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FILM 2016 STUDIES THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH FILM STUDIES Aesthetics 4 American Cinema 37 Film-Philosophy 13 Gender & Film 44 Film Industry 18 Asian Cinema 47 Film Genre 19 Television Studies 54 World & Transnational Cinema 24 Media Studies 55 European Cinema 28 Journals 56 British Cinema 35 Index 57 Placing your order To place your order, or for ordering enquiries, please email our sales department: [email protected] Orders are fulfilled by MDL in the UK and OUP USA in the Americas. You can find contact details for the sales representatives, distributors or agents in your area on our website: www.edinburghuniversitypress.com All prices advertised are correct at the time of printing but are subject to change without notice. Mailing list Join our mailing list to receive our catalogues, email bulletins and journal ToC alerts. Create your account and manage your mailing preferences at: www.edinburghuniversitypress.com Ebooks Books marked ebook are available as ebooks. Our ebooks are available for individuals to buy from the Kindle and Nook stores and are available to libraries from a number of aggregators and platforms. See the full list at: www.edinburghuniversitypress.com Textbooks Books marked textbook are available to lecturers on inspection. Request your copy using the order form at the back, or email [email protected] with the course and book details. Contacts Commissioning Editor Marketing Manager Gillian Leslie Emma Rees [email protected] [email protected] Cover image: I Vampiri poster, 1956, used with the kind permission of Titanus 2 www.edinburghuniversitypress.com INTRODUCTION Welcome to the 2016 EUP Film Studies catalogue! K We’re very excited to introduce our new books OO to you, and once again we have a large frontlist which ranges across film genre, film-philosophy, TEXTB world cinema, American cinema and aesthetics. The Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality series launches an impressive seven new books over the next year, led by Indefinite Visions which is edited by Martine Beugnet and Allan Cameron. It examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images, and promises to be an innovative and fascinating book. Fans of Martine’s previous EUP book, Cinema and Sensation will be thrilled to see this new edited collection from her and Allan! G N Meanwhile, in the Traditions in American Cinema series, we’ll be MI publishing the much-anticipated Indie Reframed, edited by Linda CO Badley, Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber. This ambitious work TH aims to expand the parameters of how American independent OR F cinema is currently understood by investigating the impact women filmmakers have had and continue to have within the indie realm. We will also publish our first film-philosophy textbook in 2016 – Deleuze’s Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images by David Deamer. Aimed at those studying Deleuzian approaches to film for the first time, it will help to develop students’ understanding of Deleuze’s taxonomies and the ways in which they can be applied to film. On a personal note, those of you who know of my love for horror cinema won’t be surprised to hear how excited I am about several of our new books in aesthetics and genre cinema – Extreme Cinema by Aaron Kerner and Jonathan Knapp, Italian Horror Cinema edited EW by Stefano Baschiera and Russ Hunter, Contemporary Spanish Gothic N by Ann Davies and (with possibly my favourite cover ever!) Undead Apocalypse by Stacey Abbott. Finally, to EUP’s enormous delight, Michele Aaron won the Kraszna- Krausz Best Moving Image Book Award for Death and the Moving Image in 2015. Congratulations Michele! Gillian Leslie Commissioning Editor for Film Studies Edinburgh University Press THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH Film Studies 3 AESTHETICS K Death and the Moving Image AC B Ideology, Iconography and I R E Michele Aaron, University of Birmingham Winner of the 2015 Kraszna-Krausz Best Moving Image N PAP I Book Award EW N Death and the Moving Image provides the first in-depth study of the representation of death and dying in mainstream Western cinema from its earliest to its latest renditions. It explores the impact of gender, race, nation and narration upon death’s dramatics on-screen and isolates how mainstream cinema works to bestow value upon certain lives, and specific socio- cultural identities, in a hierarchical and partisan way. Dedicated February 2015 272 pages to the popular, to the political and ethical implications of mass 10 b&w illustrations Pb 978 1 4744 0275 0 £19.99 culture’s themes and imperatives, this book takes mainstream January 2014 cinema to task for its mortal economies: for its adoration and Hb 978 0 7486 2443 