Films, Cinema

THROUGH A LENS DARKLY. LOOK-ING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN This is a book with Bergman which creates a stage for a dialog between three generations, three ...

James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmm...

This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Rur...

Long before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooke...

For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination. In par...

The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with ...

Transnational films that represent intimacy and inequality produce new experiences that result in the displacement of the universal spectator, in a...

Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and...

As one of the most beloved and beguiling genres of entertainment, the film musical wears its style ostentatiously. The genre allows for hyperbolic ...

Charlie Chaplin's career has been described, critiqued, and scrutinized. There are book-length studies on Chaplin's music hall career, his career a...

Italian filmmakers have created some of the most magical and moving, violent and controversial films in world cinema. During its twentieth-century ...

Written by experienced Film Studies authors and teachers, and endorsed by WJEC Eduqas, this key resource provides high-quality content, insight and...

Stalin-era cinema was designed to promote emotional and affective education. The filmmakers of the period were called to help forge the emotions an...

  Marvel fan-favourite Groot stars in this original storybook that explores social emotional issues. With a kid-friendly art s...

Betty Comden and Adolph Green were the writers behind such classic stage musicals as On the Town, Wonderful Town, and Bells Are Ringing, and they p...

Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema takes a new approach to world cinema through critical theory. Whereas world cinema often refers to non-America...

In a surveillance culture, the ubiquity of audio-visual recording devices has enabled the unprecedented documentation of private indiscretions, sca...

From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, and cultural transformations have unsettled established assumptions about the relation...