Film history, theory or criticism

This book presents the Great Depression through the lens of 13 films, beginning with movies made during the Depression and ending with films from the 21st century, and encourages readers to examine the various depictions of this period throughout history.

[…] la figura, no entendida como imagen fílmica, sino como operación figural del lenguaje –donde puede haber imagen, pero donde también están presentes las otras series para la producción de sentido del cine (palabra, música, montaje, etc.

World War II on Film examines the war through the lens of 12 films.

Raw and unflinchingThis is a mother's account of her daughter's lifeAnd of Katie Price and her turbulent rise to fameThe Sunday Times bestselling memoir from Amy Price.

A focused study on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's cinematic contributions to the war effort, arguing for the centrality of propaganda to their work as film artists.

The Cold War on Film illustrates how to use film as a teaching tool.

Since its release, Annie Hall has established itself as a key film for Woody Allen's career and the history of romantic comedy more generally.

This book provides a comprehensive account of German animation history, as well as an analysis of the current state of the industry in competition with American and cheaper international products in the face of dwindling budgets.

Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change.

Die Filme des japanischen Regisseurs Mikio Naruse (1905–1969) erzählen vor allem Geschichten aus dem Alltag, insbesondere dem der Frauen.

Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, and immigration to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice and climate change.

This collection brings together many of the world's leading scholars on race and film to re-consider the legacy and impact of D.

The last two decades have seen dramatic changes to Mexico's socio-political landscape.

Sex und Crime, harte Kerle und willige Frauen, knallende Schießeisen und schnelle Autos, schlitzende Messer und harte Prügel, Kungfu und Monster: Exploitation-Kino zielt auf die niedereren Instinkte.

Sex und Crime, harte Kerle und willige Frauen, knallende Schießeisen und schnelle Autos, schlitzende Messer und harte Prügel, Kungfu und Monster: Exploitation-Kino zielt auf die niedereren Instinkte.

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Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 focuses on fifty-three silent film adaptations of the novels of acclaimed authors George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton.

Sports on Film takes readers behind the scenes of how movies get made and puts them in the stands for some of the key moments in sports in America.

The western is arguably the most iconic and influential genre in American cinema.

Few lives provide as much history or drama as those of monarchs.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Last Temptation of Christ and the controversy following its release.

This book identifies a new methodological strategy for the interpretation of film philosophizing.

On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat.

As both a distinct genre and a particular mode of filmmaking, the idea of the epic has been central to the history of cinema.

Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and Leone, and actors like Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni known to audiences around the world.

The film Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou and released in 2002, is widely regarded as the first globally successful indigenous Chinese blockbuster.

Music in Horror Film is a collection of essays that examine the effects of music and its ability to provoke or intensify fear in this particular genre of film.

This book analyzes the cinematic superhero as social practice.

This book places long overdue focus on the Palestine solidarity films of two important Arab women directors whose cinematic works have never received due attention within the scholarly literature or the cultural public sphere.

This volume analyses the role of Bram Stoker's Dracula and its sequels in the evolution of the Gothic.

Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze represents a novel and comprehensive study of the aesthetic and affective textual innovations of women in the 21st century from a postfeminist perspective.

Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of contemporary air travel.

This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies.

This book offers a critical analysis of the relationship between food and horror in post-1980 cinema.

Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films.

Falling Down (1993) caused controversy because of its depiction of violence and vigilantism, and was accused of racism in its portrayal of a Korean shopkeeper.

Movie studios are the wondrous, almost magical locales where not just films, but legends, are created.

In iconic films like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino personified the spirit of '90s filmmaking, boldly forging his own opportunities rather than waiting for the movie industry to come knocking on his door.

This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction.

Using contemporary film theory and elements of socio-cultural and political discourse, fourteen geographers examine the effects of cinematic representation of place and space on perceptions of self and societies in the world.

This book explores the evolution of audience receptions of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy (2012-14) as an exemplar of the contemporary blockbuster event film franchise.

In Search of Marie-Antoinette in the 1930s follows Austrian biographer Stefan Zweig, American producer Irving Thalberg, and Canadian-American actress Norma Shearer as they attempt to uncover personal aspects of Marie-Antoinette's life at the French court in the late eighteenth-century and to dramatize them in biography, cinema, and performance for public consumption during the 1930s.

This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore the uses of Digital Storytelling, which places the greatest possible emphasis on the voice of the storyteller.

This book is the first to explore 'old age' in cinema at the intersection of gender, ageing, celebrity and genre studies.

This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema's first years.

Caddyshack is the ultimate golfers cult movie.

I dont know what people expect when they meet me.

David MacDougall is a pivotal figure in the development of ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology.