Books published by EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

As the spread of knowledge and even theory becomes an increasingly audiovisual affair, how can philosophy adapt in ways that develop - rather than dilute - philosophical rigour and specificity? How can philosophy harness the potential of audiovisual media - being more formally multidimensional than text-only - to conceptualise with greater precision and depth? Nilsson presents a theory of formal development of philosophy in this regard: a theory of cinecepts. While spanning film, media, art and critical theories, as well as philosophy, this study proceeds mainly through a close reimagination of Gilles Deleuze's work, which allows for a merging of what he kept separated: filmic thinking and philosophical conceptualisation. Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's underexplored 1970s Sonimage works are also extensively examined, along with critical considerations of a contemporary era of academic video essays and phenomena like philosophy channels on YouTube. Jakob A. Nilsson is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Örebro University.

While few can deny its incalculable influence on popular filmmaking during and after World War II, film noir has been and remains one of the most contentious categories of cinema, providing more debate than consensus about what constitutes a noir. Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema explores the amorphous parameters of this dark cinematic phenomenon by utilising an expanded, nuanced definition of film noir which reaches beyond traditional conceptions of genre, style and cycle to examine its complex international origins and issues of liminality. Through illuminating case studies of single films from Argentina, the former Czechoslovakia, France, Great Britain, Poland, Spain and the US, this collection consider elements of genre hybridity, border crossing, boundary breaching and other signifiers of liminality to reassess classical-era films that defy conventional generic and stylistic categorisation. Elyce Rae Helford is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University Christopher Weedman is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University

In Hammer Goes to Hell, Foster utilises never seen before materials held in the Hammer Script Archive to present a new perspective on one of Britain's most famous production studios. While Hammer Films has been extensively researched, the significant amount of creative and economic labour that went into over 100 unmade projects at the company have yet to be recognised accordingly. Using primary materials such as screenplays and correspondence, Hammer Goes to Hell examines the production contexts of an eclectic range of Hammer's unmade films, ranging from Nessie to Kali Devil Bride of Dracula. Using Hammer as a case study, this book represents a significant academic intervention by being the first sustained industry study to primarily use unmade projects. Offering a fresh perspective on this legendary film studio, Foster argues for the importance and sustained study of unmade films. Kieran Foster is a Teaching Associate in Film and Media Studies at the University of Nottingham.

The contemporary preoccupation with terrorism is marked by a curious paradox. Since the late twentieth century terrorism has been ubiquitous in public discourse while the terrorists' voice is usually silenced. Flood and Frank question if the terrorist is "the quintessential proscribed or tabooed figure of our times", as Joseba Zulaika and William A. Douglass have suggested. The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. Covering a broad geographical scope, it explores how media forms such as novels, fiction and non-fiction films, and comic books make sense of the terrorist. This collection asks how ideological agenda, religious identity, ethnicity, and gender impact the way the perpetrators of political violence are conceived in different historical moments and cultural contexts. Maria Flood is Senior Lecturer in World Cinema at the University of Liverpool Michael C. Frank is Professor of Literatures in English of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries at the University of Zurich

[headline]Explores a full spectrum of Gothic works broadly understood as queer, from the eighteenth century to today Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion features sixteen essays that interrogate queer theory's intersections with the Gothic. By re-visiting the usefulness of the term 'queer' and pushing queer theoretical frameworks into new territory, this volume explores the ways that Gothic and queer work alongside each other: one as a marginalised genre and the other as a marginalised identity. Considering both major and lesser-known Gothic works, and ranging from the canonical (poetry and fiction) to the popular (film, video games, music, and visual and performance art), it offers queer and trans perspectives on a wide selection of Gothic modes, genres and texts from fiction such as Hugh Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to Jeanette Winterson's The Daylight Gate, films from Nosferatu to The Cured and TV shows including In the Flesh and Pose. [bio]Ardel Haefele-Thomas is the Chair of LGBT Studies at City College of San Francisco. They are the author of Introduction to Transgender Studies (Columbia University Press, 2019) and Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity (University of Wales Press, 2012), and have published numerous essays on queer and trans Gothic themes.

