Films, Cinema

'I'm lucky to have an inexhaustible appetite for life. I've had many amazing adventures in Hollywood and beyond, but some stories I have only ever ...

Jason Statham has risen from street seller through championship diving and modelling to become arguably the biggest British male film star of the t...

This history covers the filmmaking tradition often referred to as cinema militant, which emerged in France during the events of May 1968 and flouri...

With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, Idols of Modernity reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and perf...

Weary from the turbulent sixties, America entered the 1970s hoping for calm. Instead, the war in Vietnam and its troubled aftermath persisted, the ...

The long-established dialogue between architecture and film offers an interdisciplinary platform for a critical examination of spaces of in-between...

An essential piece of Disney history has been largely unreported for eighty years. Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Di...

In this vivid and accessible new account of the dawn of film in Britain, internationally respected film historian and curator Bryony Dixon introduc...

Weaving together critical analysis and a filmic conversation, this book journeys through the multiple layers of Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Te...

We tend to think of imagination as private, originating from our innermost selves and language as something that is created in communication. Turni...

A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century   While the war film has carved out a prominent space with...

A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century   While the war film has carved out a prominent space with...

Does media representation advance racial justice? While the past decade has witnessed a push for increased diversity in visual media, Asians on Dem...

Does media representation advance racial justice? While the past decade has witnessed a push for increased diversity in visual media, Asians on Dem...

Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $23.6 billion a year, linked to everything from manga to comp...

This book bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers thoughts and poetics, and proposes a new way to address and elaborate film theory. It...

Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made pat...

Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made pat...

Gazas long association with resistance and humanitarian need has generated a complex and ever shifting range of visual material, comprising not jus...

Gazas long association with resistance and humanitarian need has generated a complex and ever shifting range of visual material, comprising not jus...

How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in cont...

This book deals with the seldom-written topic featuring depictions of Imperial Japan from the time it was a totalitarian power to the productions o...