Contemporary Japanese Cinema Since Hana-Bi Adam Bingham June 2015 Hb • 978 0 7486 8373 4 • £70.00 BIC: APFA, APFN, APFR, APFV 224 pp 234 x 156 mm Alternative Formats: Eb (PDF) • 978 0 7486 8374 1 • £65.00 Eb (epub) • 978 0 7486 8376 5 • £65.00 Updates the story of Japanese cinema for the 21st century Description The Author This book looks at some of the key genres in Japanese cinema since 1997. In Adam Bingham is Associate Tutor in several cases it considers in detail the ways in which individual films have both Film Studies at Edge Hill University. drawn and departed from those films that have comprised the key works and trends in these generic categories, and in others it looks at some significant recent developments that have little re al precedence in filmmaking in Japan. Series Through close textual analysis of representative films, the study seeks to elucidate the prevalence of repetition and variation in contemporary Japanese Traditions in World Cinema genre cinema, to understand some of the reasons behind this paradigm, and analyse where relevant how and to what extent new modes or generic groups fit into the schema. In so doing it seeks for the first time in English language Readership discourse to offer an academic appreciation and overview of popular Japanese Undergraduate and postgraduate of the last two decades. students in Film Studies and Japanese Studies. Key Features • Considers and analyses numerous films and filmmakers that have yet to feature predominantly in western discourse on Japanese cinema • The first study of the significant developments in Japanese genre filmmaking since the turn of the new millennium • Analyses in detail the dialogue that can be seen between new Japanese cinema and the significant trends and practices of past generations • Includes for the first time in western discourse a discussion of the modern state of the Japanese documentary feature, based on interviews with some of its leading practitioners • Includes a review of Japanese-language criticism and a consideration of how the country’s cinema has been perceived within Japan Film Studies The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com Post-1990 Documentary Reconfiguring Independence Edited by Camille Deprez and Judith Perni June 2015 Hb • 978 0 7486 9413 6 • £70.00 BIC: APFN, APFR, APFV P O S T - 1 9 9 0 272 pp 234 x 156 mm D O C U M E N TA R Y R E C O N F I G U R I N G Alternative Formats: I N D E P E N D E N C E Eb (PDF) • 978 0 7486 9414 3 • £70.00 E d i t e d b y Camille Deprez & Judith Pernin Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 0387 0 • £70.00 Presents in-depth case studies focusing on major aspects of post-1990 documentary practices and styles Description The Editors This book questions the meanings of ‘independence’ for documentaries made Camille Deprez is Research Assistant in the post-1990 context, a period of unrivalled disruption and creativity in the Professor in the Academy of Film at field. Based upon a reasoned selection of contributions, it is the first collection of Hong Kong Baptist University. in-depth case studies cutting across formats, media, subject matters, purposes and national divides. Judith Pernin is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the French Centre for Writing from a wide range of academic perspectives, the contributors shed new Research on Contemporary China light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the independent (CEFC) in Hong Kong. documentary, in order to better comprehend the radical transformations of the form over the past twenty years. Compared to existing studies, this volume focuses on works and practitioners existing at the margins of the traditional Readership media, the mainstream film industry and the prevailing economic and socio- Advanced students and scholars in political systems; yet greatly contributing to changing our perception of Documentary Film Studies. documentaries. And in doing so, it addresses an important gap in the global understanding of documentary practices and styles. Key Features • Provides critical and detailed insights into contemporary independent documentary makers and their varied works, practices and uses • Offers a variety of perspectives and interpretations of under-studied contemporary subject matters and styles, as well as production, distribution and exhibition strategies Film Studies The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com Bollywood and Postmodernism Popular Indian Cinema in the 21st Century Neelam Sidhar Wright June 2015 Hb • 978 0 7486 9634 5 • £70.00 BIC: APFA, APFB, APFN 224 pp 234 x 156 mm 20 b&w illustrations Alternative Formats: Eb (PDF) • 978 0 7486 9635 2 • £70.00 Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 0356 6 • £70.00 