Films, Cinema

Mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking is a global phenomenon with distinctive festivals, filmmakers and creatives that are defining an original ...

Ghost in the Well is the first study to provide a full history of the horror genre in Japanese cinema, from the silent era to Classical period movi...

In recent years, the Arab world and Iran have been afflicted by cataclysmic events, among them brutal state crackdowns of revolutions. Yet, filmmak...

Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one ...

In the 21st century, films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Yet, British cinemas engageme...

What has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golde...

20 years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and tech...

Werner Herzog came to fame in the 1970s as the European new wave explored new cinematic ideas. With films like Signs of Life (1968), Aguirre, the W...

The French New Wave is an essential anthology of writings by and about the critics and filmmakers of this revolutionary cinematic movement, which h...

A Sight & Sound Book of the Year Eye-opening and addictively readable. Total Film Who and what decides if a film gets funded? How do those wh...

Gilles Deleuze represents the most widely referenced theorist of cinema today. And yet, even the most rudimentary pillars of his thought remain mys...

Cinema Memories brings together and analyses the memories of almost a thousand people of going to the cinema in Britain during the 1960s. It offer...

Michael Allen's insightful study explores the long and diverse career of the actor and director Robert Redford, from his early work in theatre and ...

Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films l...

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

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Catherine OBrien draws on the struct...

The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the worlds most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In te...

What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Vi...

The Animation Studies Reader brings together both key writings within animation studies and new material in emerging areas of the field. The collec...

Since the Second World War, depictions of Royal Air Force operations in film and television drama have become so numerous that they make up a genre...

We live in a secular world and cinema is part of that secular edifice. There is no expectation, in modern times, that filmmakers should be believer...

This book marks a return for Laura Mulvey to questions of film theory and feminism, as well as a reconsideration of new and old film technologies. ...

Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and ...

The Science of Writing Characters is a comprehensive handbook to help writers create compelling and psychologically-credible characters that come t...

This comprehensively revised, updated and significantly extended edition introduces German film history from its beginnings to the present day, cov...

The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jef...

Black & white film, the cinema of shadows and light, is a filmgoer's pleasure and a film student's surprised delight. The greatest of films are...

Making movies is the most exciting way to earn a living and it is not surprising that media and film studies remain the most popular courses at col...

Striving to leave fidelity-criticism behind, this comparative analysis treats Henry James Portrait of a Lady and its cinematic counterpart by Jane ...

From cinemas silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure. Despite spectacular t...

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, vis...

The British Film Industry in 25 Careers tells the history of the British film industry from an unusual perspective - that of various mavericks, vis...

The five films the Beatles worked on during their time together (A Hard Days Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) all r...

Monty Python's Life of Brian film is known for its brilliant satirical humour. Less well known is that the film contains references to what was, a...