Film: styles & Genres

This book deals with melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to ...

This book looks at queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video in France. French Queer Cinema addresses the socio-...

In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema that considers film as an art form among other arts, John Orr takes a critical look at the intri...

This title analysis the growth of American comedy film in relation to world events and cultural trends. This book uses large scale social and cultu...

Too often dismissed as 'trash cinema', exploitation films have nevertheless become sincerely appreciated cult objects on home video. In this new st...

Over her six-film career, including works like Old Joy, Meek's Cutoff and Certain Women, the independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has established ...

Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political torture Examines role of images and film in (mis)understa...

As the Western matured, women’s roles became more complex and modern – transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansion...

In the first extended study into the politics of whiteness inherent within postfeminist cinema, Kendra Marston interrogates representations of mela...

Discussing a variety of independent and experimental Italian films, this book gives voice to a critcically neglected form of Italian cinema. By exa...

Positioning itself at the intersection of Italian film history, horror studies and cultural studies, this fascinating book asks why, and how, was t...

Examines the 1990s growth of art film exhibition, consumption, and cinephilia within South Korean cinema This book is a narrative history of art f...

A lively and reliable narrative account of the horror genre, featuring new and revised material throughout The Horror Film: An Introduction surveys...

Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still bei...

This is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American stand-up, television comedy...

From Chaplin’s tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of...