Film history, theory or criticism

This major artistic biography of Federico Fellini shows how his exuberant imagination has been shaped by popular culture, literature, and his encounter with the ideas of C.

Costume design is a crucial, but frequently overlooked, aspect of film that fosters an appreciation of the diverse ways in which film and fashion enrich each other.

Der von 1950 bis 1953 wütende Korea-Krieg hinterließ die koreanische Halbinsel gleichermaßen zerstört wie zerrissen.

What is steampunk?

In this collection, leading scholars in both film studies and Israeli studies show that beyond representing familiar historical accounts or striving to offer a more complete and accurate depiction of the past, Israeli cinema has innovatively used trauma and memory to offer insights about Israeli society and to engage with cinematic experimentation and invention.

Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early 20th century.

Who can forget the over-the-top, white-on-white, high-gloss interiors through which Fred Astaire danced in Top Hat?

When Stephenie Meyer's first novel, Twilight, was published in 2005, it had an astounding reception, selling millions of copies.

Todd Haynes's 2002 film Far From Heaven has been hailed as a homage to 1950s Hollywood melodrama, although anyone tempted to take the film at face value should be warned that it aims to subvert as much as celebrate that genre.

This is a highly anticipated examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s.

In the first book devoted to Charles Burnett, a crucial figure in the history of American cinema often regarded as the most influential member of the L.

This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman's films which negotiate the terrain between public history and private experience.

This short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally.

Surviving Images explores the prominent role of cinema in the development of cultural memory around war and conflict in colonial and postcolonial contexts.

Almost all students have seen 2001, but virtually none understand its inheritance, its complexities, and certainly not its ironies.

There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity.

A film that transcends time, Sally Potter's Orlando follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history.

Fighting Stars provides a rich and diverse account of the emergence and legacies of Hong Kong martial arts cinema stars.

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Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change.

This entertaining collection of essays shows that Sherlock Holmes sees things others dont.

Africa has long gripped the American imagination.

This book explores how Bakhtin's ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema.

The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries.

This book establishes a dialogue between Yorgos Lanthimos and Giorgio Agamben as a way of interpreting the "e;weird"e; roles, rules, and rituals that define and discipline lives in Lanthimos's early works, from Kinetta to The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

We'll Always Have the Movies explores how movies made in Hollywood during World War II were vehicles for helping Americans understand the war.

Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film.

Este libro es fruto del 'Cuarto Coloquio Internacional de Cine Iberoamericano: géneros cinematográficos (2): la comedia y el melodrama' celebrado en el Graduate Center de la City University of New York, los días 12 y 13 de junio de 2013 y los contribuyentes son de España, Francia, México, y EEUU.

Are you an art-movie buff or a blockbuster enthusiast?

Chronicling sixteenth-century Spain to the present day, Beyond Human aims to decentre the human and acknowledge the material historicity of more-than-human nature.

The Drive-In meaningfully contributes to the complex picture of outdoor cinema that has been central to American culture and to a history of US cinema based on diverse viewing experiences rather than a select number of films.

When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis.

During the Second World War, the popularity and importance of the cinema in Britain was at its peak.

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

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

The 2012 film The Hunger Games and its three sequels, appearing quickly over the following three years, represent one of the most successful examples of the contemporary popularity of youth-oriented speculative film and television series.

The first computer-generated animated feature film, Toy Story (1995) sustains a dynamic vitality that proved instantly appealing to audiences of all ages.

What is the work of film in the age of transnational production?

Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an increasingly uncertain world.

Pop stars have provided audiences with performative moments that have become ingrained in popular consciousness.

Sam Rohdie's insightful and compelling analysis of Luchino Visconti's 1960 epic of modern urban life provides reveals the film as one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian cinema.

Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory.

This book explores the concept of incongruent film music, challenging the idea that this label only describes music that is inappropriate or misfitting for a film's images and narrative.

How is The Simpsons a satirical artwork engaged with important social, political, and cultural issues?

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'.

Film scholar Mark Browning offers the first detailed analysis of the work of David Fincher, director of the critically acclaimed films Se7en, Fight Club, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies-that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films.