Films, Cinema

This fully revised and updated edition of the classic book on cinematic composition provides readers with the necessary skills and technical know-h...

In this wide-ranging, stylish and iconoclastic book, the acclaimed Belfast filmmaker and BBC author Mark Cousins reflects on his prolific career in...

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research, exploring how the audio...

Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film proposes a way of constructing hidden psychological narratives of popular film and novels. Instead of o...

World Cinema: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to film industries across the globe. From the 1980s onwards, new tech...

Mapping out a diverse journey through documentary distribution, this book is a comprehensive global how-to reference guide, providing insights into...

What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept ex- - meaning from, outside, and no lon...

From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of me...

This book contributes to the growing literature on the biopic genre by outlining and exploring the conventions of the postfeminist biopic. It does ...

Film and Female Consciousness analyses three contemporary films that offer complex and original representations of women's thoughtfulness and indiv...

Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well ...

Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well ...

Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years before and after the millennium, the contributors ask how recent films and telev...

Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. ...

Signifying others or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from ...

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documen...

During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (19451952), U.S. film studiosin close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for ...

This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to...

Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film examines the transformation of the stereotypical 'tragic mulatto' from tragic to empowered, as represented in ...

An exploration of the social significance of Shrek from a variety of theoretical perspectives, this book pursues two different, yet intertwined obj...