Film: styles & Genres

Seventy years after Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City made its dazzling appearance, Neorealism continues to be the best-known and most beloved g...

Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television. Zombie apocalypses, climate disasters, alien invasions, gl...

Learn about the visual and performing arts in The Movie Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes i...

Wild and Crazy Guys is the larger-than-life story of the much-loved Hollywood comedy stars that ruled the 1980s. This paperback edition features ne...

As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images - once the preserve of studios and agents - have been i...

Robert Mitchum wasand still isone of Hollywood's defining stars of Western film. For more than 30 years, the actor played the weary and cynical cow...

This collection of essays explores intermediality as a new perspective in the interpretation of the cinemas that have emerged after the collapse of...

Life of Action II is here and takes readers behind-the-scenes once again for a compelling series of conversations, shedding light on the overlooked...

Comprehensive and beautifully designed, Grease: The Director's Notebook also includes all new exclusive interviews with the key cast members and cr...

Sip your way through the most legendary cocktails from the worlds of science fiction, fantasy, and more with over 70 nerdy recipes as realistically...

What does it mean for a cinematic work to be Chinese? Does it refer specifically to a work's subject, or does it also reflect considerations of lan...

The Ritz Brothers were a popular comedy trio in vaudeville, nightclubs, movies and television for more than four decades. Today largely overlook...

One of Entertainment Weekly's Best Books of 2022! New York Times journalist Kyle Buchanan details the bonkers construction of director George Mille...

In the first book-length study of Romanticism in relation to American film, Michelle Devereaux takes established theories of contemporary American ...

The remarkable commercial success of Mel Gibsons The Passion of the Christ in 2004 came as a surprise to the Hollywood establishment, particularly ...

Spy-Fi Culture with a License to KillFrom Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, James Bond is the highest-grossing movie franchise of all time. Out-grossin...

Comedy has been a perpetual part of Australian film, in which humour reflects Australia''s adaptation in times of crisis, social change and technol...

Film historian James Chapman has mined Hitchcock's own papers to investigate fully for the first time the spy thrillers of the world's most famous ...

Gaelic games have repeatedly provided filmmakers and producers with a resonant motif through which they have represented perceived aspects of Irish...

The first book-length study of Reichardt's career and worksOver her six-film career, including works like 'Old Joy, Meek's Cutoff' and 'Certain Wom...

This book reveals the role of the DVD market in the growth of ultraviolent horror in the 2000s. This study reveals the history of how the emergence...

This is a unique study of the film musical, a global cinema tradition. The musical is one of cinema's few genuinely international genres but it has...

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...

In the long-awaited American Gothic Jonathan Rigby tells the story of the Hollywood horror film from its 19th-century beginnings through to the arr...

Film noir, one of the most intriguing yet difficult to define terms in cinema history, is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Holl...

The zombie is cinema''s most enduring horror icon, having terrified audiences for decades. Book of the Dead charts the history of the walking dead ...