Film: styles & Genres

From visionary filmmakers James Cameron (Avatar) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City), comes Alita: Battle Angel, an epic adventure of hope and empowerm...

Hollywood action heroes shrug off bullet wounds like mosquito bites and jump through panes of glass as if their skin is made of asbestos. But how l...

**Instant New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, Publishers Weekly Bestseller**On Good Friday in 1953, at o...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Godfather, this authorized, annotated and illustrated edition of the complete, unedited screenplay, with a ...

Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of tel...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to ...

A new Star Wars Insider collection, featuring content previously printed in the Star Wars Insider magazine. Each volume brings together a collectio...

Discover everything you've ever wanted to know about Star Wars in this complete history of the most famous franchise in movie history.Painstakingly...

Remember a time when all of Hollywood-with the expressed encouragement and investment of the government-joined forces to defend the American way of...

From The Wild Angels in 1966 until its conclusion in 1972, the cycle of outlaw motorcycle films contained forty-odd formulaic examples. All but one...

Explores British cinematic representations of masculinityFrom the new man to the metrosexual, British society from the 1990s to the 2000s was pre-o...

The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 19602000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Ch...

In Mock Classicism Nilo Couret presents an alternate history of Latin American cinema that traces the popularity and cultural significance of film ...

Lying at the heart of the modern Action Cinema Canon is the concept of transformation. As the action genre evolves and shifts into the new millenni...

The noughties witnessed rapid change in Action Cinema, carrying with it the new action stars of the previous decade, and the boundary blurring expe...

Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have...

A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been publishe...

Ghost in the Well is the first study to provide a full history of the horror genre in Japanese cinema, from the silent era to Classical period movi...

The French New Wave is an essential anthology of writings by and about the critics and filmmakers of this revolutionary cinematic movement, which h...

What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Vi...

Since the Second World War, depictions of Royal Air Force operations in film and television drama have become so numerous that they make up a genre...

Black & white film, the cinema of shadows and light, is a filmgoer's pleasure and a film student's surprised delight. The greatest of films are...

Striving to leave fidelity-criticism behind, this comparative analysis treats Henry James Portrait of a Lady and its cinematic counterpart by Jane ...

This book presents a series of essays that reassess the role of melodrama in a number of touchstone films in the art-cinema tradition that explore ...

A deep dive into the creative world and personal archive of the master of horror Clive Barker, from Hellraiser and Candyman to todayI've seen the f...

Horror films can be profound fables of human nature and important works of art, yet many people dismiss them out of hand. Horror and the Horror Fil...

Horror films can be profound fables of human nature and important works of art, yet many people dismiss them out of hand. Horror and the Horror Fil...

This engaging collection of Bruce F. Kawin’s most important film essays (1977–2011) is accompanied by his interviews with Lillian Gish (1978) and H...

Co-Winner, 2023 Chidananda Dasgupta Award for the Best Writing on Cinema, Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial TrustShortlisted, 2022 MSA Book Prize, Moder...

Co-Winner, 2023 Chidananda Dasgupta Award for the Best Writing on Cinema, Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial TrustShortlisted, 2022 MSA Book Prize, Moder...

Circulating Fear: Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media explores the changing role of screens, new media objects, and social media in...