Film history, theory or criticism

In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema.

Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position.

One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson.

By formulating a notion of 'filmic reality', The reality of film offers new ways of understanding our relationship with cinema.

Taking the Long View is a study of documentary series such as Michael Apted's world-famous Seven Up films that set out to trace the life-journeys of individuals from their earliest schooldays till they are fully grown adults, often with children of their own.

Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position.

Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous.

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

Despite his controversial reputation and international notoriety as a film-maker, no full-length study of Clouzot has ever been published in English.

This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English speaking world for his award winning Les Roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds of 1994.

This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema.

This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red Squirrel), Tierra, Los amantes del Circulo Polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle), Lucia y el sexo (Sex and Lucia), La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra (Basque Ball) and Caotica Ana (Chaotic Ana),Initial chapters explore Medem's childhood, adolescence and education and examine his earliest short films and critical writings against a background of a dramatically changing Spain.

This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate.

Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness.

Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced.

For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music.

Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world.

This book looks at a wide range of fiction and film texts, from the 1950s to the present, in order to analyse the ways in which masculinity has been represented in popular culture in Britain and the United States.

Fills a gap in the international literature by offering new insights into the heterogeneous ways in which African men are performing, negotiating and experiencing masculinity.

While the historical influence of psychoanalysis on Hollywood cinema has received considerable attention, the same cannot be said for its influence on British cinema.

While the historical influence of psychoanalysis on Hollywood cinema has received considerable attention, the same cannot be said for its influence on British cinema.

Josef von Sternberg s 1930 film The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel) is among the best known films of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933).

A series of limiting definitions have tended to delineate the Franco-British cinematic relationship.

Jerzy Skolimowski is one of the most original Polish directors and one of only a handful who has gained genuine recognition abroad.

Bela Balazs s two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation.

Dealing with some of the major themes in film narratives, this book draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva.

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.

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

Offering a fresh perspective on The General, arguably one of the most successful American films of the silent era, this insightful text analyses its initial critical reception and the thematic and stylistic characteristics of the film that made it difficult for critics to appreciate at the time, but led to its celebration by later generations.

Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still being employed today.

Chris Marker's La Jet e is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images.

This comprehensive history of Japanese animation draws on Japanese primary sources and testimony from industry professionals to explore the production and reception of anime, from its origins in Japanese cartoons of the 1920s and 30s to the international successes of companies such as Studio Ghibli and Nintendo, films such as Spirited Away and video game characters such as Pok mon.

Gone with the Wind (1939) is one of the greatest films of all time - the best-known of Hollywood's Golden Age and a work that has, in popular imagination, defined southern American history for three-quarters of a century.

Written on the Wind (1956) is one of classical Hollywood's most striking films andranks among Douglas Sirk's finest achievements.

Jack Clayton's gothic masterpiece The Innocents, though not a commercial success on its release in 1961, has been hailed as one of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time.

From the 1950s to the 1980s the Children's Film Foundation made films for Saturday morning cinema clubs across the UK - entertaining and educating generations of British children.

Cinema is often perceived as a metropolitan medium - an entertainment product of the big city and for the big city.

Imagine you learn that your lover has had you erased from their memory and, in a moment of despair, you have your lover erased from your memory too.

A visually stunning and heartfelt riposte to the emotional sterility of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Douglas Trumbull's eco-themed Silent Running (1972) became one of the defining science-fiction films of the seventies.

From Here to Eternity (1953) is one of the most controversial films of its time.

The War of the Worlds was one of a handful of high-prestige science fiction productions in a low-budget era, and initiated modern cinema's reliance on screen-filling special effects.

Despite being one of Andrei Tarkovsky's most successful films, Solaris (1972) was the one he most disliked.

Widely believed to be Terry Gilliam's best film, Brazil's brilliantly imaginative vision of a retro-futuristic bureaucracy has had a lasting influence on genre cinema.

While digging an extension to the London Underground Railway, workmen discover an object which might be an ancient Martian spaceship and Professor Quatermass of the British Rocket Group investigates a mystery which prompts frightening revelations about the origins of humanity itself.

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Guillermo del Toro's cult masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth (2006), won a total of 76 awards and is one of the most commercially successful Spanish-language films ever made.

Stanley Kubrick hailed The Shining as 'the scariest horror film of all time' before its release in 1980.

Eric Ames draws on original archival research to provide fresh perspectives on Werner Herzog's breakthrough 1972 film, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes), which portrays an expedition by Spanish conquistadors led by Aguirre (played by Klaus Kinski) to find the legendary city of El Dorado.