Film history, theory or criticism

Winner of the Dark Fest Film Festival Award for Best Genre Author 2024David Pirie's acclaimed history of British gothic film and television has long been regarded as a foundational study of the roots of British horror, identifying it as 'the only staple cinematic myth which Britain can properly claim as its own.

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A Landmark in recent Indian cinema, by acclaimed director Mani Ratnam.

Many of Stanley Kubrick's films are often interpreted as cold and ambiguous.

From melodramas to experimental documentaries to anime, mass media in Japan constitute a key site in which the nation s social memory is articulated, disseminated, and contested.

One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson.

This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers.

This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red Squirrel), Tierra, Los amantes del Circulo Polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle), Lucia y el sexo (Sex and Lucia), La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra (Basque Ball) and Caotica Ana (Chaotic Ana),Initial chapters explore Medem's childhood, adolescence and education and examine his earliest short films and critical writings against a background of a dramatically changing Spain.

Charles Crichton is perhaps best remembered as the director of the unlikely blockbuster hit A Fish Called Wanda, made when he was seventy-seven years old.

How did the introduction of recorded music affect the production, viewing experience, and global export of movies?

In Japanese Cinema and Punk, Mark Player examines how the do-it-yourself ethos of punk empowered a new generation of Japanese filmmakers during a period of crisis and change in Japan's film industry.

As Charlton Heston put it: 'There's a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it's the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat.

This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder to argue that medical understandings of disability need their social, political, literary and linguistic counterparts, especially if we aspire to create a more inclusive, self-reflective society.

Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, and Stefan Ruzowitzky, to give four examples.

At the 2007 Academy Awards' ceremony, an unprecedented number of Black performers received acting nominations, and two of the statues awarded that evening went to Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson.

Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films?

The majority of scholarly treatments for film adaptation are put forth by experts on film and film analysis, thus with the focus being on film.

Is a sound an object, an experience, an event, or a relation?

This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia.

Once heralded and defined by the likes of Francois Truffaut and Andrew Sarris as a romantic figure of aesthetic individualism, the auteur is reinvestigated here through a novel approach.

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Quiet Pictures approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Celine Sciamma, and Lucile Hadzhalilovicthrough the lens of silence as a motif and texture.

The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer.

Behind the images and facades of stars whose fame and fascination continue to outlive them lies the naked truth.

Outrageous, outspoken, and uninhibited, Tallulah Bankhead was an actress known as much for her vices -- cocaine, alcohol, hysterical tirades, and scandalous affairs with both men and women -- as she was for her winning performances on stage.

What impact did walking tours and scenic films have on leisure activities?

This book bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers' thoughts and poetics, and proposes a new way to address and elaborate film theory.

Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans.

Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness.

In recent years, celebrities from George Clooney to Bono to Angelina Jolie have attempted to play an increasingly important role in global politics.

Federico Fellini professed a desire to create “an entire film made of immobile pictures.

Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Imagining New Europe provides a comprehensive study of the way in which contemporary writers, filmmakers, and the media have represented the recent phenomenon of Eastern European migration to the UK and Western Europe following the enlargement of the EU in the 21st century, the social and political changes after the fall of communism, and the Brexit vote.

Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented international prominence in recent years.

The films of Alfred Hitchcock are appreciated for a variety of reasons, including the many memorable villains who menace the protagonists.

Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity.

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Gender and the contemporary audio-visual landscape of MexicoThis book focusses on gender and the audio-visual landscape of Mexico since 2010, examining popular culture as expressed in the still distinct but rapidly converging media forms of cinema, television, and streaming platforms.

In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness.

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

Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E.

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This book examines the queer film festival and opens the discussion on social enterprises and sustainable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organisations.

Joseph Suss Oppenheimer (1698-1738), better known as Jew Suss, was a court Jew, who advised the Duke of Wurttemberg.

Fascinating, incommensurable and chaotic, Mumbai is a megalopolis of dramatic diversity and heartbreaking extremes, where immense wealth is just steps away from the searing poverty of its huge slums.

Psychology at the Movies explores the insights to be gained by applying various psychological lenses to popular films including cinematic depictions of human behavior, the psychology of filmmakers, and the impact of viewing movies.