Film: styles & Genres

Written by international experts from a range of disciplines, these essays examine the uniquely British contribution to science fiction film and...

What is evil? How do we understand it in our culture? The thirteen essays in this critical volume explore the different ways in which evil is po...

The figure of the zombie that entered the popular imagination with the publication of William Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929)--during the Ame...

Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture, with ever more diverse representations of the undead ...

James Bond entered the world in 1953 with the novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. Since then, the British secret agent codenamed 007 has become th...

This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, as well as connecting contemporary manifestations of dystop...

A world-weary detective, a seductive femme fatale, a mysterious murder - these elements of classic film noir live again in more recent hardboiled d...

What is Blaxploitation? In the early 1970s a type of film emerged that featured all-black casts, really cool soul, R 'n' B and disco music soundtra...