Film: styles & Genres

At a time when critics are expected to be publicists, and anything famous is classic or iconic, Carlos Acevedo has managed to hold the line. The De...

Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disordersand clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror. Our fea...

Winner of the the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award from BAFTSSWinner of the 2021 British Fantasy Award in Best Non-FictionFinalist for the 2020 Br...

A unique study of four major post-war European films by four key 'auteurs', which argues that these films exemplify film modernism at the peak of i...

A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male actors in American film and popula...

The first full-length study of the iconic 1960s film The Great Escape and its place in Hollywood and American history.Escaped POW Virgil Hilts (Ste...

Mario Bavas Blood and Black Lace (1964) is a legendary title, and is commonly considered as the archetypal giallo. A murder mystery about a faceles...

Snuff (1976) occupies a unique place in cinematic history, as the first commercially successful film to capitalise upon the myth of the snuff movie...

Since its release at the mid-point of the 1980s American horror boom, Stuart Gordons Re-Animator (1985) has endured as one of the most beloved cult...

In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned to Shakespeare when imagining hum...

Prevenge (2016) is an entertainingly dark 21st-century horror movie detailing the serial killing journey of heavily pregnant Ruth. Its a cleverly c...

Directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer, The Omen (1976) is perhaps the best in the devil-child cycle of movies that followed in th...

Premiering at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Andrzej uawskis Possession remains a distinct phenomenon. Though in competition for the illustrious Pa...

The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film offers critical insights into SF far beyond the more common Anglo-American narratives. Contri...

What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlandsand how this understanding helps build better...

Cinema, whether it is understood as entertainment, business, criticism, or art, is always a reflection of the society in which it is born. Men on t...

In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted...

Seeking to rebuild the Russian film industry after its post-Soviet collapse, directors and producers sparked a revival of nationalist and patriotic...

Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars for a new ageA long time ago, in a galaxy far, far awayway back in the twenty-...

As one of the most globally recognisable instances of 20th century Eurohorror, Dario Argento's Suspiria (1976) is poetic, chaotic, and intriguing. ...

No Joke is a detailed examination of Todd Phillipss Joker, one of the biggest global box-office hits of 2019. While his success was no doubt partly...

What makes a kaiju a kaiju? What makes a large ape a large ape, and why do we sympathize with some, such as King Kong, and not with others, such as...

Reassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective Establishes a new framework of understanding the tensions ...

Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying...

The German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II left a lasting mark on Dutch memory and culture. This book is the first to explore dep...

Sparked by a groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop titled Disorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film, scholarly and archival interest in colour as a cruc...

How do we experience disaster films in cinema? And where does disaster cinema come from? The two questions are more closely related than one might ...

Planet Auschwitz explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing ...

Planet Auschwitz explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing ...

Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some ...

Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some ...

George A. Romeros Dawn of the Dead (1978) is celebrated both as a splatter movie and as a satire of 1970s consumerism. One of the most financially ...

Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonia...

Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonia...

Drawing on studio files, newspaper critiques, internet sources and scholarly studies of Mexican cinema, this critical history focuses on film de...