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In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, a...

Both a precursor to and a critical member of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda weaves documentary and fiction into tapestries that portray distincti...

The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of t...

Robert E. Burns, a World War I veteran coerced into taking part in a petty crime in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to hard labor on a chain gan...

Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Pa...

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and...

Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women's contr...

Spanning from obscurity to notoriety, the films of director, screenwriter, actor and comic Elaine May have recently seen a long-overdue renaissance...

Examining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of th...

The name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspensethat is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling sus...

Over 6000 different languages are used in the world today, but the conventions of 'media speak' are far from universal and the complexities of tran...

What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies, D&D playe...

Independent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where 'independent' operates ...

Examines the politics of female authorship in relation to contemporary documentary practicesThis book, like its twin volume 'Female Authorship and ...

Since the turn of the millennium, films such asChicago (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004) have reinvigorated the popularity of the screen music...

When did the sentimental start to mean 'awful'? Why are so many popular mainstream films dismissed for their sentimentality, and are there any mean...

Cinema has often been seen as a form between media. Early cinema borrowed heavily from traditional performing arts, like theatre and tableau vivant...

Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--go...

A ground-breaking comparative treatment of cinematic images of atrocity, combining critical perspectives on contemporary film and human rights. A f...

The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it i...

This is a ground-breaking comparative treatment of cinematic images of atrocity, combining critical perspectives on contemporary film and human rig...

In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere a...

This is an introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations. Critical questions specific to film adaptations need to be ...

First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Pet...

The concept of North American borderlands in the cultural imagination fluctuated greatly during the Progressive Era as it was affected by similarly...