Film: styles & Genres

Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain offers a rich new exploration of interwar women's fictions ...

This book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. Starting with a study of the kiss in sile...

Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body i...

Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little at...

In the American psyche, the Wild West is a mythic-historical place where our nation's values and ideologies were formed. In this violent and uncert...

Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard ...

Over the past two decades road cinema has become an increasingly popular form of expression for European directors. Focusing on a corpus of films f...

The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it i...

Headline: Examines how LGBT filmmaking in France and Spain moves across borders and finds new audiencesBlurb: The book advances the current state o...

Extreme violence in contemporary European art cinema is generally interpreted for its affective potential, but what about the significance of the e...

From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andr Bazin...

The battles fought in the name of the war on terror have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those...

Refocus:The Films of Amy Heckerling is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and screenwrite...

Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political, and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' fro...

One of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium, this volume captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and inter...

Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little at...

From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Delmer Daves was responsible for a unique body of work, but few filmmakers...

Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention i...

This undergraduate textbook examines American independent cinema from the very beginnings of US cinema and includes chapters on independence within...

The emergence of these media enables new modes of perception that create special sensations of wonder, astonishment, marvel, and the fantastic. Suc...

Combining industrial research and primary interview material with detailed textual analysis, Contemporary British Horror Cinema looks beyond the do...

This volume examines the gangster film in its historical context with an emphasis on the ways the image of the gangster has adapted and changed as ...