Films, Cinema

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera per...

Whether you realise it or not, you probably enjoy bad movies. If you've ever been amused by cheesy '80s action, or laughed at a shoddy horror movie...

In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of delayed cinema to ideas on time and the relat...

Several Latin American films ('Amores Perros', 'Y Tu Mama Tambien', 'Cidade de Deus', 'Central do Brasil', 'Nueve Reinas', 'El Hijo de la Novia') e...

The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architect...

Intercultural Screen Adaptation offers a wide-ranging examination of how film and television adaptations (and non-adaptations) interact with the cu...

The battles fought in the name of the 'war on terror' have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for tho...

In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negoti...

Bringing together the latest developments in the study of serial formatting practices remakes, sequels, series Film Reboots is the first edited c...

Explores the aesthetic frames that mediate the sense(s) and experiences of justiceClose analysis of films such as Pan's Labyrinth, High Heels, Comm...

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

This book deals with melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to ...

A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China Showcasing an evolving personal mode of n...

This updated edition is a comprehensive, fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts ge...

Which strategies has Mel Brooks used to survive, adapt and thrive in the cultural industries? How has he gained his reputation as a multimedia surv...

The figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape a...

This book, like its twin volume Female Authorship and the Documentary Image, centres on pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemp...

Updates the story of Japanese cinema for the 21st century. This book looks at some of the key genres in Japanese cinema since 1997. In several case...

This is the first collection of critical essays on philosopher jacques Ranciere's recent work on film. Jacques Ranciere (1940) rose to prominence a...