Film: styles & Genres

'Awesome. Everything you've ever wanted to know about big-screen sci-fi' - James King, film critic'Don't leave Planet Earth without it' - Dan Jolin...

This collection of interviews features American, British and Australian writers, directors and actors recounting their notable work in the actio...

David Hedison, who plays a tiny human-headed insect menaced by a spider at the climax of The Fly (1958), says the moviemakers spoiled the scene ...

Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long? And why did five major film treatments appear betw...

Horror and exploitation films have played a pioneering role in both American and world cinema, with a number of controversial and surreal movies...

Tales of horror have always been with us, from Biblical times to the Gothic novel to successful modern day authors and screenwriters. Though the ge...

This remarkable journey through the Hammer vault includes props, annotated script pages, unused poster artwork, production designs, rare promotiona...

Marvel Studios' approach to its Cinematic Universe--beginning with the release of Iron Man (2008)--has become the template for successful manage...

The history of American Indians on screen can be compared to a light shining through a prism. We may have seen bits and pieces of the genuine cu...

This work offers a critical, colorful and informative examination of different types of monster movies, spanning the silent period to today. Cha...

Part One of this wonderfully entertaining exploration of screwball comedies and their later offspring begins midcentury discussing the careers and ...

The examination of 1950s film clowns suggestions this decade was the 20th century's most volatile for the genre. Besides McCarthyism and TV and the...

Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a ...

Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a ...

Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Pa...

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and...

It all begins with a howl, the unsettling sound which tells audiences that someone will soon become a werewolf. But the changes that occur durin...

Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women's contr...

In recent decades, science fiction in both print and visual media has produced an outpouring of story lines that feature forms of simulated real...

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage,' to post-cinematic new media forms such as Yo...

Lisa Maurice examines screen portrayals of gods covering Greco-Roman mythology, the Judeo-Christian God and Jesus from the beginning of cinema to...

This title traces the dynamic relationship between film and the city. How do film and urban space work together to challenge and forge our changing...

Historically, zombies have been portrayed in films and television series as mindless, shuffling monsters. In recent years, this has changed dram...

For millennia people have held folk beliefs about the existence of the doppelganger--"double walker" in German--a look-alike second self that is...

The first of its kind, this study examines the exemplars of hardcore horror--Fred Vogel's August Underground trilogy, Shane Ryan's Amateur Porn ...

He was the final addition to Universal's "royal family" of movie monsters: the Creature from the Black Lagoon. With his scaly armor, razor claws...

Since the turn of the millennium, films such asChicago (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004) have reinvigorated the popularity of the screen music...

Cinema has often been seen as a form between media. Early cinema borrowed heavily from traditional performing arts, like theatre and tableau vivant...

Universal Studios created the first cinematic universe of monsters--Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and others became household names during th...

Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics,...

Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in...

King Kong and The Thing from Another World are among the most popular horror and science fiction films of all time and both were made by RKO Rad...

Movies and books have romanticized the life of the cowboy. To most, the heroes of countless Westerns fall into one of three categories: the stro...

The first few minutes of a film orient the viewer, offering cues for a richer, more nuanced reading. With this premise, the author provides many...

As Doctor Who nears its 50th anniversary, it is very much a part of British popular culture, and the Doctor has become a British icon. Nevertheless...

Classic horror films such as Dracula, Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray are based on famous novels. Less well known-even to avid horror f...