Film: styles & Genres

Devoted to his craft--sometimes to the detriment of his reputation--cinematographer John Alton (1901-1996) was sought after by such directors as Vi...

Comic Book Movies explores how this genre serves as a source for modern-day myths, sometimes even incorporating ancient mythic figures like Thor an...

Swedish crime fiction became an international phenomenon in the first decade of the twenty-first century, starting first with novels but then perco...

The tale of a tormented creature created in a laboratory began on a rainy night in 1816 in the imagination of a nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecra...

In Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and cont...

The war that wont die charts the changing nature of cinematic depictions of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, a significant number of artists, filmma...

Horror films in the 1990s have routinely defied definition. Many critics and fans have referred to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot with ...

''Awesome. Everything you''ve ever wanted to know about big-screen sci-fi'' - James King, film critic''Don''t leave Planet Earth without it'' - Dan...

This collection of interviews features American, British and Australian writers, directors and actors recounting their notable work in the actio...

By studying Japanese films and their associated literature, this book reveals the covert stories of Japanese women of various statuses and time per...

David Hedison, who plays a tiny human-headed insect menaced by a spider at the climax of The Fly (1958), says the moviemakers spoiled the scene ...

Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long? And why did five major film treatments appear betw...

Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives where thrilled with the box office returns: The Curse of Frankenstein was big busine...

Horror and exploitation films have played a pioneering role in both American and world cinema, with a number of controversial and surreal movies...

Tales of horror have always been with us, from Biblical times to the Gothic novel to successful modern day authors and screenwriters. Though the ge...

This remarkable journey through the Hammer vault includes props, annotated script pages, unused poster artwork, production designs, rare promotiona...

Marvel Studios' approach to its Cinematic Universe--beginning with the release of Iron Man (2008)--has become the template for successful manage...

The history of American Indians on screen can be compared to a light shining through a prism. We may have seen bits and pieces of the genuine cu...

This work offers a critical, colorful and informative examination of different types of monster movies, spanning the silent period to today. Cha...

Part One of this wonderfully entertaining exploration of screwball comedies and their later offspring begins midcentury discussing the careers and ...