Film: styles & Genres

This cutting-edge collection features original essays by eminent scholars on one of cinema''''s most dynamic and enduringly popular genres, coverin...

Vito and the Others (1991), Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) and Libera (1993), the debuts of three young Neapolitan filmmakers, stood ou...

The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screenin...

Since Japanese horror sensations The Ring and Audition first terrified Western audiences at the turn of the millennium, there''s been a growing app...

In recent decades, male bisexuality has become a recurring topic in international cinema, as filmmakers and their works challenge our ideas abou...

Throughout its long and colorful history, Walt Disney Studios has produced scores of films designed to educate moviegoers as well as entertain them...

Today, it seems as if everyone from heroic-yet-angsty teenagers, to giggling schoolgirls, to middle-aged businessmen, to bored moms are finding the...

Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the most inventive American films of the 1980s. Its sleeper success bred a series of film sequels ...

The United States, the only country to have dropped the bomb, and Japan, the only one to have suffered its devastation, understandably portray t...

He was Red Skelton's favorite director, and mentored Lucille Ball in the art of physical comedy. In his 15-year Hollywood career, S. Sylvan Simon (...

Western films have often been tributes to place and setting, with the magnificent backdrops mirroring the wildness of the narratives. As the splend...

James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough provides the most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published....

A collection of essays on fifteen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features. The aims of the collection are threefold: to provide ...

An engrossing A-Z of over 60 gory years of slasher and splatter movies, from Danny Boyle''s 28 Days Later to Lucio Fulci''s Zombie Flesh Eaters. He...

From the earliest days of Hollywood sound productions, horror proved to be a popular and lucrative genre. At the center of the Industrys first cycl...

A new critical and theoretical approach to a neglected aspect of Pedro Almodovar's cinemaOne of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodovar ...

The first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice presents the region as ...

Mark O'Connell didn't want to be Luke Skywalker, He wanted to be one of the mop-haired kids on the Star Wars toy commercials. And he would have don...

This is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand's national cinema, tracing its development...

?100 Silent Films provides an authoritative and accessible history of silent cinema through one hundred of its most interesting and significant fil...

Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In his highly-acclaimed history of experimental film,...

New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that i...

THE ITALIAN CINEMA BOOK is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the ...

THE ITALIAN CINEMA BOOK is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the ...

This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as No Country for O...

Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thri...

This comprehensive filmography provides critical analyses and behind-the-scenes stories for 600 horror, science fiction and fantasy films from t...

Science fiction movie audiences may sometimes wonder how fictitious the science in a film really is. Yet for many--call them the Jurassic Park g...

During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the boy meets girl, boy loses girl theme, other motion pictures d...

Movies have constantly pushed at the boundaries of sexual representation, outraging censors, transgressing taboos and opening up formerly forbidden...

Produced in Italy from 1908 the sword and sandal (or peplum) films are one of the screen's most neglected and marginalized film genres. The sword a...

From automatons to zombies, many fantastic elements have been cross-pollinated with the western genre. This Second Edition of the A-to-Z Encycloped...

No industry has been as influential at shaping the popular notion of what it means to be a witch quite as much as Hollywood. This book traces the f...

This original collection fills a gap in the literature on Lav Diaz, and more broadly, on slow and durational cinema. The importance of the director...

Prevenge (2016) is an entertainingly dark 21st-century horror movie detailing the serial killing journey of heavily pregnant Ruth. Its a cleverly c...

'The ultimate guide to every apocalypse movie ever made' - David Quantick The 1980s. A time of fear: fear of the unknown, fear of your neighbours, ...

A complete and essential guide to the magical movies of Studio Ghibli. Adapted from the acclaimed podcast, Ghibliotheque offers a well-balanced and...

Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and ...

An exhaustive study of the major directors of horror films in the past six decades, a genre always popular but often critically snubbed. For each d...