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A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema  Including origin...

A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema  Including origin...

Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction and film. Following his books on Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir he now tac...

In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores films connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise an...

Picasso apparently said, when critics get together, they talk about theory. When painters get together, they talk about turpentine.' That has been ...

The legacy of emigres in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the...

If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been...

The finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' Stephen Fry'Entertainingly incendiary stuff' EmpireA hatchet job isn't just a ba...

Frank Tashlin (1913-1972) was a supremely gifted satirist and visual stylist who made an indelible mark on 1950s Hollywood and American popular cul...

Kirshner's commentary on these and other films is stimulating...Kirshner's book provides intriguing insights for anyone interested in the relation ...

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...