Film: styles & Genres

Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional per...

One of the most controversial films of its time, The Wild Bunch is the epitome of the no-holds-barred filmmaking of the 1960s and 1970s. Since its ...

In 1957, A Face in the Crowd incorporated live video images to warn about the future of broadcast TV. In 2015, Kung Fury was infused with analogue ...

This is an indispensable study of exploitation cinema's continuing allure. Too often dismissed as nothing more than 'trash cinema', exploitation fi...

An all-new Star Wars story arrives in cinemas returns as the hotly anticipated stale of Han Solo’s early years. Meet the characters including famil...

Among the top-grossing Hollywood blockbusters of all time, Star Wars launched one of the most successful movie and licensing franchises in history....

What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps it's a biblical sense of malice, lurking unnoticed in the corners of ...

This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. Starting in the late 1980s,...

Splatter Capital shows how a popular subgenre of cinematic horror has developed a uniquely sensitive perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It ar...

Film Noir offers new perspectives on this highly popular and influential film genre, providing a useful overview of its historical evolution and th...

This is a thematic survey of American films with significant Jewish content that made an important statement about America. Both familiar and le...

There is gold to be found in Western film stills--much of which should not be there at all. In scenes set in the 19th century, you can spot power l...

Film Noir offers new perspectives on this highly popular and influential film genre, providing a useful overview of its historical evolution and th...

An Introduction to Film Genres, written by leading film scholars specifically for undergraduates who are new to the study of film, provides an intr...

The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong Kong has developed its own unique a...

English Gothic was the first book to trace the rise and fall of horror cinema from its beginnings in the 1890s right through to the end of the 20th...

Dances that embody the «feminine» teach the dancer and the observers inside and outside the faith tradition about women’s experiences, expressions,...

A Star Wars icon is an aspect of the Star Wars saga that you will never forget. It might be a person such as Princess Leia, a droid such as C-3P0, ...

A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; th...

A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; th...