Wyatt Moss-Wellington is Assistant Professor in Media and Communication Studies at The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. He is the author of Narrative Humanism: Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film and co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze,…
Alyssa DeBlasio The Russian novel has long been synonymous with philosophical literature. These are the unwieldy and existentially thick novels that we have come to associate with Russian writing—those “large, loose, baggy monsters,” as Henry James wrote of Dostoevsky and…
“One Day More”: Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests
Tom Ue discusses the relation between Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests
The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film is available now in the Traditions in American Cinema series. Find out more on the Edinburgh University Press website Tell us a bit about your book. My book explores the…
By Sarah Cooper I revisited my local Odeon cinema in London recently, just prior to receiving the advance copies of my book, Film and the Imagined Image. As I sat back to enjoy the Sunday afternoon screening, I was reminded…
By Kim Wilkins This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Spike Jonze’s first feature film, Being John Malkovich. Until Being John Malkovich’s release in 1999, the name “Spike Jonze” was predominantly associated with music videos and skateboarding videography. Some of these…
Read on to find out about the latest research content you can access and read for free this month, from journal articles, to free sample chapters and open access books spanning across a range of our core subject areas. Film,…
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Dean Brandum In late 2017, the annual “Black List” was released, a high-profile list of the most promising as yet unproduced screenplays circulating in Hollywood voted for by industry executives. This list of the top yet-to-be-made…
Barton Palmer, co-series editor of Traditions in World Cinema and Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, interviews Charlie Michael about the latest book to publish in the series: ‘French Blockbusters: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema’. Palmer: Tell…
By James Fleury, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim and Stephen Mamber This year marks a significant turning point for a number of recognizable media franchises: Avengers: Endgame brings several character arcs to a close within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the series finale…