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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...

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...