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Despite years of propaganda attempting to convince us otherwise, popular media is beginning to catch on to the idea that the home is one of the mos...

Images from movies and film have had a powerful influence in how Native Americans are seen. In many cases, they have been represented as violent...

In a prolific career spanning six decades, actor Burt Reynolds was one of the world's most famous stars of film and television. As much a folk h...

Film itself is an artifact of memory. A blend of all the other fine arts, film portrays and preserves human memory, someone's memory, faulty or ...

We are living in a science fiction cinema age. This is the genre that delivers the grandest visions with the latest effects in the biggest blockbus...

Direk, a collection of essays on Filipino filmmakers, presents an accessible and provocative introduction to Philippine cinema. Notable Filipino cr...

Though it lasted just two seasons, Twin Peaks (1990-1991) raised the bar for television and is now considered one of the great dramas in TV hist...

A comprehensive guide to all major film adaptations based on the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, this is an essential volume fo...

While Woody Allen is generally considered to be a master of the comic genre he created, his serious films are very important in understanding hi...

In recent years, the media landscape in the United States has followed a pattern similar to that of the physical landscape by becoming increasingly...

This is an in-depth study of how this notorious figure has captured the public imagination, in both life and legend. For two centuries the image of...

Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and ...

Dagur Kári's Noi the Albino (Nói Albinói, 2003) succeeded on the international festival circuit as a film that was both distinctively Icelandic and...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the young unknown artists, Arnaldo Ginna, Bruno Corra, and Leopold Survage, chose cinema in order to ex...

This book features extended conversations with Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) and interviews with his family members, friends and col...

Hitchcock gets onto the analyst''s couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies. The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and t...

In the mid-1990s Turkish cinema experienced a remarkable revival. However, what is particularly unusual about this revival is the emergence of a ne...

This anthology brings together essays written by BA, MA and PhD students of Nordic Cinema at UCL. The essays discuss the key directors and movement...

Ever since its inception, British cinema has been obsessed with crime and the criminal. One of the first narrative films to be produced in Britain,...

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage' to post-cinematic new media forms such as You...

This is the first English-language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, examining the cultural, production and exhi...

A mentally challenged mother and her young son navigate their way through tumultuous waters to survive the ordained Gods of a city of angels.  Envi...

A vastly entertaining and unique history of spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.Throughout history, there has b...

A deluxe collector''s edition exploring the second season of the acclaimed Star Wars TV show, now streaming on Disney+. This special edition ...