Films, Cinema

This book charts three decades of specialist and independent filmmaking in Hollywood. The specialty film divisions of the major Hollywood studios w...

This book looks at queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video in France. French Queer Cinema addresses the socio-...

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

Ambiguous, complex and innovative, Christopher Nolan's Memento has intrigued audiences and critics since the day of its release. Memento is the arc...

In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema that considers film as an art form among other arts, John Orr takes a critical look at the intri...

This is the first study of Chinese stars and their transnational stardom, examining the transnational Chinese actor Jet Li, probably the best marti...

This book looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the re-emergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical ap...

Cinematic Journeys explores the interconnected histories, theories and aesthetics of mobile vision and cinematic movement. It traces the links betw...

For over three decades the major Hollywood studios have operated specialty film divisions, companies that were originally established to focus prim...

For over three decades the major Hollywood studios have operated specialty film divisions, companies that were originally established to focus prim...

How does film and video censorship operate in Britain? Why does it exist? And is too strict? Starting in 1979, the birth of the domestic video indu...

This book traces the dynamic relationship between film and the city. How do film and urban space work together to challenge and forge our changing ...

What actors do on-screen is a fascination for audiences all over the world. Indeed, the cultural visibility of movie stars is so pronounced that st...

This title explores the wealth of Italian Cinema from the mid-50s to the end of the 60s. Unlike France, the Czech Republic or Brazil, Italy did not...

We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls ...

This title analysis the growth of American comedy film in relation to world events and cultural trends. This book uses large scale social and cultu...

Exposing and illustrating how an ongoing engagement with nihilistic alienation may contribute to, rather than detract from, the value of life, Cine...

Celluloid Singapore is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 19...

Too often dismissed as 'trash cinema', exploitation films have nevertheless become sincerely appreciated cult objects on home video. In this new st...

Over her six-film career, including works like Old Joy, Meek's Cutoff and Certain Women, the independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has established ...

Pablo Larran is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and establi...

Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political torture Examines role of images and film in (mis)understa...

As the Western matured, womens roles became more complex and modern transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionis...