Film history, theory or criticism

As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity - combining tropes from foreign and domestic genres - as a way to think about films through a global and local framework.

Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse's cinematic output.

Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema?

This book considers significant ways in which trees have been represented in European and American cinemas, via the symbolic regimes of various popular genres (period films, war films, disaster movies) and screen modes (documentary, art cinema, animation).

This book uses six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to argue a reconceptualisation of our approach to the study of adaptation.

Queer theory, queer literary criticism and queer cultural criticism often focus on western, white, cis men.

Since publication of Thomas More's Utopia more than five hundred years ago, there has been a steady stream of literary works that depict a better world; positive utopias in film, however, have been scarce.

This volume examines American horror films as key sites for exploring contemporary anxieties around gender, power and trauma.

Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented map of urban legend storytelling, from haunted cemeteries to pixelated backrooms.

Wie entstehen die Bilder, die wir von „den Anderen“ haben – und warum sind sie so wirkmächtig?

Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a groundbreaking dive into the pervasive archetype of the violent lesbian, examining this historically problematic figure within cultural and cinematic imagination - from witch to vampire to murderer - and identifying her resurgence in seven critically acclaimed queer horror films of the late 2010s.

Wie entstehen die Bilder, die wir von „den Anderen“ haben – und warum sind sie so wirkmächtig?

Why are we drawn to the work of Alfred Hitchcock so long after his final film appeared?

This anthology comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of film and television termed 'New Queer Horror'.

This is a ground-breaking exploration that runs generally against the critical grain in identifying a burgeoning production of films of fear and horror before the admission of the horror film genre per se.

Since its publication in 1929, the story of Dona Barbara has haunted the collective Latin-American imagination, and has been adapted variously both for the small and big screen.

As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity - combining tropes from foreign and domestic genres - as a way to think about films through a global and local framework.

Valerio Zurlini is widely regarded as one of the most refined and poetic voices in postwar Italian cinema.

This book is a pioneering study of Blaxploitation horror films, connecting them with both mainstream horror movies and classic Gothic texts.

Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century brings an original perspective on French cinema's 'return to work' in the early twenty-first century, focusing on the transformation of cinematic activism in view of the rapid dissolution of class narratives and solidarities.

Queer theory, queer literary criticism and queer cultural criticism often focus on western, white, cis men.

This is a historical and structural study of the Stalker Film.

Since publication of Thomas More's Utopia more than five hundred years ago, there has been a steady stream of literary works that depict a better world; positive utopias in film, however, have been scarce.

Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented map of urban legend storytelling, from haunted cemeteries to pixelated backrooms.

In the face of the contested legacy of engagement in the Francophone context, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates that French and Francophone writers, artists, intellectuals and film-makers are using their work to confront unforeseen and unprecedented challenges, campaigns and causes in a politically uncertain post-9/11 world.

This anthology comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of film and television termed 'New Queer Horror'.

This first comprehensive and most in-depth history of cinematic pornography details sex in film from 100 years ago to today, concentrating on the quarter-century since Deep Throat, when pornography became a subject of popular culture.

Queer for Fear analyses the relationship queer people have to horror film, building upon decades of theory that previously emphasised horror's queerness as being subtextual, allegorical and figurative.

Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels and film.

In the face of the contested legacy of engagement in the Francophone context, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates that French and Francophone writers, artists, intellectuals and film-makers are using their work to confront unforeseen and unprecedented challenges, campaigns and causes in a politically uncertain post-9/11 world.

From Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty-first-century popular culture.

This book considers significant ways in which trees have been represented in European and American cinemas, via the symbolic regimes of various popular genres (period films, war films, disaster movies) and screen modes (documentary, art cinema, animation).

Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century brings an original perspective on French cinema's 'return to work' in the early twenty-first century, focusing on the transformation of cinematic activism in view of the rapid dissolution of class narratives and solidarities.

Queer for Fear analyses the relationship queer people have to horror film, building upon decades of theory that previously emphasised horror's queerness as being subtextual, allegorical and figurative.

Of the roughly seventy-two films investigated during Britain's video nasty panic of 1983 and 1984, only thirty-nine ever resulted in a successful obscenity conviction.

The term 'Gothic' has been applied to examples of Australian cinema since the 1970s, often in arbitrary and divergent ways.

This is a ground-breaking exploration that runs generally against the critical grain in identifying a burgeoning production of films of fear and horror before the admission of the horror film genre per se.

Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media.

Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels, and film.

This volume examines American horror films as key sites for exploring contemporary anxieties around gender, power and trauma.

The term 'Gothic' has been applied to examples of Australian cinema since the 1970s, often in arbitrary and divergent ways.

Runner-up Best Monograph, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2025Operating between film theory, media philosophy, archival practice, and audiovisual research, Jiri Anger focuses on the relationship between figuration and materiality in early films, experimental found footage cinema, and video essays.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An indispensable work of feminist criticism.

The Legendary Classic – Out-Of-Print For Almost 50 Years!

Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape studies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century.

Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape studies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century.

Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema.

Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema.

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From two-time Academy Award winner from 16 nominations, and five-time BAFTA award winner from 11 nominations, Sir Roger Deakins - widely regarded as the greatest cinematographer of all time - a one-of-a-kind visual memoir, telling his life's story by way of his iconic, beloved films, including The Shawshank Redemption, Skyfall, Fargo, Blade Runner 2049, The Big Lebowski, 1917, and No Country for Old Men, among others.

In the summer of 1978, the B-52s conquered the New York underground.