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Sasanian PersiaBetween Rome and the Steppes of EurasiaEdited by Eberhard W. Sauer

The EditorEberhard W. Sauer is Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.

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DescriptionThe Sasanian Empire (third-seventh centuries) was one of the largest empires of antiquity, stretching from Mesopotamia to modern Pakistan and from Central Asia to the Arabian Peninsula. This mega-empire withstood powerful opponents in the steppe and expanded further in Late Antiquity, whilst the Roman world shrunk in size.

Recent research has revealed the reasons for this success, notably population growth in some territories, economic prosperity and urban development, made possible through investment in agriculture and military infrastructure on a scale unparalleled in the late antique world.

This volume explores the empire’s relations with its neighbours and key phenomena which contributed to its wealth and power, from the empire’s armed forces to agriculture, trade and treatment of minorities. The latest discoveries, notably major urban foundations, fortifications and irrigations systems, feature prominently. An empire whose military might and urban culture rivalled Rome and foreshadowed the caliphate will be of interest to scholars of the Roman and Islamic world.

Persia's growing military and economic power in the late antique world

256 pp. 234 x 156mm84 b&w illustrations, 5 b&w tables

Classics & Ancient History

Key Features• Sheds new light on one of the ancient world’s largest, yet least known,

empires• Features case studies with new evidence, which force us to re-evaluate our

Euro-centric world view• Inspires us to rethink the reasons behind the success and failure of empires,

not just of Sasanian Persia, but also the Western and Eastern Roman Empire and the Islamic Caliphate

• Takes full account of environmental and landscape archaeology and latest fieldwork, not included in previous books on the Sasanian Empire

SeriesEdinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia

Readership Upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers of the history and archaeology of ancient Persia and late antiquity.

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Table of ContentsPreliminaries: List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Notes on the Contributors, Series Editor’s Foreword1. Introduction Eberhard W. Sauer 2. Sasanian cities: archaeological perspectives on the urban economy and built environment of an empire St John Simpson 3. Palaeoecological insights into agri-horti-cultural and pastoral practices before, during and after the Sasanian Empire Lyudmila Shumilovskikh, Morteza Djamali, Valérie Andrieu-Ponel, Philippe Ponel, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Abdolmajid Naderi-Beni and Eberhard W. Saue4. Animal exploitation and subsistence on the borders of the Sasanian Empire: from the Gorgan Wall (Iran) to the Gates of the Alans (Georgia) Marjan Mashkour, Roya Khazaeli, Homa Fathi, Sarieh Amiri, Delphine Decruyenaere, Azadeh Mohaseb, Hossein Davoudi, Shiva Sheikhi and Eberhard W. Sauer5. The Northern and Western Borderlands of the Sasanian Empire: Contextualizing the Roman/Byzantine and Sasanian Frontier Dan Lawrence and Tony J. Wilkinson 6. Connectivity on a Sasanian frontier: Route systems in the Gorgan Plain of north-east Iran Kristen Hopper 7. The Sasanian Empire and the East: A summary of the evidence and its implications for Rome Warwick Ball 8. Minority Religions in the Sasanian Empire: Suppression, Integration, and Relations with Rome Lee E. Patterson 9. A Contested Jurisdiction: Armenia in Late Antiquity Tim Greenwood 10. Cultural contacts between Rome and Persia at the time of Ardashir I (AD 224-240) Pierfrancesco Callieri 11. Innovation and Stagnation: Military Infrastructure and the Shifting Balance of Power between Rome and Persia Eberhard W. Sauer, Jebrael Nokandeh, Konstantin Pitskhelauri and Hamid Omrani Rekavandi12. The Arabian Frontier: A Keystone of the Sasanian Empire Craig Morley13. The India Trade in Late Antiquity James Howard-Johnston



Sasanian PersiaBetween Rome and the Steppes of EurasiaEdited by Eberhard W. Sauer


Drawn from LifeIssues and Themes in Animated Documentary CinemaEdited by Jonathan Murray and Nea Ehrlich

The EditorsJonathan Murray is Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art.

Nea Ehrlich recently completed her PhD in Art History at the University of Edinburgh.

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DescriptionDrawn from Life, a multidisciplinary anthology, introduces readers to a diverse range of filmmakers past and present who use the animated image as a documentary tool. In doing so, it explores a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film artists and audiences alike: Why use animation to document? How do such images reflect and influence our understanding and experience of ‘reality’?

From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, Drawn from Life casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us.

The first anthology to explore animated documentary filmmaking

272 pp. 234 x 156 mm30 b&w illustrations

Film Studies

Key Features• The first book to explore the field of animated documentaries from a diverse

range of scholarly and practice-based perspectives. • Defines the central characteristics of the animated documentary film. • Challenges and extends orthodox definitions of documentary cinema as

well as animation. • Surveys a diverse range of film works, genres, production techniques,

historical eras, and cultural contexts.

SeriesEdinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

Readership Students and scholars in both film studies and animation.



American Independent CinemaYannis Tzioumakis

The AuthorYannis Tzioumakis is Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool.

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Textbook

DescriptionThis undergraduate textbook examines American independent cinema from the very beginnings of US cinema and includes chapters on independence within the studio system, B Films, exploitation cinema and independent cinema in the age of the conglomerates.

In the 10 years since the first edition of the book was published, there have been a number of developments within film industry in general, many of which impact upon American independent cinema. Social media, web 2:0, mobile entertainment, digital production and distribution, were all in incipient phase during the mid-2000s but have been moving with giant strides ever since. In the process they have contributed to redefinitions of all media sectors, including the US independent cinema one, which a new chapter within this second edition will tackle.

With an updated design, student friendly features such as case studies and filmographies, and an increased extent, this new edition should gain numerous adoptions in the UK and US.

A comprehensive history of commercial independent cinema

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New to this edition• A new prologue • A new chapter (Chapter 9) under the title 'American Independent Cinema in

the Age of Convergence'• Two new case studies, one from the 2000s and one from 2010s as part of

Chapter 9• An enhanced epilogue• Additional bibliography• Suggestions for further readings and filmographies

Readership Undergraduates on American Studies and Film Studies courses.