Investigates the Alevis' struggles for recognition in Turkey and the diaspora and transformations in authority and traditional rituals This book explores the struggles of a minority group - Alevis - for recognition and representation in Turkey and the diaspora. It examines how they mobilise against state practices and claim their rights, while at the same time negotiating how they define themselves. The authors offers a conceptual framework to study minorities by looking at both structural and agency-related factors in resisting state pressure and mobilising for their rights. The Alevis in Modern Turkey and the Diaspora is divided into three main sections looking into: the Turkish state and society's pressures over Alevis; how Alevis struggle and obtain representation in various Western countries; and how traditional authority and rituals transform under these conditions. Studying this minority group's experience helps to understand oppression and resistance in the broader Middle East. Key Features  14 detailed case studies provide insights into the struggles for recognition and representation by Alevi communities in Turkey and the diaspora under the AKP administration  Demonstrates how the struggles for recognition transform and re-define traditions, authorities and rituals  Examines how diverse understandings of Alevi identities interplay with standardised representations of Alevism  Opens up the study of the recognition of minorities as local, national and transnational processes Derya Özkul is a Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Hege Markussen is a Researcher in History of Religions at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University.

Rethinking objectivity and fiction in contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis - beyond the realism-nominalism divide When it comes to the question of objectivity in current philosophical debates, there is a growing prominence of two opposite approaches: nominalism and realism. By absolutising intersubjectivity, the nominalist approach is moving towards the abandonment of the very notion of truth and objective reality. For its part, the realist approach insists on the category of the object-in-itself as irreducible to any kind of subjective mediation. Despite their seeming mutual exclusiveness, both approaches share a fundamental presupposition, namely, that of a neat separation between the spheres of subjectivity and objectivity as well as between fiction and truth. This collection offers a rethinking of the relationship between objectivity and fiction through engaging with a series of 'objective fictions', including such topics as fetishes, semblances, lies, rumours, sophistry, fantasies and conspiracy theories. It does so through engagement with modern and contemporary philosophical traditions and psychoanalytic theory, with all of these orientations being irreducible to either nominalist or realist approaches. Adrian Johnston is Distinguished Professor and Chair at the Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. Bostjan Nedoh is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Alenka Zupančič is a Research Advisor at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Professor at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Deals with the exploration and theorisation of Modern and Contemporary art of Iran through the examination of art movements and artistic practices in relation to other cultural, social and political discourses during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Reinterprets the making of the modern Middle East by studying its borderlands The emergence of the modern Middle East is the result of three complementary historical developments: the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the institution of British and French control in its stead and the nationalist challenges to this colonial scramble. The introduction of international borders that accompanied this process is commonly portrayed as the drawing of lines in the sand, an artificial partitioning that brought diplomatic closure to an otherwise contested historical space. For the past two decades, insights gained from the burgeoning field of borderlands studies have enabled a new generation of scholars to challenge such popular depictions. For them, the region's borderlands were not sites of peripheral activity, but rather liminal spaces criss-crossed by global flows and circulations central to state- and nation-formation across the Middle East. Regimes of Mobility offers a select number of case studies that highlight the connectedness of the politics of borderlands throughout the interwar Middle East. Key features - Evidence-driven case studies cover borderlands in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Transjordan - Informed by discussions in borderland and mobility studies, and by global and environmental history - Brings late Ottomanists into conversation with historians of the interwar Middle East Jordi Tejel is Research Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Neuchâtel. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan is Assistant Professor at the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

Presents a comparative analysis of land issues and impact of reform across the British and Irish Isles, in Ireland, Scotland and Wales This book interrogates land issues and reform across the British and Irish Isles from c.1800 to 2021, with a particular focus on the period c.1830s-c.1940s. It builds on a rich body of work employing comparative approaches towards the 'Land Question' and the history of landed estates, drawing together fresh and original case studies which contextualise the historiographies of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. The contributors draw out similarities but also highlight the distinctive nature of land issues and reform programmes across the four nations of the British and Irish Isles. Key themes and issues discussed in the chapters include estate management and relationships between landowner and tenant; land reform agendas; legislative programmes and their impacts; landowner perspectives; and comparisons and contrasts between the experience of reform in the UK. Shaun Evans is Director of the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates (ISWE) at Bangor University. Tony Mc Carthy is Visiting Fellow of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University. Annie Tindley is Professor of British and Irish Rural History at Newcastle University.

