Films, Cinema

Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play provides an accessible exploration into the aesthetics of interactive audio, using examples from ...

Interactive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play provides an accessible exploration into the aesthetics of interactive audio, using examples from ...

Investigates cinematic qualities in opera and reveals why Benjamin Britten's operas lend themselves to TV and film interpretations. Benjamin Britt...

A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imaginations of filmmakers and audiences for over a century...

A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imaginations of filmmakers and audiences for over a century...

It has long been known that Hollywood was actively involved in shaping US public opinion during World War II. Less well documented are the ways in ...

Most films rely on a script developed in pre-production. Yet beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the recent mumblecore movement, key inde...

Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in c...

In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenonwhat defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about t...

How has the digital turn shaped the practices of film historical research and teaching? While computational approaches have been used by film histo...

Develop your creative voice whilst acquiring the practical skills and confidence to use it with this new and fully updated edition of Mick Hurbis-C...

Develop your creative voice whilst acquiring the practical skills and confidence to use it with this new and fully updated edition of Mick Hurbis-C...

'A big hit of dopamine' EMILY GIFFIN*The instant New York Times bestseller!*****She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?Emma ha...

This volume offers the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarcks Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006)....

This book traces the development of popular cinema from its inception to the present day to understand why humankind has expanded its viewing of po...

Cars on Film celebrates the car at the movies through a unique and eclectic collection of rare stills. Cars have been an integral aspect of on-scre...

In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptica...

Re-examines notions of East and West in contemporary European cinemaTwenty-five years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of ...

Imagining Surveillance presents the first full-length study of the depiction and assessment of surveillance in literature and film. Focusing on the...

What links Italian neorealism to Django Unchained, French comic books to Third-World insurgency, and Bollywood song-and-dance to Eastern Bloc film ...

During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce t...

Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain offers a rich new exploration of interwar women's fictions ...

This book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. Starting with a study of the kiss in sile...

Nominated for four Oscars, Far from Heaven earned rave reviews and won widespread cultural and critical recognition. A knowing and emotionally invo...

What key concerns are reflected in documentaries produced in and about the United States? How have documentaries engaged with competing visions of ...

This book analyses how independent filmmakers from Bangladesh have represented national identity in their films. The focus of this book is on indep...

Straubhaar/Larose/Davenport's MEDIA NOW: UNDERSTANDING MEDIA, CULTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY, 11th Edition, thoroughly illustrates how media technologies ...

Although stardom and celebrity have sometimes been seen as antithetical to traditional British notions of restraint and modesty, female stars have ...

Moving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognisable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronised line of...

Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body i...

Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little at...

Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention i...

In the American psyche, the Wild West is a mythic-historical place where our nation's values and ideologies were formed. In this violent and uncert...

As one of the most popular and versatile Hong Kong film stars, Chow Yun-fat has enjoyed international success over the last four decades. Using Cho...

Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard ...

Offering a variety of case studies in which films have been remade across national borders, Transnational Film Remakes provides an analysis of cine...