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2nd Edition

Key Features • Historical in focus, examining American independent cinema from the

beginnings of US cinema• Explores industrial factors, particularly the studio system• Case studies cover a range of directors, genres and styles - including

exploitation films

Course Information Undergraduate students of:• American independent cinema


Film Studies

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Table of Contents Introduction: Problems of Definition and the Discourse of American Independent Cinema

PART ONE: AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA IN THE STUDIO YEARS (mid-1920s-late 1940s)

Chapter One: Independent Filmmaking in the Studio Era: Tendencies within the Studio SystemIntroductionThe First Independents Independents before the Formation of the Studios Independents at the Age of Oligopoly The First Period (mid-/late 1920s – 1939) Economic Constraints Independent Production vs. Studio-Unit Production Some Economic Opportunities The Second Period (1940 - 1948) The Industry Wide Shift The End of the War Boon Conclusion

Chapter Two: Independent Filmmaking in the Studio Era: The Poverty Row Studios (1930-1950) Introduction Monogram Pictures Republic Pictures Grand National Films Independent B Films vs. Studio B Films Producers Releasing Corporation Upgrading the Product The Decline of the B Film Market Conclusion Beyond Poverty Row: Ethnic Films

PART TWO: THE TRANSITIONAL YEARS (late 1940s-late 1960s)

Chapter Three: Independence by Force: The Effects of the Paramount Decree on Independent Film Production Introduction The Paramount Decree The Postwar Recession Identity Crisis The United Artists’ Revival Independent Production: The United Artists Way Production Distribution The Reasons Behind the Success The Triumph of A Brand of Independent Production…and of the Majors Conclusion

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Chapter Four: An Audience for the Independents: Exploitation Films for the Nation’s Youth Introduction The Emergence of the Teenager and the Rise of Youth Audience From Poverty Row to Exploitation and Showmanship The Era of the Drive In Theatres Low-end Independents against Television The Exploitation Teenpic and the Companies Behind It Sam Katzman American International Pictures Embassy Pictures William Castle Productions Roger Corman and the Filmgroup The Majors and the Low-Budget Exploitation Market Conclusion

PART THREE: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA (late 1960s – to date)

Chapter Five: The New Hollywood and the Independent Hollywood Introduction The New American Cinema The Influence of John Cassavetes The New Hollywood Conclusion

Chapter Six: American Independent Cinema in the Age of the Conglomerates Introduction Raising the Stakes Economic Opportunities in the Low-budget Independent Sector (late 1960s- 1974) The End of Exploitation as We Know It The Gradual Rise and Rapid Fall of American International Pictures

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From the Theatrical to the Video Market A New Hope: The Birth of the New American Independent Cinema Conclusion

Chapter Seven: Mini-Majors and Major Independents Introduction A Star Is Born The New Orion Constellation The Shining Star The Fading Star The Last Bonfires The Fall Conclusion

Chapter Eight: The Institutionalisation of American Independent Cinema Introduction A Business of Co-dependents Institutional Framework (1) Organisations Dedicated to Supporting Independent Filmmaking, Finance Opportunities and Independent Distributors Institutional Framework (2) The Classics Divisions The Aesthetics Factor Conclusion

Chapter Nine: American Independent Cinema in the Age of Convergence Introduction The Success of Indiewood The Studio Pullout from the Specialty Film Sector and the Demise of Miramax Regeneration: Digital Film Production, Distribution and Exhibition in the Margins Independent Film in the Age of Social Media Conclusion: A Converged American Independent Cinema?

New Epilogue: From Independent to "Specialty" Cinema

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ENDNOTES

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Contemporary Musical FilmEdited by Kevin J. Donnelly and Beth Carroll

The EditorsBeth Carroll is Lecturer in Film and Literature at the University of Southampton.

Kevin J. Donnelly is Reader in Film at the University of Southampton.

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DescriptionIn recent years there has been a remarkable resurgence in the success of film musicals. Since the turn of the millennium, films such as Chicago (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004) have restated the close connections between the stage and screen. This edited collection will look at the breadth and diversity of recent film musicals, including adaptations from the stage such as Mamma Mia! (2008), Tim Burton’s Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Rock of Ages (2012). This collection will also look at films that owe less of a direct debt to stage musicals, such as Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe (2007) and Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000).

Explores the energy and diversity of recent film musicals

224 pp. 234 x 156 mm12 b&w illustrations

Film Studies

Key Features• Celebrates the energy and diversity of recent film musicals• Explores the essential relationship between film and live entertainment• Case studies include adaptations from the stage as well as broader film

musical forms

SeriesMusic and the Moving Image

Readership Students and scholars in film studies, film music and film genre.



Improving Passions Sentimental Aesthetics in American FilmCharles Burnetts

The AuthorCharles Burnetts teaches film in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Kings University College, The University of Western Ontario.

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DescriptionWhen did the sentimental start to mean ‘awful’? Why are many popular ‘mainstream’ films so often dismissed for their sentimentality? What are the key differences between the sentimental and the melodramatic? These are some of the questions to be addressed in this illuminating genealogy of the sentimental as both literary genre and aesthetic philosophy, a tradition that prefigures the advent of film yet serves as a vital framework for understanding its emotional and ethical appeals.

Reveals a fascinating history of aesthetic debate concerning the emotional and moral functions of art


Film Studies

Key Features• Examines the sentimental tradition alongside theories of kitsch and

theatrical/cinematic melodrama• Engages directly with speculation by classical and contemporary film

theorists with the ethical and affective possibilities of film• Provides case studies of film sentimentality during early, classical and post-

classical eras of cinema history, focusing specifically on issues of critical reception

• Examines new approaches to ‘affect’ in film and media philosophy that draw directly on, and importantly reconfigure, a sentimental aesthetics

Readership Scholars and advanced students in film theory.



Female Stars of British CinemaThe Women in QuestionMelanie Williams

The AuthorMelanie Williams is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia.

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DescriptionAlthough stardom and celebrity have sometimes been seen as antithetical to traditional British notions of restraint and modesty, female stars have nonetheless always been an important attraction for audiences of British cinema, offering specifically British takes on ideas of glamour, acting prowess and femininity. This book explores in detail the history of British female stardom from the 1940s to the present day through an examination of the careers and star personae of some of the most significant stars from the last 70 years of British cinema from the Gainsborough girls who enjoyed enormous popularity in the immediate postwar years to key contemporary figures such as Helena Bonham Carter and Judi Dench.

The first full-length academic study to deal exclusively with female stardom in British cinema


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Key Features• A major new study of stardom in British cinema and the first to focus on

female stars• Offers a contextualising introduction on British female film stardom

followed by insightful and original case studies of key stars from the 1940s to the present day

• Analysis of on and off-screen star personae, drawing extensively on promotional and publicity material, critical reception, production documentation and audience and fan responses

• Stars discussed include Anna Neagle, Judi Dench, Diana Dors, Helena Bonham Carter and Keira Knightley

Readership Students and scholars in Film Studies, especially Star Studies.