0 £70.00 absolution of some characters and expendability of others. ebook Disappearing War G Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the N Post-9/11 World MI Edited by Christina Hellmich and Lisa Purse, both University CO TH of Reading OR F Illuminates the extent to which people, images and experiences are erased from cultural representations of contemporary warfare Drawing on representations of war-related death, dying and bodily damage as case studies, the essays in Disappearing War examine the erasure of recent military interventions as depicted in film by US and European filmmakers. Exploring films such October 2016 208 pages as Zero Dark Thirty and American Sniper and documentaries 25 b&w illustrations Hb 978 1 4744 1656 6 £70.00 including Kill List and Dirty Wars, this collection addresses ‘what’s missing’ in existing scholarly responses to modern warfare and ebook examines how ‘erasure’ has consequences for US and European understandings of war. 4 www.edinburghuniversitypress.com AESTHETICS Extreme Cinema Affective Strategies in Transnational Media Aaron Kerner, San Francisco State University, Jonathan Knapp, Harvard University Examines how extreme cinema mobilises explicit content EW N and highly embellished aesthetics to affect spectators Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylised treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention is not the narrative but the spectacle. Using profound experiments in form and composition, including jarring editing, extreme close-ups, visual disorientation and sounds that straddle the boundary June 2016 192 pages between non-diegetic and diegetic registers, this mode of Hb 978 1 4744 0290 3 £70.00 cinema dwells instead on the exhibition of intense violence ebook and an acute intimacy with the sexual body. Includes case studies interrogating works such as Wetlands and A Serbian Film, as well as the sub-culture of YouTube ‘reaction videos’. Cinemas of the Body G Aesthetics and Eroticism in Eastern European Film N Edited by Matilda Mroz, University of Greenwich, Ewa Mazierska, MI University of Lancaster, Elzbieta Ostrowska, University of Alberta CO TH COMING Explores the human body in its political, erotic and OR F aestheticised forms in Eastern European cinema SOON This book traces the centrality of the body to the cinematic FROM cultures of Eastern Europe and posits the body as a nexus of often competing forces. It argues that the body operates as a site of political struggle (as evidenced by the cult of the worker under socialism), a figure of transgression (where the cinematic body’s erotic activities disrupt ideological containment) and October 2016 288 pages an affective force that has a sensory impact upon cinema’s 20 b&w illustrations Hb 978 1 4744 0514 0 £75.00 viewing bodies. The volume combines, for the first time, specific negotiations between critical theory, film-philosophy ebook and Eastern European cinemas. Film Studies 5 AESTHETICS The Peripatetic Frame G Images of Walking In Cinema N Thomas Deane Tucker, Chadron State College MI CO The first philosophical exploration of the act of walking as it TH COMING is represented in film OR F From the very start of cinema, walking and filmmaking have SOON been intrinsically linked, both technologically, culturally and FROM aesthetically. The pioneers of cinema were not only interested in using the camera to scientifically study ambulatory motion, but were also keen to capture the speed and mobile culture of late nineteenth-century modern urban life. December 2016 192 pages In The Peripatetic Frame, Thomas Deane Tucker breaks new 18 b&w illustrations ground in motion studies as it relates to film, covering star Hb 978 1 4744 0929 2 £70.00 walks, walking in genre films, urban walking, walking in nature ebook and the idea of the camera as a pedestrian. K Cinematicity in Media History AC B Edited by Jeffrey Geiger and Karin Littau, both University of Essex R E Explores the relationship between cinema and other forms PAP of media N Cinematicity in Media History makes visible the complex ways in EW I EW N which media anticipate, interfere with and draw on one other, demonstrating how cinematicity makes itself felt in practices of seeing, reading, writing and thinking both before and after the ‘birth’ of cinema. The examination of the interrelations between cinema, literature, photography and other modes of representation – the magic lantern, the zoetrope, the flick-book, the iPhone and the computer – provides crucial insights into March 2015 256 pages the development of media and their overlapping technologies 38 b&w illustrations and aesthetics. Pb 978 1 4744 0277 4 £24.99 November 2013 Hb 978 0 7486 7611 8 £70.00 ebook 6 www.edinburghuniversitypress.com AESTHETICS Sentimental Aesthetics in American Film Charles Burnetts,