Film history, theory or criticism

Django Unchained is certainly Quentin Tarantino's most commercially-successful film and is arguably also his most controversial.

Alfred Hitchcock and the cinema grew up together.

Cult Film as a Guide to Life investigates the world and experience of cult films, from well-loved classics to the worst movies ever made.

After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century.

Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas uses a range of analytical approaches to interrogate how the traditional socio-political rhetoric of national cinema can be rethought through ecosystemic concerns, by exploring a range of Nordic films as national and transnational, regional and local texts--all with significant global implications.

While masculinity has been an increasingly visible field of study within several disciplines (sociology, literary studies, cultural studies, film and tv) over the last two decades, it is surprising that analysis of contemporary representations of the first part of the century has yet to emerge.

Portuguese Film, 1930-1960: The Staging of the New State Regime provides groundbreaking analysis of Portuguese feature films produced in the first three decades of the New State (Estado Novo), a right-wing totalitarian regime that lasted between 1933 and 1974.

Alfred Hitchcock and the cinema grew up together.

This is the first in-depth, book-length study on fashion and Italian cinema from the silent film to the present.

After the Fact studies the terrain of Holocaust documentaries subsequent to the turn of the twenty-first century.

The Subject of Film and Race is the first comprehensive intervention into how film critics and scholars have sought to understand cinema's relationship to racial ideology.

Cult Film as a Guide to Life investigates the world and experience of cult films, from well-loved classics to the worst movies ever made.

Distinguished literary and film theorists convene to engage with Garrett Stewart's twenty books of inter-medial analysis, shelved across several disciplines, in a collection of essays as multifaceted and resonant as Stewart's own writing.

Could you really use a bullwhip to swing across a chasm?

New York Times BestsellerNamed one of the best books of the year by:ParadeThe GuardianKirkusLibrary Journal The true story behind the classic Western The Searchers by Pulitzer Prize-wining writer Glenn Frankel that the New York Times calls "e;A vivid, revelatory account of John Ford's 1956 masterpiece.

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Searchers, the revelatory story behind the classic movie High Noon and the toxic political climate in which it was created.

This book undertakes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural interrogation of the Global South  through  the  prisms  of  media  and  cultural  studies.

Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine.

This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film.

This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film.

"e;Compelling and sometimes controversial words from the visionaries behind the camera .

Thanks to his prolific movie career (seventy-eight movies and counting) and endearing real-life persona, Keanu Reeves has become the universal screen saver of pop culture-nobody can go a few days without some reference to Keanu or his movies popping up.

Want your film to sizzle with danger?

In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, "e;Save the Cat!

From dwarves to princes, heroes to heartbreakers, the Disney treatment of male characters in the studio's animated features.

Wie kann man im Medium Film Geschichten erzählen?

"e;You know from seeing it that Herzog was up to something strange in filming Heart of Glass.

From the ten scriptwriters at work to the scandal headlines of Munchkin orgies at the Culver City Hotel to the Witch's (accidental) burning, here is the real story of the making of The Wizard of Oz.

Ranging from the dawn of the silent era to today's blockbusters and independent films, this revamped second edition chronicles the significant contributions by Chicago and Chicagoans to more than a century of American filmmaking.

Revealing a festival of guilty pleasures, almost-masterpieces, and undeniable classics in need of revival, 35 directors champion their favorite overlooked or critically savaged gems in this guide.

How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest.

Theatre Library Association's Wall Award FinalistSilent film superstar Douglas Fairbanks was an absolute charmer.

Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917.

Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artistsIn Hollywood's heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department.

An informal yet informed journey through the classic works of Japanese cinema and their directors.

A fascinating guide to themes and films in the expanding Japanese megaverse.

A focused study of an ancient myth and its reception, which provokes new consideration of how myth in general can challenge social norms.

Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond places posthumanism and feminist theory into dialogue with contemporary science fiction film and media.

North Americans love eating meat.

Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies sketches several possibilities for future texts, those that imagine new pathways through the forms used to express contemporary questions of race, gender, and identity.

Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies sketches several possibilities for future texts, those that imagine new pathways through the forms used to express contemporary questions of race, gender, and identity.

The essays in Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real explore the intersections among image, word, and visual habits in shaping realities and subjectivities.

The essays in Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real explore the intersections among image, word, and visual habits in shaping realities and subjectivities.

The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a chronicle of the lives and work of the most influential film critics of the past 100 years.

The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a chronicle of the lives and work of the most influential film critics of the past 100 years.