Film history, theory or criticism

This book traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century.

This study investigates the controversial motion pictures written and directed by the independent filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, one of the most acclaimed Korean auteurs in the English-speaking world.

This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess.

Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process between Alfred Hitchcock and the screenwriters he hired to write the scripts for three of his greatest films: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie.

In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist--a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative dimensions.

Since the late 1980s, Hal Hartley has challenged standards of realist narrative cinema with daring narrative constructions, character development, and the creation of an unconventional visual world.

The legacy of emigres in the British film industry, from the silent film era until after the Second World War, has been largely neglected in the scholarly literature.

The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887.

The Works of Shonda Rhimes, the first book in Bloomsbury's Screen Storytellers series, brings together a collection of essays that look critically at the works of this award-winning writer, producer, and CEO of the global media company, Shondaland.

In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explores the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child.

This book uses detailed, straightforward language and high-resolution color, step-by-step photos to ensure readers can understand and apply everything they need to know about growing mushrooms.

The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema.

James Bond the the 60s Spy Craze will explore James Bond films and the number of movies and television shows of the 1960s inspired by Ian Fleming's character.

A minute-by-minute analysis of Gus Van Sant film, Gerry (2002).

With an introduction by Sir Roger Moore, Cinema Sex Sirens centres around a select number of actresses, from cinematic legends to some whose names are barely known by the general public who capitalised on their natural beauty during this era.

Be they period films, cult classics or elaborate directorial love letters, New York City has played - and continues to play - a central role in the imaginations of filmmakers and moviegoers worldwide.

For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences.

From the postapocalyptic world of Blade Runner to theJames Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective, and science fiction.

Drawing on interviews with his closest collaborators, Tom Charity's critical biography explores the pain and perseverance of Cassavetes, widely known as a passionate and charismatic film director and producer.

The life of mise-en-scene offers a critical history of key debates about visual style in British film journals in the post-war period.

Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium.

British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists such as Christopher Isherwood, P.

Film itself is an artifact of memory.

With its physical beauty and kaleidoscopic cultural background, Sicily has long been a source of inspiration for filmmakers.

Caligrafía de la imagen reflexiona sobre la figura del director-autor en el cine: de qué manera las transformaciones de ese concepto funcionan como un sismógrafo que registra los vaivenes de la teoría y de la crítica entre las décadas de 1950 y 1970.

The Sounds of Silent Films is a unique collection of investigatory and theoretical essays that, for the first time, unite up-to-date research on the complex historical performance practices of silent film accompaniment with in-depth analyses of relevant case studies.

How do film and television makers around the world depict public housing?

In 1965 producers Joseph E.

Grief is all around us.

This book explores Shakespeare films as interpretations of Shakespeare's plays as well as interpreting the place of Shakespeare on screen within the classroom and within the English curriculum.

In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film.

This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain.

Starting from the observation of the ubiquity of fan podcasts engaging in media commentary, this book explores three fan podcast genres in which commentary manifests as a structuring form: rewatch and reread podcasts, recap podcasts, and review podcasts.

Nicole Brenez argues for Abel Ferrara's place in a line of grand inventors who have blurred distinctions between industry and avant-garde film, including Orson Welles, Monte Hellman, and Nicholas Ray.

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers .

The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance brings together the very latest international research on the performing arts across the continent and the diaspora into one expansive and wide-ranging collection.

It was only a forty-minute foreign film, but it sparked a legal confrontation that has left its mark on America for more than half a century.

In the course of fifty years, director Stanley Kubrick produced some of the most haunting and indelible images on film.

Essays examining the relationships between culture, film, and the audience around the turn of the twentieth century.

Auschwitz es una metáfora y una metonimia de los campos de exterminio y un símbolo y sinónimo de los crímenes nazis.

Estudios sobre cine: ¿un nuevo campo o territorio?

En el cine de Almodóvar conviven la comedia disparatada, el crimen y el drama familiar, lo grotesco y lo sublime, el colorido y la musicalidad de la España contemporánea junto con el subyacer de las sombras del pasado.

Los films analizados en este libro constituyen un campo de análisis con el que los "momentos de memoria" guardan una estrecha relación con las políticas memorísticas, ya que se vinculan con los diferentes modos de representación de esa memoria.

Un psicoanalista en el cine no es un libro sobre psicoanálisis aunque tampoco sea, en el sentido más estricto del término, un libro sobre cine.

This monograph offers a cutting edge perspective on the study of Chinese film stars by advancing a "e;linguaphonic"e; model, moving away from a conceptualization of transnational Chinese stardom reliant on the centrality of either action or body.