Films, Cinema

Mastering Screenplay Form and Style shows you how professional screenwriters actually write scripts. This reference manual explores all aspects of ...

Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions of Francophone African women ...

Die Tschechoslowakei bildete sich 1918 als ein neuer demokratischer Staat in Europa. Künstlerinnen und Künstler nahezu aller Bereiche entwickelten ...

Pierrot, a theatrical stock character known by his distinctive costume of loose white tunic and trousers, is a ubiquitous figure in French art and ...

The definitive reference for all Wes Anderson fans.  Loaded with rich imagery and detailed analysis of his incredible films including the classics...

With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fift...

No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholar...

From The Wild Angels in 1966 until its conclusion in 1972, the cycle of outlaw motorcycle films contained forty-odd formulaic examples. All but one...

Explores British cinematic representations of masculinityFrom the new man to the metrosexual, British society from the 1990s to the 2000s was pre-o...

A vivid and compelling collection of quotations from the influential contemporary artist and filmmaker Shirin NeshatNeshat-isms is an exciting coll...

From New York Times bestselling paper engineer Matthew Reinhart comes a pop-up masterpiece celebrating the creatures in the Harry Potter films. Fea...

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Contemporary Cinema, Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include Crossing Ne...

This is a very well-written and thoroughly researched study that offers interesting new insights into the transnational connections of producers an...

Jungian film studies is a fast-growing academic field, but Jungian and post-Jungian concepts are still new to many academics and film critics. Hele...

The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender comprises forty-three innovative essays that offer both an overview of and an intervention into the fi...

Agnes Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, fil...

On Animation: The Director's Perspective is a collection of interviews with 23 animated feature-film directors. These extensive interviews were con...

One of the last representatives of a brand of serious, high-art cinema, Alexander Sokurov has produced a massive oeuvre exploring issues such as hi...

This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the regi...

This is an accessible and fascinating account of the ways in which East German filmmakers made use of art and artists over more than forty years of...

Offering new historical information coupled with refined close readings and an impressive amount of archival work, East German Film and the Holocau...

The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 19602000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000. Ch...