Performing Arts 2019 Catalogue

2019 CATALOGUE PERFORMING ARTS PUBLISHER LISTING Academica Press Purdue University Press Academic Studies Press Rutgers University Press University of Alabama Press, The Salem Press Bucknell University Press University of South Carolina Press, The caboose Southern Illinois University Press Cognella Academic Publishing Syracuse University Press University Press of Florida University of Tennessee Press University of Georgia Press, The Texas A&M University Press University of Hawai’i Press Vanderbilt University Press HSRC Press Victoria University Press IGI Global University of Virginia Press University of Iowa Press Wayne State University Press University Press of Kansas University of Wisconsin Press, The University of Manitoba Press Wits University Press McFarland Melbourne University Publishing University of Michigan Press University Press of Mississippi University of North Carolina Press, The Northwestern University Press University of North Texas Press University of Notre Dame Press Pendragon Press University of Pittsburgh Press CONTENTS 2 FILM 20 TELEVISION 24 RADIO 24 THEATRE 30 MUSIC 43 DANCE Receive regular up-to-date information about our new titles by registering for e-alerts at: eurospan.co.uk/mailinglist If you are a teaching academic or course leader you may request up to three titles as FREE inspection copies consider as textbooks for students on your course. For further details please visit: Due to publisher price changes, prices charged may vary eurospan.co.uk/inspection from those listed. 2 FILM HIGHLIGHT FILM THE NEW CINEPHILIA HIGHLIGHT THE CONTEMPORARY Kino-Agora RUSSIAN CINEMA READER 2005–2016 Film and Media Studies caboose HIGHLIGHT TWILIGHT FOR THE GODS Academic Studies Press The Art and History of Film Editing, Second Edition HIGHLIGHT MISE EN JEU AND MISE EN GESTE Kino-Agora Cognella Academic Publishing caboose FILM 3 HIGHLIGHT HIGHLIGHT ALIEN IN HITCHCOCK THE MIRROR AND HUMOR Scarlett Johansson, Modes of Comedy Jonathan Glazer and in Twelve Under the Skin Defining Films McFarland McFarland HIGHLIGHT HIGHLIGHT WOODY ALLEN HAMMER AND COMPLETE CHARLIE CHAPLIN The Films, the Personnel, Little Men, the Company Big Auteurs McFarland McFarland 4 FILM HIGHLIGHT HIGHLIGHT ON ARTISTS STEVEN SPIELBERG Interviews, Revised and Updated Conversations with Filmmakers Series Melbourne University Publishing HIGHLIGHT PULLING A University Press of Mississippi RABBIT OUT OF A HAT The Making of HIGHLIGHT Roger Rabbit HITCHCOCK’S PEOPLE, PLACES, AND THINGS University Press of Mississippi Northwestern University Press FILM 5 HIGHLIGHT DZIGA VERTOV Life and Work (Volume 1: 1896–1921) John MacKay BEST ACTRESS Jan 2019 450pp, 35 illustrations The History of 9781618117342 Hardback £106.00 / €125.00 Oscar®-Winning Film and Media Studies Women The most extensive study of the life and corpus of any Russian or Soviet filmmaker, this book reinserts Dziga Vertov’s films into the complex epoch in which he worked, the theoretical debates in which he participated, and the reception his writings and films have generated. The University of Alabama Press BEAUTIFUL WAR Studies in a Rutgers University Press Dreadful Fascination Philip D. Beidler Jul 2019 200pp, 37 b&w figures 9780817359614 Paperback £26.50 / €31.00 Academica Press Argues that the representation of war in the arts has always been, and continues to be, SECRETS OF CINEMA an incredibly powerful force. 100 Movies That Are Not What They Seem Incorporating painting, music, Daniel Kieckhefer photography, literature, and May 2019 240pp film, Beidler traces a disturbing but fundamental truth: 9781680534900 Hardback £147.00 / €170.00 that war has always provided an aesthetic inspiration Examines a spectrum of narrative films that can be seen while serving ends as various and complex as ideological in new ways with methods derived and evolved from the or geopolitical history, public memory, and mass techniques of F.W. Murnau’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The entertainment. intention is not only to offer new interpretations of classic and neglected films, but to open further discussion and TRIAL FILMS ON TRIAL exploration. Law, Justice, and Popular Culture Edited by Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey & Martha Merrill Umphrey Academic Studies Press May 2019 240pp 9780817359294 Paperback £31.50 / €37.00 THE CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN 9780817320263 Hardback £89.50 / €103.00 CINEMA READER The first book to focus exclusively on the significance of trial films for both film and legal studies. Chapters cover 2005–2016 a variety of topics, such as how and why film audiences Edited by Rimgaila Salys adopt the role of the jury, the narrative and visual Apr 2019 360pp, 54 illustrations conventions employed by directors, and the ways trial films 9781618119643 Paperback £24.95 / €29.00 offered insights into the events of the late 20th century. 