Film: styles & Genres

Dark Borders connects anxieties about citizenship and national belonging in midcentury America to the sense of alienation conveyed by American film...

A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range o...

This pioneering book provides detailed analysis of scenes from nine British television dramas produced between 1954 and 2001. Taking dinner table s...

There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media e...

In the charged atmosphere of post-revolution, artistic and political forces often join in the effort to reimagine a new national space for a libera...

Science fiction has hosted some of the greatest minds and most innovative thinkers in human history. From H.G. Wells to Octavia Butler, Star Trek t...

Director Michael Curtiz was the mastermind behind some of the most iconic films of classical HollywoodCasablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Sea Hawk...

A history of the dark timesSo this is how liberty dieswith thunderous applause.-Senator Padmé AmidalaWhen Palpatine declared the birth of his new E...

The monstrous child is the allegorical queer child in various formations of horror cinema: the child with a secret, the child 'possessed' by Othern...

An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity, this volume looks at specific story-patterns a...

The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on th...

Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hol...

The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other fi...

Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the p...

Tim Burton has had a massive impact on twentieth and twenty-first century culture through his films, art, and writings. This book examines how his ...

The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical ...

The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical ...

This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, acting as a form of reclamation for...

Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands and complicates the subgenre of body horror. Chan...

By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema...

Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in n...

This study examines how a particular selection of films turned American cultural material of the 1990s into satirical experiences for viewers and f...

In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films ...

Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and...

From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the la...

Is there more to 1970s British cinema than sex, horror and James Bond? This lively account argues that this is definitely the case and explores the...

The Highway Horror Film argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films, the American...

Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and his...

Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores th...

Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and instantly recognizable in the world. East Asian Film Stars brings together some of ...

Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the crime film was not just an American...

The Fantasy Film provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre. Includes analyses of a wide ran...

Drawing on comparisons with historical shake-ups in the film industry, Screen Distribution Post-Hollywood offers a timely account of the changes br...

The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to...

The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the twenty-first century, this book examines the ...

The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustaine...

Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as ...

Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Soon instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the t...