Films, Cinema

By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the e...

Love on the Dole (1933), the iconic novel about 1930s British working-class life, has a significant place in British cultural history. Its author, ...

George A. Romeros Dawn of the Dead (1978) is celebrated both as a splatter movie and as a satire of 1970s consumerism. One of the most financially ...

Martin Scorseses Cape Fear (1991) opens with a shot of water and climaxes on a raging river. Despite, or perhaps because of, the films great commer...

The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s left a profound impact on Irish culture, as recent ground-breaking historical and literary research has reveale...

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. This beautifully designed volume taps into the sources of Feder...

Explore the enduring influence of the Western the quintessential American film genre and its essential role in US and world culture. Follow the...

Directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer, The Omen (1976) is perhaps the best in the devil-child cycle of movies that followed in th...

With this new edition of Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen, author Todd Debreceni presents the latest techniques and special effects in w...

Premiering at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Andrzej uawskis Possession remains a distinct phenomenon. Though in competition for the illustrious Pa...

The speeches of film legend Sidney Poitier-given at commencement addresses, awards shows, memorials, and more, on topics ranging from entertainment...

In The Morph-Image: The Subjunctive Synthesis of Time, Steen Ledet Christiansen argues for a new model of digital cinema that draws on Deleuzian an...

Fighting Stars provides a rich and diverse account of the emergence and legacies of Hong Kong martial arts cinema stars. Tracing the meanings and...

Fighting Stars provides a rich and diverse account of the emergence and legacies of Hong Kong martial arts cinema stars. Tracing the meanings and...

One of the most acclaimed debut features of this century, Moon (2009) tells the superficially simple story of Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), who mines He...

The Cabin in the Woods (2012), directed by Drew Goddard and co-authored by Goddard and Joss Whedon of Buffy-fame, was famously described by co-auth...

Most scholarship on Mary Lambert's Pet Sematary (1989) overarchingly focuses on the Stephen King novel (1983), and tends strongly towards housing t...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Disability and the Posth...

In A Siberian History of Soviet Film, Caroline Damiens explores how the depictions of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in Soviet cinema and te...

All art is propaganda, wrote George Orwell, but not all propaganda is art. Moving from World War I to the War on Terror and beyond, The Story of Br...

All art is propaganda, wrote George Orwell, but not all propaganda is art. Moving from World War I to the War on Terror and beyond, The Story of Br...

John Schlesingers 1969 drama, Midnight Cowboy, follows the story of naïve would-be hustler Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and ailing con man Ratso Rizzo (Du...

On November 18, 1928, the worlds most famous Mouse made his very first public debut. Today, we celebrate 90+ years of Mickey in one of the most exp...