Film history, theory or criticism

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.

Ya que el cine de ficción nos posibilita rastrear discursos y construcciones simbólicas, nos permite reconocer narrativas e imágenes asociadas a la figuración de unos rasgos comunes, constantes o diversos de un posible "nosotros".

Murray Pomerance offers an illuminating account of one of Hitchcock's most intruiging and successful films, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), starring James Stewart and Doris Day.

This book explores the changing representation of the couple, focusing on themes of marriage, equality and desire.

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

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Brings together critically informed essays about one of the most controversial films ever made.

Both an exploration of the ways in which we fashion our public identity and a manual of modern sociability, this lively and readable book explores the techniques we use to present ourselves to the world: body language, tone of voice, manners, demeanour, 'personality' and personal style.

Contributions by Nathaniel Brennan, Luca Caminati, Silvia Carlorosi, Caroline Eades, Saverio Giovacchini, Paula Halperin, Neepa Majumdar, Mariano Mestman, Hamid Naficy, Sada Niang, Masha Salazkina, Sarah Sarzynski, Robert Sklar, and Vito ZagarrioIntellectual, cultural, and film historians have long considered neorealism the founding block of post-World War II Italian cinema.

When the lights dim in a movie theatre and the projector begins to click and whir, the light and sounds of the motion picture become the gateway to a multisensory experience.

Get ready to spot hundreds of things you've never seen before across a wide range of films, in this brand new book from the creator of Den Of Geek.

The 1940s saw a brief audacious experiment in mass entertainment: a jukebox with a screen.

In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a 'renaissance'.

This volume of spellbinding essays explores the tense relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, providing new perspectives on their collaboration.

Reframing remembrance examines films about the Nazi Occupation of France, charting how this period has been commemorated and how it has affected the articulation of French national identity.

Can films philosophize rather than simply represent philosophical ideas developed outside of the cinematic medium?

Five Conversations About Peter Sellers is an essay that begins as an exploration of the author's burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing production of the spy spoof, Casino Royale, in the late 60s.

Many critics have approached Terrence Malick's work from a philosophical perspective, arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema.

The Britpop movement of the mid-1990s defined a generation, and the films were just as exciting as the music.

New readings of 20th-century literary cinematic texts are presented here in historical context, informed by cultural theory.

Offers a fresh approach to German film studies by tracing key genres -- including horror, the thriller, Heimat films, and war films -- over the course of German cinema historyOver the last few decades, the field of film studies has seen a rise in approaches oriented toward genre: studies that look at thematic, narrative, and stylistic similarities between films, contextualizing them within culture andsociety.

Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) stunned audiences with its straightforward depiction of queer love.

This expansive three-volume set investigates racial representation in film, providing an authoritative cross-section of the most racially significant films, actors, directors, and movements in American cinematic history.

A collaborator with Warner Brothers and Paramount in the early days of sound film, the German film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) is famous for his sense of ironic detachment and for the eroticism he infused into such comedies as So This Is Paris and Trouble in Paradise.

Space Oddities examines the representation of women in outer space films from 1960 to 2000, with an emphasis on films in which women are either denied or given the role of astronaut.

Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies describes, analyses and evaluates the phenomenon of private television in Europe, clustered around the themes of European and national experiences, content and markets, and policies.

Illuminating the impacts of environmental disasters and climate crises globally, this book examines the experiences of teens grappling with eco-disasters and issues in films of the twenty-first century.

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A Queer Film Classic on Canadian director Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, her quirky and hopeful first feature film which made its premiere at Cannes and won its Prix de la jeunesse.

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

Dazzle crowds with over 80 exciting plant-based recipes from Dirty VeganDo you fancy getting dinner on the table in under 30 minutes?

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In A Modernist Cinema, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity.

Part of Intellect's World Film Locations series, World Film Locations: Helsinki explores the relationship between the city, cinema and Finnish cultural history.

This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film.

The first volume of the Directory of World Cinema: Britain provided an overview of British cinema from its earliest days to the present.

The seduction-theory defines film in a broader sense as a medium of seduction, based on the French concept of seduction.

The long and prolific career of Steven Soderbergh (b.

This book deals with film depictions of Imperial Japan from the time it was a totalitarian power to the productions of recent years.

Analysing a variety of international films and, ultimately, placing them in dialogue with video art, photographic narratives and emerging digital image-based technologies, the contributions explore the expanding range of 'mediated' narratives of contemporary architecture and urban culture from both a media and a sociological standpoint.

After 45 years, Steven Spielberg's Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base.

This volume is the first English-language collection exclusively dedicated to the study of genre in relation to Spanish cinema.

Catalan Cinema offers a theoretical reading of the most relevant cinematic productions to emerge from Catalonia in the last twenty years.

This is the first book to provide a direct and comprehensive account of British art cinema.

The Bennetts: An Acting Family is a chronicle of one of the royal families of stage and screen.

Hollywood, Walter Winchell quipped, is where they shoot too many movies and not enough actors.

From the everyday concerns of Umberto D to the spiritual traces of Ma nuit chez Maud, revelatory moments are intrinsic to the fabric of cinematic modernism.

Altered states of consciousness (ASCs)--including dreams, hypnosis, spirit possession and brainwashing--have long captivated contemporary culture.