Film: styles & Genres

Chasing Aristotles probable impossibilities, Science Fantasy: Critical Explorations in Fiction and Film scrutinizes science fantasy, a hybrid genre...

Nobody puts baby in a corner in this full-color calendar that's all about your favorite movies: romantic comedies. The Rom Com 2025 Trivia Calendar...

Be the strange you want to see in the world with The Addams Family 2025 Wall Calendar, featuring the spooky, kooky, and altogether ooky characters ...

The official Rocky 2025 Wall Calendar features twelve iconic images and scenes from the Rocky film franchise, a perfect gift for any movie fan as w...

The Creed 2025 Wall Calendar features twelve iconic images and scenes that bring the action and drama of the Creed film franchise to your home or o...

The official Jim Hensons Labyrinth 2025 Wall Calendar features images from the iconic Jim Henson movie. Almost 40 years later we're still fascinate...

Horror. Hilarity. Popcorn guns. The Killer Klowns from Outer Space 2025 Wall Calendar captures the violent, one-of-a-kind world of the 1988 kult kl...

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Film, History and Memory broadens the focus from 'history', the study of past events, to 'memory', the process...

Fascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young readers. These go ba...

Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has receiv...

Screenwriting in a Digital Era examines the practices of writing for the screen from early Hollywood to the new realism. Looking back to prehistori...

In [this book], Eric Trenkamp addresses a question that many American cinema fans may have asked themselves over the past 20 years why is everythi...

Despite a glut of black and white filters the digital revolution in videography has all but abandoned the art science beauty and power of cinem...

From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror c...

The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haun...

The Politics of Hollywood Cinema radically transforms our understanding of cinema's potential to be politically engaging and challenging. Examining...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fi...

We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters tha...

An eminent film writer looks behind the curtain of the California dream It hardly needs to be argued: nothing has contributed more to the mytholo...

This volume gets to the heart of what films mean to people on personal, political and commercial levels. Exploring value judgements that underpin s...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fi...

The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in...

The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film. Hollywood's Detectives redresses t...

Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate...

A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the silent days to the present, this authoritat...

Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting ...

  From the postapocalyptic world of Blade Runner to theJames Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in ...

  In 1893 Friedrich Engels branded history the cruelest goddess of all. This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imaginati...

Michael Tapper considers Swedish culture and ideas from the period 1965 to 2012 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj ...

Filming the City brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists and media specialists to provide three distinct prism...

Zombies, vampires and mummies are frequent stars of American horror films. But what does their cinematic omnipresence and audiences hunger for such...

This book presents a close look at the golden age of Swedish pornography in the 1970s, with a specific focus on pornographic films screened in Malm...

Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critica...

Written in an engaging narrative style, this text provides a thorough overview of the fascinating intersection of economics, culture, artistry and ...

Hitchcocks previously untold origin story.Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger the first true Hitchcock movie, the one that anticipated all the other...

Hitchcocks previously untold origin story.Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger the first true Hitchcock movie, the one that anticipated all the other...

Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cin...

Spectatorship, Embodiment and Physicality in the Contemporary Mutilation Film explores 'physical spectatorship': the representation of mutilation o...

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal de...

A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the silent days to the present, this authoritat...

Focusing on dark or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and film...

Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory...

This book provides the first comprehensive study of narco cinema, a cross-border exploitation cinema that, for over forty years, has been instrumen...