Film history, theory or criticism

This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions.

This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s.

This book examines post-war surrealist cinema in relation to surrealism's change in direction towards myth and magic following World War II.

This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century.

In this book we learn that there is a clear but complex relationship between setting and character on screen.

This book maps father failure and redemption through three decades of Hollywood family films, revealing how libertarian notions that align agency with autonomy lead to new conflicts for the contemporary father.

This book is a thorough analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and of its multiple connections with the Leopold and Loeb murder case and the adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's eponymous play.

This book recounts the reception of selected films about the Great War released between 1918 and 1938 in the USA and Great Britain.

This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts chronicles for the first time over 1,500 horror and horror-related short subjects theatrically released between 1915, at the dawn of the feature film era when shorts became a differentiated category of cinema, and 1976, when the last of the horror-related shorts were distributed to movie theaters.

Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the intersection between traditional modes of film production and new, transitional/transnational approaches to film genre and related discourses in a contemporary, global context.

This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon's iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993).

This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality.

This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism.

While previous work on the Star Wars universe charts the Campbellian mythic arcs, political representations, and fan reactions associated with the films, this volume takes a transmedial approach to the material, recognizing that Star Wars TV projects interact with and relate to other Star Wars texts.

Brilliantly introduced by Nezar Andary, this book is a work of creative nonfiction that approaches writing on film in a fresh and provocative way.

This volume is the first book-length account of Yves Montand's controversial tour of the Soviet Union at the turn of the years 1956/57.

A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film.

This book examines representations of home in literary and visual cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries.

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mama tambien are only the best-known examples.

This book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B.

This book examines the crucial role of psychoanalysis in understanding what AI means for us as speaking, sexed subjects.

This book offers an approach to film music in which music and visuals are seen as equal players in the game.

Celebrated musician and entertainer Lizzo wowed audiences and left many "e;feeling good as hell.

This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies-namely conceptual blending, Theory of Mind, and empathy/perspective-taking-through their application to film analysis.

In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions.

Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema.

This book undertakes a concentrated study of the impact of degraded and low-quality imagery in contemporary cinema and real-world portrayals of violence.

This book analyzes the nature and functions of horror films from the vantage of a theoretical reconstruction of George Santayana's account of beauty.

Fantasy author Neil Gaiman's 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation.

This book analyses the Korean film industry emergence and development in a global business and economic perspective.

This book explores the rich complexity of Japan's film history by tracing how cinema has been continually reshaped through its dynamic engagement within a shifting media ecology.

This book examines the multi-media explosion of contemporary political satire.

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

This book examines the concept of coherence in film studies.

This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the cinema of the new millennium.

This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant.

Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the "e;stone phenomenon"e; in Chinese film production and cinematic discourses triggered by the extraordinary success of the 2006 low-budget film, Crazy Stone.

This book investigates the formations of masculinity in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism and explores some of the cultural phenomena of the years following the 1989 regime change.

This book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered within the context of the classical Hollywood system.

This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world.

The Absolute, philosophized most saliently about by Georg Hegel, encompasses the entirety of reality.

This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies.

This volume addresses the underscrutinised topic of cinema newsreels.

Realität(streue) ist ein markantes Thema in der Medienkultur des 21.

This book interrogates the relation between film spectatorship and film theory in order to criticise some of the disciplinary and authoritarian assumptions of 1970s apparatus theory, without dismissing its core political concerns.