Film: styles & Genres

Universal Studios created the first cinematic universe of monsters--Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and others became household names during th...

Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics,...

Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in...

King Kong and The Thing from Another World are among the most popular horror and science fiction films of all time and both were made by RKO Rad...

The films of Claire Denis, one of the most challenging and respected of contemporary filmmakers, probe the psyche of global citizenship, tracing th...

Movies and books have romanticized the life of the cowboy. To most, the heroes of countless Westerns fall into one of three categories: the stro...

The first few minutes of a film orient the viewer, offering cues for a richer, more nuanced reading. With this premise, the author provides many...

As Doctor Who nears its 50th anniversary, it is very much a part of British popular culture, and the Doctor has become a British icon. Nevertheless...

Classic horror films such as Dracula, Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray are based on famous novels. Less well known-even to avid horror f...

America in the 1950s was a cauldron of contradictions. Advances in technology chafed against a grimly conservative political landscape; the militar...

The witch, the vampire and the werewolf endure as popular characters in modern horror. These old monsters have their origins in the writings of Ari...

Watching the screen version of a classic mystery novel can be disappointing. By necessity or artistic license (or possibly just ego) changes are...

Late 19th century science fiction stories and utopian treatises focused on morals and attitudes supporting economic, sociological and at times Marx...

This book examines the ways that various syndromes, disorders and diseases appear in modern literature and film. What is especially interesting is ...

The history of the 'video nasties' has been recounted many times and the films that caused so much offence have themselves been endlessly examined....

Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polis...

This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and qu...

In American Westerns, the main characters are most often gunfighters, lawmen, ranchers and dancehall girls. Civil professionals such as doctors,...

ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze is the first collection of essays on this important and original contemporary filmmaker. It looks at his groundbr...