Film and TV Studies
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Ralph Ellison and Cinema
Sam Halliday
The first dedicated study of the relation between cinema and the work of African American author Ralph Ellison (1913–1994).
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785279638
June 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95The first dedicated study of the relation between cinema and the work of African American author Ralph Ellison (1913–1994).
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Doing Sociology Through Film and Literature
Imaginings of the Social World
John Goodwin, Laurie Parsons
This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
Anthem Press
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9781839983894
February 2025
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£24.95 / $24.95This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
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Taxidermy and the Gothic
The Horror of Still Life
Elizabeth Effinger
Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy’s imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin deep: these are rich discourses stuffed by affinities for corporeal transgressions, the uncanny, and the counterfeit.
Anthem Press
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9781839990267
June 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy’s imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin deep: these are rich discourses stuffed by affinities for corporeal transgressions, the uncanny, and the counterfeit.
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Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic
Edited by Jeremy C. De Chavez
Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic is an edited collection that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately comprehensive, covering a range of genres, historical periods, regions, and languages.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279300
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic is an edited collection that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately comprehensive, covering a range of genres, historical periods, regions, and languages.
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American Horror Story and Cult Television
Narratives, Histories and Discourses
Edited by Richard Hand, Mark O’Thomas
This collection of essays approaches the American Horror Story cult television series through a rich variety of critical perspectives within the broader field of television studies and its transections with other disciplines.
Anthem Press
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9781785279331
November 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This collection of essays approaches the American Horror Story cult television series through a rich variety of critical perspectives within the broader field of television studies and its transections with other disciplines.
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Cultural Theory in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Gary McCarron
This book considers several aspects of Alfred Hitchcock’s filmmaking from philosophical and social scientific points of view. Its principal aim is to place Hitchcock’s films in the context of debates in various philosophical and cultural traditions.
Anthem Press
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9781839988462
July 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book considers several aspects of Alfred Hitchcock’s filmmaking from philosophical and social scientific points of view. Its principal aim is to place Hitchcock’s films in the context of debates in various philosophical and cultural traditions.
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Challenging the Narrative
Documentary Film as Participatory Practice in Conflict Situations
Cahal McLaughlin
Filmmaker McLaughlin addresses the need to create platforms for survivors of political violence to tell their stories in order to challenge marginalizing narratives and injustices and as a form of public acknowledgement and personal healing.
Anthem Press
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9781839988691
May 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95Filmmaker McLaughlin addresses the need to create platforms for survivors of political violence to tell their stories in order to challenge marginalizing narratives and injustices and as a form of public acknowledgement and personal healing.
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Chinese TV in the Netflix Era
Edited by Xu Xiaying (Richard Xu), Liu Hui
This book aims to provide an account of Chinese television, particularly online drama series, or webisodes, with an awareness of the existence and competition of Netflix.
Anthem Press
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9781839987052
April 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book aims to provide an account of Chinese television, particularly online drama series, or webisodes, with an awareness of the existence and competition of Netflix.
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Grand-Guignol Cinema and the Horror Genre
Sinister Tableaux of Dread, Corporeality and the Senses
Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
Grand-Gugignol Cinema and the Horror Genre maps important contributions of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre’s Golden Age as theoretical considerations of embodiment and affect in the development of horror cinema in the twentieth century. This study traces key components of the Grand-Guignol stage as a means to explore the immersive and corporeal aspects of horror cinema from the sound period to today.
Anthem Press
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9781839980961
February 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Grand-Gugignol Cinema and the Horror Genre maps important contributions of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre’s Golden Age as theoretical considerations of embodiment and affect in the development of horror cinema in the twentieth century. This study traces key components of the Grand-Guignol stage as a means to explore the immersive and corporeal aspects of horror cinema from the sound period to today.
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Wildlife Documentaries in Southern Africa
Ian Glenn
This is the first study of wildlife filmmaking in Southern Africa with particular emphasis on the relationship between trends there and elsewhere.
Anthem Press
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9781839981500
October 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This is the first study of wildlife filmmaking in Southern Africa with particular emphasis on the relationship between trends there and elsewhere.
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Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema
Alistair Fox
This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.
Anthem Press
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9781839984075
October 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.
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The Spectral West
Super-Nature and the Gothic in the Western Film <correctly represents the book and is appropriate and accessible>.
Keith McDonald, Wayne Johnson
This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987922
August 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.
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On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:
Figurative Invention In Cinema
translated by Ted Fendt
Nicole BrenezA collection of wide-ranging essays written throughout the 1990s, On the Body in General and the Figure in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema covers an array of genres and styles to propose an original method of cinematic analysis and interpretation foregrounding film’s formal and plastic qualities in all their multifaceted materiality and aesthetics. Brenez reconsiders what a body on film can be and what constitutes a figure in cinema.
