships, sex, class and money, feminism and post-feminism, changes in the nuclear family (dramatised through contrasting romantic relationships) and shifting discourses of masculinity, situating them within the specific socio-historic and cultural context in which the series are set
UK February 2025 US February 2025 240 pages 15 b&w integrated
HB 9781784533465 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350120150 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Downton Abbey
Politics of Nostalgia, Neoliberalism, and Empire
Tabassum "Ruhi" Khan
This book examines the dramatic narrative and visual aesthetics of Downton Abbey to address the centrality of the power and privilege of an imperialist past in narrative structuring and to interrogate its broadly uncritical acceptance in an age where social and economic inequalities continue to run rampant
UK November 2025
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HB 9781793654731 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781978771871 • £79 83 / $99 00
ePdf 9798216201359 • £79 83 / $99 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Sex Education
School's Out for Netflix
Edited by Deborah Shaw, University of Portsmouth, UK & Rob Stone, University of Birmingham, UK
This collection maps the origins of the Netflix series
Sex Education in relation to the genre of teenage high school dramas and comedies, exploring the four-season narrative arc and analysing the principal themes and characters It considers the aesthetics of the series and its main philosophical, ethical and political aspects It investigates the creative process behind the ground-and-taboo-breaking series, examining it as a cultural product that is both old and new in that it relies on tried and tested generic formulae while also being responsive to new identity formations
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus
HB 9798765107317 • £95 00 / $130 00
ePub 9798765107324 • £94 20 / $117 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Masculinities in Contemporary Science-Fiction Television
Edited by Sara Martín, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain & Michael Pitts, University of New York in Prague, Czech Republic
Masculinities in Contemporary Science Fiction
Television analyses critically and commercially successful science fiction television series ranging from Firefly (2002) to Star Trek: Picard (2020-23) Employing antipatriarchal and pro-feminist perspectives, it scrutinizes the limited diversity among male characters in science fiction television, shedding light on the underrepresentation of non-heteronormative, non-white, and transmasculine characters, and highlighting notable exceptions such as Altered Carbon (2018-20), Doom Patrol (2019), and The Umbrella Academy (2019)
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781350458437 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350458444 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture • Bloomsbury Academic
Female Detectives on PostNetwork Television
Mother, Maiden, Cop
Alison Wielgus
Alison Wielgus analyzes post-network female detective television through the lenses of genre, industry, and discourses of police abolition Wielgus positions post-network female detective television as a primary site to examine the intersection of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter discourses and concludes that a central problem for crime television is the limitations the genre places on representing the structural and societal functions of the police, even as post-network female television has integrated feminist perspectives on trauma and sexual assault
UK March 2026 • US January 2026 • 272 pages • 19 bw illus
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Angela Smith, University of Sunderland, UK & Claire Nally, Northumbria University, UK
Horrifying Children Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Television
Edited by Lauren Stephenson, York St. John University, UK, Robert Edgar, York St John University, UK & John Marland, York St. John University, UK
Television in the 1970s to the 1990s dominated the world of childhood entertainment, drawing freely upon literature and popular culture Shows such as Garbage Pail Kids and Stranger Things continue to resonate powerfully with the generation of cultural producers that grew up watching the weird, the eerie and the horrific: the essence of 21st-century Hauntology This collection addresses that which ‘scared us’ in the past insomuch as there is a correlation between individual and collective cultural memory, with some chapters situating existing explorations and understandings of Gothic and Horror TV within a hauntological and experiential framework
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages
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Revolutions in Communication
Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age
Bill Kovarik, Radford University, USA
Revolutions in Communication builds on the success of the previous two editions to provide an exploration of printing, imaging, electronic and digital media history within a framework of technological change and social impacts
This edition includes:
- Digital media technology, impacts and expectation updates since 2015
- Updated and additional information, including: the US news media’s record on civil rights, Gutenberg’s printing experiments in the 1440s, the role of the 1796 invention of lithography
This book argues that from literacy to digitality, access and control of the available media have arguably done the most to shape the course of knowledge Fuller extends Marshall McLuhan’s slogan, ‘The medium is the message’, reading the distinction between ‘hot’ and ‘cool’ media through the lens of sociologist Max Weber’s ‘prophetic’ and ‘priestly’ religious voices, the former demanding that receivers complete the message, the latter that they conform to it Historically and philosophically informed, while presenting provocative arguments that address today’s concerns, this book considers future developments of the media and its far-reaching implications for the human condition
