Film history, theory or criticism

The Cinema of Agnieszka Holland: Anger and Ethics uniquely combines academic film analysis, biographical detail, and personal interviews with the filmmaker, conducted over the course of a year, to trace the development of Agnieszka Holland's female characters and how they have been reshaped across half a century.

Environmental Ethics and Film presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms.

This book argues that contemporary digital blockbusters function as laboratories for posthuman cognition that transform spectatorship into a cyborg mode in which perception, memory, and agency are distributed across the cinematic canvas, the diegetic bodies of characters, the formal operations of film style, and the embodied cognition of the spectator.

This book argues that contemporary digital blockbusters function as laboratories for posthuman cognition that transform spectatorship into a cyborg mode in which perception, memory, and agency are distributed across the cinematic canvas, the diegetic bodies of characters, the formal operations of film style, and the embodied cognition of the spectator.

You were afraid of Freddy Krueger.

This is a book about Jaws written by someone who would marry it if it were human.

"e;Twentieth-century world history, cinema history, biography, news clippings, and anecdotes come together .

Hugo del Carrilofrece una lectura rigurosa y apasionada sobre una de las figuras más singulares del cine argentino.

THAT LOVELY, LOVELY GHOST MOVIEIn this passionate celebration of cinema's most beloved supernatural comedy, Dennis Santaniello reveals why Ghostbusters continues to captivate audiences forty years after its release.

If any film has gone the distance, it's Rocky (1976), which spawned one of the longest running franchises in film history.

Film Adaptations of World Literature: From Page to Screen — Bengali and Global Perspectives explores the complex, creative, and often contested relationship between literary texts and their cinematic adaptations.

The Evolution of Chinese Popular Cinema provides insights into the Chinese film industry and popular cinema in the past two decades (with a major focus on the films produced since the mid-2010s).

The Evolution of Chinese Popular Cinema provides insights into the Chinese film industry and popular cinema in the past two decades (with a major focus on the films produced since the mid-2010s).

Narratives of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Arab Cinema examines emerging cinema from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and recent diasporic/transnational productions from the Levant.

Narratives of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Arab Cinema examines emerging cinema from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and recent diasporic/transnational productions from the Levant.

Diese Ausgabe wurde ohne thematischen Schwerpunkt zusammengestellt.

Der Band dokumentiert die Beiträge des CineGraph-Kongresses 2023 zum populären Genre der Tonfilmoperette bzw.

Das Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges wird in den unterschiedlichsten Mediengattungen unterschiedlich verarbeitet und bewertet.

This edited volume seeks to evaluate the complex tensions between democratic renewal and regression by focusing on the activist efforts by Indonesian filmmakers to maintain and open spaces for creative experimentation, critical reflection, and social diversity.

Over the course of a prodigious literary career which now spans seven decades, DeLillo has engaged with the problem and the promise of vision.

Over the course of a prodigious literary career which now spans seven decades, DeLillo has engaged with the problem and the promise of vision.

Providing a rare example of a national cinema that has managed to overturn the prevailing global paradigm of Hollywood dominance, South Korean films are nevertheless still haunted by the peninsula's earlier colonial history.

Providing a rare example of a national cinema that has managed to overturn the prevailing global paradigm of Hollywood dominance, South Korean films are nevertheless still haunted by the peninsula's earlier colonial history.

This edited volume seeks to evaluate the complex tensions between democratic renewal and regression by focusing on the activist efforts by Indonesian filmmakers to maintain and open spaces for creative experimentation, critical reflection, and social diversity.

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Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies.

Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies.

This thoughtful exploratory study deals with three seminal issues in film theory, notably the relationship of image and sound, early manifestations of the moving image, and new connections between the voice and the use of the body in contemporary cinema.

Com ha mirat Mallorca, el cinema?

In Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression, Jacob Engelberg makes the case for radically recalibrating queer film studies, taking as a starting point those cinematic figures who resist categorization within the gay-straight binary.

This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowen's 'verbal painting', and the first to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels.

This volume is the first book-length study of the international phenomenon of multiple-language versions of new films from the early days of the sound era.

This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowen's 'verbal painting', and the first to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels.

This volume is the first book-length study of the international phenomenon of multiple-language versions of new films from the early days of the sound era.

This thoughtful exploratory study deals with three seminal issues in film theory, notably the relationship of image and sound, early manifestations of the moving image, and new connections between the voice and the use of the body in contemporary cinema.

"Los amantes, dice John Berger, plantean una tregua frente al dolor del mundo.

Few filmmakers have made such a seismic impact on Hollywood during the past two decades as Christopher Nolan.

Ground breaker.

ENGThis book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia.

The collection of essays brings together texts from two decades, documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poetics of colour in film as well as affective viewer responses.

The collection of essays brings together texts from two decades, documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poetics of colour in film as well as affective viewer responses.

The writing of cinema history would not be possible without the contribution of collectors.

Offering the most comprehensive analysis of Korean cinema from its early history to the present, and including the films of Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ki-young, Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Postcolonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema situates itself in the local, Inter-Asian, and transnational contexts by mobilizing the critical frameworks of feminism, postcolonial critique and comparative film studies.

The writing of cinema history would not be possible without the contribution of collectors.