Film: styles & Genres

Both a history and a critique of South Africa's film industry, this book recounts the long experience of filmmaker and producer Richard Green.Green...

Acknowledging the iconic, but with plenty of room for the rare and unfamiliar, The Art of the Classic Western Movie Poster presents poster art crea...

Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still bei...

This is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American stand-up, television comedy...

Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is the first major critical study of international naturalist cinema. Often mistaken for rea...

The first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics.   Ishiro Honda was arguably the most intern...

From Chaplins tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of ...

TCM host Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in an ...

A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in A...

A prolific film industry has flourished on the banks of the Nile since the earliest days of cinema, producing movies that have been hugely popular ...

From the late 1970s into the early 1990s, a generation of female filmmakers took aim at their home countries popular myths of the frontier. Deeply ...

The book is based on amateur films, shot by the architect Ernest Weissmann (19031985) with a Pathé Motocamera in the years 19291933 at, among othe...

The crack of thunder, a blood-curdling scream, creaking doors, or maybe complete silence. Sounds such as these have helped frighten and startle ...

This is the first book-length study to examine the enduring popularity of block-buster films based on DC or Marvel superhero comics properties. It ...

It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of classics. Consequently, most ori...

Of all the artisans who work in the American film industry, directors have been given the lion's share of attention. Yet few books in this literatu...

Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a def...

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleHaunted Laughter addresses whether it is appropriate to use comedy as a literary form to depict Ado...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ...

Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietz...

At a time when technological advances are transforming cultures and supporting new automated military operations, action films engage the senses an...

In this remarkable and original book, Sean Redmond examines the issues and themes that are repeatedly found across a range of contemporary science ...

This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France an...

The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international ...

Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the wyrd is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Piers Haggard (Blood on Satan's Claw...

Using the Hollywood studio system (1931-1960) as a historical center, this book performs close readings of classic horror films (such as Franken...

Discover the complete history of Godzilla in this definitive, official guide to the King of the Monsters. Godzilla: The Official Guide to the King ...

In 1932, The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, introduced another icon to the classic monster pantheon, beginning a journey down the cinematic Nile...

Greatly expanded and updated from the 1977 original, this new edition explores the evolution of the modern horror film, particularly as it reflects...

While the cinema of post-revolutionary Iran is internationally acknowledged, the world outside Iran has been ignorant of the Iranian war films that...

Eddie Muller-host of TCM's Noir Alley, one of the world's leading authorities on film noir, and cocktail connoisseur-takes film buffs and drinks en...

Based on the Turner Classic Movies series, TCM Underground is the movie-lover's guide to 50 of the most campy, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonde...

A killer monkey. Suburban witchcraft. Motorcycle jousting. A cockroach invasion. Despite this enticing list of other subjects, George A. Romero ...

This groundbreaking film study begins with a survey of American print humorists from eras leading up to and overlapping the advent of film--inclu...

One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely t...

In its heyday from the late 1950s until the early 1980s Italian horror cinema was characterised by an excess of gore, violence and often incoherent...

Descriptions of monsters, vampires, demonic possessions, and psychopaths in horror films have been inspired by psychiatric knowledge about mental i...

Images of «good mothers» saturate the media, yet so too do images of mothers who do not fit this mold. Numerous scholars have addressed «bad mother...

Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath. The recent discovery of German...

When Black runway models began throwing phones and VH1s «Divas Live» riveted viewers, a new paradigm for Black women had fully evolved in the form ...

Pictures of the Mind is the first integrated study of Surrealist photography and film, assessing the impact of early experimental practice and theo...

The essays in Playing Shakespeares Villains trouble our assumptions of whatand whoconstitutes villainy in Shakespeares works, through probing and p...

From the horrific to the heroic, cinematic werewolves are metaphors for our savage nature, symbolizing the secret, bestial side of humanity that hi...

This book depicts the life of Conrad Veidt (1893-1943), the defining German actor of Expressionist cinema in the 1920s. His legendary performanc...

How did Friday the 13th begin as a movie about a grieving mother killing camp counselors and spawn a movie in which a nanobot enhanced, hockey m...