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Course Information Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of:• Star Studies • British Cinema


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Table of Contents Introduction1. Anna Neagle and the Cultivation of the English Rose 2. Jean Kent and Post-War British Cinema's Female Typology 3. Diana Dors: Lady Godiva Rides Again 4. Sylvia Syms: Rose with Thorns 5. Shadows of the Sixties: Rita Tushingham and Julie Christie6. Making Sense of the Seventies: Glenda Jackson 7. A (Heritage) Star is Born: Helena Bonham Carter in the Eighties and Nineties8. Keira Knightley and the Challenges of Contemporary Transnational Female Stardom 9. Helen and Judi: The Resurgence of the Older British Female StarConclusion

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Female Stars of British CinemaThe Women in QuestionMelanie Williams

Competition Information British Stars and Stardom From Alma Taylor to Sean Connery edited by B. BabingtonPaperback / £15.99 / 272pp / Manchester University Press / 2001 / 9780719058417This book discusses both male and female stars and doesn't have the focus on femininity, national identity and stardom that our book does.

Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know by S. HarperPaperback / £41.99 / 278pp / Continuum / 2000 / 9780826447333This book only covers female stars up to the early 1990s.


Indefinite VisionsCinema and the Attractions of UncertaintyEdited by Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron and Arild Fetveit

The EditorsMartine Beugnet is Professor in Visual Studies at Paris 7 Diderot.

Allan Cameron is Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland.

Arild Fetveit is Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen.

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DescriptionMoving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognisable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronised line of dialogue. Yet perfect, in-focus visibility does not come ‘naturally’ to the moving image. Pursuing a range of approaches (from aesthetics to phenomenology to production studies), the authors in this volume actively explore moving images in states of decay, distortion, indistinctness and fragmentation, while drawing upon key theoretical themes including affect, embodiment, visual signification and ‘legibility’.

Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images


Film Studies

Key Features• Provides an overview of artistic practice in relation to indistinct and

disordered images• Considers contemporary and historical transformations in film aesthetics in

relation to developments in new and experimental media• Explores the aesthetic foregrounding of analogue and digital media as

material forms• Engages with key theoretical themes relating to indistinct and disordered

images, including affect, embodiment, visual signification and ‘legibility’, and the denigration of vision

SeriesEdinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality

Readership Postgraduate students and scholars in film studies, film aesthetics, digital media and film philosophy.


Course Info Postgraduate students of:• Film aesthetics• Digital media• Film-philosophy


Film Studies

Related Titles Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema edited by Lisa PursePaperback / £19.99 / 208pp / 2013 /978 0 7486 4689 0Provides a blueprint for approaching digital imaging in contemporary film.

Temporality and Film Analyses by Matilda MrozPaperback / £24.99 / 240pp / 2013 / 978 0 7486 8591 2Places the concept of duration at the centre of an understanding of cinema and spectatorship.

Indefinite VisionsCinema and the Attractions of UncertaintyEdited by Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron and Arild Fetveit

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List of Contributors• EmmanuelleAndré, Université Paris 7 Diderot• JacquesAumont, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3• ErikaBalsom, King's College London• RaymondBellour, French National Center for Scientific Research• MartineBeugnet, Université Paris 7 Diderot• ChristaBlümlinger, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3• AllanCameron, University of Auckland• MichelChion, Composer, Filmmaker and Essay Writer• SeanCubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London• CatherineFowler, University of Otago• TomGunning, University of Chicago• JulianHanich, University of Groningen• MartinJay, Independent• KimKnowles, Aberystwyth University• RichardMisek, University of Kent• GiusyPisano, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière• KrissRavetto-Biagioli, University of California, Davis• D.N.Rodowick, University of Chicago• StevenShaviro, Wayne State University • CarolVernallis, Stanford University

Intercultural CommunicationA Critical IntroductionIngrid Piller

The AuthorIngrid Piller is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

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Praise for previous edition‘This is an excellent introduction and a very important contribution to the field. I have not found in other recent publications such extensive and wide-ranging examples of relevant research used to support the arguments put forward.’ - International Journal of Applied Linguistics

‘One important feature of the book is the inclusion of case studies from around the world. The book consists of vivid and interesting cases of modernity that span the globe, suggesting that Piller’s intercultural communication research derived from a worldwide cultural basis. In other words, every nation, due to its own unique culture, may contribute to issues and understanding of intercultural communication.’ - Discourse Studies

DescriptionCombining perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, the second edition of this popular textbook provides students with a comprehensive, up-to-date and critical overview of the field of intercultural communication. Ingrid Piller explains communication in context using two main approaches. The first treats cultural identity, difference and similarity as discursive constructions. The second, informed by bilingualism studies, highlights the use and prestige of different languages and language varieties as well as the varying access that speakers have to them.

An up-to-date introduction to a developing field of linguistics

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Language & Linguistics

The new edition includes• A new chapter devoted to intercultural communication in school that will

explore intercultural communication in teaching and learning• An overview of key theoretical discussions related to language in super-

diverse contexts • Learning objectives, key points, exercises and suggestions for further

reading in each chapter• Case studies from around the world

Readership Undergraduate students of Intercultural Communication, Linguistics, Communication Studies, English Language Studies and Modern Languages in the UK, USA, Europe and Australasia.

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Previous Edition:Pb • 978 0 7486 3284 8 • £24.99 • 208pp • 2011

Course InformationCore: Intercultural Communication

Supplementary:Communication StudiesAdditional Language LearningDiscourse AnalysisBilingualismLanguage and IdentitySociolinguisticsTranslation Studies



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Table of Contents 1. Overview2. Approaching intercultural communication3. The genealogy of intercultural communication4. Language and culture5. Nation and culture6. Intercultural communication at work7. Intercultural communication for sale8. Intercultural romance9. Intercultural communication and exclusion10 Intercultural communication in a multilingual world11. The future of intercultural communication


Intercultural CommunicationA Critical IntroductionIngrid Piller

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Competition InformationIntroducing language and intercultural communicationJane JacksonRoutledge, 2014£24.99 / £90, 414 pages

Understanding Intercultural Communication: Negotiating a Grammar of CultureAdrian HollidayRoutledge, 2013£24.99 / £80, 188 pages

Exploring Intercultural Communication: Language in ActionRoutledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics Zhu HuaRoutledge, 2013£25.99 / £90, 280 pages


A Foucauldian Genealogy of Modern LawFrom Sovereignty to Normalisation and BeyondJacopo Martire

The AuthorJacopo Martire is Lecturer in Law at the University of Stirling.

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DescriptionMichel Foucault (1926–84) was a French philosopher, social theorist and political thinker. Jacopo Martire investigates the development of modern law in conjunction with what Foucault termed biopolitical forms of power. He gives you a much-needed genealogical analysis of the modern legal phenomenon, opening new avenues for Foucauldian approaches to law.

Addresses a surprisingly overlooked Foucauldian conundrum: what is the logical relationship between modern law and power?

