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

From the late 1930s to the early twenty-first century, European and American filmmakers have displayed an enduring fascination with Nazi leaders, r...

Moving images of the British monarchy are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Qu...

The Croatian film scene has remained largely inaccessible until now. In this first comprehensive volume on the subject recognized scholars explo...

Anyone who has loved British films will want to read this book. In choosing twenty films, many of them of classics of their kind think of Brief En...

The history of the 'video nasties' has been recounted many times and the films that caused so much offence have themselves been endlessly examined....

Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred. Today, we are living through a new a...

In Jacques Rancire and the Politics of Art Cinema, James Harvey contends that Rancire's writing allows us to broach art and politics on the very sa...

Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polis...

Both in life and death, Queen Victoria is among the most popular monarchs to be committed to film. Her reign was characterized by an explosion i...

Asks what political art look like today, and how art can act critically under neoliberalism Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and f...

This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and qu...

An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-98) has become a neglected figure ...

ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze is the first collection of essays on this important and original contemporary filmmaker. It looks at his groundbr...

From documentary to art-house cinema and from an abundance of onscreen images to their complete absence films that experiment variously with narr...

Since 1979, China has been undergoing a period of immense social and economic change, transitioning from state-run economics to free market capital...

In recent years queer identities have become increasingly visible in Irish cinema, a shift that can be linked to political, economic and social cha...

Following the Second World War, low-budget B-movies that explored and exploited Gothic narratives and aesthetics became a significant cinematic exp...

Often described as 'the Master of Gimmicks', William Castle is best known for the outrageous publicity stunts that characterised his genre films in...

The Hollywood Meme is the first comprehensive study of the transnational adaptations of Hollywood movies that have appeared throughout world cinema...

In Cinema, If You Please, Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to th...

Youth has been represented on screen for decades and has informed many directors' visual, narrative and social perspectives, but there has not been...

Twenty-first century film and television is overwhelmed with images of the undead. Vampires and zombies have often been seen as oppositional: one a...

The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational filmFor three decades, state-sponsored short filmmakin...

In sharp contrast to many 1960s science fiction films, with idealized views of space exploration, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) terrified audience...

In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of delayed cinema to ideas on time and the relat...

This is an exploration of the figuring of absence in film. This study considers the placement of the breathing body in the film experience and its ...

Examines the moving image in relation to nineteenth-century literature, theories of mind, and visual media This book examines how the productive i...

New Essays on Clint Eastwood is a companion to Engels previous book, Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives. It includes discussion o...

Charlie Chaplin produced some of the greatest films of all time, including The Gold Rush, The Circus, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dict...

One of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected critical category of research in film histo...

Omnibus films bring together the contributions of two or more filmmakers. Does this make them inherently contradictory texts? How do they challenge...