Film history, theory or criticism

This second edition of William Rothman''s classic includes fourteen new essays and a new foreword.

Silent Traces: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin is the long-awaited follow-up to John Bengtsons critically acclaimed masterpiece Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton.

Australian Cinema after Mabo is a comprehensive 2005 study of Australian national cinema in the 1990s.

This book provides an introduction to the concept of the public sphere.

Brings together critically informed essays about one of the most controversial films ever made.

Includes five additional chapters that cover recent trends, as well as rediscoveries of motion pictures.

First published in 2003, Understanding Cinema analyzes the moving imagery of film and television from a psychological perspective.

Offers a rich overview of this classic in essays by six leading film critics.

Synthesizes research on emotion in cognitive psychology and neurology to provide an understanding of how film evokes emotion.

Leitch traces crime film throughout the century, reflecting a growing ambivalence towards crime and criminals.

Warren Buckland examines the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory.

This 2001 book is a systematic attempt to apply Jungian theory to the analysis of key contemporary icons and films.

Claims authorial intention, art history, and morality play a role in our encounter with art works.

Examines the use of class in the American film comedy, from the 1930s to present.

This volume of specially commissioned work by experts in the field of film studies provides a comprehensive overview of the field.

A Companion to Literature in Film provides state-of-the-art research on world literature, film, and the complex theoretical relationship between them.

These essays lively and learned give new new depth to the greatest gladiator film of all time.

The French New Wave: An Artistic School is a lively introduction to this critical moment in film history by one of the world's leading scholars on the New Wave.

Gerard Loughlin is one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture.

This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.

For decades the Village Voice set the benchmark for passionate, critical, and unique film coverage.

Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the "e;digital native"e; who acts as an unquestioning devotee to screened technologies like the smartphone.

Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the "e;digital native"e; who acts as an unquestioning devotee to screened technologies like the smartphone.

Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders-and clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror.

Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders-and clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror.

Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia's so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop.

Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia's so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop.

Celebrification has thrived for centuries in literature, theater, music, and other cultural spheres, as vividly illustrated by Byron, Sarah Bernhardt, and Paganini.

This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental processes that are elicited and triggered by found footage horror films.

This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental processes that are elicited and triggered by found footage horror films.

This book helps readers understand Moonlight's profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film's adoption and disruption of traditional coming-of-age themes through the specific prism of Chiron's childhood and youth.

This book helps readers understand Moonlight's profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film's adoption and disruption of traditional coming-of-age themes through the specific prism of Chiron's childhood and youth.

As the inaugural volume in the Docalogue series, this book models a new form for the discussion of documentary film.

As the inaugural volume in the Docalogue series, this book models a new form for the discussion of documentary film.

This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film's role in the history of franchising and serial fiction.

This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film's role in the history of franchising and serial fiction.

This book explores the ways in which Hollywood film cycles from the 1930s to the 1960s were shaped by their surrounding industrial contexts and market environments, to build an inclusive conception of the form, operation, and function of film cycles.

This book explores the ways in which Hollywood film cycles from the 1930s to the 1960s were shaped by their surrounding industrial contexts and market environments, to build an inclusive conception of the form, operation, and function of film cycles.

Longlisted for the Kraszna-Krauz Foundation's Moving Image Book Award 2024In Black Boys: The Aesthetics of British Urban Film, Nwonka offers the first dedicated analysis of Black British urban cinematic and televisual representation as a textual encounter with Blackness, masculinity and urban identity where the generic construction of images and narratives of Black urbanity is informed by the (un)knowable allure of Black urban Otherness.

A rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country's underbellyEarly on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

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From a boom in theatrical features to footage posted on websites such as YouTube and Google Video, the early years of the 21st century have witnessed significant changes in the technological, commercial, aesthetic, political, and social dimensions of documentaries on film, television and the web.

One of the rare collections I would recommend for use in undergraduate teaching the chapters are lucid without being oversimplified and the contributors are adept at analyzing the key industrial, technological and ideological features of contemporary U.

George Pattison offers theological reflections on a range of works of art and films which have attracted wide discussion such as Anthony Gormley's 'Angel of the North'.

This book examines some of the most significant recent developments in film and critical theory.

This is the first full length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film.