208 pp. 234 x 156mm

Law

Key Features• Critically engages with current Foucauldian literature in the fields of law,

philosophy and politics to give you an engaging overview of the field• Surveys the development of the modern legal phenomenon in an

innovative and original way• Demonstrates the critical limits of both liberal and radical approaches to

law• Develops the potential of Foucault’s theory in analysing the modern legal

phenomenon, opening up new avenues for research

Readership Upper-Level undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in the fields of law, critical studies, philosophy, sociology, political science, and feminist studies.

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Scottish Legal HistoryVolume 1: 1000–1707Andrew Simpson and Adelyn Wilson

The AuthorsAndrew Simpson is Lecturer in Legal History at the University of Aberdeen.

Adelyn Wilson is Lecturer in Legal History at the University of Aberdeen.

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DescriptionThe roots of Scots law can be traced to the 1100s. How and why did that law come into being? How was it used in dispute resolution during the medieval and early modern periods? And how did its authority develop over the centuries? This volume explores such questions, introducing readers to the history of the Scottish legal system prior to the 1707 parliamentary union with England.

The first stand-alone general work on Scottish legal history, written for students and scholars of Scots law and Scottish history


Law

Key Features• The chapters have been road-tested with law students• The textbook has been developed with input from legal history lecturers

at a number of Scottish universities• Complex and dry legal history is presented through examples and

anecdotes, to help students to engage with and understand the material• Material is divided into easily digested chunks, arranged from the

perspective of legal history (rather than political, social or economic history)

Readership Students of British, European and Scottish Legal History in Law, History and Scottish Studies departments.



The Edinburgh Dictionary of ModernismEdited by Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Olga Taxidou

The EditorsVassiliki Kolocotroni is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Arts and Humanities Graduate School at the University of Glasgow.

Olga Taxidou is Professor of Drama at the University of Edinburgh.

July 2017Hb • 978 0 7486 3702 7 • £150.00BIC: DSA, DSR

DescriptionThis volume aims to provide a rich and rigorous account of terms and concepts associated with modernism in its literary, aesthetic, political and philosophical manifestations. These terms are sourced from the practices of the various modernist projects and compose the critical vocabulary through which we still engage with modernism as scholars, teachers and students. The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism aims to place these terms in their moment and, where appropriate, trace their provenance, genealogy and afterlife.

The first dictionary to gather, delineate and make accessible the literary, artistic, critical, cultural and political practices that we associate with Modernism

504 pp. 234 x 156mm

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Key Features• The first dictionary to cover the movements, concepts and figures

associated with European Modernism and to place them in an international frame

• Comprises authoritative entries written by a dedicated team of experts in the field

• A timely and rich addition to the resources available to students and scholars of a subject currently in great demand throughout the English-speaking world

• With its chronological and thematic scope and comprehensive coverage, the Dictionary is set to become the definitive work of reference in the field

Readership Students, teachers and academics in the field of Modernism Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture.



Beckett's BreathAnti-theatricality and the Visual ArtsSozita Goudouna

The AuthorSozita Goudouna is Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Performa Teaching Associate at New York University.

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DescriptionSamuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the 20th century, wrote a 30-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage directions. Breath (1969) is the focus and the only theatrical text examined in this study, which demonstrates how the piece became emblematic of the interdisciplinary exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, and of the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts. The book attends to 50 breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's Breath within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse thereby contributing to the expanding field of intermedial Beckett criticism.

Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett’s 30-second playlet Breath with the visual arts


Literary Studies

Key Features• Examines Beckett’s ultimate venture to define the borders between a

theatrical performance and purely visual representation• Juxtaposes Beckett’s Breath with breath-related artworks by prominent

visual artists who investigate the far-reaching potential of the representation of respiration by challenging modernist essentialism

• The focus on this primary human physiological function and its relation to arts and culture is highly pertinent to studies of human performance, the nature of embodiment and its relation to cultural expression

• Facilitates new intermedial discourses around the nature and aesthetic possibilities of breath, the minimum condition of existence, at the interface between the visual arts and performance practices and their relation to questions of spectacle, objecthood and materiality

SeriesEdinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance

Readership Academics, postgraduates, upper-level undergraduates, researchers and professionals from the culture industry



Meat MarketsThe Cultural History of Bloody LondonTed Geier

The AuthorTed Geier is Lecturer in Animal Studies, Food Studies and Literature at UC Davis.

DescriptionHow does 19th-century literature concerned with creatures, animals and humans who are not permitted to be properly human also produce such gruesome, strange, abject citizens alongside techno-urban systems like the meat industry, the popular serial press and even in rights movements? Through formal analysis of subjection, address, and narration in canonical and penny literatures, this book reveals the mutual forces of concern and consumption that afflict objects of a weird cultural history of bloody London across the long 19th century.

Examines the strange foundations of nonhuman thought through new readings of 19th-century British literature

Literature Studies

Key Features• Articulates the emergent ‘nonhuman thought’ developed across literatures

of the long 19th century and inflecting recent critical theories of abject life and animality

• Shows the productive contradictions in social and animal concern as it produces anonymous, ‘biopolitical’ objects in literature, food culture and London society

• Presents important connections between meat and popular serial press industries, the intersections of criminals and public readership and the long history of bloody spectacle at London’s Smithfield Market

ReadershipAdvanced undergraduate, graduate studensts, academics, researchers in Victorian literature, Victorian culture, 19th century literature and critical animal studies.


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On the Margins of ModernismXu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940sChristopher Rosenmeier

The AuthorChristopher Rosenmeier is Lectuer in Chinese at the University of Edinburgh.

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DescriptionThis book introduces and analyzes the fiction of Xu Xu and Wumingshi and shows their importance during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) until 1949. It makes the wider argument that their short stories and novels in this period, and popular Chinese literature more broadly, was indebted to the Shanghai modernist writers of the 1930s (xinganjue pai). Shanghai modernism in the 1930s was an important literary movement, but the conventional view is that these authors had little long-lasting impact on Chinese literature. This book contests this view, arguing that their innovative style was eventually appropriated and adapted into popular literature in multiple ways.

Introduces popular 1940s Chinese authors and their influence on Chinese literature to an English-speaking readership

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Key Features• Fills a gap in Chinese literary history• Focuses on two of the most popular Chinese authors of the 1940s• Develops a wider argument about the influence of Shanghai modernism on

Chinese wartime literature

SeriesEdinburgh East Asian Studies

Readership Postgraduate students and scholars in Asian Studies/Chinese Studies.

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Portable ModernismsThe Art of Travelling LightEmily Ridge

The AuthorEmily Ridge is Lecturer in English Literature at the Education University of Hong Kong.

