Film: styles & Genres

Written in an engaging narrative style, this text provides a thorough overview of the fascinating intersection of economics, culture, artistry and ...

Hitchcocks previously untold origin story.Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger the first true Hitchcock movie, the one that anticipated all the other...

Hitchcocks previously untold origin story.Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger the first true Hitchcock movie, the one that anticipated all the other...

Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cin...

Spectatorship, Embodiment and Physicality in the Contemporary Mutilation Film explores 'physical spectatorship': the representation of mutilation o...

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal de...

A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the silent days to the present, this authoritat...

Focusing on dark or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and film...

Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory...

This book provides the first comprehensive study of narco cinema, a cross-border exploitation cinema that, for over forty years, has been instrumen...

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...