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This site contains details of books published by members of staff at the Centre for Film Studies.
For details of books published by St Andrews Film Studies publishing, including the Film Festival Yearbook series, please visit http://stafs.org.

• Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism

  

  

  Moving Color is the first book-length study of the beginnings of color cinema. Looking backward, Joshua Yumibe traces the legacy of color history from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the cinema of the early twentieth century. Looking forward, he explores the implications of this genealogy on experimental and contemporary digital cinemas in which many colors have become, once again, vividly unhinged from photographic reality.

• Montgomery Clift, Queer Star

  

  

  Montgomery Clift, Queer Star offers a comprehensive critical assessment of Clift through classic texts of queer criticism, as well as new interventions in the field. Scholars of gender and film, performance studies, queer and sexuality studies, and masculinity studies will appreciate this compelling study.

• Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet

  

  

  From a historical and comparative approach, Torchin’s broad survey of media and the social practices around it investigates the development of popular understandings of genocide to achieve recognition and response—both political and judicial—ultimately calling on viewers to act on behalf of human rights.

• Art and Trauma in Africa

  

  

  In Art and Trauma in Africa, Lizelle Bisschoff and Stefanie Van de Peer bring together multiple ways of analyzing the ethical responsibility at the heart of an artist’s decision to tackle such controversial and painful subjects.

• The New Neapolitan Cinema

  

  

  Vito and the Others (1991), Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) and Libera (1993), the debuts of three young Neapolitan filmmakers, stood out dramatically from the landscape of Italian cinema in the early 1990s. On the back of their critical success, over the next decade and a half, Naples became a thriving centre for film […]

• The Epic Film in World Culture

  

  

  With the recent release of spectacular blockbuster films from Gladiator to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the epic has once again become a major form in contemporary cinema. This new volume in the AFI Film Readers series explores the rebirth of the epic film genre in the contemporary period, a period marked by heightened and conflicting appeals to national, ethnic, and religious belonging. […]

• Deleuze and World Cinemas

  

  

  Deleuze’s Cinema books continue to cause controversy. Although they offer radical new ways of understanding cinema, his conclusions often seem strikingly Eurocentric. Deleuze and World Cinemas explores what happens when Deleuze’s ideas are brought into contact with the films he did not discuss, those from Europe and the USA (from Georges Méliès to Michael Mann) and a range of world cinemas – including Bollywood blockbusters, Hong Kong action movies, Argentine melodramas and South Korean science fiction movies. […]

• Stellar Encounters: Stardom in Popular European Cinema

  

  

  Within the intertwined areas of film, TV and media research, studies of stardom have developed into a rich field with numerous approaches. This book offers a collection of essays that make enquiries into aspects of stardom in Europe, studying the significance of the subject, its particular incarnations and areas of possible research within film and […]

• War-torn Tales: Literature, Film and Gender in the Aftermath of World War II

  

  

  This book is the outcome of a successful workshop held in Leeds in September 2003 and explores the effects of World War II on the representation of gender in post-war literature, film and popular culture, juxtaposing Western European experience with US, Soviet and Japanese. It aims to outline the different ways in which these representations […]

• John Mills and British Cinema: Masculinity, Identity and Nation

  

  

  Although his film career extended from the early days of sound to the British New Wave and beyond, Sir John Mills is nonetheless remembered as the archetypal hero of the Second World War. Regarded as an English ‘everyman’, his performances crossed the class divide and, in his easy transition from below decks to above, he […]

• A Philosophy of Cinematic Art

  

  

  A Philosophy of Cinematic Art is a systematic study of cinema as an art form, showing how the medium conditions fundamental features of cinematic artworks. It discusses the status of cinema as an art form, whether there is a language of film, realism in cinema, cinematic authorship, intentionalist and constructivist theories of interpretation, cinematic narration, […]

• A Companion to Spanish Cinema

  

  

  This is the first detailed history of Spanish cinema written in English for English readers. It presents a balanced exploration of trends and genres from the popular to art-house cinema, including landmark documentaries and children’s films. There are sections in each chapter where popular, oppositional, and experimental directors are introduced as auteurs. The eleven chapters […]

• The Hollywood Historical Film

  

  

  A comprehensive analysis of the historical film—a popular and controversial genre that’s been with us since the early days of cinema—and Hollywood’s unique ability to reshape our viewpoints while it sensually recreates the past. Provides a complete guide to the unique characteristics of historical film, distinguishing among sub-genres such as historical epics, war films, biographies, […]

• Scotland: Global Cinema – Genres, Modes and Identities

  

  

  An original remapping of contemporary filmmaking in Scotland, Scotland: Global Cinema analyses the ingenious ways in which this vibrant national cinema inserts itself into global flows of film production. Circumnavigating the ubiquitous tartan, Martin-Jones undertakes a surprisingly diverse analysis of, amongst others, Scottish art films (Red Road), English horror movies (Dog Soldiers), Bollywood films (Kuch […]

• New Bulgarian Cinema

  

  

  Described by Ron Holloway as a ‘poetic cinema’, since 1989 Bulgaria’s film industry underwent testing times. Dina Iordanova discusses issues of representation — history, identity, minorities, national discourse — related to this little-known cinematic tradition in the period since 1989.

• Beauty and the Beast: Italianness in British Cinema

  

  

  Recent years have seen an increased interest in issues of national identity and representation, and cinema is a major medium where strands and layers of representational systems come together in cross-cultural dialogues. Beauty and the Beast provides an account of the specific development of depictions of Italy and the Italians in British cinema. Girelli draws […]

• Cinema at the Periphery

  

  

  From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to Scotland, a growing intellectual and cultural wave of production is taking cinema beyond the borders of its place of origin: exploring faraway places, interacting with barely known peoples, and making new localities imaginable. Previously entrenched spatial divisions no longer function as firmly fixed grid coordinates, the hierarchical position […]

• Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History

  

  

  Events of the last decade have dramatically rewritten the American national narrative, bringing to light an alternate history of nation, one marked from the country’s origins by competing geopolitical interests, by mobility and migration, and by contending ethnic and racial groups. In the revised and expanded edition of Film Nation, Robert Burgoyne analyzes films that […]

• Cinemas, Identities and Beyond

  

  

  Cinemas, Identities and Beyond contributes to one of the most thought-provoking contemporary debates on cinemas and identities in film studies. It gathers 15 essays that explore different dimensions of identities in contexts ranging from domestic spheres, urban milieus, socio-political environments, diasporic film-making issues, anthropology, film festivals, psychoanalysis, to the examination of stardom in society. The […]