Film: styles & Genres

As the Western matured, womens roles became more complex and modern transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionis...

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

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

The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physic...

What is the fundamental nature of the filmic object: is it a commodity or is it, can it be, art? What would that mean - can it still matter? This b...

The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly ...

This is the first book to focus on James Bonds relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond. Examining aspects of the Bond phen...

With more than 180 films during a career spanning several decades, Jesús Franco (1930-2013) was an extraordinarily prolific and chameleon-like Span...

Horrors pleasures fundamentally hinge on looking backward, either on destabilising trauma, or as a period of comfort and happiness which is undermi...

The Ultimate Superhero Movie Guide is a thrilling journey through the history of the world's favorite movie genre. From the early glories of Superm...

Released a matter of days after the end of the Second World War and a dozen years ahead of the first full-blooded Hammer Horror, the Ealing Studios...

A spectacular and comprehensive authorized retrospective of Oscar-winning visual effects master Phil Tippett, founder and namesake of iconic Tippet...

Gothic dreams and nightmares is an edited collection on the compelling yet under-theorised subject of Gothic dreams and nightmares ranging across m...

In Guilty Pleasures, Alice Guilluy examines the reception of contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy by European audiences. She offers a new look at...

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

Both a history and a critique of South Africa's film industry, this book recounts the long experience of filmmaker and producer Richard Green.Green...

Acknowledging the iconic, but with plenty of room for the rare and unfamiliar, The Art of the Classic Western Movie Poster presents poster art crea...

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...

Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is the first major critical study of international naturalist cinema. Often mistaken for rea...

The first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics.   Ishiro Honda was arguably the most intern...

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