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No industry has been as influential at shaping the popular notion of what it means to be a witch quite as much as Hollywood. This book traces the f...

This original collection fills a gap in the literature on Lav Diaz, and more broadly, on slow and durational cinema. The importance of the director...

Prevenge (2016) is an entertainingly dark 21st-century horror movie detailing the serial killing journey of heavily pregnant Ruth. Its a cleverly c...

A visual history of 100 years of filmmaking in New York City, featuring exclusive interviews with NYC filmmakers Fun City Cinema gives readers an i...

Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960...

Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and ...

This detailed survey presents for the first time an alternative history of the moving image, chronicling artists ever-evolving fascination with fil...

Discover the dark secrets of Guillermo del Toro''s masterpiece, Pan''s Labyrinth, in this thrilling exploration of the film''s creation. Release...

Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a potent c...

In the era of Hollywood now considered its Golden Age, there was no shortage of hard-luck stories--movie stars succumbed to mental illness, addi...

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium...

In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture - a tone or style that came to be called the sentimenta...

Examines women's constructions of selfhood through film and literature in interwar Britain'Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Mo...

Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. ...

Building on students'' enthusiasm for movies, this text is more successful than any other at motivating students to understand and analyse film. In...

Between 1840 and 1940, over one million people emigrated from Sweden to America. The fact that so many chose to leave to seek a better life across ...

Jack Clayton''s gothic masterpiece The Innocents, though not a commercial success on its release in 1961, has been hailed as one of the greatest ps...

Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact...

Color was used in film well before The Wizard of Oz. Thomas Edison, for example, projected two-colored films at his first public screening in New Y...

A sequel to the author's earlier work Plato and Popcorn: A Philosopher's Guide to 75 Thought-Provoking Movies, this book presents analyses of 95 mo...

This collection re-imagines the study of English and media in a way that decentralises the text (e.g. romantic poetry or film noir) or media format...

On its release in 2008, Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz with Bashir was heralded as a brilliant and original exploration of trauma, and tra...

Films can be a powerful aid to learning about mental illness and psychopathology - for students of psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine,...

Examines key contemporary Austrian literary texts, films, and memorials that treat Nazism and the Holocaust for what they reveal about the country'...