Films, Cinema

Directly addressing how filmmakers can craft visually powerful films through practical skills that can be used throughout the filmmaking process, a...

This volume addresses questions at the intersections of cinematic form and the African city. It examines the contribution of cinema and audiovisual...

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.The volume explores three...

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full...

Reel Gender is a groundbreaking collection that addresses the collective realities and the filmic representations of Palestinian and Israeli societ...

Cinema has become a battleground upon which history is madea major mass medium of the twentieth century dealing with history. The re-enactments of ...

This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding n...

This book investigates representations of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in colonial, humanitarian and Palestinian documentary films, spanning until ...

From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasse...

Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, inclu...

This book is the first of its kind to significantly concentrate on trans-nation, transnationalism and its dialogue with various nationalisms in Sou...

The newest volume in the Film Theory in Practice Series, Auteur Theory and My Son John offers a concise introduction to authorship and auteur theo...

What are the barriers to womens participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era?In this book, Ellie Tomsett ...

Readers of all stripes will find something to appreciate in this collection, which illuminates how Kings horror literature as a media form has shif...

Readers of all stripes will find something to appreciate in this collection, which illuminates how Kings horror literature as a media form has shif...

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over the past 30 years, the fields ...

In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a renaissance. For the ...

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescap...

Landscript 2: Filmic Mapping examines forms of land measurement primarily through documentary and essay films of the past 10 years. It investigates...

Comprehensive German film history This lavishly illustrated volume tells the story of German film through the collection of the Deutsche Kinemathe...

This book represents the first in-depth research dedicated to examining the historical and contemporary developments of Japanese film festivals as ...