Film history, theory or criticism

Drawing on first-hand materials collected from the Chinese and Japanese literature as well as interviews with more than twenty filmmakers and scholars Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau provides a solid historical account of the complex interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong film industries from the 1930s to 1970s.

Drawing on first-hand materials collected from the Chinese and Japanese literature as well as interviews with more than twenty filmmakers and scholars Kinnia Shuk-ting Yau provides a solid historical account of the complex interactions between Japanese and Hong Kong film industries from the 1930s to 1970s.

Black women film and video makers have been producing shorts, documentaries and films since the early part of this century.

Black women film and video makers have been producing shorts, documentaries and films since the early part of this century.

Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies.

Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies.

Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.

Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.

These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development.

These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development.

A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form.

A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form.

First published in 1988.

First published in 1988.

In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines "e;the myth of postfeminism"e; and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies.

In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines "e;the myth of postfeminism"e; and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies.

Through the examination of a range of literary and cinematic texts, from William Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives to the novels of Henry James, Silverman offers a bold new look at masculinities which deviate from the social norm.

Through the examination of a range of literary and cinematic texts, from William Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives to the novels of Henry James, Silverman offers a bold new look at masculinities which deviate from the social norm.

Framer Framed brings together for the first time the scripts and detailed visuals of three of Trinh Minh-ha's provocative films: Reassemblage, Naked Spaces--Living isRound, and Surname Viet Given Name Nam.

Framer Framed brings together for the first time the scripts and detailed visuals of three of Trinh Minh-ha's provocative films: Reassemblage, Naked Spaces--Living isRound, and Surname Viet Given Name Nam.

What happens when white people look at non-whites?

What happens when white people look at non-whites?

The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star investigates the contemporary film actress both as an artist and as an ideological construct.

The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star investigates the contemporary film actress both as an artist and as an ideological construct.

The Persistence of History examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation.

The Persistence of History examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation.

American cinema has always been violent, and never more so than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, racial attacks, and general mayhem.

American cinema has always been violent, and never more so than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, racial attacks, and general mayhem.

The cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier.

The cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier.

Hollywood's representation of blacks has been consistently misleading, promoting an artificially constructed mythology in place of historical fact.

Hollywood's representation of blacks has been consistently misleading, promoting an artificially constructed mythology in place of historical fact.

This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991.

This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991.

No single introductory book has until now captured the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the idea of leisure.

This book about ecstacy users' lives is based on one of the biggest government-funded projects ever undertaken and gives voice to the chemical generation for the first time.

This book about ecstacy users' lives is based on one of the biggest government-funded projects ever undertaken and gives voice to the chemical generation for the first time.

This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, and continental Europe, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with emphasis on place, ethnicity and visibility.

This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, and continental Europe, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with emphasis on place, ethnicity and visibility.

Now published in a revised second edition, The Matter of Images searches through the resonances of the term 'representation', analysing images in terms of why they matter, what they are made of, and the material realities they refer to.

Now published in a revised second edition, The Matter of Images searches through the resonances of the term 'representation', analysing images in terms of why they matter, what they are made of, and the material realities they refer to.

This book analyses some of the key problems explored in Paul Virilio's theorising on war and security.

British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s.

British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s.

This study examines the discourses of nationalism as they intersected or clashed with Spanish film production from its inception to the present.

This study examines the discourses of nationalism as they intersected or clashed with Spanish film production from its inception to the present.

South African National Cinema examines how cinema in South Africa represents national identities, particularly with regard to race.

South African National Cinema examines how cinema in South Africa represents national identities, particularly with regard to race.

This book analyses some of the key problems explored in Paul Virilio's theorising on war and security.

A comprehensive overview of the film industry in Hollywood today, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and movies of contemporary American film making.