Film history, theory or criticism

There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved.

Oriental dancers, ballerinas, actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia.

'The critic is dead.

In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity.

The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his films have had on the development of cinema.

The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film.

The history of Greek cinema post-1945 is best understood through the stories of its most internationally celebrated and influential directors.

What happens when we listen to a film?

Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impact.

If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us?

In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human.

If science fiction stages the battle between humans and non-humans, whether alien or machine, who is elected to fight for us?

In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity.

Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impact.

What happens when we listen to a film?

The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film.

In recent years, the representation of alternative sexuality in the horror film and television has "e;outed"e; itself from the shadows from which it once lurked, via the embrace of an outrageously queer horror aesthetic where homosexuality is often unequivocally referenced.

Science fiction is perhaps the most effective genre to explore the concerns of the present whilst reflecting on the possibilities of the future.

Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production.

The history of Greek cinema post-1945 is best understood through the stories of its most internationally celebrated and influential directors.

At a time when technological advances are transforming cultures and supporting new automated military operations, action films engage the senses and, in doing so, allow viewers to embody combat roles.

British children's films have played a part in the childhoods of generations of young people around the world for over a century.

There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved.

Oriental dancers, ballerinas, actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia.

What is 'Arab' about Arab subcultures?

'The critic is dead.

Filmmakers in the early decades of the Soviet Union sought to create a cinematic map of the new state by portraying its land and peoples on screen.

Las relaciones que se tejen entre el cine y el patrimonio cultural en esta ciudad son constitutivas de las prácticas de memoria; pero también de la cotidianidad, de la creación y de la historia: las imágenes en movimiento y sus narrativas, al ser puestas en contexto en un territorio específico como Bogotá, reactivan procesos de identificación, reconocimiento y apropiación.

Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts.

Since the release of Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins in 2005, there has been a pronounced surge in alternative uses of the computer term 'reboot,' a surge that has witnessed the term deployed in new contexts and new signifying practices, involving politics, fashion, sex, nature, sport, business, and media.

Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies.

A timely exploration of Oscar-nominated Black actors and the complicated legacy of the Academy Awards.

How contemporary films transcode popular discontent with global capitalism.

First published in 2002, Marek Haltof s seminal volume was the first comprehensive English-language study of Polish cinema, providing a much-needed survey of one of Europe s most distinguished yet unjustly neglected film cultures.

With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly contested spaces in which filmmakers could look beyond the GDR and debate the impact of contemporary cultural policy on the reception of their pre-war cultural heritage.

From melodramas to experimental documentaries to anime, mass media in Japan constitute a key site in which the nation s social memory is articulated, disseminated, and contested.

How should we understand film authorship in an era when the idea of the solitary and sovereign auteur has come under attack, with critics proclaiming the death of the author and the end of cinema?