Films, Cinema

The newest volume in the Film Theory in Practice Series, Auteur Theory and My Son John offers a concise introduction to authorship and auteur theo...

What are the barriers to womens participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era?In this book, Ellie Tomsett ...

Readers of all stripes will find something to appreciate in this collection, which illuminates how Kings horror literature as a media form has shif...

Readers of all stripes will find something to appreciate in this collection, which illuminates how Kings horror literature as a media form has shif...

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over the past 30 years, the fields ...

In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a renaissance. For the ...

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescap...

Landscript 2: Filmic Mapping examines forms of land measurement primarily through documentary and essay films of the past 10 years. It investigates...

Comprehensive German film history This lavishly illustrated volume tells the story of German film through the collection of the Deutsche Kinemathe...

This book represents the first in-depth research dedicated to examining the historical and contemporary developments of Japanese film festivals as ...

Immigrant film festivals are multifaceted events where complex networks of identities and symbolic values are constructed, circulated, and debated ...

Take a deep dive into the making of Ultraman: Rising with this official comprehensive, lavishly illustrated coffee-table book, featuring exclusive ...

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward womens ...

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward womens ...

This volume brings together scholarship from both established scholars and early career academics to provide fresh insights and new research on the...

Romantic comedies have had an incredible influence on popular culture, shaping everything from how we think of relationships to fashion. Often swep...

This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinemas ...

Brisk [and] forceful. Sight & SoundLucidly argued. Total FilmMargarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorffs The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1...

Discovering the potential of video and film artAn informative, inspiring, richly illustrated book on contemporary moving-image art. This book sets ...

Dive into the dark and dazzling world of Repo! The Genetic Opera with this comprehensive guide by Hollywood historian Staci Layne Wilson. From on-s...

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The heart-warming true story of the dog who played Fang in Harry PotterMonkey is a young Neapolitan Mastiff; larger than life, full of energy and e...

Hollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IA...

An archival study of Ida Lupinos work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to the 1970s. Though her acti...

The Hollywood screen legend brings his wit, insight, entertaining stories and wisdom to answer questions about every aspect of his long life - insp...

Since his explosive debut with the indie sensation Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson has established himself as one of contemporary cinema's most ex...

Most histories of Soviet cinema portray the 1970s as a period of stagnation with the gradual decline of the film industry. This book, however, exam...

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes a collection of production, per...

Hitchcock was a masterful director, popular with audiences of all ages and critically acclaimed both during and after his unusually long career. Wh...

This fully revised and updated edition of the classic book on cinematic composition provides readers with the necessary skills and technical know-h...

At only eighteen months old, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water, resulting in third-degree burns...

March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, ...

From the show-stoppingly elegant (Halle Berry winning the award for Monster's Ball in a breathtaking Elie Saab) to the decidedly kooky (Adam Rippon...

Coloring Snow White, Cinderella, Pocahontas, Ariel, Tiana, and other Disney Princess characters is easy and fun with this special coloring book tha...

Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist. Blending a trademark black hum...

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier ...

In this innovative study, German and film studies scholar Randall Halle advances the concept of interzones--geographical and ideational spaces of t...

Rediscover all the reasons you love The Matrix!Whether you saw the movie in theaters in 1999 or watched it for the first time at home, there is no ...

In this photo-filled viewing guide, Turner Classic Movies presents a festival of sunshine classics -- movies that capture the spirit of the most ca...

Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impa...

Deflecting the attention from Hollywood, Stars in World Cinema fills an important gap in the study of film by bringing together Star Studies and Wo...

Between the end of the Civil War (1949) and the colonels' military coup (1967) Greece underwent tremendous political, economic, and social trans...

The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the his...

This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of...

Sue Thornham explores issues of space, place, time and gender in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by contemporar...

This edited textbook explores the 17 UN SDGs through 12 works from the humanities, including films, novels, and photographic collections. It provid...

Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a...