Film history, theory or criticism

World Film Locations: Glasgow explores Scotland's biggest city and the many locations in which its films are viewed, set and shot.

Roberto Benigni's romantic comedy Life is Beautiful enjoyed tremendous success everywhere it was shown.

'We'll always have Paris,' Humphrey Bogart assures Ingrid Bergman in the oft-quoted farewell scene from Casablanca in which Bogart's character, hard-hearted restaurateur Rick Blaine, bids former lover Ilsa Lund goodbye.

A comprehensive history of censorship in modern BritainFor Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes.

These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin.

In recent years, Chinese film has garnered worldwide attention, and this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints, and shifting viewing practices have shaped perceptions of Chinese screen cultures.

Robert Zemeckis has risen to the forefront of American filmmaking with a string of successes: Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future I, II, & III, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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

Acclaimed in an international critics poll as one of the ten best films ever made, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has nonetheless baffled critics and filmgoers alike.

She would appear in more than thirty films and be named after a Road Atlas by Cecil B.

To coincide with the recent DVD release of The Spirit of the Beehive, this paperback collection of essays focuses on the work of acclaimed Spanish director, Victor Erice.

The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are increasingly popular thanks to a spate of recent stage and screen productions and to courses that set Shakespeare's plays in context.

Behold the history of a film so scandalous, so outrageous, so explosive it disappeared from print for over a quarter century!

This essential core textbook provides an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory, written by two highly experienced senior lecturers.

This book examines why thousands of cinemas opened in Britain in the space of a few years before the start of the First World War.

Here it is: the first-time look at the remarkable American multinational mass media empire and its century of entertainmentthe story of Twentieth Century Fox (19152015).

Maverick Slovenian cultural theorist, philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek has made his name elaborating the complexities of psychoanalytic and Marxist theory through the exotic use of examples from film and popular culture.

This book offers a different take on the early history of Warner Bros.

This book explores ways in which diverse regional cultures in Indonesia and their histories have been expressed in film since the early 1950s.

Mit der Erforschung der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und ihrer Medienverbünde im Zeitraum von 1900 bis 1945 sowie der Erfassung sämtlicher Daten in einem Onlineportal zur Recherche und visuellen Analyse liegt ein innovativer Beitrag zur Geschichtsschreibung der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur vor.

This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015.

This book investigates desert islands in postwar anglophone popular culture, exploring representations in radio, print and screen advertising, magazine cartoons, cinema, video games, and comedy, drama and reality television.

Visible and Invisible Whiteness examines the complicity between Classical Hollywood narratives or genres and representations of white supremacy in the cinema.

This book examines the Western genre in the period since Westerns ceased to be a regular feature of Hollywood filmmaking.

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation.

The book examines the war of images between France and Algeria.

Traditionally, university students have gained access to world religions by reading primary texts.

This book offers a new approach to film studies by showing how our brains use our interpretations of various other films in order to understand Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

This book addresses what a superhero body can do by developing several "e;x-rays"e; of the superbody's sensoria, anatomic structures, internal systems, cellular organizations, and orthotic, chemical, or technological enhancements.

Since the early 1980s, Jim Jarmusch has produced a handful of idiosyncratic films that have established him as one of the most imaginatively allusive directors in the history of American cinema.

This book deals with film adaptations of literary works created in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1969, such as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Zeman 1958), Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil 1967), and The Joke (Jires 1969).

This book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemporary cinema.

This book presents close-readings of seven post-millennial comedic films: Up in the Air, Tropic Thunder, JCVD, Winnebago Man, The Trotsky, Be Kind Rewind, and Hamlet 2.

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

This collection examines literature and film studies from the late colonial and early postcolonial periods in Taiwan and Korea, and highlights the similarities and differences of Taiwanese and Korean popular culture by focusing on the representation of gender, genre, state regulation, and spectatorship.

This book analyzes Walt Disney's impact on entertainment, new media, and consumer culture in terms of a materialist, psychoanalytic approach to fantasy.

This book considers how women's experiences have been treated in films dealing with Nazi persecution.

This book shows how a masterpiece of experimental cinema can be interpreted through hermeneutics of the film world.

This book explores cinema and film theory through classical Indian theories.

This book discusses slow cinema, a contemporary global production trend that has recently gained momentum in film theory and criticism.

Can the stories people tell influence the way they see the world?

The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema: 1990-2003 examines the development of Chinese art film in the People's Republic of China from 1990, when the first Sixth Generation film Mama was released, to 2003, when authorities acknowledged the legitimacy of underground filmmakers.

New Perspectives on the War Film addresses the gap in the representation of many forgotten faces of war in mainstream movies and global mass media.

This book presents an analysis of how the grassroots movement of Guangchang Wu or 'square dance' in China has become a national phenomenon.

This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of silent film performance.

Acclaimed actor and rap artist Will Smith has achieved a level of Hollywood fame rarely attained by a Black celebrity.

Dave Saunders' spirited introduction to documentary covers its history, cultural context and development, and the approaches, controversies and functions pertaining to non-fiction filmmaking.

This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing.

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath.