Introducing our 2024 highlights, a curated collection of film and television books due for publication this year. Written for scholars, students, and film and television enthusiasts hungry for fresh insights and thorough analyses, we believe these titles will captivate you as much as they’ve captivated us.
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David Simon's American city examines the work of showrunner David Simon, creator of acclaimed television serials The Wire, Treme and The Deuce. Situating these television serials in their real world context of twenty-first-century America, the book explores how Simon's work responds to dominant discourses about the state of the American city.
This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video games. The chapters range from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries and incorporate discussion of Gothic texts from around the world, offering a compelling new account of the graveyard's importance as a key location for Gothic art and culture.
This volume explores John Ford's preoccupations throughout his long career, showing how he attempted to come to terms with American history, with how America kept changing its relationship with history and how many of the myths of the 'West' were just that - myths.
The Cinema of Cecilia Bartolomé
Fusing a distinctive feminist aesthetics with a startling vision of twentieth-century Spain, the work of Cecilia Bartolomé casts a new light on the histories of both Spanish national film, and transnational women's cinema. This book places Bartolomé among other key auteurs of national Spanish, and transnational feminist, cinema.
The book explores the full catalogue of the films produced by the Empire Marketing Board, General Post Office and Crown Film Units between 1930 and 1952. It identifies themes which both reflect the sponsors' demands and the anxieties of the time as well as providing the foundations for the post-war Public Information Film.