Film history, theory or criticism

The remarkable commercial success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ in 2004 came as a surprise to the Hollywood establishment, particularly considering the film's failure to find production funding through a major studio.

Adopting and developing a 'cultural politics' approach, this comprehensive study explores how Hollywood movies generate and reflect political myths about social and personal life that profoundly influence how we understand power relations.

Adopting and developing a 'cultural politics' approach, this comprehensive study explores how Hollywood movies generate and reflect political myths about social and personal life that profoundly influence how we understand power relations.

This collection presents new essays in the complex field of French literary adaptation.

This collection presents new essays in the complex field of French literary adaptation.

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

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

This book investigates the new language of vulnerability that has emerged in feminist, queer and antiracist debates on media, taking a particular interest in the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of this language.

This book investigates the new language of vulnerability that has emerged in feminist, queer and antiracist debates on media, taking a particular interest in the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of this language.

This is the first major study in English of cine quinqui, a cycle of popular Spanish films from the late 1970s and early 1980s that starred real-life juvenile delinquents.

Since the end of the Cold War there have been many competing ideas about how to explain contemporary conflicts, and about how the West should respond to them.

In the years between 1941 and 1965, Lance Comfort made some of the most entertaining films in Britain.

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the 'spatialities of cinema' across the social sciences and humanities, yet to date critical inquiry has tended to explore this issue as a question of the 'city' and the 'urban'.

Looking at contemporary film and television, this book explores how popular genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance.

Cinesonica: sounding film and video explores previously neglected and under-theorised aspects of film and video sound, drawing on detailed case study analyses of Hollywood cinema, art cinema, animated cartoons, and avant-garde film and video.

This book critically examines images in the borderlands of the art world, investigating relations between visual art and vernacular visual culture within different images communities from the 1870s to the present day.

This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms.

This book is a cultural history of the interplay between the Western genre and American gun rights and legal paradigms.

Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threads.

Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threads.

Provides an introduction to the products and context of the new Australian film industry which arose toward the end of the 1960s.

Terry Gilliam presents a sustained examination of one of cinema's most challenging and lauded auteurs, proposing fresh ways of seeing Gilliam that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist.

The fifteen groundbreaking essays contained in this book address the concept of adaptation in relation to horror cinema.

An accessible, comprehensive overview of contemporary Irish cinema, this book is intended for use as a third-level textbook and is designed to appeal to academics in the areas of film studies and Irish studies.

This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance.

This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance.

Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama Threads is central to a Cold War-era vision of nuclear attack.

Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama Threads is central to a Cold War-era vision of nuclear attack.

In a world defined by the flow of people, goods and cultures, many contemporary French films explore the multicultural nature of today's France through language.

In a world defined by the flow of people, goods and cultures, many contemporary French films explore the multicultural nature of today's France through language.

Described by Giles Deleuze as 'one of the greatest modern auteurs', Philippe Garrel is widely acknowledged as the most significant filmmaker to emerge in France after the New Wave.

Described by Giles Deleuze as 'one of the greatest modern auteurs', Philippe Garrel is widely acknowledged as the most significant filmmaker to emerge in France after the New Wave.

This is about musicians' working lives in Britain from the late Victorian era to the present day.

Over the last three decades, Scottish cinema has seen an unprecedented number of international successes.

Over the last three decades, Scottish cinema has seen an unprecedented number of international successes.

Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define.

Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define.

The 'Gainsborough melodramas' were a mainstay of 1940s British cinema, and helped make the careers of such stars as Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Stewart Granger.

The 'Gainsborough melodramas' were a mainstay of 1940s British cinema, and helped make the careers of such stars as Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Stewart Granger.

This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur!

This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur!

This is a highly anticipated examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s.

This is a highly anticipated examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s.

The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries.

The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries.

This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in films concerning love in the classic Hollywood period.

Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content.

Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content.

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'.

In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'.