Edited by James Fenwick, Sheffield Hallam University, UK & Diane A. Rodgers, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The X-Files, this collection examines the content and production of the show, its reception, its use of legend and folklore, its contemporary resonance in politics and society of the 21st century, and its impact and legacy on film, television, the Internet and beyond The collection serves as an all-encompassing, multi-disciplinary, contemporary account of The X-Files, reflecting upon critical, historical, political, and social contexts, and featuring an in-depth and comprehensive introduction making it a vital work for researchers and students alike
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 352 pages • 8 bw illus
PB 9781501387609 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Entertained or Else
Boredom and Networked Media
Tina Kendall, Anglia Ruskin University, USA
Focusing on the specific gestures, habits, and embodied practices that converge around boredom in a digital network culture, Entertained or Else considers how boredom has been instrumentalised as an important site of discipline and power in the twenty-first century. Through investigating modern digital entertainment and historical literature, this book identifies a range of cultural techniques that have been developed for codifying, classifying, sensing and pre-empting boredom, with the aim of driving bored subjects back to entertainment networks
UK October 2025 US October 2025 176 pages 25 bw illus
Hartley’s groundbreaking take on interdisciplinary humanities at planetary scale focuses an analytical lens on the world of weaponised make-believe, in fact and fiction. Make/Believe opens with an account of children’s collective activism in an era when their futures are jeopardized by our stories, then disentangles strategic stories in science, journalism, and popular culture, among zombies, aliens, class struggle, policy discourses, aircraft carriers, submarines, truth-warriors, and lifestyle journalism The take-out message is that culture makes groups, groups make knowledge, and knowledge makes enemies
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 312 pages • 24 bw illus
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Invocational Media Reconceptualising the Computer
Chris Chesher, University of Sydney, Australia
This book challenges the foundations of computer science by offering invocation as a powerful new way of conceptualising digital technologies
Drawing on media philosophy, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Latour, Austin, Innis and McLuhan, it critiques the representationalism of data processing, artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Invocational media seem to empower individuals, but necessarily subject users to corporate and government monopolies of invocation They complicate agency in their indifference as to whether invokers are human or non-human This ground-breaking book will change how you think about digital media by showing they are, in fact, invocational media
UK May 2025 US May 2025 280 pages
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Approaches to Digital Game Studies
Epistemic Genres New Formations of Play
Edited by Gerald A. Voorhees, University of Waterloo, Canada, Joshua Call, Grand View University, USA, Matthew Wysocki, Flagler College, USA & Betsy Brey, University of Waterloo, Canada
This edited volume theorizes and explicates “epistemic genres” of digital games, which are defined by the social uses and meanings attributed to different constellations of games by communities of players It argues that “epistemic genres” are distinguished primarily by their social context and use, centering the player’s experience and the meanings that emerge from distinct communities of play Epistemic game genres are those constellations of games that overflow and cut-across the genre boundaries of the commercial game industry and mainstream gaming culture
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 352 pages • 14 bw illus
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Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Keiji Inafune
Mega Man, Soul Sacrifice, Yaiba: Ninja
Gaiden Z
Andrew Schartmann, New England Conservatory, USA
In this book, Andrew Schartmann explores seven core principles that permeate Inafune’s output and constitute his creative “voice ” He also draws on Inafune’s controversial persona to probe the very definition of “video game designer”—a term problematized by the Japanese cultural tendency to downplay individual creation, the collaborative aspect of game design, and the industry’s Wonka-esque obsession with secrecy
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 160 pages • 22 bw illus
Series: Influential Video Game Designers • Bloomsbury Academic
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 May 2025 • US May 2025 • 304 pages
PB 9781501387456 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Emerging Genres
New Formations of Games
Edited by Joshua Call, Grand View University, USA, Betsy Brey, University of Waterloo, Canada, Gerald A. Voorhees, University of Waterloo, Canada & Matthew Wysocki, Flagler College, USA
This collection explores digital games through the lens of genre analysis—the evaluation of the structural designs that provide the framework for the player’s experience Each chapter discusses a game genre that is new to the market and to critical scholarship to establish both where games are currently and new ground in Game Studies going forward. The first section considers emerging genres as a function of the material conditions of play and the game experience; the second section examines the formal/ mechanical elements used to identify genres; and the final section explores affect and potential of games to shape the audience
UK December 2025 US December 2025 320 pages 22 bw illus
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Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
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