Royal Court: International, E. Aston & M. O'Thomas

The first ever full-length study of the Royal Court Theatre's International Department, covering the theatre's unique programming of international plays and seasons, its London-based residences for writers from overseas, and the legacies of workshops conducted in more than 30 countries.

Royal Court: International

Teaching Transnational Cinema by Bruce Bennett

This collection of essays offers a pioneering analysis of the political and conceptual complexities of teaching transnational cinema in university classrooms around the world. In their exploration of a wide range of films from different national and regional contexts, contributors reflect on the practical and pedagogical challenges of teaching about immigrant identities, transnational encounters, border politics, and race.

Cycling and Cinema by Bruce Bennett

Cycling and Cinema explores the history of the bicycle in cinema from the late nineteenth century through to the present day. In this new book from Goldsmiths Press, Bruce Bennett examines a wide variety of films from around the world, ranging from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films, to consider the complex, shifting cultural significance of the bicycle.

Cycling and Cinema

Asian Cinema Journal, ed Gary Bettinson

Asian Cinema is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes a variety of scholarly material – including research articles, interviews, book and film reviews and bibliographies – on all forms and aspects of Asian cinema. The journal’s broad aim is to advance understanding and knowledge of the rich traditions of the various Asian cinemas, thereby making an invaluable contribution to the field of film studies in general.

Asian Cinema Journal

Superman the Movie The 40th Anniversary Interviews

Marking 40 years since the film’s commercial release, Gray Bettinson's book presents original interview transcripts with the cast and crew that, when read together, serve as a rare insider account of an acclaimed blockbuster whose production was steeped in controversy. The interviewees cast light on the daily reality on set, as well as the film’s release and reception with refreshing candour.

Superman the movie

Otto Preminger Interviews by Gary Bettinson

A collection of interviews with the prolific Austro-Hungarian-born director known for challenging the status quo in Hollywood throughout his trailblazing career directing films like The Moon is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and Anatomy of a Murder.

Otto Preminger Interviews

Cold War Cities ed. by Richard Brook et al

This book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic warfare. It explores urbanism as a weapon to combat the dangers of the communist intrusion into the American territories and promote living standards for the urban poor in the US cities.

Cold War Cities: Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945–1965

manchester MODERN by Richard Brook

In “manchester MODERN” Brook presents 111 buildings of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. This new edition records buildings lost to demolition since its first publication in 2017 and reinforces the importance of his ongoing recording of modernist heritage.

manchester MODERN

The Art of Resistance by Allyson Fiddler

The Art of Resistance traces the aesthetic styles and strategies deployed during the early twenty-first century, providing critical context for understanding modern Austrian history as well as the European protest movements of today.

The Art of Resistance: Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century

Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years

Christopher Frayling's coffee table visual feast celebrates a century of classic vampire cinema - mainstream and niche - through the many colourful ways in which the key films have been marketed and consumed, to enter the bloodstream of contemporary world culture.

Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years

Unnatural Theology by Charlie Gere

In Unnatural Theology, Charlie Gere provides ways of thinking about the possibilities of religion and theology in the context of our highly technologized postmodernity. Through an interdisciplinary engagement with thinkers, such as Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Gere develops the notion of an unnatural theology as the basis of a new kind of religious thought that does not insult our intelligence.

Unnatural Theology

I Hate the Lake District by Charlie Gere

I Hate the Lake District offers a different vision of the rural environment from those found in much contemporary nature writing. Based on the author's trips around North West England, the book engages with nuclear power and nuclear war, slavery, imperialism, ghosts, love, God, cockroaches, and the sheer violence and contingency of “nature” itself—of which the human presence is merely a part.

I Hate the Lake District

World's End by Charlie Gere

A memoir and cultural history of World's End, a West London area once home to bohemian artists and punk rock and now an outpost of neoliberalism.

Charlie Gere's account of growing up in the World's End area of West London during the Cold War combines local history, cultural history, memoir, and a strong sense of the apocalyptic. Gere has lived long enough to see the World's End now bearing the marks of out-of-control neoliberalism and its grotesque accompanying inequality.

World's End

Global Undergrounds ed Carlos López-Galviz et al

Rest your eyes long enough on the skylines of Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta—even Chicago or London—and you will see the same remarkable transformation, building after building going up with the breakneck speed of twenty-first-century urbanization. Global Undergrounds offers a richly illustrated exploration of these subterranean spaces, charting their global reach and the profound—but often unseen—effects they have on human life.

Global Undergrounds

Cities, Railways, Modernities by C López-Galvis

Cities, Railways, Modernities chronicles the transformation that London and Paris experienced during the nineteenth century through the lens of the London Underground and the Paris Métro. The book recovers a significant body of work around the ideas, the plans, the context and the building of metropolitan railways in the two cities to provide new insights into the relationship of transport technologies and urban change during the nineteenth century.

