Individual Film Directors, Film-makers

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...

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...

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

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

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...

The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it i...

Extreme violence in contemporary European art cinema is generally interpreted for its affective potential, but what about the significance of the e...

From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andr Bazin...

From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. W...

Refocus:The Films of Amy Heckerling is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and screenwrite...

One of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium, this volume captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and inter...

From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Delmer Daves was responsible for a unique body of work, but few filmmakers...

From the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled by the half-man/half-machine hy...

With the dark, mythical magic of the Winternight trilogy, and the slow-burn romance of Spinning Silver, NORTH IS THE NIGHT is a feminist fantasy ad...

With the dark, mythical magic of the Winternight trilogy, and the slow-burn romance of Spinning Silver, NORTH IS THE NIGHT is a feminist fantasy ad...

Mai Elizabeth Zetterling (1925-94) is among the most exceptional postwar female filmmakers. Born in Sweden, she lived in England and France for mos...

Contemporary Directors Cinema refreshes the argument about the role of the director through the practice of evaluative criticism. The book identifi...

'An impressively deep dive... Essential for anime enthusiasts.'- EMPIREStep beyond the magical movies and explore the wider world of Studio Ghibli....

*Pre-order the new novel from the bestselling author of the Fable series and Spells for Forgetting*The only thing James and Johnny Golden have ever...

*Pre-order the new novel from the bestselling author of the Fable series and Spells for Forgetting*The only thing James and Johnny Golden have ever...

Asia's film industries have undergone significant transformation in the last 30 years. From bilateral co-production agreements to pan-Asian financi...

Ana Kokkinos is an Australian screenwriter, producer and director who has worked in film and television for almost thirty years. Best known for her...

Explores how Armstrong's films re-work conventions about literary adaptation, biography and realist storytellingExamines Armstrong's work in light ...

Independent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where 'independent' operates ...

When we think of the pulse in cinema, we may think of the heartbeat of the spectator as they respond to affective or moving scenes in the film, or ...

Greek Cinema and Migration provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greece, and to determine the cap...

Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collectio...