Films, Cinema

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying new kind of history (The New Yorker), the chief film ...

The exploitation film industry of Italy, Spain and France during the height of its popularity from 1960 to 1980 is the focus of this entertainin...

Horror and slasher films are often dismissed for their apparent lack of sophistication and dearth of redeemable values. However, despite criticism ...

Charley Chase began his film career in early 1913 working as a comedian, writer, and director at the Al Christie studios under his real name, Charl...

This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas....

In the 1970s and ''80s, Burt Reynolds represented a new breed of movie star: Charming and relentlessly macho, he was a good ol'' Southern boy who m...

In Allegories of the End of Capitalism, Milo Sweedler deconstructs the events of films Melancholia; Cosmopolis; Suffragette; Django Unchained; Elys...

First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general readers int...

In the movies, government often finds itself in a variety of roles from villain to supporting cast, and rarely, if ever, the hero. A frequent compo...

For nearly 40 years, David Lynch's works have enthralled, mystified, and provoked viewers. Lynch's films delve into the subjective consciousness of...

In 1898, documentary footage of a yacht race was shot by Robert A. Mitchell, making him the first Irishman to shoot a film within Ireland. Despite ...

Curated from the pages of Star Wars Insider, go behind the scenes to discover how the most terrifying Star Wars villains were brought to the screen...

'Absolutely delicious . . . Janelle Brown is a surgeon of the complex relationships between women. I gobbled this up'Emma Straub, New York Times be...

Grief is all around us. At the heart of the brightly coloured, vividly characterised, joyful films of Studio Ghibli, they are wracked with loss - o...

In the spring and summer of 1973, a wave of martial arts movies from Hong Kong epitomized by Bruce Lees Enter the Dragon smashed box-office recor...

An inspirational trove of film posters and ephemera, photographs, artwork and more from the collection of Spike Lee For nearly four decades, Spike...

In 1895, the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph. Less than a year later, 23-year-old Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in cinema histo...