July 2017Hb • 978 1 4744 1959 8 • £80.00BIC: DSBH, DSK

DescriptionLuggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist writer from the valise-fashioned desks of both James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov to the lost manuscript-laden cases of Ernest Hemingway and Walter Benjamin. While the trope of modernist exile has long been spotlighted, little attention has been given to the material meaning of this condition. What things and objects do modernism’s exiles and émigrés carry with them and how does the act of carriage enter into the modernist picture more broadly? What are the implications and historical resonances of a portable outlook, particularly from the angles of gender, wartime conflict and character conception? Above all, how far does such an outlook impact upon artistic vision? Portability represents the simultaneous transportation and repudiation of domesticity and the home, those key frames of reference in the nineteenth-century novel. This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character.

A wide-ranging study of the rise of a new culture of portability and its impact on modernist approaches to fiction


Literary Studies

Key Features• Presents the first full-length formulation of portable models for fiction and,

as such, opens up a new field of enquiry• Sheds fresh light on our understanding of the history of the novel through

one long-obscured metaphor for narrative form• Constructively integrates recent discussions of material culture and mobility

in modernism within a single monograph and links these discussions to more formal questions

• Includes archival research on the material culture of movement and travel during the period

SeriesEdinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture

Readership Academics, postgraduates, upper-level undergraduates.

Alternative Formats:Eb (PDF) • 978 1 4744 1960 4 • £80.00Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 1961 1 • £80.00



New Critical ThinkingCriticism to ComeEdited by Julian Wolfreys

The EditorJulian Wolfeys is Professor of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth.

July 2017Pb • 978 0 7486 9964 3 • £24.99BIC: DSA, DSB, DSK

DescriptionFollowing a scene-setting Introduction which reflects on the state of ‘theory’ today, the 11 chapters in this volume introduce new areas of critical thinking which go beyond the standard ‘isms’: Literary Reading in a Digital Age; Critical Making in the Digital Humanities; Thing Theory; Memory Work and Criticism; Body, Objects, Technology; Criticism and ‘The Animal’; Multimodality and Linguistic Approaches to Literary Study; Critical and Creative Practice: Conditions for Success in the Writing Workshop; Affect Theory; Spectrality; Critical Climate Change.

A final rounding off chapter on Historicising presents debates around historically oriented criticism, including a ‘round table’ among the contributors. Each chapter also provides a critical ‘case study’ of a text or texts, including poetry writing guides, a Seamus Heaney poem, film adaptations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, e-readers and kindles, First World War poetry and prose, steampunk, and Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways.

From ‘Thing Theory’ to animal theory, multimodality to film adaptation, and from acts of reading in a digital age to the creative writing workshop, the volume reflects a radical reorientation in critical modes of thinking.

Introduces advanced students of literature to the latest critical thinking


Literary Studies

Key Features• Presents cutting-edge debates presented to more advanced students in an

engaging yet sophisticated way• Provides a wide range of ‘case studies’ including poetry, film, reading

devices, popular fiction & non-fiction prose• Reflects newly emerging ways of teaching critical ideas in the classroom• Opens criticism to dialogue and possibility

Readership Upper-level undergraduates – 2nd-4th year, postraduates, lecturers.

Alternative Formats:Hb • 978 0 7486 9966 7 • £80.00Eb (PDF) • 978 0 7486 9967 4 • £80.00Eb (epub) • 978 0 7486 9965 0 • £24.99

Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Critical Thinking, to Read so as to Become Acquainted, Julian Wolfreys; 1. Turnings and Re-Turnings, Mary Ann Caws; 2. ‘Peering into the dark machinery’: Modernity, Perception, and the Self in John Burnside’s Poetry, Monika Szuba; 3. Modernity’s Sylvan Subjectivity, from Gainsborough to Gallaccio, Catherine Bernard; 4. Little Did They Know, Sarah Pardon; 5. ‘The Heart cannot forget / Unless it contemplates / What it declines’: Emily Dickinson, Frank Ankersmit, and the Art of Forgetting, Páraic Finnerty; 6. Reading Microhistory: Three Layers of Meaning, Anton Froeyman; 7. Writing Fiction, Making History: Historical Narrative and the Process of Creating History, Christine Berberich; 8. Witnessing, Recognition, and Response Ethics, Kelly Oliver; 9. A Norwegian Abroad: Camilla Collett’s Travelogues from Berlin to Paris, Tone Selboe; 10. Alfred Jarry’s Nietzschean Modernism, Jean-Michel Rabaté; 11. On First Looking into Derrida’s Glas, J. Hillis Miller; 12. ‘A very black and little Arab Jew’: Experience and Experimentation or, Two Words for Jacques Derrida, Julian Wolfreys.


Literary Studies

New Critical ThinkingCriticism to ComeEdited by Julian Wolfreys

List of Contributors• ChristineBerberich is a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary English Literature at the University

of Portsmouth. • CatherineBernard is Professor of English literature and art history at Paris Diderot University.• MaryAnnCaws is Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of

the City University of New York. • PáraicFinnerty is Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Portsmouth.• AntonFroeyman is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent

University. • J.HillisMiller is UCI Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English Emeritus at the

University of California at Irvine. • KellyOliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.• SarahPardon studied Comparative Modern Literature at Ghent University and Literary Studies at the Catholic

University of Louvain. • Jean-MichelRabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.• ToneSelboe is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo.• MonikaSzuba is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Gdańsk.• JulianWolfreys is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of

Portsmouth.

Literary Studies

Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women WritersVike Martina Plock

The AuthorVike Martina Plock is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Exeter.

July 2017Pb • 978 1 4744 2742 5 • £24.99BIC: DSA, DSB, DSK

DescriptionMixing modernist outliers such as Edith Wharton and Agatha Christie with more canonical figures such as Virginia Woolf and arguing that these novelists shared an interest in negotiating the relationship between standardization and conformity, on the one hand, and novelty and individual expression, on the other, Modernism, Fashion and Women's Writing deliberately works against conventional notions of historical periodisation and challenges critical conceptions that pit modernist elitism against middlebrow consumerism as mutually defining opposites. It draws on previously unstudied material from these writers’ personal and professional archives to tell the stories of five women novelists who carefully negotiated commercial success and artistic autonomy in a marketplace that had made fashion one of its most significant yet often disclaimed inspirations and concerns.

Explores the interaction between literary and sartorial style in women writers of the interwar period


Literary Studies

Key Features• Provides in-depth case studies investigating early twentieth-century women

novelists’ engagement with contemporary fashion politics• Intervenes in and advances the study of literary modernism’s relationship to

consumer culture, middlebrow aesthetics, and the literary marketplace• Evidences the strong intellectual and professional connections existing

among key women novelists of the interwar period• Draws on unexplored archival resources to offer new readings of canonical

and lesser-studied women writers of the early 20th century

Readership Academics, postgraduates, upper-level undergraduates in Modernism, Twentieth-Century Literature, Women Writers, The Novel, The Interwar Period, Fashion, Politics.

