Film: styles & Genres

In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in ou...

Since the 1970s, the name Stephen King has been synonymous with horror. His vast number of books has spawned a similar number of feature films and ...

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

When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African Amer...

For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization...

More horror movies are produced and released each year than any other film genre. While horror enjoys broad popularity, many hardcore fans voraciou...

2024 MPCA/ACA Best Edited Collection, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association (MPCA/ACA) How work and capitalism...

Much of the writing in film studies published today can be understood as genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before film studies emerged as...

Despite being the product of Roger Corman's AIP exploitation studio, House of Usher enjoys a high standing. But while the impact and cult status of...

Reconsiders contemporary Disney animation through the critical lens of genre theory Reveals new directions for the study of Disney's gender portra...

Contributes a genealogical approach to debates on critical transnationalism Demonstrates that representations of crime in cinema are part of an on...

The study of French science fiction even in France remains an underexploited field. Only recently have French literary scholars been able to gain...

Considers the remake from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives and positions it alongside other serialized cultural forms Examines t...

In 1997, the superhero movie was all but dead. The last Superman flick had been released a decade earlier to disastrous reviews and ticket sales, t...

This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a particular focus on the American fictional spies tha...

In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen Kings workranging from the ...

Detecting the South in Fiction, Film, & Television, edited by Deborah E. Barker and Theresa Starkey, examines the often-overlooked and underval...

Reality is made up of the Absolute and Causality. The absolute (most saliently philosophized about by Georg Hegel) is where normative values inhere...

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

Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific artists working in film. His directorial work includes Cronos (1993), Mimic (1997), ...

Science fiction and fantasy are often thought of as stereotypically male genres, yet both have a long and celebrated history of female creators,...

Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially co...

Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narrat...

Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts. Here, contributors examine the ways motifs of gender...

This book is a pioneering study of Blaxploitation horror films, connecting them with both mainstream horror movies and classic Gothic texts. The au...

In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regar...

This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. ...

Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture is a fascinating study of queer nostalgia in films, animation and music videos as means of empowerment, r...

Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how n...

Doc Brown's Owner's Workshop Manual, Discover the secrets of Doc Brown's time-traveling DeLorean with the first-ever under-the-bonnet user's manual...

Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national ...

Horror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy. Horror literature, cinema, comic books and television expose aud...

Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have ...

From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape. Despite some of the earliest genre films with gay directors such as F.W. Murna...

Clueless comes to the kitchen with this officially licensed cookbook, featuring 50 totally delicious recipes, iconic movie quotes, full-colour imag...

The most popular film genre during the golden years of Italian cinema, the Comedy Italian Style emerged after the fall of the Facist regime, narrat...

The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity-its true crime origins and crucial im...

Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies opens in the rural American west, following Faith Adieles whimsical coming of age as the only multiracial...

When Faith Adiele realizes that shes forgotten the sound of her late grandmothers voice, she impulsively decides to make a film. The process revea...

Graveyard Gothic is the first sustained consideration of the graveyard as a key Gothic locale. This volume examines various iterations of the Gothi...

An adoring, celebratory tribute to the one, the only, Jennifer Coolidge, that all-at-once captures her unique personality, engaging life story, sma...