Film history, theory or criticism

British films of the 1970s offers highly detailed and insightful critical analysis of a range of individual films of the period.

During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country's shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades.

Vampires and the Making of the United States in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and multifaceted study of how vampires on screen have shaped America and how specific environments here have shaped their vampires.

Cinema articulates the economic anxieties of each generation of filmmakers and audiences.

One of the most gifted directors of the post New Wave, Maurice Pialat is frequently compared to such legendary filmmakers as Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson.

Seventeen essays examining the impact of new media on the history of cinema.

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

Black Lenses, Black Voices is a provocative look at films directed and written-and sometimes produced-by African Americans, as well as black-oriented films whose directors or screenwriters are not black.

This book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemporary cinema.

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Hollywood special effects offer spectacular creations or re-creations that make claims to our attention on the grounds of their 'incredible-seeming reality'.

This incisive book provides an in-depth critical and biographical study of the artistic range of film director Gus Van Sant.

This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov.

Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution.

Endangered life is often used to justify humanitarian media intervention, but what if suffering humanity is both the fuel and outcome of such media representations?

A collaborator with Warner Brothers and Paramount in the early days of sound film, the German film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) is famous for his sense of ironic detachment and for the eroticism he infused into such comedies as So This Is Paris and Trouble in Paradise.

The films "e;Brigadoon"e; and "e;Braveheart"e; have an enormous resonance both for Scots throughout the world and the wide audience of non-Scots for whom such films provide general impressions of "e;Scottishness"e;.

While some film scores crash through theater speakers to claim their place in memory, others are more unassuming.

Through metaphors and allusions to art, science, and religion, Andre Bazin's writings on the cinema explore a simple yet profound question: what is a human?

In the postwar era, the lure of controversy sold movie tickets as much as the promise of entertainment did.

How did the US South contribute to the development of film?

Toronto is a changing city that has been a source of reflection and inspiration to writers and artists whose work focuses on the conditions and prospects of human life.

Bislang hat die Forschung alternativen Formen der Filmherstellung in der ehemaligen DDR – und den sozialistischen Produktionssystemen im Allgemeinen – wenig bis gar keine Beachtung geschenkt.

The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami burst onto the international film scene in the early 1990s and was widely regarded as one of the most distinctive and talented modern-day directors.

Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness.

How do East Asian cultural heritages in shape film?

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction.

It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation s sense of identity and self-confidence.

Philosophy and Blade Runner explores philosophical issues in the film Blade Runner , including human nature, personhood, identity, consciousness, free will, morality, God, death, and the meaning of life.

Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia-no longer on the map.

In this persuasive reversal of previous scholarship, Linda Schulte-Sasse takes an unorthodox look at Nazi cinema, examining Nazi films as movies that contain propaganda rather than as propaganda vehicles that happen to be movies.

Drawing on Daphne du Maurier's short story and contemporary newspaper reports of bird attacks in California, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) featured Tippi Hedren in her first starring role.

Bombay Cinema's Islamicate Histories comprises fourteen essays on the history and influence of cultural Islam on Bombay cinema.

Ever since motion pictures first landed on screen, there have been many key questions that the studios and movie watchers have tried to answer.

Almost as long as cinema has existed, vampires have appeared on screen.

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

With the advent of digital filmmaking and critical recognition of the relevance of self expression, first-person narratives, and personal practices of memorialization, interest in the amateur moving image has never been stronger.

What does it take to make a great motion picture?

A quintessential work of 1960s European art cinema, L'Ann e derni re Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961) was a collaboration between director Alain Resnais and 'New Novel' enfant terrible Alain Robbe-Grillet.

Perhaps no current filmmaker has made more provocative films about American history than Oliver Stone.

This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts.

Mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking is a global phenomenon with distinctive festivals, filmmakers and creatives that are defining an original film form.

Music in Action Film is the first volume to address the central role of music and sound in action film-arguably the most dominant form of commercial cinema today.

A filmmaker draws on the fields of neuroscience and evolutionary biology to focus on cinema's visual nature.

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