Film: styles & Genres

In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering...

Many of the key films in the career of horror icon Vincent Price (1911-1993) contain commentaries both obvious and subtle on the role of women, ...

From Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade; Nick and Nora Charles to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin; Harry Lime to Gilda, Madeleine Elster, and other femmes ...

This book is a comprehensive history of the most successful straight-to-video horror franchise of all time: Puppet Master. It provides an in-dep...

Documentary is one of the most fascinating areas of filmmaking. Documentaries have broken down societal taboos, changed legislation, strengthened a...

Twisted bodies, deformed faces, aberrant behavior, and abnormal desires characterized the hideous creatures of classic Hollywood horror, which thri...

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...

HOWARD HUGHES'S NEW FILMGOERS' GUIDE TO SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS DELVES DEEP INTO THE LANDMARK MOVIES OF THIS EVERPOPULAR GENRE, FROM METROPOLIS TO AV...

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 bo...

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...

A is for...Army of Darkness. Find out how Sam Raimi's epic adventure Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness changed the Zombie movie genre forever. B is ...

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...