Film: styles & Genres

This book analyzes representations of mass violence in film and fiction about African, South American, and Asian genocides, from the points of view...

A deluxe, fully illustrated look at the making of the original Star Wars trilogy: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. Thi...

What is folk horror and how culturally significant is it? This collection is the first study to address these questions while considering the speci...

Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear presents nine essays that explore why youth horror television both scared children and invited the...

This book examines horror films through a critical criminological lens. Each chapter considers how the genre impacts audiences and their understand...

Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving int...

Contributions by Vlad Dima, Laura Hatry, Alicia Kozma, Lynette Kuliyeva, Madhuja Mukherjee, Frank Percaccio, Gary D. Rhodes, Courtney Ruffner Grien...

Learn the secrets of the clone troopers in this interactive, fully illustrated guide for readers of all ages. Join the ranks of the Galactic Repub...

Let the rich world of Jane Austen guide you with this beautifully illustrated oracle deck and discover your inner Elizabeth Bennet or Marianne Dash...

From the dawn of feature films, fansbe they artists, gamers, visionaries, writers, or dreamershave drawn inspiration from the big screen. Now, betw...

The depraved crimes of both real and imagined serial killers and mass murderers have long transfixed us in newspapers and books, but perhaps nowher...

Critical wisdom has it that we said a long goodbye to film noir in the 1950s. Robert Miklitsch begs to differ. Pursuing leads down the back streets...

The supernatural as a category of literature can be difficult to define, and it can be especially difficult to distinguish supernatural literature ...

Lights! Camera! Play ball! From the early silent era to the present day baseball movies have always been a staple of the cinema from coming-of-ag...

Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouses cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emer...

Surely America's greatest storyteller, no single author has been adapted more regularly than Stephen King. With sixty-five existing movies and thir...