Cities, Railways, Modernities

Routledge Handbook of Social Futures

Engaging with key defining questions of the early twenty-first century such as climate change, big data, AI, the future of economics, education, mental health, cities and more, the Handbook provides a review and synthesis of futures scholarship, highlighting the role that societies can and should play in their making.

Routledge Handbook of Social Futures

Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema by D. Missero

This book explores the multiple intersections between feminism and Italian cinema from the perspective of women’s everyday lives and relationship with the medium. Drawing from a feminist approach to Gramscian cultural theory, the book builds an archival counter-history of Italian cinema in which women took part as movie-goers, activists and practitioners.

Women, Feminism and Italian Cinema: Archives from a Film Culture

Elfriede Jelinek in the Arena

Elfriede Jelinek has not shied from the major political topics of our times. The legacy of Nazism, the prevalence of right-wing populism, the war in Iraq, the ongoing financial crisis, humanitarian disasters, misogyny and sexism – all are tackled in formally innovative ways and across a wide range of genres by editors Allyson Fiddler and Karen Jürs-Munby.

Elfriede Jelinek in the Arena

A Colourful Presence by Maryam Ghorbankarimi

This book analyses the changes in the representation of women in Iranian cinema since the 1960s, and investigates the reasons and motives for this. Iranian cinema, both before and after the Islamic Revolution, has been closely monitored by the ruling power, and has been utilized to relay messages and information that comply with the ruling ideology. However, this book explores the changing roles of women in film production and their representation in films made between the 1960s and 2000s.

ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad

In ReFocus: The Films of Rakhshan Banietemad, editor Maryam Ghorbankarimi and her contributors provide a valuable addition to the literature by offering an in-depth study of one of Iran's most significant living directors. The chapters draw on a range of methodological approaches (gender studies, eco-criticism, and sound studies, to name a few) to offer thoughtful analyses of Rakhshan Banietemad's work.

Performance and Politics in a Digital Populist Age

Cami Rowe's publication re-evaluates the role of performance in global politics in the face of populism and the digital mediatisation of political interactions. Drawing on applied theatre practices, this book shows that performance is inherently concerned with cooperative and collaborative encounters across differences, and performance might therefore support effective responses to digital populism.

Deleuze and Lola Montѐs by Richard Rushton

Gilles Deleuze represents the most widely referenced theorist of cinema today. And yet, even the most rudimentary pillars of his thought remain mysterious to most students (and even many scholars) of film studies. Rushton provides an interpretation of Max Ophuls's classic film Lola Montès as an example of how Deleuzian film theory can function in the practice of film interpretation.

Deleuze and Lola Montѐs

On Theatricality - R. Rushton & A. Quick

What is Theatricality? The contributions in this issue ask these and other questions in relation to a wide range of performance examples and possibilities. These include articles on The Wooster Group, Jan Fabre, Marina Abramović, Robert Wilson, and Goat Island, as well as reflections on theatricality and skill, sound, grief and violence, and on the politics of theatricality, theatricality and disability and immersive theatricality.

On Theatricality

Modern European Cinema and Love by Richard Rushton

Modern European Cinema and Love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and questions the institutions of marriage and the 'couple'. The book approaches questions of love and marriage from a philosophical perspective and trace love and marriage from a psychoanalytical perspective through the works of Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard and others.

Modern European Cinema and Love

Stalin's Architect by Deyan Sudjic

The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously unseen sketchbooks and photographs from private collections. This is a history of architecture, politics and power.

Stalin's Architect

John Pawson: Making Life Simpler by Deyan Sudjic

The only comprehensive book on the fascinating life and work of the celebrated architectural designer, John Pawson. This visual biography brings together John Pawson’s architecture, life, clients, travel, photography, design, books, and ideas.

John Pawson: Making Life Simpler

Terence Conran: Making Modern Britain

Terence Conran shaped the culture of everyday life in Britain for more than four decades. This book explores seven themes, from his early influences to his own work as a designer, and from food to business, which convey a truly complex yet unique character. Above all, he was a tastemaker who made a lasting impact on the making of modern Britain.

Terence Conran: Making Modern Britain

Theatricality and the Arts, A. Quick & R. Rushton

This is the first book collection to consider the notion of theatricality across a range of creative fields. Theatricality and the Arts presents a series of investigations of the notion of ‘theatricality’. Primarily, theatricality concerns that which pertains to theatre, but the term has always carried with it the potentially pejorative associations of exaggeration and fakery. The essays here question and contest such associations.