Alternative Formats:Hb • 978 1 4744 2741 8 • £80.00Eb (PDF) • 978 1 4744 2743 2 • £80.00Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 2744 9 • £24.99


Writing the Field RecordingSound, Word, EnvironmentEdited by Stephen Benson and William Montgomery

The EditorsStephen Benson teaches in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

William Montgomery is Senior Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics & Director of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London.

July 2017Hb • 978 1 4744 0669 7 • £75.00BIC: DC, DSC

DescriptionThe 11 essays in this volume focus on the relationship between literature and field recording (i.e., any recording made outside the studio) and examine the point at which the textual field and soundscape meet. The literature of the field recording for the purposes of the volume includes contemporary text scores, histories, composer statements, critical literature, poetry and nature writing as well as the various registers in which the field recording is written such as the essayistic, the creatively exploratory, the experimental and the philosophical alongside critical reflections on artistic practice. With contributions from composers, writers, critics and sound artists the book combines critical essays with writing that spans the creative/ critical divide.

Considers the relation of sound, as manifested in the theory and practice of the field recording, to writing

256 pp. 234 x 156mm

Literary Studies

Key Features• Focuses on sound in relation to poetry, poetics and nature / landscape

writing• Includes contributions from published poets Lisa Robertson, Carol Watts

and Jonathan Skinner• Includes the classic essay, ‘Field’, by John Berger• Accompanying sound recordings made accessible via the EUP website

Readership Academics, researchers, postgraduates, advanced undergraduates in Literary Studies, Contemporary Poetry, Contemporary Poetics, Critical Theory, Aesthetics, Music, Musicology, Composition, Eco-criticism, Environmental Humanities, Creative Criticism.



The Problem of Religious DiversityEuropean Challenges, Asian ApproachesEdited by Anna Triandafyllidou and Tariq Modood

The EditorsTariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol.

Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor at the European University Institute in Florence and is Senior Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens.

July 2017Pb • 978 1 4744 1909 3 • £24.99BIC: JPA, JFSR, JPFR, HRH

DescriptionThis book questions whether the best way to deal with religious diversity is to equalise upwards or downwards, what the obstacles to a more egalitarian religious pluralism are, and what we can learn from policies and practices in the Middle East and Asia where religious plurality and the integration of religion in the public space is the norm rather than the exception.

The first part of the book discusses the type and degree of secularism that is fit for addressing the challenges of religious diversity that contemporary western societies face at a theoretical or normative level,

The second part engages with the experiences of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania in their governance and accommodation of diverse religious communities within a single state.

Could lessons from Asia, Oceania and the Middle East help Europe overcome the challenge of religious diversity?

336 pp. 234 x 156mm

Politics

Key Features• Bringing together scholars from political theory, Islamic studies, sociology

and law • Showcases high level scholarship from around the world – a truly

intercontinental volume that disrupts the previous dominance of Euro- and West-centric viewpoints and analyses

• Distinguishes secularism from atheism and democracy

Readership Graduate students at MA and at PhD level, postdoc researchers and scholars with an interest in ethnic studies, Muslim studies, citizenship and migration, and political science courses on religion–state connections.



On Good and Evil and the Grey ZoneAlex Danchev

The AuthorAlex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, and the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2014–17.

July 2017Pb • 978 1 4744 2800 2 • £19.99BIC: AC, JFM, JPC

DescriptionHow can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our troubled times, and puts art to work in the service of political and ethical inquiry.

Mixes art, thought, politics and ethics to explore the terrors of the modern age, from Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib

192 pp. 234 x 156mm

Politics

Key Features• A distinctive mix of art and politics, addressing a tremendous range of

ethical, artistic and political questions• Engages with fundamental, and controversial, issues of international life:

terror, torture, secrecy, privacy, memory and identity

Readership Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Politics, International Relations, History, Art History, Comparitive Literature, Film Studies and Cultural Studies, general public.

Alternative Formats:Hb • 978 1 4744 1031 1 • £70.00 • 2015Eb (PDF) • 978 1 4744 1032 8 • £70.00 Eb (epub) • 978 1 4744 1033 5 • £19.99

New in Paperback


American Grand Strategy under ObamaCompeting DiscoursesGeorg Löfflmann

The AuthorGeorg Löfflmann is Teaching Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.

July 2017Hb • 978 1 4744 1976 5 • £70.00BIC: JPHL, JPS

DescriptionWhat is grand strategy? Most IR scholars, foreign policy experts and media commentators agree that an American grand strategy is supposed to provide the ‘big picture’: a rational calculation of means and ends to guide the use of American power against a world of foreign threats. The Fractured Consensus displaces this mythical view, in place since George F. Kennan’s formulation of Containment, by critically analysing how visions of American grand strategy primarily function as internal, identity performing discourses and competing worldviews. American grand strategy is first and foremost about imagining America. The book explores in detail how the role and position of the United States was defined under the Obama presidency and how the conduct of U.S. foreign and security policy between 2009 and 2014 both confirmed and contested a geopolitical vision of world leadership and American exceptionalism that dominates in popular culture, expert research and political rhetoric.

A revisionary account of the challenges posed to America’s global primacy by competing visions of grand strategy

224 pp. 234 x 156mm

Politics

Readership Academics, doctoral students and postgraduate students of International Relations, Political Geography, U.S. Foreign Policy Analysis, U.S. National Security, Strategic Studies, Critical Geopolitics and Critical Security Studies.



Viking Law and OrderPlaces and Rituals of Assembly in the Medieval NorthAlexandra Sanmark

The AuthorAlexandra Sanmark is Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands, Orkney.

July 2017Hb • 978 1 4744 0229 3 • £75.00BIC: HB, HDDM, LAZ

DescriptionThe Vikings are well-known for their violent raids and pillage, but they also had a well-organised system for political decision-making, legal cases and conflict resolution. These activities took place at outdoor assembly sites, such as Thingvellir in Iceland, which were carefully selected for their characteristics and then maintained and rebuilt over time. Whilst not neglecting or denying the violent elements of the Norse people, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of their well-ordered culture of law and assembly. It is demonstrated that these two elements formed an integral part of Norse life and identity, to the extent that the assembly institution was brought to all Norse settlements.

The first detailed appraisal of Norse assembly sites as monuments to ritual, power and symbolism

256 pp. 244 x 172mm100 b&w illustrations, 24 b&w line art

Scottish Studies

Key Features• Uses archaeological evidence, written sources and place-names to provide

readers with a thorough understanding of the archaeology of Norse assembly sites

• Includes case studies from across Scandinavia, Scotland and the North Atlantic

• Explores the symbolic meaning of assembly sites• Provides an interdisciplinary framework for future archaeological study of

these sites

Readership Undergraduates and postgraduates in early medieval legal history and Scottish, Scandinavian and Norse history.

