Film history, theory or criticism

This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain.

Television had, until recently, a social and cultural purpose.

Animation in Context is an illustrated introduction to cultural theory, contextual research and critical analysis.

Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film.

This timely study breaks new ground in exploring how recent film and television horror texts articulate a female rite of passage, updating the cautionary concerns found in fairy tales of the past, particularly in warning against predatory men, treacherous females and unhappy family situations.

The world of contemporary American infants and young children is saturated with inappropriate images of American Indians.

This core teaching text provides a thorough overview of the recently emerged field of transnational film studies.

Francesco Rosi is one of the great realist artists of post-war Italian, indeed post-war world cinema.

This dynamic collection of essays by international film scholars and classicists addresses the provocative representation of sexuality in the ancient world on screen.

Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse's cinematic output.

This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate.

The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema examines how political thriller films (de)construct and reflect the sociopolitical realities of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran's leading playwrights and auteur filmmakers.

"e; Winner of the 2003 Ray and Pat Browne Book Award, given by the Popular Culture Association The contributors to Hollywood's White House examine the historical accuracy of these presidential depictions, illuminate their influence, and uncover how they reflect the concerns of their times and the social and political visions of the filmmakers.

Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner's Mad Men, Lars von Trier's Melancholia and Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and renovates the terms in which melodrama has been understood.

Academy Award-winning director Michael Curtiz (1886-1962)-whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954)-was in many ways the anti-auteur.

This book puts forward a more considered perspective on 3D, which is often seen as a distracting gimmick at odds with artful cinematic storytelling.

In the early days of cinema, when actors were unbilled and unmentioned in credits, audiences immediately noticed Mary Pickford.

This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues.

Miracles and Sacrilege is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.

The first book on Hitchcock that focuses exclusively on his work with actorsAlfred Hitchcock is said to have once remarked, "e;Actors are cattle,"e; a line that has stuck in the public consciousness ever since.

In Queer African Cinemas, Lindsey B.

At the heart of Christian theology lies a paradox unintelligible to other religions and to secular humanism: that in the person of Jesus, God became man, and suffered on the cross to effect humanity's salvation.

The purpose of this book, through its very creation, is to strengthen the dialogue between practitioner and theorist.

American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century.

More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades.

For more than 40 years, dozens of film directors, writers and producers tried and failed to adapt John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces.

Das Hotel als Mikrokosmos der Gesellschaft.

The changing face of feminist discourse as reflected by the career of one of its preeminent scholars Figures of Resistance brings together the unpublished lectures and little-seen essays of internationally renowned theorist Teresa de Lauretis, spanning over twenty years of her finest work.

"e;Brianton's well-documented study of a Hollywood controversy delves into one example of the post-WWII Red Scare"e; (Publishers Weekly).

In a "e;return"e; to Edmund Husserl and Sigmund Freud, Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh explores how we can engage these foundational thinkers of phenomenology and psychoanalysis in an original approach to film.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Film, History and Memory broadens the focus from 'history', the study of past events, to 'memory', the processes - individual, generational, collective or state-driven - by which meanings are attached to the past.

Just before World War II, French cinema reached a high point that has been dubbed the style of "e;poetic realism.

The apocalypse on the big screen has expanded beyond the familiar end-of-the-world movies.

Few lives provide as much history or drama as those of monarchs.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole People-they stalked and oozed into audiences' minds during the era that followed Boris Karloff's Frankenstein and preceded terrors like Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Chucky (Child's Play).

A cinematic and vibrant coming-of-age memoir, Chasing the Panther captures the thrilling and, at times, heartbreaking early years of Carolyn Pfeiffer, a pioneering film producer and one of Hollywood's first female executivesa ';mini-mogul' in the words of the Wall Street Journal.

This is an exploration of the representation of Ireland and the Irish in British and US cinemas, as well as Irish-made films.

From the team who brought you The Empire Film Guide, here are all the obscure, indecent and downright bizarre movie facts and figures that were not considered sensible for a practical film guide.

In Mock Classicism Nilo Couret presents an alternate history of Latin American cinema that traces the popularity and cultural significance of film comedies as responses to modernization and the forerunners to a more explicitly political New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s.

Jane Austen wrote for a Regency-period audience and could never have predicted the lasting success of her original works.

Cavernosa, usualmente fría, siempre oscura, con un ligero olor a palomitas de maíz en el aire: la experiencia de ir al cine es universal.

Alfred Hitchcock's American films are not only among the most admired works in world cinema, they also offer some of our most acute responses to the changing shape of American society in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.

Contemporary Cuba is opening up to the rest of the world.

This book applies the discourse of the so-called 'spatial turn' to popular contemporary cinema, in particular the action sequences of twenty-first century Hollywood productions.

McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four recent big-budget movies: Titanic, Gangs of New York, Australia, and Inglourious Basterds .

In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J.

Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the 1920s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work.