Film: styles & Genres

Buster Keaton can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair, wrote criti...

Giving deserved attention to nearly 150 neglected films, this book covers early sound era features, serials and documentaries with genre element...

The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational filmFor three decades, state-sponsored short filmmakin...

In sharp contrast to many 1960s science fiction films, with idealized views of space exploration, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) terrified audience...

The 1970s were turbulent times and the films made then reflected the fact. Vampire movies--always a cinema staple--were no exception. Spurred by...

While you may think the old adage about oil and water being unable to mix applies perfectly to the cinema of terror and the craft of great actin...

Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. ...

Examining images of gender and violence, this book analyzes selected works of three influential artists of the Irish cinema--Ford, Sheridan and ...

The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral...

Consuming Visions explores the relationship between cinema and writing in early twentieth-century Brazil, focusing on how the new and foreign mediu...

The biggest debate of the 21st Century rages on: do you side with the Vampires or the Werewolves? This innovative book pits the real stories of the...

This is the first full-length study of masculinity and film style. Cinema is not just an intellectual or cerebral experience. They also make us fee...

This is a critical study of the happy ending in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema. The Hollywood happy ending has long been considered am...

The release of Skyfall in 2012 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the James Bond film franchise. It earned over one billion dollars in the worldwid...

Science fiction, fantasy and horror films have spawned more sequels than any other film genre. While the perhaps overly familiar Dracula and Fra...

The indispensable, illustrated pocket guide to the world of vampire movies, from Nosferatu to A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. ...

The fighting female archetype--a self-reliant woman of great physical prowess--has become increasingly common in action films and on television....

In 1969the counter-cultural moment when Easy Rider triggered a youthquake in audience interestsWesterns proved more dominant than ever at the box o...

Life of Action II is here and takes readers behind-the-scenes once again for a compelling series of conversations, shedding light on the overlooked...

The story of Star Trek's resurrection between the 1969 cancellation of the original series and the 1979 release of Robert Wise's Star Trek--The ...

In the mid-1950s, to combat declining theater attendance, film distributors began releasing pre-packaged genre double-bills--including many horr...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe--comprised of films, broadcast television and streaming series and digital shorts--has generated considerable fan ...