Alternative Formats:Eb (PDF) • 978 1 4744 0230 9 • £75.00


Conceiving a NationScotland to 1000 ADGilbert Markus

The AuthorGilbert Markus is Affiliate Researcher in Celtic and Gaelic Studies at the University of Glasgow.

July 2017Pb • 978 0 7486 7899 0 • £19.99BIC: HBJD

DescriptionThis new edition for the New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth’s Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 1000 AD.

A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources.

Gilbert Markus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence as well as its literary sources – what he calls ‘luminous débris’ – as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a ‘dark age’.

A new approach to the history of Scotland to 1000 AD


Scottish Studies

Key Features• Updated edition in classic series• New approach to ‘dark age’ history• Draws together new historiography on contentious theories• Utilises artefacts and archaeology to enlighten the period

SeriesNew History of Scotland

Readership Students and undergraduates of Scottish History and Medieval History.


Course Information Advanced undergraduates and graduates studying:• Scottish History• Early medieval British history• Early medieval Irish history• Celtic Studies


Scottish Studies

Table of Contents 1. Introduction/The field and the sources2. Into the Light - Britain under Rome3. Four peoples, five languages – up to c.8004. Christianity: conversion and consolidation5. Society6. ‘The Corpse-Herring’s Din’ - Vikings and Scandinavian Scotland 7. The emergence: Alba and Scotia

Scottish Studies

Conceiving a NationScotland to 1000 ADGilbert Markus

Competition Information The Makers of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings by Tim ClarksonPaperback / £9.99 / 272 pp / Birlinn / 2013 / 9781780271736

From Caledonia to Pictland by James E. FraserPaperback / £24.99 / 352pp / Edinburgh University Press / 2009 / 9780748612321This book only covers part of the period which Conceiving a Nation examines and is also aimed at a more advanced readership.


Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia Series Editor: Lloyd Llewellyn Jones, University of Edinburgh

Forthcoming

SasanianPersiaBetween Rome and the Steppes of EurasiaEberhard SauerHb 978 1 4744 0101 2 £85.00August 2017

ReOrientingtheSasaniansEast Iran in late AntiquityKhodadad RezakhaniHb 978 1 4744 0029 9 £80.00February 2017

Semiramis’LegacyThe History of Persia According to Diodorus of SicilyJan P. StronkHb 978 1 4744 1425 8 £120.00December 2016

Edinburgh University Press Series

Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia is an exciting monograph series dealing with key aspects of the ancient Persian world from the Achaemenids to the Sasanians, exploring its history, reception, art, archaeology, religion, literary tradition (including oral transmissions) and philology. Books in the series will provide an important synergy of the latest scholarly ideas about this formative ancient world civilization.

www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/esap

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GreekPerspectivesoftheAchaemenidEmpirePersia Through the Looking GlassJanett MorganHb 978 0 7486 4723 1 £80.00March 2016

CourtsandElitesintheHellenisticEmpiresThe Near East After the Achaemenids, c. 330 to 30 BCERolf Strootman Hb 978 0 7486 9126 5 £80.00April 2014

Edinburgh Studies in Film and IntermedialitySeries Editors: Martine Beugnet, Université Paris Diderot and Kriss Ravetto, University of California DavisFounding Editor: John Orr, University of Edinburgh

AvailableScreenPresenceCinema Culture and the Art of Warhol, Rauschenberg, Hatoum and GordonStephen MonteiroHb 978 1 4744 0337 5 £75.00May 2016

TheIncurable-ImageCurating Post-Mexican Film and Media ArtsTarek ElhaikHb 978 1 4744 0335 1 £70.00February 2016

AmericanIndependentCinemaRites of Passage and the Crisis ImageAnna Backman RogersHb 978 0 7486 9360 3 £75.00June 2015

TheFeelBadFilmNikolaj LübeckerPb 978 0 7486 9799 1 £24.99Hb 978 0 7486 9797 7 £70.00May 2015

ForthcomingDrawnFromLifeIssues and Themes in Animated Documentary CinemaEdited by Jonathan Murray and Nea EhrlichHb 978 0 7486 9411 2 £75.00July 2017

IndefiniteVisionsCinema and the Attractions of UncertaintyEdited by Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron and Arild FetveitPb 978 1 4744 0714 4 £24.99Hb 978 1 4744 0712 0 £75.00July 2017

A series of scholarly research intended to challenge and expand on the various approaches to film studies, bringing together film theory and film aesthetics with the emerging intermedial aspects of the field.

www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/esif


TheSenseofFilmNarrationIan Garwood Pb 978 1 4744 0278 1 £19.99March 2015Hb 978 0 7486 4072 0 £70.00July 2013

FramingPictures:FilmandtheVisualArtsSteven Jacobs Pb 978 0 7486 6876 2 £19.99 August 2012Hb 978 0 7486 4017 1 £65.00 June 2011

RomanticsandModernistsinBritishCinemaJohn Orr Pb 978 0 7486 4937 2 £20.99 February 2012Hb 978 0 7486 4014 0 £85.00 April 2010

Music and the Moving Image Series Editors: Kevin J. Donnelly, University of Southampton

Forthcoming

ContemporaryMusicalFilmEdited by Kevin J. Donnelly and Beth Carroll Hb 978 1 4744 1312 1 £70.00July 2017

This series explores all aspects of screen music, with a particular emphasis on music and film. Volume topics include film sound, multimedia music, music and television and film sound production.

www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/mami


AvailableMusicVideoandthePoliticsofRepresentationDiane Railton and Paul WatsonPb 978 0 7486 3323 4 £20.99Hb 978 0 7486 3322 7 £65.00July 2011

Music,SoundandMultimediaFrom the Live to the VirtualEdited by Jamie SextonPb 978 0 7486 2534 5 £23.99November 2007

Film'sMusicalMomentsEdited by Ian Conrich and Estella TincknellPb 978 0 7486 2345 7 £24.99Hb 978 0 7486 2344 0 £100.00July 2006

Edinburgh Studies in Film and IntermedialitySeries Editors: Martine Beugnet, Université Paris Diderot and Kriss Ravetto, University of California DavisFounding Editor: John Orr, University of Edinburgh

AvailableScreenPresenceCinema Culture and the Art of Warhol, Rauschenberg, Hatoum and GordonStephen MonteiroHb 978 1 4744 0337 5 £75.00May 2016

TheIncurable-ImageCurating Post-Mexican Film and Media ArtsTarek ElhaikHb 978 1 4744 0335 1 £70.00February 2016

AmericanIndependentCinemaRites of Passage and the Crisis ImageAnna Backman RogersHb 978 0 7486 9360 3 £75.00June 2015

