Film: styles & Genres

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical debates around the heritage film, from its controversial status in British cinema...

An auteur and the creator of multiple cinematic universes, James Wan has become one of the most successful directors in history, his films breaking...

This book explores the horror boom since the 1960s. "Spanish Horror Film" is the first in-depth exploration of the genre in Spain from the 'horror ...

This is a comprehensive study of films made in and about one of the world's most breathtaking landscapes - the Arctic. The first book to address th...

As properties of DC comics continue to sprout over the years, narratives that were once kept sacrosanct now spill over into one another, synergi...

This must-have book for Star Trek fans goes behind the scenes on the latest movie in the billion dollar franchise, Star Trek Beyond, presenting a j...

There have been many spectacular, tragic, shocking and downright gruesome deaths in Hollywood films over the years, and this little compendium brin...

From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account and behind-the-sce...

"Magick" as defined by Aleister Crowley is "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will." This book explores expressi...

In 1965, 18-year-old Persis Khambatta became the third woman to be crowned Miss India. After moving to England and then to the United States, sh...

This book explores anime auteur Hayao Miyazaki's films through the lens of the monomyth of the Heroic Quest Cycle. According to Joseph Campbell and...

This book examines a cycle of postfeminist films that adopt the conventions of romance. In light of their tremendous gains in the political and pro...

Explores Gothic and horror film from early cinema to the presentOffersessays exploring Gothic film in the widest possible range of contextsExtends ...

Budd Boetticher (1916-2001) was a bullfighter, a pleasant madman and a talented journeyman filmmaker who could--with the right material and driv...

"Egyptomania," the West's obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has for centuries been reflected in architecture, l...

Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction from European countries, but his principal area of expertise is in the British c...

Boldly go where no man has gone before and discover the real science behind the cyborgs, starships, aliens, and antimatter of the Star Trek galaxy....