Dismembering and remembering the sensual and spiritual body of Lady Justice in this wholly novel interpretation of the optical allegory of Iustitia. Lady Justice: An Anatomy of Allegory leaves conventional readings of this pivotal figure in European legal history far behind. Hayaert's study brings together an analysis of thousands of images from the period 1400 - 1600, many of them previously overlooked, including artwork, frontispieces, legal texts, sculptures and statues in public spaces and in court buildings scattered across six countries. Lady Justice is taken apart and considered afresh - organ by organ, limb by limb, digit by digit, making a case for a treatment of allegory in all its complexity, ambiguity and affective force. This unique interdisciplinary study exceeds the iconographic orthodoxy of art historians and the reductive interpretations of legal historians alike. Setting aside styles and schools, ranging widely across time and space, Hayaert identifies Lady Justice as the seat of law's conscience, an archetype of the judge's daimon, and an affective, numinous address to all who, over the course of seven centuries, have found themselves moved by her redolent and inextinguishable presence. Valérie Hayaert is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND Fellow at the University of Warwick, Criminal Justice Centre.

'As time passes, Politics of Friendship, initially a revised version of some of Derrida's many seminars around the questions of nationalism, universalism, antagonism and alterity that continuously cross over ethics and politics, has become a central element in the interpretation of his oeuvre. It radiates in every direction and summons the deepest interrogations. This rich collection of essays, combining accurate philology and audacious contextualisation, does full justice to its importance and will become a necessary companion for its readers.' Etienne Balibar, author of Violence and Civility Twenty-five years after the publication of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l'amitié, 1994), this edited collection gathers twenty-three critical chapters each revisiting this underappreciated text, including Derrida's Geschlecht IV, an essay excluded from the English translation. Engaging closely with Derrida's text are analyses, extensions and critiques of the work. It not only reconsiders the place this book occupies in Derrida's political philosophy but also its potential for contemporary politics, when the promises and perils of political friendship have reappeared, intertwined with both nationalist and anti-nationalist political programmes. Luke Collison is a recent PhD Graduate from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London. Cillian Ó Fathaigh is a Bill & Melinda Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge and a Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University. Georgios Tsagdis is Lecturer in Philosophy at Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam and at the Architectural Association, London. Cover image: Rome, Lazio, Italy (c) saulgranda/Getty Images Cover design: riverdesignbooks.com [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-8673-6 Barcode

Contemporary Thai Horror Film focuses on the most significant and dominant characteristic of Thai cinema throughout its history: the Thai incarnation of the horror genre and its central role in Thailand's film industry. Tracing the development of Thai cinema throughout wider contextual changes, Ainslie explores the influence of audiences and viewing scenarios from previous decades upon this industry today. Most evident in the popular horror genre, close analysis of films demonstrates a specific style of Thai cinema as well as the wider social forces that have shaped Thai cinema as a national industry. By examining these films with a framework built from horror theory, this book questions our understanding of 'horror' as a generic category when we move outside of its traditional Euro-American origins and the voyeuristic viewing scenario often associated with the genre. Mary Jane Ainslie is Associate Professor in Film and Media at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China Campus.

Transgressive Art Films offers a holistic approach to the way we consider controversial and extreme cinema - not just as individual or grouped texts for analysis - but as artefacts that ought to be considered within a complex network of social factors. Kenny provides a rigorous framework for understanding some of the most controversial films from the late 1990s onwards. The term 'transgressive art film' refers to a handful of controversial films recuperated each year by the cinematic world as an expansion of film art. Rather than seeing controversial films as aberrations, this book suggests that transgressive art films should be understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon and a driver of cinema's need for newness, innovation, and renewal. By paying attention to all scales of cinema, from close analysis of individual frames and the discourse constructed around them, up to global distribution and film-festival networks, Transgressive Art Films details how certain kinds of cinematic transgression gain wide-ranging institutional support rather than being overlooked. Oliver Kenny is Lecturer in Film and Media at the Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC), Université Catholique de Lille.