10 April 2024
Bloomsbury have announced the launch of Global Film and Media, with 68 titles from Amsterdam University Press now live on Screen Studies.
The award-winning film and media list from Amsterdam University Press covers subjects ranging from cutting-edge film theory, media archaeology and archival practice to transmedia, digital culture, and games studies. The Global Film and Media collection on Screen Studies is international in scope and includes titles from AUP’s Film Culture in Transition, Critical Asian Cinemas, Transmedia series and more.
Other highlights of the collection include:
- eBooks on film, television and filmmakers from around the world, from Atlanta to Zimbabwe.
- Includes titles from the popular ‘Film Culture in Transition’ series such as Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art, Post-war Industrial Media Culture in Sweden, 1945-1960 and Neorealist Film Culture, 1945-1954
- Three titles from the ‘Critical Asian Cinemas’ series, which looks at Asian cinema as art capable of critiquing culture, politics, aesthetics and histories.
- Scholarly titles on contemporary screen cultures such as Antoine Damiens’ inside critique LGBTQ Film Festivals: Curating Queerness, E. Charlotte Stevens’ Fanvids: Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use and Transnational Play: Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games by Anne-Marie Schleiner.
Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform designed to support moving-image studies. It offers a broad range of content including books, screenplays, overview articles and learning resources from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, the British Film Institute, Focal Press, Auteur (Liverpool University Press) and Amsterdam University Press.