Films, Cinema

Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist. Blending a trademark black hum...

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier ...

In this innovative study, German and film studies scholar Randall Halle advances the concept of interzones--geographical and ideational spaces of t...

Rediscover all the reasons you love The Matrix!Whether you saw the movie in theaters in 1999 or watched it for the first time at home, there is no ...

In this photo-filled viewing guide, Turner Classic Movies presents a festival of sunshine classics -- movies that capture the spirit of the most ca...

Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impa...

Deflecting the attention from Hollywood, Stars in World Cinema fills an important gap in the study of film by bringing together Star Studies and Wo...

Between the end of the Civil War (1949) and the colonels' military coup (1967) Greece underwent tremendous political, economic, and social trans...

The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the his...

This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of...

Sue Thornham explores issues of space, place, time and gender in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by contemporar...

This edited textbook explores the 17 UN SDGs through 12 works from the humanities, including films, novels, and photographic collections. It provid...

Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a...

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier ...

Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the fi...

Theorists of the soundtrack have helped us understand how the voice and music in the cinema impact a spectator's experience. James Buhler and Hanna...

In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers into this fascinating subgenre ...

Eschewing the idea of film reviewer-as-solitary-expert, Jonathan Rosenbaum continues to advance his belief that a critic's ideal role is to mediate...

The world of James Bond is complex and ever growing. The British secret agent started off life as a semi-fictional, part-biographical character in ...

Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best lists. Though often allied with m...

Offers the first first book-length study of Mary Harron's career and works Argues that Harron's work has a distinguishing approach to stylistic an...

Animal Activism On and Off Screen examines the relationship between animal advocacy and the film and television industries. Leading scholars, activ...

«From the violence of growth and the mountains of garbage to migrant lives brutally cast away in the Mediterranean, what constitutes waste? Who def...

This book is a comprehensive study of peripheral locations in contemporary European TV crime series. Ambitiously, it covers the complete geography ...