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FILM STUDIES 2020 FILM STUDIES Contents Film Philosophy & Film Theory 3 Asian Film 36 Aesthetics 11 American Film 40 Directors & Stars 16 Genre 43 Film Industry 24 Adaptation 46 Gender & Sexuality 27 World & Transnational Film 48 European Film 30 How to order 51 Letter from the team In 2020, we’re delighted to be growing our platinum open access book series – Visionaries: Thinking Through Female Filmmakers – with the publication of Kathleen Collins: The Black Essai Film by Geetha Ramanathan (pp. 5) which examines Collins's influence on African American woman filmmakers. Sliding onto shelves in May, William Brown and David Fleming bring us The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia, a philosophical study of cephalopods in cinema and contemporary media (pp. 6). Our new series, Global Film Studios, examines international film studios and their global influence. First to publish in the series is Vivian Lee’s The Other Side of Glamour (pp. 25) which studies the historical development of the left-wing film establishment in Hong Kong. Our Traditions in World Cinema series (split across the European and World & Transnational sections) sees new publications New Realism: Contemporary British Cinema (pp. 32) and Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere (pp. 49) join the series. If you're working on a project, we'd love to hear from you. Visit our new author hub edinburghuniversitypress.com/publish-with-us to find out how to submit your proposal. PS look out for a host of new books in our twin series, Refocus: The American Directors Series and Refocus: The International Directors Series (pp. 17–21)! Gillian Richard Carla Zuzana Eddie Bekah Leslie Strachan Hepburn Ihnatova Clark Dey Editorial Editorial Marketing Marketing Production Design Cover: rare colour image from the set of La maschera del demonio (photo by Osvaldo Civirani available at Archivio Centrale dello Stato - Archivio fotografico Civirani (film) – 098 Maschera del demonio La – 098-0516). 2 edinburghuniversitypress.com & & THEORY FILM FILM-PHILOSOPHY Key highlights Film Studies 3 SERIES Visionaries Thinking Through Female Filmmakers Series Editors: Lucy Bolton and Richard Rushton edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/vision Visionaries explores the aesthetic, industrial and cultural questions that relate to female filmmakers. Analysing formal styles, conceptual concerns, political perspectives and industrial realities, Visionaries creates a new perspective on the ways in which women filmmakers work and a new forum for considering their individual styles and cinematic worldviews. Key Features • Examines the cinematic visions of the world presented by women filmmakers • Focuses on the discussion around authorship and auteurism • Contributes to the reignited feminism and film studies debates Platinum Open Access All Visionaries books can be freely downloaded on our website. Just search for the book you’d like to read and add the PDF (best for reading on a computer) or EPUB (best for Kindles and e-readers) to your basket. You’ll then be able to access the ebook in your Edinburgh University Press account. Available in the series 4 edinburghuniversitypress.com FILM-PHILOSOPHY & FILM THEORY Kathleen Collins The Black Essai Film Geetha Ramanathan, West Chester University • Explores the New York Black Independent Film movement in the context of Kathleen Collins’s work as a philosopher filmmaker Pb, Hb, OA Ebook • Analyses Collins’s films as the site of a convergence of £14.99 | $19.95 ideas on philosophy, otherness, art, aesthetics and the February 2020 craft of filmmaking 176 pages • Examines Collins’s influence on African American 9781474440691 woman filmmakers 14 illustrations Ana Kokkinos An Oeuvre of Outsiders Kelly McWilliam, University of Southern Queensland • A comprehensive study of Ana Kokkinos’ fictional oeuvre – one of Australia’s most distinctive and critically successful filmmakers Pb, Hb, OA Ebook • Contains critical readings of all of her fictional films, £14.99 | $19.95 particularly in relation to ethnicity, sex and sexuality December 2019 • Focuses on the figure of the ‘outsider’ in Kokkinos’ 144 pages films 9781474431071 14 illustrations The Cinema of Marguerite Duras Multisensoriality and Female Subjectivity Michelle Royer, University of Sydney • Examines how the films of Marguerite Duras create a multisensorial experience for spectators • Explores how the director’s filmic innovations create Pb, Hb, OA Ebook a sensorial space for the female experience to be £14.99 | $19.95 expressed June 2019 • Covers Duras’s entire film production, including short 144 pages films and early adaptations 9781474427852 12 illustrations Film Studies 5 FILM-PHILOSOPHY & FILM