Films, Cinema

Offers the first scholarly study of the Oscars red carpet as a media phenomenon Unravels the political actions of institutions and individuals tha...

A richly historicised account of the modern corporation and its spatial manifestations in Britain and America Centres the hotel and corporate spac...

Offers the first comprehensive English-language book on the life and career of Paul Leni Covers many dimensions of Leni's professional creativity,...

Examines the practices of independent digital feature-filmmaking in contemporary BritainTo what extent have digital innovations transformed the UK ...

Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the...

Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt's thought to provide a new theoretical approac...

Presenting the depiction of migration through a variety of cinematic outlets, this volume explores film's depiction of human displacement in differ...

Although Chinese film audiences have always maintained a foundational cultural interest in the fantastic, this trend has dramatically increased ove...

Bringing together a range of international scholars, European Film Remakes discusses for the first time the textual, socio-cultural, political, and...

Tim Burton is an internationally celebrated director, critically acclaimed for his fantasy horror films and the macabre ghosts, animated corpses an...

The apparent shift in power relations between the developed and developing world, along with the increasing emphasis that national and transnationa...

Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, Western China on Screen is the first monograph to explore the affinity between ...

The concept of identity in superhero narratives has become a burgeoning field in academic studies of this increasingly popular cinematic genre. Wom...

Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury is the first anthology to explore the rockumentary as a central component of both the documentar...

Silent-era film scholarship has all too often focused on a handful of German directors, including Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch, but ...

A cultural history of the contemporary Hollywood animated feature, from Toy Story to The Lego Movie Examines critically a range of prominent conte...

One of the most well regarded of non-Western film directors, responsible for acknowledged classics like Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro worked dur...

Examines the cultural significance of the werewolf filmProvides thefirst academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the...

This book places the concept of duration at the centre of an understanding of cinema and spectatorship. The process of aesthetic imaging in time is...

The first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections...

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director's films. Bouchareb was one of Fran...

This is the first English-language anthology on experimental and independent Italian cinema. Providing an overview of the legacies and transformati...

Channelling a focus on the history of cinema into the present and beyond, Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema explo...