Film history, theory or criticism

Provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period's epoch-making cultural and political happenings.

Painting the City Red illuminates the dynamic relationship between the visual media, particularly film and theater, and the planning and development of cities in China and Taiwan, from the emergence of the People's Republic in 1949 to the staging of the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States.

No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D.

M-G-M: Hollywoods Greatest Backlot is the illustrated history of the soundstages and outdoor sets where Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced many of the worlds most famous films.

Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage.

This book breaks new ground in providing an in-depth critical assessment of cyborg cinema, arguing that it remains one of the most intriguing and provocative cycles to have emerged in contemporary screen culture.

Veit Harlan (1899-1964) was one of Germany's most controversial and loathed directors.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Fashioning Spain is a cultural history of Spanish fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries, a period of significant social, political, and economic upheaval.

Between 1927 and 1933, the journal "Close Up" championed a European avant-garde in film-making.

Seeing into Screens: Eye Tracking and the Moving Image is the first dedicated anthology that explores vision and perception as it materializes as viewers watch screen content.

This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism.

Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema.

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

An authoritative guide to the action-packed film genre With 24 incisive, cutting-edge contributions from esteemed scholars and critics, A Companion to the Action Filmprovides an authoritative and in-depth guide to this internationally popular and wide-ranging genre.

This collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'.

One of the most distinguished filmmakers working today, David Lynch is a director whose vision of cinema is firmly rooted in fine art.

Beneath the extreme, taboo-breaking surface of 'Salo' (a controversial and scandalous film made in 1975), Gary Indiana argues that there's a deeply penetrating account of human behaviour which resonates as an account of fascism and as a picture of the corporate world we live in.

This book comprises what may be called exercises in 'comparative cinema'.

Brings together critically informed essays about one of the most controversial films ever made.

From a screenwriting perspective, Batty explores the idea that the protagonist's journey is comprised of two individual yet interwoven threads: the physical journey and the emotional journey.

Being There and the Evolution of a Screenplay provides an insightful look at the drafting of one of Hollywood history's greatest scripts.

This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies.

Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory explores representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in print media, film and art, locating an analysis of these texts in the historical and political context of unfolding events.

Bela Lugosi won immediate fame for his portrayal of the immortal count in the 1931 film Dracula.

Although it is a somewhat underrepresented form of literature in popular sensibility, poetry finds relevance in the modern world through its appearance in cinema.

This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray.

One of the most popular, respected and controversial writers of the twentieth century, Greene's work has still attracted relatively little scholarly comment.

In contemporary society, cinema has become a primary way in which people gain knowledge about events taking place in the world.

This book helps readers understand Moonlight's profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film's adoption and disruption of traditional coming-of-age themes through the specific prism of Chiron's childhood and youth.

The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape.

American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century.

For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination.

The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution is the first book to provide an historical insight into the animated documentary.

Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar.

An attempt to locate cinema alongside philosophy, painting, geography and travel in terms of a history of modernism.

Popular Music on Screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary developments in music television and video.

Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes.

There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering.

Born in Bologna in 1922, filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was one of the most controversial European intellectuals of his time.

Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires.

Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impact.

What can film tell us about enjoyment and sexual difference?

This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years.

Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define.

Black Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France.

Y Tu Mam Tambi n (2001), an intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuar n and co-written by him and his brother Carlos, is both an acclaimed feature by a director who would go on to win Oscars and a box office success abroad and in its native Mexico, where it was the biggest grossing local film of all time.

Hollywood Knights examines Hollywood Arthuriana as political nostalgia offered to American viewers during times of cultural crisis: the red scare of the 1950s, the breakdown of traditional authority in the 1960s and 1970s, the turn to the right in the 1980s and the redemption of masculine and national authority in the 1990s.