Anthem Press
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9781839987809
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00A collection of wide-ranging essays written throughout the 1990s, On the Body in General and the Figure in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema covers an array of genres and styles to propose an original method of cinematic analysis and interpretation foregrounding film’s formal and plastic qualities in all their multifaceted materiality and aesthetics. Brenez reconsiders what a body on film can be and what constitutes a figure in cinema.
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Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945–1975
Kylie Andrews
Trailblazing women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 presents a compelling feminist perspective of Australian radio and television history. It resuscitates the careers of a group of female producers who strategically defied the odds and used broadcasting as a site for their activism in the decades after World War II.
Anthem Press
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9781839982576
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Trailblazing women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 presents a compelling feminist perspective of Australian radio and television history. It resuscitates the careers of a group of female producers who strategically defied the odds and used broadcasting as a site for their activism in the decades after World War II.
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Bonfires of the American Dream in American Rhetoric, Literature and Film
Daniel Shaviro
In Bonfires of the American Dream, through close cultural studies of classic novels and films – Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street – Daniel Shaviro helps to provide a better understanding of what went wrong culturally in America.
Anthem Press
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9781839983825
June 2022
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£39.99 / $39.99In Bonfires of the American Dream, through close cultural studies of classic novels and films – Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street – Daniel Shaviro helps to provide a better understanding of what went wrong culturally in America.
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Shots to the Heart: For the Love of Film Performance
Steven Rybin
This book continues the author’s project, begun in the 2017 monograph Gestures of Love, of exploring the place of film actors in an emotional and thoughtful reception of movies. Shots to the Heart aims to provide both concrete critical engagements with moments of performance as well as philosophical explorations of and reflections on the implications of a love for performance in viewing cinema.
Anthem Press
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9781839985911
March 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95This book continues the author’s project, begun in the 2017 monograph Gestures of Love, of exploring the place of film actors in an emotional and thoughtful reception of movies. Shots to the Heart aims to provide both concrete critical engagements with moments of performance as well as philosophical explorations of and reflections on the implications of a love for performance in viewing cinema.
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Truth and Storytelling
Scripting the Visual Narrative
Emily Edwards
The book offers a guide for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create.
Anthem Press
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9781785273070
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book offers a guide for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create.
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The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers
Joseph McBride
A groundbreaking, incisive critical study of the Coen Bros., the quirky team of filmmaking brothers who delight in unsettling cinematic conventions and confounding audiences while raising disturbing questions about human nature.
Anthem Press
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9781839983313
March 2022
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£16.95 / $16.95A groundbreaking, incisive critical study of the Coen Bros., the quirky team of filmmaking brothers who delight in unsettling cinematic conventions and confounding audiences while raising disturbing questions about human nature.
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Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature
Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez
The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.
Anthem Press
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9781785278310
November 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.
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A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema
David A. Cook
A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema from its origins in 19th-century stereoscopic photography through anaglyphic/digital stereoscopic cinema in the 20th century to the promise of Virtual Reality in the 21st century.
Anthem Press
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9781839980121
September 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema from its origins in 19th-century stereoscopic photography through anaglyphic/digital stereoscopic cinema in the 20th century to the promise of Virtual Reality in the 21st century.
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Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film
Transnational Perspectives
Keith McDonald, Wayne Johnson
This book examines contemporary Gothic cinema within a transnational approach by focusing on the aesthetic and philosophical roots which lie at the heart of the Gothic. The study will invoke its literary and filmic forebears by exploring how these styles informed the modern filmic Gothic.
Anthem Press
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9781785277733
June 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book examines contemporary Gothic cinema within a transnational approach by focusing on the aesthetic and philosophical roots which lie at the heart of the Gothic. The study will invoke its literary and filmic forebears by exploring how these styles informed the modern filmic Gothic.
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Essays in Celebrity Culture
Stars and Styles
Pramod K. Nayar
This book examines specific aspects of celebrity culture, from biopics around celebrities to celebrity victimhood, activism and politics.
Anthem Press
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9781785277863
May 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book examines specific aspects of celebrity culture, from biopics around celebrities to celebrity victimhood, activism and politics.
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Narrative Art and the Politics of Health
Edited by Neil Brooks, Sarah Blanchette
This intersectional collection considers how literature, film, and narrative, more broadly, take up the complexities of health, demonstrating the pivotal role of storytelling in health politics.
Anthem Press
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9781785277108
March 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This intersectional collection considers how literature, film, and narrative, more broadly, take up the complexities of health, demonstrating the pivotal role of storytelling in health politics.
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Fashion as Cultural Translation
Signs, Images, Narratives
Patrizia Calefato
The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs. It reproduces itself with a pattern based on the semiotic network of places, social practices and forms of imagery.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785272424
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs. It reproduces itself with a pattern based on the semiotic network of places, social practices and forms of imagery.