Films, Cinema

The battles fought in the name of the war on terror have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those...

From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. W...

Refocus:The Films of Amy Heckerling is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and screenwrite...

Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political, and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' fro...

During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce t...

One of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium, this volume captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and inter...

Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little at...

From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Delmer Daves was responsible for a unique body of work, but few filmmakers...

Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention i...

This undergraduate textbook examines American independent cinema from the very beginnings of US cinema and includes chapters on independence within...

The emergence of these media enables new modes of perception that create special sensations of wonder, astonishment, marvel, and the fantastic. Suc...

Combining industrial research and primary interview material with detailed textual analysis, Contemporary British Horror Cinema looks beyond the do...

Darstellungen von Schule in deutschen Spielfilmen scheinen immer wieder auf ähnliche Bilder und Semantiken von Bildung, Erziehung und sozialer Sel...

This volume examines the gangster film in its historical context with an emphasis on the ways the image of the gangster has adapted and changed as ...

Provides a new platform for discourse on how aural elements combine with moving imagesThe New Soundtrack is a biannual journal that brings together...

From the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled by the half-man/half-machine hy...

This book explores the political-aesthetic practices of transgender women in Lima, Peru, and how they use these to survive and fight for recognitio...