Films, Cinema

Hitchcock Annual volume 27 includes essays on The Whole Hitchcock, and Nothing But the Parts, the complex villain in I Confess, Marnie and The Tam...

Citizen Cowboy is a probing biography of one of America's most influential cultural figures. Will Rogers was a youth from the Cherokee Indian Terri...

The Shining may be the first movie that ever made its audience jump with a title that simply says, Tuesday, proclaimed The New York Times. Never h...

InMobilizing Music in Wartime British Film,author Heather Wiebe traces a preoccupation with art music and total war that animated British films of ...

InMobilizing Music in Wartime British Film,author Heather Wiebe traces a preoccupation with art music and total war that animated British films of ...

This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and diseaseeven more so in the 21st century where it ...

Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies through...

Yorgos Lanthimoss filmography, lauded for its ambitious world-building and absurdist explorations of human relations, has established him as one of...

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

Whether its Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to F...

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers theatre of the 1920s and 1930s trans...

Come to the movies with two celebrated spirituality writers--American poet and author Kathleen Norris and Irish storyteller and peace activist Gare...

Over the course of the past two decades, horror cinema around the globe has become increasingly preoccupied with the concept of loss. Grief in Cont...

Drawing on film theory, literary modernism, psychology and art history, Fields of View elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-...

The core goal of Directing Screen Performances is to teach aspiring directors how to prepare and work with actors. Through a practical exploration ...

Bollywood Horrors is a wide-ranging collection that examines the religious aspects of horror imagery, representations of real-life horror in the mo...

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cult...

Samuel L. Jackson's embodiment of cool isn't just inspirational-it's important. Bad Motherfucker lays out how his attitude intersects with his iden...

Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-making of Blackness, through an interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of Black ...

The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema itself. Even the very first projected moving images were accompanied by music ...

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact ...

Post Sound Design provides a practical introduction to the fascinating craft of editing and replacing dialog, creating Foley and sound effects, edi...

Theorists of the soundtrack have helped us understand how the voice and music in the cinema impact a spectator's experience. James Buhler and Hanna...