Films, Cinema

This book explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noi...

This book examines the influence of film noir on visual narrative and technique in global cinematic traditions. Following World War II, film noir b...

In Cinema, If You Please, Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to th...

Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major ...

This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time film and television have engaged with the golden age as formulated...

As Hollywood shifts towards the digital era, the role of the media franchise has become more prominent. This edited collection, from a range of int...

This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effec...

This book traces the contribution of Punjabis born before the Partition of India in 1947 to Indian cinema. It examines the story of their contribut...

This book shows that screens dont just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physica...

Alicia Malones Take on Influential Women in Film!Once again Alicia Malone champions women filmmakers, opening the floodgates to a great new wave of...

From the macabre world of Guillermo del Toro comes a deliciously twisted take on a traditional seventy-eight-card tarot deck. Designed and illustra...

The name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspensethat is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling sus...

Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in globa...

The Housing Film examines how a century of realities and possibilities in domestic living have been profiled and foregrounded through studies and r...

In Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times recounts the surprising and dramatic story of how Network made it to the screen. The movie was t...

Forty years and one billion dollars in gross box office receipts after the initial release of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's masterful trilo...

Reel Terror is a love letter to the wildly popular yet still misunderstood genre that churns out blockbusters and cult classics year after year. Fr...

In the late 1960s, the white counterculture enters the screens with Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider; in 1976, a backlash seems to have taken place ...

This book explores the impact of digital technology on the essay film in the early 21st century, arguing that the cinematic essay has been associat...

How Directors Dress uses clothing to tell exciting new stories about directors, their lives, their movies, and the times in which they were made, f...

Inspired by the cherished memories of a childhood spent in Hawai´i, wrapped by the Aloha Spirit that unites all those living in the islands as one ...

An illustrated monograph on the work of legendary writer/director David Cronenberg, master of body horror and cinematic provocateur behind films su...

In 1976, National Lampoon, the nation's most popular humour magazine, decided to create a movie under the Lampoon banner. It would be set on a coll...

Forget being an actor. You don't have the look, you don't have the talent, and your name is ridiculous. You are the last guy I would ever pick to b...

It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag b...