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Series Editor: Graham Crow, University of Edinburgh, UK 9781472530073 | £17.99 9781350018273 | £16.99 9781472515407 | £17.99 9781849665957 | £17.99 9781849669030 | £18.99 9781849669733 | £18.99 9781849665247 | £18.99 9781849666060 | £18.99 9781849668170 | £18.99 Discover the full series: www.bloomsbury.com/whatis RM+SS_BertramsBTU_ad.indd 1 24/06/2019 14:06 Contents EBooks BFI Film Classics . 3 ePub and ePdf availability is listed under each book entry. See the Asian and World Cinema ���������������������������������������������������� 5 website for details of vendors, or to puchase individual ebooks direct. Library ebook prices are available from your supplier. European Cinema. 6 Review Copies British Cinema �������������������������������������������������������������������� 8 Email [email protected] (Americas) Hollywood Cinema. 9 / [email protected] (UK / Rest of World). Film Theory. 9 Standing Orders Film History. 11 Many series are available on standing order. 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A BRAND NEW LOOK. The Empire Strikes Back Rosemary’s Baby The Big Lebowski La Dolce Vita 9781911239970 | PB 9781844579525 | PB 9781838719609 | PB 9781838719845 | PB The Birds The Manchurian Candidate Spirited Away Thelma & Louise 9781838719401 | PB 9781838719647 | PB 9781838719524 | PB 9781838719289 | PB 2001: A Space Odyssey Do the Right Thing Babette’s Feast Touch of Evil 9781838719807 | PB 9781838719883 | PB 9781911239673 | PB 9781844579495 | PB FOR FILM FANS EVERYWHERE Discover more at www.bloomsbury.com/BFIFilmClassics BFI Film Classics FILM AND MEDIA – The Empire Strikes Back Near Dark Rebecca Harrison, University of Glasgow, UK Stacey Abbott, University of Roehampton, UK Rebecca Harrison draws on previously unpublished Stacey Abbott’s study addresses Near Dark as a archival research to reveal a variety of original and genre hybrid that combines gothic tropes with often surprising perspectives on The Empire Strikes those of the Western, road movie and film noir, Back, from the cast and crew who worked on its while also challenging conventions of the vampire production through to its diverse communities of film. The family of vampires who lure the hero Caleb fans. Harrison guides readers on a journey that into their nocturnal existence is a central element of begins with the film’s production in 1979 and ends with a discussion the film’s innovative power: defined by a nomadic lifestyle, anarchic about its contemporary status as an object of reverence and behaviour, a passion for violence, ambition for eternity, intense family nostalgia. She demonstrates how Empire’s meaning and significance bonds, and a gritty visual appearance. Abbott also describes how the has continually shifted over the past 40 years not only within the film was crucial in consolidating director Kathryn Bigelow's standing franchise, but also in broader conversations about film authorship, as a director of significance, signalling her talent for re-imagining BFI Film Classics genre, and identity. other traditionally film genres. UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 120 pages • 43 colour illus UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus PB 9781911239970 • £11.99 / $15.95 PB 9781911239277 • £11.99 / $16.95 ePub 9781911239994 • £12.95 / $14.12 ePub 9781911239284 • £12.95 / $14.12 ePdf 9781911239963 • £12.95 / $14.12 ePdf 9781911239291 • £12.95 / $14.12 Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute Star Wars The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Will Brooker, Kingston University, UK Dhaka Tara) Will Brooker's illuminating study of Star Wars re- Manishita Dass, Royal Holloway, University of examines many commonly-held ideas about Star London, UK Wars: as a cultural phenomenon, in terms of its Ritwik Ghatak's 1960 film The Cloud-Capped Star special effects, fans and merchandising, and as a (Meghe Dhaka Tara) has been hailed as a modern film that marked the birth of the blockbuster. His masterpiece and as one of the great classics of close analysis carefully examines the film's shots, world cinema. One of Ghatak's best-known films, its editing, sound design, cinematography and performances. In his blend of modernist aesthetics and melodramatic force has intrigued foreword to this new edition, Will Brooker discusses how subsequent audiences for decades. Its focus on a family uprooted by the Partition films in the series, specifically Rogue One (2016) and The Last Jedi of India and its powerful exploration of displacement and historical (2017), foregrounded and developed the themes of opposition that trauma give it relevance in the midst of a global refugee crisis. are at the heart of Star Wars. Manishita Dass's study of the film situates it within Ghatak's film- making career and in its historical and cultural contexts. UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 104 pages • 60 colour illus PB 9781839021633 • £11.99 / $15.95 ePub 9781839021657 • £12.95 / $14.12 UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 104 pages • 60 bw illus ePdf 9781839021640 • £12.95 / $14.12 PB 9781838719999 • £11.99 / $15.95 Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute ePub 9781838719968 • £12.95 / $14.12 ePdf 9781838719975 • £12.95 / $14.12 Series: BFI Film Classics • British Film Institute www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 3 BFI Film Classics The Exorcist Night of the Living Dead Mark Kermode, writer and broadcaster, Ben A. Hervey, film historian and screenwriter, UK Hampshire, UK Ben Hervey's study of George A. Romero's cult classic zombie movie Inspired by an alleged real case of demonic Night of the Living Dead traces its influences, from Powell and possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an Pressburger to fifties horror comics, and provides the first history of its international phenomenon on its release in 1973. reception. Hervey argues that the film broke cultural barriers, feted at BFI Film Classics Banned on video in the UK for nearly 15 years, the New York's Museum of Modern Art while it was still packing out 42nd film still retains an extraordinary power to shock Street grindhouses. Scene-by-scene analysis meshes with detailed and startle. Mark Kermode's study of the film documents the deletion historical contexts, showing why Night spoke to its audiences about and recovery of key scenes that have now been re-integrated into the Vietnam, civil rights and the ever-bloodier seizures of a society in film to create The Exorcist: the Version You've Never Seen. Candid the grip of huge change. Hervey argues that Night was a new kind interviews with director William Friedkin and writer/producer William of horror film: the expression of a generation who didn't want their Peter Blatty reveal the behind-the-scenes battles which took place world to return to normal. during the production. In addition, exclusive stills reveal the truth about the legendary 'subliminal images' allegedly lurking within the UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 128 pages • 60 bw illus celluloid. PB 9781839021916 • £11.99 / $15.95 ePub 9781839022029 • £12.95 / $14.12