Film history, theory or criticism

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a theatre director, writer of graphic novels and comics, novelist, poet, and an expert in the Tarot.

This book situates the film-maker Patrick Keiller alongside the writers W.

Shadows (1959), John Cassavetes' first film as director, ends with the title card - 'The film you have just seen was an improvisation'.

Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this study traces a significant shift from idealistic images of Irish manhood to a much more diverse and gender-politically ambiguous range of male identities on the Irish screen.

Terrence Malick's four feature films have been celebrated by critics and adored as instant classics among film aficionados, but the body of critical literature devoted to them has remained surprisingly small in comparison to Malick's stature in the world of contemporary film.

In this study, William C.

This is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States endless wars.

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.

There are a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to researching how film spectators make sense of film texts, from the film text itself, the psychological traits and sociocultural group memberships of the viewer, or even the location and surroundings of the viewer.

The first collection dedicated to David Bowie's acting career shows that his film characterisations and performance styles shift and reform as decoratively as his musical personas.

The western, one of Hollywood's great film genres, has, surprisingly, enjoyed a revival recently in Asia and in other parts of the world, whilst at the same time declining in America.

Leni Riefenstahl is larger than life.

Explores the reasons behind British cinema's failure to create its own stars.

This book looks at a wide range of fiction and film texts, from the 1950s to the present, in order to analyse the ways in which masculinity has been represented in popular culture in Britain and the United States.

This book offers a critical analysis of the relationship between food and horror in post-1980 cinema.

An original and groundbreaking historiography on fifty years of Uruguayan cinema.

From cinema's beginnings filmmakers have turned to the past for their stories, so much so that in many ways our historical culture is shaped more in the movie theatre than in the classroom.

This study provides the first book-length critical history of storyboarding, from the birth of cinema to the present day and beyond.

Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century.

Adopting and developing a 'cultural politics' approach, this comprehensive study explores how Hollywood movies generate and reflect political myths about social and personal life that profoundly influence how we understand power relations.

This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema.

Drawing on new research in the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, Kr mer's study explores the production, marketing and reception as well as the themes and style of A Clockwork Orange against the backdrop of Kubrick's previous work and of wider developments in cinema, culture and society from the 1950s to the early 1970s.

Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject.

This study offers a fresh approach to the remarkable German film The Lives of Others (2006), known for its compelling representation of a Stasi surveillance officer and the moral and ethical turmoil that results when he begins spying on a playwright and his actress lover.

Winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) 2023 Award for Best First Monograph.

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film is the most comprehensive study of international children's cinema published to date.

This is the first extended text-based analysis of the social and political implications of the Harry Potter phenomenon.

The image of the movie-obsessed gay man is a widely circulating and readily recognizable element of the contemporary cultural landscape.

This true story of a Hollywood sex symbol’s tumultuous life is “a real page-turner.

Throughout film history, war films have been in constant dialogue with both previous depictions of war and contemporary debates and technology.

In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956, Noel Burch and Genevieve Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War II, paying particular attention to the Occupation years (1940-44).

Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuously captivated audiences.

Dass Leser emotional auf fiktionale Erzähltexte reagieren, ist selbstverständlich.

Andrew Utterson's unique study charts the beginnings of digital cinema, addressing both how filmmakers used new digital technologies and how attitudes and anxieties about the rise of the computer were represented in films such as Lang's Desk Set, Godard's Alphaville, Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Crichton's Westworld.

When it began, modern Spanish cinema was under strict censorship, forced to conform to the ideological demands of the Nationalist regime.

In Fatih Akin's Cinema and the New Sound of Europe, Berna Gueneli explores the transnational works of acclaimed Turkish-German filmmaker and auteur Fatih Akin.

Drawing on both theoretical and practical case studies, this collection moves from developing attempts at local media to case studies and on to cyber-examples.

Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols.

Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more.

A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s.

How is crime represented in art cinema?

Once the province of film and media scholars, today the moving image is of broad concern to historians of art and architecture and designers of everything from websites to cities.

Swedish crime fiction became an international phenomenon in the first decade of the twenty-first century, starting first with novels but then percolating through Swedish-language television serials and films and onto English-language BBC productions and Hollywood remakes.

Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker.

This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.

Dana Polan sets out to unlock the style and technique of 'Pulp Fiction'.

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American new black film wave.

The 21st-century has witnessed rapid advances in artificial intelligence, giving rise to a society at once hopeful but also mistrustful of the possibilities that this technology offers.