Film: styles & Genres

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...

For the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the biggest names in science fiction filmmakingGuillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Christop...

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

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...

Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exempli...

The villain's journey is rare in popular culture--most characters are fully-formed tyrants with little to no story arc. However, a few particula...

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...

This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen new...

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, lit...

As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity - combini...

The Horror genre has become one of the most popular genres of TV drama with the global success and fandom surrounding The Walking Dead, Supernatura...

The traditionally American genre of the road movie has been explored and reconfigured in the French context since the later 1960s. Comparative i...

Film comedy has been around as long as cinema itself. Over the years, particular forms of the genre have emerged, evolved, and spawned other branch...

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....

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

In a universe full of superheroes, Lois Lane has fought for truth and justice for over 75 years on page and screen without a cape or tights. From h...