Film: styles & Genres

Winner of the International Gothic Association''s Allan Lloyd Smith Prize 2022.Shortlisted for the British Society of Literature and Science Book P...

In 1915, British moviegoers voted Fred Evans second only to Charles Chaplin as their favorite film comedian. Appearing as the roguish and anarch...

Horror films have always reflected their audiences' fears and anxieties. In the United States, the 2000s were a decade full of change in response t...

Writing the Romantic Comedy is so much fun to read it could pop a champagne cork.Alexa Junge, writer and producer of FriendsRevised and expanded to...

Exploring the early westerns of John Wayne--from his first starring role in the The Big Trail (1930) to his breakthrough as the Ringo Kid in Joh...

Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker's Dracula is often read as Victorian society's absolute Other--an outsider who troubles and distr...

Throughout cinematic history, the buildings characters inhabit--whether stately rural mansions or inner-city apartment blocks--have taken on ext...

This is a complete reference work to the history of Batman big screen works, from the 1940s serials through the campy 1960s TV show and film, an...

Film noir is a particularly American stylistic phenomenon (although named by French film critics) that permeated nearly every major, minor and i...

Unlike such romanticized renegades as Robin Hood and Jesse James, there is another kind of outlaw hero, one who lives between the law and his own p...

From Rosemarys Baby (1968) to The Witch (2015), horror films use religious entities to both inspire and combat fear and to call into question or af...

When Sydney Newman conceived the idea for Doctor Who in 1963, he envisioned a show in which the Doctor and his companions would visit and observ...

American classic films noir, beginning with 1941's The Maltese Falcon and ending with 1950's Sunset Boulevard, and the neo-noir films made from ...

In 1968, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead premiered, launching a growing preoccupation with zombies within mass and literary fictio...

Faith horror refers to a significant outcropping of mid-1960s and 1970s films and adaptative novels that depict non-Christian communities of evil d...

This book begins at the intersection of Dracula and War of the Worlds, both published in 1897 London, and describes the settings of Transylvania...

Stephen King's fiction has formed the basis of more motion picture adaptations than any other living author. Over half a century since his earliest...

The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama. Body horror fi...

Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet i...

The Hammer studio is best known for its horror film output from the mid-1950s through the 1970s. This book provides facts about the hundreds of act...

Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse vic...

The horror genre harbors a number of films too bold or bizarre to succeed with mainstream audiences, but offering unique, startling and often gr...

Using interviews with Jerry Lewis and many of his co-stars, this book analyses his collaborative efforts with Dean Martin, his subsequent solo work...