Films, Cinema

The history of the 'video nasties' has been recounted many times and the films that caused so much offence have themselves been endlessly examined....

When we think of the pulse in cinema, we may think of the heartbeat of the spectator as they respond to affective or moving scenes in the film, or ...

To what extent have digital innovations transformed the UK film industry? What new practices and processes are emerging within the contemporary UK ...

Precisely, perhaps, because they are so immediately absorbing, narrative films can also be profoundly confusing and disorienting. This fascinating ...

Focusing on a recent wave of international art cinema, Animal Worlds offers the first sustained analysis of the relations between cinematic time an...

Greek Cinema and Migration provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greece, and to determine the cap...

For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned dir...

Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up ...

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

Greek Cinema and Migration provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greece, and to determine the cap...

'My' Self on Camera is the first book to explore first person narrative documentary in China's post-Mao era. Since the emergence of the individual ...

Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collectio...

This collection of exciting new research on British cinema of the 1960s reconsiders and reframes the film culture that emerged from that tumultuous...

Examining Monty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this book reappraises Python's comedy output f...

Since 2007 Mia Hansen-Lve has directed a series of meditative film dramas about families, love, vulnerability and growing up, all of them exception...

Making a compelling argument for the continuing relevance of Brechtian film theory and cinema, this book offers new research and analysis of Brecht...

The American television commercial has an aesthetic and historical dynamic linking it directly to cinematic and media cultures. Consuming Images: F...

The acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for which he won an Academy Award for Bes...

ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze is the first collection of essays on this important and original contemporary filmmaker. It looks at his ground-b...

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual p...

Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists she was also an influential philosopher, whose work was...

Casting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts is the fi...

Moroccan film production has increased rapidly since the late 2000s, and Morocco is a thriving service production hub for international film and te...

Youth has been represented on screen for decades and has informed many directors' visual, narrative and social perspectives, but there has not been...

Documentary cinema has always drawn from real life, but an increasing number of contemporary filmmakers are going further still, drawing onscreen i...

From cinema's earliest days, walking and filmmaking have been intrinsically linked. Technologically, culturally and aesthetically, the pioneers of ...

The award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving confidentl...

Claude Chabrol's cinema is generally associated with a specific type of psychological thriller, one set in the French provinces and fascinated with...

This two volume set investigates the theoretical and practical framework that informs scholarship on documentary film that has hitherto neglected q...

This is an exploration of the impact of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on American cinema. Where could one turn for a more effective cultural baromet...

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual p...

Until the 1990s, animation occupied a relatively marginal presence in Hollywood. Today, it is at the very heart of both the film industry and conte...

World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and nation...

Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Pa...

This book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and th...

Over half a century on, the 1960s continue to generate strong intellectual and emotional responses both positive and negative and this is no less...