Film history, theory or criticism

Trauma Cinema focuses on a new breed of documentary films and videos that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter and trauma as their aesthetic.

In iconic films like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino personified the spirit of '90s filmmaking, boldly forging his own opportunities rather than waiting for the movie industry to come knocking on his door.

Few could have predicted the enduring affection inspired by Joss Whedon's television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

An intimate portrait of the legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, as told by his closest friends in show business and the arts.

The intelligent person's guide to the movies, with more than 2,800 reviewsLook up a movie in this guide, and chances are you'll find yourself reading on about the next movie and the next.

Examines the modernist political imagination through representations of Hitler in literature and visual arts.

Examines the modernist political imagination through representations of Hitler in literature and visual arts.

In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London.

This book explores the evolution of audience receptions of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy (2012-14) as an exemplar of the contemporary blockbuster event film franchise.

This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies.

This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture.

This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema's first years.

This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a cultural phenomenon within Australia.

This volume explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre to address the reconfiguration of the geographical, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscape of Latin America.

Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force.

This essential core textbook provides an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory, written by two highly experienced senior lecturers.

This book explores how classical and Shakespearean tragedy has shaped the temporality of crisis on the stage and in time-travel films and videogames.

Philosophy and the Patience of Film presents a comparative study of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy and Stanley Cavell.

This book maps the aesthetic experience of late socialism through Cuban film and media practice.

This book examines the queer film festival and opens the discussion on social enterprises and sustainable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organisations.

This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore the uses of Digital Storytelling, which places the greatest possible emphasis on the voice of the storyteller.

This book is the first to explore 'old age' in cinema at the intersection of gender, ageing, celebrity and genre studies.

This book presents an expert analysis of  the transnational aspects of Finnish cinema throughout its history.

This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks.

This book explores the way in which doubling takes place in several novels, films, and dramas, primarily focusing on modern drama and exploring how five Greek myths - Oedipus, Narcissus, Dionysus, Orestes, and Demeter - inform the literature.

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

Reflecting on a series of ethical and moral questions significant to contemporary Spanish culture, Cristina Sanchez-Conejero analyzes several issues related to sexuality in gender as they're portrayed Spanish film.

This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth.

This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain.

This edited collection offers a wide range of essays showcasing current research on emotions in TV series.

Focusing on "e;dark"e; or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present.

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

The idea of the "e;mamma italiana"e; is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy.

This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience.

Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the shifts in our emotional preferences, styles, and 'emotional regimes' in western societies from the 1920s to today, as viewed through the lens of film and television.

This book examines the Western genre in the period since Westerns ceased to be a regular feature of Hollywood filmmaking.

The Star Trek franchise reflects, conveys, and comments upon the key philosophical tensions of the modern era.

Return to Twin Peaks offers new critical considerations and approaches to the Twin Peaks series, as well as reflections on its significance and legacy.

What was it like to work behind the scenes, away from the spotlight's glare, in Hollywood's so-called Golden Age?

Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s.

This book examines the aesthetic qualities of particular Chinese-language films and the rich artistic traditions from which they spring.

While urban films often reinforce spatial stereotypes, they can also produce a resistant reading that helps transgress spatial boundaries, especially in in urban contexts where spatial inequalities and urban divisions are stark.

This book explores the role and centrality of women in the development of collaborative theatre practice, alongside the significance of collective creation and devising in the development of the modern theatre.

This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films.

Hand-Made Television explores the ongoing enchantment of many of the much-loved stop-frame children's television programmes of 1960s and 1970s Britain.

This book addresses a variety of regional humor traditions such as exploitation cinema, Brazilian chanchada, the Cantinflas heritage, the comedy of manners and light sexuality, iconic figures and characters, as well as a variety of humor registers evident in different Latin American films.

This book takes up the queer girl as a represented and rhetorical figure within film, television and video.

This collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'.

This book is about the British film-maker Lindsay Anderson.