Film history, theory or criticism

Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth.

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.

Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value.

This is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversion on screen.

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

Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes.

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.

More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades.

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

Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium.

Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique.

Noël Carroll is one of the most prolific, widely-cited and distinguished philosophers of art, but how, specifically, has cinema impacted his thought?

French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart.

More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades.

We live in a secular world and cinema is part of that secular edifice.

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?

This is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversion on screen.

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

Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes.

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.

Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth.

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.

Established in 1955, the Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival became a central arena for staging the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic, both domestically and in relation to West Germany and the rest of the world.