Films, Cinema

Since the 1960s, documentary films have moved closer to the mainstream, thanks to the popularity of rockumentaries, association with the independen...

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteu...

A behind-the-scenes guide to the National Trust locations in some of the most iconic film and TV moments. Fully updated to include the latest drama...

Throughout Southeast Asia, film stars hold an important place in popular culture. They feature prominently in magazines and newspapers, on billboar...

This is the first book-length study to examine the enduring popularity of block-buster films based on DC or Marvel superhero comics properties. It ...

It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of classics. Consequently, most ori...

The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history, celebrated for i...

A camp lipsynched routine by three air stewards distracts unsuspecting passengers from the fact that their plane is to make a crash landing. Perfor...

Of all the artisans who work in the American film industry, directors have been given the lion's share of attention. Yet few books in this literatu...

The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death not only examines the enfant terrible writers thoughts on cinema, but also features interviews with...

Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until n...

The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the 'trick films'of the early silen...

Hollywood Diplomacy contends that, rather than simply reflect the Wests cultural fantasies of an imagined Orient, images of Chinese, Japanese, and ...

Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where lightness of tone permits audience engagement wi...

Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection ...

Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a def...

Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadsides interc...

Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachias Roadside Theater This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roads...

Fashioning Spain is a cultural history of Spanish fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries, a period of significant social, political, and economic u...

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleHaunted Laughter addresses whether it is appropriate to use comedy as a literary form to depict Ado...

Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to ...

Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even after it evolves int...

David Fincher's Mank recreates 1930s Hollywood through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to fini...

Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best Monograph Starting out as an independent filmmaker, and despite his films being subjected to censors...