Films, Cinema

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...

Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad...

A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg offers a comprehensive, detailed study of the works of Steven Spielberg. Spielbergs early productions stan...

The official art book for the animated fantasy movie Spellbound, taking readers on a magical journey through the world of Lumbria via beautiful con...

Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the...

The words Asian American film might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festi...

Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema explores aspects of gender, race and region in films and television produced in the northern Australian sta...

Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema explores aspects of gender, race and region in films and television produced in the northern Australian sta...

Bringing together a group of international scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, Grease Is the Word analyses the cultural phenomenon Grease. ...

This book studies how documentaries, and factual media in general, can contribute to the reduction of social stigma and prejudice. It adopts models...

This handbook brings together contributions from the main experts in the field of multilingualism and language varieties (including dialects, accen...