Films, Cinema

Examines Fran ois Ozon, one of France's most prolific and best known international (queer) directors Analyses films including Potiche, Frantz and ...

Omar Sayfo textually analyses around 40 animation productions in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, the Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Ar...

Outlining the rise of Philippine slums alongside the historical development of Philippine urban cinema, Slum Imaginaries and Spatial Justice in Phi...

Investigates how horror films have rendered the human body as a media artifact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects and visual fragme...

Explores how Arab animations have been deeply engaged in the making and remaking of religious and political identities The first in-depth study of...

Explores the relationship between cinema and the cities of Western China Bridges the gap where the cinematic landscape in China has long been domi...

Is the experience of watching a film with others in a cinema crucially different from watching a film alone? Does laughing together amplify our enj...

An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944 98) has become a neglected figure ...

This book analyses representations of East Asia, mainly China and Japan, in selected Anglophone novels and films. Starting with the earliest texts ...

Documentary, in a small, bilingual nation such as Wales, experiences many of the same challenges that it faces across the world. As the costs of pr...

Presents an analysis of what contemporary directors seek to attain by putting their spectators in a position of strong discomfort. In recent years ...

Approaches the recent resurgence of the fantastic in Chinese cinemas Offers the framework of 'Sino-enchantment' as a new theoretical lens through ...

Offers the first scholarly study of the Oscars red carpet as a media phenomenon Unravels the political actions of institutions and individuals tha...

A richly historicised account of the modern corporation and its spatial manifestations in Britain and America Centres the hotel and corporate spac...

Offers the first comprehensive English-language book on the life and career of Paul Leni Covers many dimensions of Leni's professional creativity,...

Examines the practices of independent digital feature-filmmaking in contemporary BritainTo what extent have digital innovations transformed the UK ...

Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the...

Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt's thought to provide a new theoretical approac...

Presenting the depiction of migration through a variety of cinematic outlets, this volume explores film's depiction of human displacement in differ...

Although Chinese film audiences have always maintained a foundational cultural interest in the fantastic, this trend has dramatically increased ove...

Bringing together a range of international scholars, European Film Remakes discusses for the first time the textual, socio-cultural, political, and...

Tim Burton is an internationally celebrated director, critically acclaimed for his fantasy horror films and the macabre ghosts, animated corpses an...

The apparent shift in power relations between the developed and developing world, along with the increasing emphasis that national and transnationa...

Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, Western China on Screen is the first monograph to explore the affinity between ...

The concept of identity in superhero narratives has become a burgeoning field in academic studies of this increasingly popular cinematic genre. Wom...

Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury is the first anthology to explore the rockumentary as a central component of both the documentar...

Silent-era film scholarship has all too often focused on a handful of German directors, including Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch, but ...

A cultural history of the contemporary Hollywood animated feature, from Toy Story to The Lego Movie Examines critically a range of prominent conte...

One of the most well regarded of non-Western film directors, responsible for acknowledged classics like Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro worked dur...

Examines the cultural significance of the werewolf filmProvides thefirst academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the...

This book places the concept of duration at the centre of an understanding of cinema and spectatorship. The process of aesthetic imaging in time is...

The first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections...

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director's films. Bouchareb was one of Fran...

This is the first English-language anthology on experimental and independent Italian cinema. Providing an overview of the legacies and transformati...

Channelling a focus on the history of cinema into the present and beyond, Persistent Images: Encountering Film History in Contemporary Cinema explo...

In the late 1960s, the collapse of the classic Hollywood studio system led in part, and for less than a decade, to a production trend heavily influ...

From cinema's earliest days, walking and filmmaking have been intrinsically linked. Technologically, culturally and aesthetically, the pioneers of ...

The first inclusive collection to examine post-2008 developments in Balkan cinema, this book brings together a number of international scholars to ...

Riven with unresolved traumas and appropriated by successive governments, the past haunts spaces in Mexican film and visual culture. These events, ...

Examines the cultural significance of the werewolf film Provides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding ...

This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen new...

The 1919 anti-colonial revolution is a key moment in modern Egyptian history and a historical reference point in Egyptian culture through the centu...

Examining Monty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this book reappraises Python's comedy output f...

Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1930sIn the popular imaginat...

'If all we do is bring to light what we already know, then what is the point of what we are doing?'This has been Ian Buchanan's guiding motto throu...

The issue of cinematic realism is important because the issue of realism, of the relationship between representation and reality, is important. If ...