Film: styles & Genres

2024 MPCA/ACA Best Edited Collection, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association (MPCA/ACA) How work and capitalism...

Much of the writing in film studies published today can be understood as genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before film studies emerged as...

Despite being the product of Roger Corman's AIP exploitation studio, House of Usher enjoys a high standing. But while the impact and cult status of...

Reconsiders contemporary Disney animation through the critical lens of genre theory Reveals new directions for the study of Disney's gender portra...

Contributes a genealogical approach to debates on critical transnationalism Demonstrates that representations of crime in cinema are part of an on...

The study of French science fiction even in France remains an underexploited field. Only recently have French literary scholars been able to gain...

Considers the remake from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives and positions it alongside other serialized cultural forms Examines t...

In 1997, the superhero movie was all but dead. The last Superman flick had been released a decade earlier to disastrous reviews and ticket sales, t...

This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a particular focus on the American fictional spies tha...

In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen Kings workranging from the ...

Detecting the South in Fiction, Film, & Television, edited by Deborah E. Barker and Theresa Starkey, examines the often-overlooked and underval...

Reality is made up of the Absolute and Causality. The absolute (most saliently philosophized about by Georg Hegel) is where normative values inhere...

Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving int...

Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific artists working in film. His directorial work includes Cronos (1993), Mimic (1997), ...

Science fiction and fantasy are often thought of as stereotypically male genres, yet both have a long and celebrated history of female creators,...

Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially co...

Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narrat...

Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts. Here, contributors examine the ways motifs of gender...

This book is a pioneering study of Blaxploitation horror films, connecting them with both mainstream horror movies and classic Gothic texts. The au...