9781618119636 Hardback £89.95 / €106.00 Film and Media Studies For more information on this title, see page 2. 6 FILM Bucknell University Press MISE EN JEU AND MISE EN GESTE Sergei Eisenstein Jun 2019 88pp EARLY PUERTO RICAN CINEMA AND 9780991830169 Paperback £9.95 / €12.00 NATION BUILDING Kino-Agora National Sentiments, Transnational Realities, For more information on this title, see page 2. 1897–1940 Naida García-Crespo THE NEW CINEPHILIA Jun 2019 250pp Girish Shambu 9781684481170 Paperback £29.50 / €34.00 Jun 2019 65pp 9781684481187 Hardback £83.50 / €97.00 9780991830183 Paperback £11.50 / €13.00 Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Kino-Agora Anchoring her work in archival sources in film technology, For more information on this title, see page 2. economy, and education, Naida García-Crespo argues that Puerto Rico’s position as a stateless nation allows for a fresh understanding of national cinema based on Cognella Academic Publishing perceptions of productive cultural contributions rather than on citizenship or state structures. TWILIGHT FOR THE GODS The Art and History of Film Editing, caboose Second Edition Jack Tucker CINESTHESIA 2018 230pp 9781516519309 Paperback £87.95 / €102.00 Museum Cinema and the Curated Screen Garrett Stewart For more information on this title, see page 2. Jun 2019 99pp 9781927852095 Paperback £9.95 / €12.00 Kino-Agora University of Hawai’i Press Explores the reciprocal redefinition of both moving images and wall art initiated by the museal estrangement of the ANIMATED “motion picture”. As the title suggests, this often entails ENCOUNTERS a dimension of strained synesthesia in the disjunctures of non-syn chronised recording. Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, DEAD AND ALIVE 1940s–1970s The Body as a Daisy Yan Du Cinematic Thing Mar 2019 328pp, Lesley Stern 33 b&w illustrations Jun 2019 60pp 9780824877644 Paperback 9780981191454 Paperback £31.95 / €37.00 £9.95 / €12.00 9780824872106 Hardback Kino-Agora £94.95 / €109.00 Lesley Stern is more interested Asia Pop! in things than in death. It is China’s role in the history of world animation has been thus the liveliness of corpses trivialized or largely forgotten. Daisy Yan Du addresses that lures her. Not dead bodies this omission in her study of Chinese animation and its which act as though they engagement with international forces during its formative were alive, nor live bodies which may really be dead, nor period, the 1940s–1970s. bodies which may in fact be composited, or even digitally constructed bodies. Rather, ordinary, old-fashioned bodies. FILM 7 CINEMA IS A CAT University of Iowa Press A Cat Lover’s Introduction to Film Studies DISNEY’S STAR WARS Daisuke Miyao Forces of Production, Oct 2019 216pp, 98 b&w illustrations Promotion, 9780824879709 Paperback and Reception £26.50 / €31.00 Edited by William Proctor & 9780824879693 Hardback Richard McCulloch £78.95 / €91.00 Jul 2019 416pp Offers an accessible, user- 9781609386436 Paperback friendly approach that will £68.50 / €79.00 deepen viewers’ appreciation Covering the period from of movies, from Hollywood classics like Breakfast at Disney’s purchase through the Tiffany’s and To Catch a Thief, to Japanese period dramas release of The Force Awakens, like Samurai Cat. the book reveals how fans anticipated, interpreted, and responded to the steady LITERATI LENSES stream of production stories, gossip, marketing materials, merchandise, and other sources in the build-up to the Wenren Landscape in movie’s release. Chinese Cinema of the Mao Era Mia Yinxing Liu McFarland Jul 2019 256pp, 19 colour, 75 b&w illustrations 9780824859831 Hardback ALIEN IN THE MIRROR £78.95 / €91.00 Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Glazer and Chinese cinema has a long Under the Skin history of engagement with Maureen Foster China’s art traditions, and Jun 2019 212pp literati (wenren) landscape 9781476670423 Paperback £42.50 / €49.00 painting has been an enduring source of inspiration. For more information on this title, see page 3. Literati Lenses explores this interplay during the Mao era, a time when cinema, at the forefront of ideological campaigns and purges, was held to strict political ANATOMY OF THE guidelines. SLASHER FILM A Theoretical Analysis PUPPETS, GODS, AND BRANDS Sotiris Petridis Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan Jul 2019 151pp Teri J. Silvio 9781476674315 Paperback £42.50 / €49.00 Sep 2019 296pp, 10 b&w illustrations 9780824881160 Paperback £31.95 / €37.00 Examining 74 movies – from 9780824876623 Hardback £84.50 / €97.00 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Asia Pop! (1974) to Texas Chainsaw 3D Proposes an anthropological concept of animation as a (2013) – this book identifies contrast and complement to performance: the

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