Film: styles & Genres

The examination of 1950s film clowns suggestions this decade was the 20th century's most volatile for the genre. Besides McCarthyism and TV and the...

Although the preoccupation of Gothic storytelling with the family has often been observed, it invites a more systematic exploration. Gothic kinship...

Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vil m Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a ...

Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilm Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a c...

Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Pa...

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and...

It all begins with a howl, the unsettling sound which tells audiences that someone will soon become a werewolf. But the changes that occur durin...

Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women's contr...

In recent decades, science fiction in both print and visual media has produced an outpouring of story lines that feature forms of simulated real...

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage,' to post-cinematic new media forms such as Yo...

Lisa Maurice examines screen portrayals of gods - covering Greco-Roman mythology, the Judeo-Christian God and Jesus - from the beginning of cinema ...

The name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspensethat is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling sus...

This title traces the dynamic relationship between film and the city. How do film and urban space work together to challenge and forge our changing...

Historically, zombies have been portrayed in films and television series as mindless, shuffling monsters. In recent years, this has changed dram...

For millennia people have held folk beliefs about the existence of the doppelganger--double walker in German--a look-alike second self that is o...

The first of its kind, this study examines the exemplars of hardcore horror--Fred Vogel's August Underground trilogy, Shane Ryan's Amateur Porn ...

He was the final addition to Universal's royal family of movie monsters: the Creature from the Black Lagoon. With his scaly armor, razor claws a...

Since the turn of the millennium, films such asChicago (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004) have reinvigorated the popularity of the screen music...

Cinema has often been seen as a form between media. Early cinema borrowed heavily from traditional performing arts, like theatre and tableau vivant...