THEORY The Squid Cinema From Hell Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia William Brown, University of Roehampton and David H. Fleming, University of Stirling A philosophical study of cephalopods in cinema and contemporary media Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilém Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a critical analysis of cephalopods and other tentacular creatures in contemporary media, while also speculating that digital media might themselves constitute a weird, intelligent alien. If this were not enough to shiver ye timbers, the book engages with contemporary discourses of posthumanism, speculative realism, object-oriented ontology and animal studies to suggest that humans are the products of media rather than media being the products of humans. PB £24.99 | $39.95 May 2020 320 pages 9781474463737 21 b&w illustrations Also available in HB and Ebook Film-Philosophy Editor-in-Chief: David Sorfa, University of Edinburgh Fully Open Access! Film-Philosophy is dedicated to the engagement between film studies and philosophy, exploring the ways in which films develop and contribute to philosophical discussion. The journal also provides a forum for the thoughtful re-evaluation of key aspects of both film studies and philosophy as academic disciplines. euppublishing.com/loi/film Online ISSN: 1466-4615 6 edinburghuniversitypress.com FILM-PHILOSOPHY & FILM THEORY Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms From Found Footage to Virtual Reality Adam Daniel, Western Sydney University • Explores theories of cinematic embodiment and affect in relation to horror film HB & Ebook • Integrates theoretical insights from neuroscience £75 | $110 into the study of horror media March 2020 232 pages • Outlines the burgeoning new field of virtual reality 9781474456357 cinema, and argues for innovative theoretical 25 b&w illustrations approaches to this new modality The Invisibilities of Political Torture The Presence of Absence in US and Chilean Cinema and Television Berenike Jung, University of Warwick • Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political torture HB & Ebook • Examines role of images and film in £75 | $110 (mis)understanding of torture June 2020 • Includes key popular movies, independent films as 224 pages well as serial television 9781474436991 32 b&w illustrations Persistent Images Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema Andrew Utterson, Ithaca College • Considers the nature and status of contemporary cinema by way of a series of technological reflections on its past HB & Ebook £75 | $110 • Draws on the latest thinking on evolving screen June 2020 technologies and media archaeology and the 160 pages development of cognate areas such as memory studies 9781474440721 40 b&w illustrations Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary University of London • Opens a dialogue between contemporary film and Iris Murdoch’s thinking on art, goodness and existentialism HB & Ebook • Furthers the discipline of film-philosophy by £75 | $110 bringing Murdoch’s thinking into relation with June 2019 cinema in a sustained and detailed analysis 248 pages 9781474416399 25 b&w illustrations Film Studies 7 FILM-PHILOSOPHY & FILM THEORY Film and the Imagined Image Sarah Cooper, King’s College London • A study of how films prompt spectators to create images in the mind • Examines documentaries and essay films, imageless films and art-house cinema, feature-length works and shorts HB & Ebook £75 | $110 • Provides an innovative approach to spectatorship August 2019 studies by deriving the principal mental processes 208 pages of image formation that it outlines from the wide 9781474452786 selection of films under discussion 20 b&w illustrations The Filmmaker’s Philosopher Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema Alyssa DeBlasio, Dickinson College • Traces the influence of Soviet philosopher Merab Mamardashvili on a generation of Soviet and Russian filmmakers HB & Ebook • Offers a compelling analysis of contemporary £75 | $110 Russian filmmakers, including Alexander Sokurov, October 2019 Andrey Zvyagintsev and Alexei Balabanov 216 pages 9781474444484 14 b&w illustrations Animal Worlds Film, Philosophy and Time Laura McMahon, University of Cambridge • Offers the first sustained exploration of the relations between cinematic time and animal life • Engages with a range of key concepts: the time- HB & Ebook image and the virtual (Deleuze), ‘animal capital’ £75 | $110 (Shukin), ‘pensivity’ (Bailly) and the Umwelt June 2019 (Uexküll) 232 pages 9781474446389 20 b&w illustrations Narrative Humanism Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film Wyatt Moss-Wellington, University of Nottingham Ningbo China • Evaluates the ethics, politics and