TheFeelBadFilmNikolaj LübeckerPb 978 0 7486 9799 1 £24.99Hb 978 0 7486 9797 7 £70.00May 2015

ForthcomingDrawnFromLifeIssues and Themes in Animated Documentary CinemaEdited by Jonathan Murray and Nea EhrlichHb 978 0 7486 9411 2 £75.00July 2017

IndefiniteVisionsCinema and the Attractions of UncertaintyEdited by Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron and Arild FetveitPb 978 1 4744 0714 4 £24.99Hb 978 1 4744 0712 0 £75.00July 2017

A series of scholarly research intended to challenge and expand on the various approaches to film studies, bringing together film theory and film aesthetics with the emerging intermedial aspects of the field.

www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/esif


TheSenseofFilmNarrationIan Garwood Pb 978 1 4744 0278 1 £19.99March 2015Hb 978 0 7486 4072 0 £70.00July 2013

FramingPictures:FilmandtheVisualArtsSteven Jacobs Pb 978 0 7486 6876 2 £19.99 August 2012Hb 978 0 7486 4017 1 £65.00 June 2011

RomanticsandModernistsinBritishCinemaJohn Orr Pb 978 0 7486 4937 2 £20.99 February 2012Hb 978 0 7486 4014 0 £85.00 April 2010

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and PerformanceSeries Editor: Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh

ForthcomingBeckett'sBreathSozita GoudounaHb 978 1 4744 2164 5 £75.00June 2017

This series addresses the neglected areas of drama and performance within Modernist Studies. It locates the theoretical, methodological and pedagogical contours of Performance Studies within the formal, aesthetic and political concerns of Modernism. It claims that the ‘linguistic turn’ within Modernism is always shadowed and accompanied by an equally formative ‘performance / performative turn’.　 Volumes in the series will initiate new conversations between scholars, theatre and performance artists and students.

www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/ecsmdp


AvailableTheSpeech-GestureComplexAnthony ParaskevaHb 978 0 7486 8489 2 £70.00September 2013

Edinburgh East Asian StudiesSeries Editors: David Cook and Christian Lange

ForthcomingOntheMarginsofModernismXu Xu, Wumingshi and Popular Chinese Literature in the 1940sChristopher Rosenmeier Hb 978 0 7486 9636 9 £75.00June 2017

AsiaafterVersaillesAsian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order 1919–1933Urs Matthias Zachmann Hb 978 1 4744 1716 7 £75.00April 2017

This series brings together scholars of East Asia to address crucial topics such as regional patterns of co-operations and social, political, cultural implications of interregional collaborations, but also includes volumes on individual regional themes across the spectrum of East Asian Studies. With its critical analysis of central issues in East Asia, but also contributions to a wider understanding of East Asian countries’ international impact the series will be crucial to understand the shifting patterns in this region within an increasingly globalised world. The importance of linguistic competence as a crucial component underpinning cross-cultural understanding is reflected in the book series Language Studies strand.

www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/eeas


New Series

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist CultureSeries Editors: Tim Armstrong, University of London and Rebecca Beasley, University of Oxford

Forthcoming

PortableModernismsThe Art of Travelling LightEmily RidgeHb 978 1 4744 1959 8 £80.00 July 2017

NEWINPAPERBACKLesbianModernismCensorship, Sexuality and Genre FictionElizabeth EnglishPb 978 1 4744 2449 3 £24.99 April 2017Hb 978 0 7486 9373 3 £70.00November 2014

CheapModernismExpanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde Lise Jaillant Hb 978 1 4744 1724 2 £75.00 April 2017

Each volume in the series focuses on current concerns within the 'new modernist studies'. Each presents a hot topic, provides original comment and attends to the cultural, intellectual and historical contexts of different British, American and European modernisms.

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ModernPrintArtefactsTextual Materiality and Literary Value in British Print Culture, 1890-1930s Patrick CollierHb 978 1 4744 1347 3 £75.00 October 2016ModernismandMagicExperiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the OccultLeigh WilsonPb 978 0 7486 2770 7 £17.99September 2015Hb 978 0 7486 2769 1 £70.00 November 2012

Modernism,SpaceandtheCityAndrew ThackerHb 978 0 7486 3347 0 £70.00August 2014

ModernismandtheFrankfurtSchoolTyrus MillerHb 978 0 7486 4018 8 £70.00May 2014

SonicModernityRepresenting Sound in Literature, Culture and the ArtsSam HallidayHb 978 0 7486 2761 5 £70.00March 2013

New History of ScotlandSeries Editor: Jenny Wormald, University of Edinburgh

ForthcomingConceivingaNationScotland to 1000 ADMarkus GilbertPb 978 0 7486 7899 0 £19.99Hb 978 0 7486 7898 3 £70.00July 2017

This series of classic textbooks has been a flagship collection for Edinburgh University Press for many years. Written by authors at the forefront of their discipline, these books provide an ideal introduction to Scottish history for undergraduates and general readers.

www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/nhs


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THE NEW HISTORY OF SCOTLAND

SERIES EDITOR: JENNY WORMALD

Power and Propaganda

Scotland 1306–1488

AvailableNoGodsandPreciousFewHeroesTwentieth-Century Scotland4th EditionChristopher HarviePb 978 0 7486 8256 0 £14.99Hb 978 0 7486 8236 2 £50.00April 2016

PowerandPropagandaScotland 1306–1488Katie StevensonPb 978 0 7486 4586 2 £19.99Hb 978 0 7486 4587 9 £55.00May 2014

OurselvesandOthersScotland 1832–1914Graeme MortonPb 978 0 7486 2049 4 £19.99Hb 978 0 7486 2048 7 £70.00July 2012

EnlightenmentandChangeScotland 1746–1832Bruce LenmanPb 978 0 7486 2515 4 £19.99Hb 978 0 7486 2514 7 £85.00March 2009

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NoGodsandPreciousFewHeroesTwentieth-Century ScotlandChristopher HarviePb 978 0 7486 0999 4 £28.99January 2000

Court,KirkandCommunityScotland 1470–1625Jenny WormaldPb 978 0 7486 0276 6 £19.99June 1991

IndependenceandNationhoodScotland 1306–1469Alexander GrantPb 978 0 7486 0273 5 £19.99June 1991

LordshiptoPatronageScotland 1603–1745Rosalind MitchisonPb 978 0 7486 0233 9 £19.99September 1990

IndustryandEthosScotland 1832–1914Olive and Sydney ChecklandPb 978 0 7486 0102 8 £19.99June 1989

WarlordsandHolyMenScotland AD80–1000Alfred SmythPb 978 0 7486 0100 4 £19.99June 1989

New History of ScotlandSeries Editor: Jenny Wormald, University of Edinburgh


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