Films, Cinema

In 1938, China City opened near downtown Los Angeles. Featuring a recreation of the House of Wang set from MGM's The Good Earth, this new Chinatown...

In 1938, China City opened near downtown Los Angeles. Featuring a recreation of the House of Wang set from MGM's The Good Earth, this new Chinatown...

Cinema has likely never been written off so often. In the decade of the 2010s, it is true, much has changed both in how we watch movies, and in ho...

Both a history and a critique of South Africa's film industry, this book recounts the long experience of filmmaker and producer Richard Green.Green...

In this new edition of Licence To Thrill, James Chapman builds upon the success of his classic work, regarded as the definitive scholarly study of ...

From the toppling of the Qing Empire in 1911 to the political campaigns and mass protests in the Mao and post-Mao eras, revolutionary upheavals cha...

Lawrence of Arabia, The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Gypsy, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Longest Day, The Music Man...

Main melody films are propaganda works that pay tribute to the Chinese nation, the party and the army. Since the turn of the century, they have gra...

Whether we consider the digitally created and manipulated faces of Hollywood cinema or the social media filters, face apps, and surveillance softwa...

Exploring how Indigenous media has flourished across Canada from the 1990s to the present   In the early 1990s, Indigenous media experienced a boo...

This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, About Last Night, and Glory, creato...

A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into a transatlantic celebrity. An aristocrat swaps high society for the film...

With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused critical cons...

Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will (1935), her ...

Acknowledging the iconic, but with plenty of room for the rare and unfamiliar, The Art of the Classic Western Movie Poster presents poster art crea...

Jesus films arose with cinema itself. Richard Walsh and Jeffrey L. Staley introduce students to these films with a general overview of the Jesus fi...

Dutch cinema, when discussed, is typically treated only in terms of pre-war films or documentaries, leaving post-war fictional film largely underst...

The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel pictures as re-enactments of the United States' r...

Andy Warhol remains one of the world's most influential artists, and his reputation has only grown since his death in 1987. He first picked up a fi...