Films, Cinema

George Clayton Johnson was an up-and-coming short story writer who broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Oceans Ele...

Known as the first film teenager, Deanna Durbin was one of the most popular actresses of the 1930s and 1940s. From starring alongside legends li...

This book unpacks and analyzes the central themes of sacrifice, melancholy, apocalypticism, and the nature of family and home in HBOs The Leftovers...

In Sean Bakers award-winning 2017 film The Florida Project, a young girl, her single mother, and her friends live in rundown motels near Disney Wor...

With her rigorous, authentic, and insightful biography of Nora Ephron, Kristin Doidge has gotten us all an invitation to sit around that tableto sp...

A genre of comic melodramas produced in the 1960s and '70s, Bourekas films are among the most popular films ever made in Israel. In Israeli Boureka...

Protestants on Screen explores the Protestant contributions to American and European film from the silent era to the present day. The authors analy...

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of ...

Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times. Germany's twentieth-century history has made im...

The first comprehensive biography of the director behind Godzilla and other Japanese sci-fi classics.   Ishiro Honda was arguably the most intern...

Witty and well researched. THE TIMES A scientific dose of reality. MAIL ON SUNDAY A fun and comprehensive exploration. LINDA McROBBIE Endlessly fas...

«This is a unique book which is multidisciplinary in the sense that it discusses a variety of genres which cut across film studies, literature and ...

Essays for teaching Chinese film, history, and societyThis volume brings a diverse range of voicesfrom anthropology, communication studies, ethnomu...

Essays for teaching Chinese film, history, and societyThis volume brings a diverse range of voicesfrom anthropology, communication studies, ethnomu...

Arguably the most important popular British composer of the 20th century, John Barry (1933-2011) enjoyed a career that spanned over fifty years, in...

For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intox...

From Chaplins tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of ...

For almost a century, movie fans have been riveted by the Academy Awards and the stars who have won Oscars. 50 Oscar Nights takes readers behind th...

The man who created the boldest hard boiled fiction, Dashiell Hammett, wrote The Thin Man in 1933 and launched the fun-loving, booze-swilling, m...

TCM host Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in an ...