Film history, theory or criticism

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

This volume bridges the divide between film and media studies scholarship by exploring audience expectations of film and TV genre in the age of digital streaming, using qualitative thematic and quantitative data-driven analyses.

Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines.

In the late 1970s, the adult film industry began the transition from celluloid to home video.

In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, "e;Save the Cat!

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

In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman.

Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema.

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives in a neon-lit urban jungle.

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature.

As living subjects rather than static icons, studio-era Hollywood actresses actively negotiated a balance between their public personas, film roles, and corporeal presence.

A collection of essays exploring the philosophical themes and aesthetic vision behind blockbuster film including The Insider, Public Enemies,and more.

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The North American entertainment industry is rapidly consolidating, and new modes of technological delivery challenge Canadian content regulations.

The multiple award-winning Doctor Zhivago (1965) is one of America's finest films of all time.

In Discorrelated Images Shane Denson examines how computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships that viewers had with conventional analog forms of cinema.

Chinese martial arts cinema is held to be a synthesis drawing on artistic conventions of traditional Chinese theatre.

The first major study of mock-documentary - one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between 'fact' and 'fiction'.

New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is the first book to offer a lengthy examination of the relationship between fiction and documentary from the perspective of art and poetics.

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In this rich study of noise in American film-going culture, Meredith C.

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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).

Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film examines a cluster of recent films that feature Maghrebi(-French) people and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced.

Pre-World War II Hollywood musicals weren't only about Astaire and Rogers, Mickey and Judy, Busby Berkeley, Bing Crosby, or Shirley Temple.

The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.

Why do we watch movies?

"e;An engaging primer on film history"e; examining the rise of movies, their influence, and the technology that conveys them (New York Times Book Review).

The witch as a cultural archetype has existed in some form since the beginning of recorded history.

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.

Federico Fellini s script for perhaps the most famous unmade film in Italian cinema, The Journey of G.

Die politisch und kulturell bewegte Zeit zwischen der Französischen Revolution und der Wiederherstellung der "guten alten Ordnung" 1848 bewegte zeitgenössische Literaten wie Büchner, Heine und Goethe.

Into the Vortex challenges and rethinks feminist film theory's brilliant but often pessimistic reflections on the workings of sound and voice in film.

This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics.

Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen (The Celebration) was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable.

Leontine Sagan's M dchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women's agency and desire behind and in front of the camera.

Algunos grandes creadores del cine y la literatura universales pasaron desde unos años hasta varias décadas, y en cualquier caso una porción muy significativa de sus vidas, en América Latina, y desde esta parte del mundo produjeron algunas de sus obras más consagradas.

Though unjustly neglected by English-language audiences, Spanish film and television not only represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry; they are also a fertile site of innovation in the production of transmedia works that bridge narrative forms.

Scholars have consistently applied psychoanalytic models to representations of gender in early teen slasher films such as Black Christmas (1974), Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980) in order to claim that these were formulaic, excessively violent exploitation films, fashioned to satisfy the misogynist fantasies of teenage boys and grind house patrons.

Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state.

Drawing from over a decade of research and writings, this book takes you on an epic journey through the history of Indian Parallel Cinema (1968 - 1995).

The child has existed in cinema since the Lumiere Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen.

This book offers a new methodology for examining the ethico-political dimensions of religion and film which foregrounds film's social power both to shape subjectivity and to image contemporary social contradictions and analyses three specific films: Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala ; Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry ; and the Coens' The Man Who Wasn't There .

This volume addresses the underscrutinised topic of cinema newsreels.

The Environmental Documentary provides the first extensive coverage of the most important environmental films of the decade, including their approach to their topics and their impacts on public opinion and political debate.

The Erotic Screen takes as its starting point that Hollywood movies were steeped in eroticism from the beginning but censorship forced filmmakers to devise hidden sexual subtexts to preserve a film's subliminal eroticism.

Winner of the Theatre Library Association's Richard Wall Memorial Award Special Jury Prize for an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance After the advent of sound, women in the British film industry formed an essential corps of below-the-line workers, laboring in positions from animation artist to negative cutter to costume designer.