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Is Michael Mann an auteur? Mann is a formidable filmmaking personality, no doubt, but the notion that today''s celebrity cult of director immediate...

Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume II continues the work presented in the first volume of this title, published by Cambridge...

Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, ...

Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theo...

Historically, zombies have been portrayed in films and television series as mindless, shuffling monsters. In recent years, this has changed dram...

Screenwriting is the second of the 'Behind the Silver Screen' series of ten volumes, which will together cover for the first time the full art, cra...

The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director''s entire oeuv...

The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director''s entire oeuv...

From the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C. C. Baxter loans out to his superiors in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) to the crumbling tenement i...

First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people are familiar with the title character from the movie...

With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first direc...

Metropolis is a monumental work. On its release in 1925, after sixteen months''filming, it was Germany''s most expensive feature film, a canvas for...

Culture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as novelist, architect, journalist...

The numerous anti-bullying programs in schools across the United States have done little to reduce the number of reported bullying instances. On...

Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010) is a difficult film to categorize. It partakes of various genres, blurring the distinctions between them. It i...

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers . ...

Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin in 1941 to justify state terror...

Buster Keaton can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair, wrote criti...

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...

Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While...

The director's authorial role in filmmaking - the extent to which a film reflects his or her individual style and creative vision - has been much d...

Simone de Beauvoir''''s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the f...

As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic p...