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This history of British and American television drama since 1970 charts the increased transnationalisation of the two production systems. From The ...

From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of me...

This book contributes to the growing literature on the biopic genre by outlining and exploring the conventions of the postfeminist biopic. It does ...

Film and Female Consciousness analyses three contemporary films that offer complex and original representations of women's thoughtfulness and indiv...

Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well ...

Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well ...

Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years before and after the millennium, the contributors ask how recent films and telev...

Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. ...

Signifying others or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from ...

This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online new media. Sp...

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documen...

During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (19451952), U.S. film studiosin close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for ...

This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to...

Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered, as represented in ...

An exploration of the social significance of Shrek from a variety of theoretical perspectives, this book pursues two different, yet intertwined obj...

This anthology explores the role of children and teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film as protagonists, victims and witnesses of societies p...

How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through ...

An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the...

Reflecting on a series of ethical and moral questions significant to contemporary Spanish culture, Cristina Sánchez-Conejero analyzes several issue...

Discover the hidden corners of the DC Multiverse in this definitive illustrated guide to the multiple versions of The Dark Knight. Take a tour thr...

Frank Herbert's science fiction classic Dune will be seen like never before in the breathtaking film adaptation from acclaimed director Denis Ville...

'Brilliant' Mail on SundayTake a trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks; of Reagan, rap and Ridgemont High; of MTV, VHS and...