Film history, theory or criticism

Color is one of cinema's most alluring formal systems, building on a range of artistic traditions that orchestrate visual cues to tell stories, stage ideas, and elicit feelings.

This book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures - art historian Franz Roh, novelist Alejo Carpentier, and cultural critic Fredric Jameson - drawing links between their political, aesthetic, and philosophical ideas on art's relationship to reality.

This book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures - art historian Franz Roh, novelist Alejo Carpentier, and cultural critic Fredric Jameson - drawing links between their political, aesthetic, and philosophical ideas on art's relationship to reality.

In this edited collection, an international ensemble of scholars examine what contemporary cinema tells us about neoliberal capitalism and cinema, exploring whether filmmakers are able to imagine progressive alternatives under capitalist conditions.

In this edited collection, an international ensemble of scholars examine what contemporary cinema tells us about neoliberal capitalism and cinema, exploring whether filmmakers are able to imagine progressive alternatives under capitalist conditions.

Of all the world s cinemas, Japan's is perhaps unique in its closeness to the nation's literature, past and contemporary.

Of all the world s cinemas, Japan's is perhaps unique in its closeness to the nation's literature, past and contemporary.

This unique survey of the evolution of the modern Chinese national character incorporates a rich blend of history and theory as well as nation, gender, and film studies.

This unique survey of the evolution of the modern Chinese national character incorporates a rich blend of history and theory as well as nation, gender, and film studies.

Jean-Luc Godard (París, 1930 - Rolle, Suiza, 2022) fue uno de los revolucionarios críticos que, desde las páginas de Cahiers du Cinéma, promovieron la "política de autores": una renovada concepción del director de cine como creador que, mediante la puesta en escena, convertía sus películas en obras de arte.

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.

From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love storythe romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogartcapturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before.

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

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.