Film: styles & Genres

You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting the cynical detective the femme fatale and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures thi...

After covering the genre''s early history and theorizing its general characteristics, this volume then focuses on specific instances of sports film...

After The Beatles stormed America, every Hollywood and European production company descended on London to be part of the new swinging scene... and ...

For well more than a century, Western films have embodied the United States' most fundamental doctrine--expansionism--and depicted, in a uniquel...

For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic...

Examines women's constructions of selfhood through film and literature in interwar Britain'Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Mo...

Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. ...

This magnificent companion to ÊThe Art of HorrorÊ from the same creative team behind that award-winning illustrated volume looks at the entire hi...

FOREWORD BY FRASER HESTONIn celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Planet of the Apes, the classic science-fiction film from 1968, The Making o...

Packed with slasher movie reviews and illustrated with an extensive collection of distinctive and often graphic colour poster artwork, The Teenage...

Building on students'' enthusiasm for movies, this text is more successful than any other at motivating students to understand and analyse film. In...

Ingrid Pitt, icon of horror cinema: her life and career. Full cast and production credits, synopses, reviews and notes are offered for all of he...

One of the most versatile actors of his generation, Edmond O'Brien made a series of iconic noir films. From a man reporting his own murder in D....

The definitive guide to the decade when swinging London was the film capital of the world After The Beatles stormed America, every Hollywood and Eu...

Author Barry Stone has served his apprenticeship as a western movie geek and aficionado. The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Red River - for 50 ...

Picasso apparently said, when critics get together, they talk about theory. When painters get together, they talk about turpentine.' That has been ...

Writing and Selling Horror Screenplays offers a fresh approach to creating narratives for this ever-popular genre. Moving away from simple definiti...

The Kaiju (strange monster) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond the big monsters stomping on cities motif. Since the seminal King...

Oscar-winning production designer Peter Lamont worked behind the scenes on 18 lames Bond films, beginning with the 1960s classics starring Sean Con...

The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. Its rarely on the shelf at my university ...

Following World War II, film noir became the dominant cinematic expression of Cold War angst, influencing new trends in European and Asian filmmaki...

While there have been many actors who have taken on the coveted role of James Bond, the most renowned 007 and the one with the most panache and ch...

From 1973 to 1987, Fright Night was a fixture of the late Saturday evening schedule on independent New York television station WOR-TV. A genre fan'...

The Brussels World's Fair was perhaps the most important propaganda event to be staged for European allies in the Eisenhower years; his administ...

The 50-year history of Star Trek, as told by the people who were there - every cast member interviewed. From the vaults of Star Trek Magazine, we c...

Horror films divide opinion. It wasn't until 1973 that a horror film (The Exorcist) was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture and many respected ...

This study analyzes North Korean comedy films from the late 1960s to present day. It examines the most iconic comedy films and comedians to show ho...

On its release in 2008, Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz with Bashir was heralded as a brilliant and original exploration of trauma, and tra...

During the second half of the 20th century, landmark works of the horror film genre were as much the product of enterprising regional filmmakers...

Film and Genocide brings together scholars of film and of genocide to discuss film representations, both fictional and documentary, of the Holocaus...

Freddy, Jason, Frankenstein, and Dracula are just a few of the thrilling movie monsters in this illustrated, collectible reference guide. Monsters ...

This massive study on action movies and stars from around the world, from the 1960s to the present, is filled with more than a thousand in-depth ...

Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters outuntil it isn't.This collection of new essays focuses on ge...

Serial killers, mass murderers, spree killers, outlaws, and real-life homicidal maniacs have long held a grim fascination for both filmmakers an...

From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perha...

The tradition of British realism has changed dramatically over the last 20 years, where films by directors such as Duane Hopkins, Joanna Hogg, Andr...

A popular phenomenon since antiquity, the image of the haunted house is one that has translated elegantly into the modern medium of film. The haunt...