Re-examines contemporary Bollywood films using postmodernist film theory Description The Author ‘New Bollywood’ has arrived, but its postmodern impulse often leaves film Neelam Sidhar Wright is an scholars reluctant to theorise its aesthetics. How do we define the style of a Independent Academic Researcher. contemporary Bollywood film? Are Bollywood films just uninspired Hollywood She has taught Film and Media Studies rip-offs, or does their borrowing signal genuine innovation within the industry? at the University of Sussex and has previously worked in various film Applying postmodern concepts and locating postmodern motifs in key production and media roles, and as a commercial Hindi films, this innovative study reveals how Indian cinema has freelance filmmaker. changed in the 21st century. Equipping readers with an alternative method of reading contemporary Indian cinema, Bollywood and Postmodernism takes Indian film studies beyond the exhausted theme of diaspora, and exposes a new Readership decade of aesthetic experimentation and textual appropriation in mainstream Scholars and advanced students in Bombay cinema. World Cinema, Indian Film and Film A bold celebration of contemporary Bollywood texts, this book radically Theory. redefines Indian film and persuasively argues for its seriousness as a field of study in world cinema. Key Features • One of the first books to identify and establish a new kind of Bollywood cinema emerging in the 2000s • Includes case studies of commercially successful yet academically under- acknowledged postmodern Bollywood films and cross-cultural remakes • Conducts a detailed study of Bollywood’s formal aesthetic changes by breaking its film language down into a series of postmodern traits Film Studies The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com Extreme Asia The Rise of Cult Cinema from the Far East Daniel Martin June 2015 Hb • 978 0 7486 9745 8 • £70.00 BIC: APFA, APFB, APFN 192 pp 234 x 156 mm Alternative Formats: Eb (PDF) • 978 0 7486 9746 5 • £70.00 Eb (epub ) • 978 1 4744 0360 3 • £70.00 How shrewd marketing engineered the East Asian cult film boom in the UK Description The Author Japanese horror. South Korean revenge thrillers. The new Hong Kong crime film. Daniel Martin is Assistant Professor of Western audiences have experienced a boom in cult cinema from East Asia over Film Studies at the Korea Advanced the last decade, discovering films that have provoked passion and outrage in Institute of Science and Technology equal measure. This book charts the history of the recent cult Asian film invasion, (KAIST). covering a five-year period and focusing on the activities of the distribution company Metro-Tartan and their incredibly influential ‘Asia Extreme’ brand. Through a series of case studies of individual film releases and other exhibition Readership events, Extreme Asia examines strategies of film promotion and consumption in the context of theories of horror cinema, movie marketing, reception studies, Academics and researchers in East and Orientalism. It covers the rise and fall of the Asia Extreme label, and the Asian film, cult cinema, reception enduring legacy of an unforgettable wave of cult cinema from Japan, Hong studies and film genre. Kong and South Korea. Key Features • Clear timeline of the key points and film releases in the UK, demonstrating the movement’s growing popularity and cultural impact on a film-by-film basis • Based on extensive research and exclusive access to marketing materials and interviews • Explains the cultural and economic factors behind the rise of the most notorious East Asian horror and action films of the current generation • Detailed case studies of such seminal cult hits as Battle Royale, Oldboy, Audition, Infernal Affairs, Ring, and The Isle Film Studies The Tun – Holyrood Road, 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry, Edinburgh EH8 8PJ tel: +44 (0)131 650 4218 fax: +44 (0)131 650 3286 [email protected] www.euppublishing.com War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction Ikram Masmoudi June 2015 Hb • 978 0 7486 9655 0 • £70.00 BIC: DSBH, DSK, HRH 256 pp 234 x 156 mm Alternative Formats: Eb (PDF) • 978 0 7486 9656 7 • £70.00 Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 0352 8 • £70.00 Examines tangible experiences of war and occupation in recent Iraqi fiction Description The Author The last three decades in Iraqi history can be summarized in these words: Ikram Masmoudi is Assistant Professor dictatorship, war and occupation. After the fall of Saddam’s regime Iraqi of Arabic Studies at the University of novelists are not only writing about the occupation and current disintegration Delaware. of Iraq but are also revisiting previous wars that devastated their lives.