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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
Screen Studies is a dynamic new learning and research platform taking users from script to screen and beyond - offering integrated and diverse content from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, the British Film Institute and Focal Press to support moving-image studies.
Content Highlights
- An expanding range of iconic and contemporary screenplays from Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber, presented in industry standard studio format: including Dunkirk, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Big Lebowski
- Coverage of works by leading film directors such as Wes Anderson, Joel and Ethan Coen, and Christopher Nolan providing insight into professional and creative practice
- More than 700 critical and contextual eBooks from Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber covering the major genres, regions, people, movements and styles, and history
- An illustrated timeline of cinema history, to enhance contextual understanding and provide links to related content elsewhere throughout the resource
Benefits
Screen Studies supports users by allowing them to:
- Browse seamlessly between content types with the easy-to-use interface when developing their work or planning classes
- Discover relevant information with ease, using the powerful search and subject-specific taxonomy which links related content across the platform
- Explore informative guides which illuminate key genres, periods, geographic regions, directors, screenwriters and films
- Get to grips with iconic screenplays or thought-provoking scholarly books presented in a clutter free e-reading environment
- Make notes, share, print or save favourites including books, chapters or other items for later; and export citations using the Personalization features
- Link from Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) to simplify access and integration with course delivery
Updated with additional content bi-annually, Screen Studies is an essential resource for academics and students engaged in research and learning around film history, theory, and practice.
Global Film and Media
The Global Film and Media collection contains titles from the Film and Media list of Amsterdam University Press, covering cinema from around the globe and a range of topics such as filmmaking, film theory, contemporary screen cultures, neurofilmology and much more.
The collection covers the cinema of countries such as China, Korea, Sweden, US, Japan, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands. It also includes regional studies of the cinema traditions of Africa, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, and transnational representations of nomadic peoples, refugees and migrants.
Content ranges from early and silent cinema to 21st century film, and covers contemporary screen cultures including video games and fanvids. The collection also features titles on topics from special effects to LGBTQ film festivals, adaptation, and cult cinema.
Highlights include:
- Titles from Amsterdam University Press’s ‘Film Culture in Transition’ series, including: Mysteries of Cinema by Adrian Martin; Neorealist Film Culture, 1945-1954 by Francesco Pitassio; and Theorizing Film through Contemporary Art by Jill Murphy and Laura Rascaroli (eds), and more.
- Wang Bing’s Filmmaking of the China Dream by Elena Pollacchi alongside other titles from the ‘Critical Asian Cinema’s’ series.
- Explorations of contemporary film cultures such as: Perspectives on the European Videogame by Víctor Navarro-Remesal and Óliver Pérez-Latorre (eds); Fanvids by E. Charlotte Stevens; and The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium by Paula Albuquerque.
- Antoine Damiens’ inside critique of the ephemeral nature of festival studies in LGBTQ Film Festivals.
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