6 June 2023
Bloomsbury have announced that the Global Film and Media Collection will launch on Screen Studies in 2024, bringing a selection of Amsterdam University Press’ Film, Media and Communications titles to the digital platform. The new collection will include 69 titles covering the cinema of countries such as China, Korea, Sweden, US, Japan, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands, as well as regional studies of the cinema traditions of Africa, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, and transnational representations of nomadic peoples, refugees and migrants. Content spans from early and silent cinema to 21st century film, and covers contemporary screen cultures including video games and fanvids.
The collection also encompasses titles on topics from special effects to LGBTQ film festivals, adaptation, and cult cinema. The collection will feature discussion of many different filmmakers including Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Sergei Parajanov, Stanley Kubrick, Raul Ruiz, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Terence Malick, Robert Bresson, Bill Morrison and more. Content on Screen Studies is available through both subscription and perpetual access models.
Anna Wright, Digital Portfolio Director for Visual Arts and Video at Bloomsbury Digital Resources, said, “Bloomsbury is delighted to be working with Amsterdam University Press to bring titles from their award-winning film and media programme to the Screen Studies platform. The partnership is in line with our objective to offer academic libraries across the globe an authoritative digital resource representing high-quality scholarship across the screen disciplines, and AUP’s cutting-edge list is the perfect fit. International in scope and representing work by leading scholars in the field, the collection will be available in 2024.”
Vanessa de Bueger, Director of Sales and Marketing at Amsterdam University Press, said: “Amsterdam University Press is proud to collaborate with Bloomsbury, and have a selection of our Film, Media and Communication list presented on their Screen Studies platform. The dynamic digital platform is an essential resource for researchers of the moving image; AUP are delighted to sit alongside such distinguished publications and contribute further to the field.”