Film history, theory or criticism

This essential core textbook provides an approachable and extensive introduction to film theory, written by two highly experienced senior lecturers.

This book explores how classical and Shakespearean tragedy has shaped the temporality of crisis on the stage and in time-travel films and videogames.

Philosophy and the Patience of Film presents a comparative study of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy and Stanley Cavell.

This book maps the aesthetic experience of late socialism through Cuban film and media practice.

This book examines the queer film festival and opens the discussion on social enterprises and sustainable lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organisations.

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 book presents an expert analysis of  the transnational aspects of Finnish cinema throughout its history.

This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks.

This book explores the way in which doubling takes place in several novels, films, and dramas, primarily focusing on modern drama and exploring how five Greek myths - Oedipus, Narcissus, Dionysus, Orestes, and Demeter - inform the literature.

The purpose of this book, through its very creation, is to strengthen the dialogue between practitioner and theorist.

Reflecting on a series of ethical and moral questions significant to contemporary Spanish culture, Cristina Sanchez-Conejero analyzes several issues related to sexuality in gender as they're portrayed Spanish film.

This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth.

This book investigates a Jewish orientation to film culture in interwar Britain.

This edited collection offers a wide range of essays showcasing current research on emotions in TV series.

Focusing on "e;dark"e; or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present.

This book puts forward a more considered perspective on 3D, which is often seen as a distracting gimmick at odds with artful cinematic storytelling.

The idea of the "e;mamma italiana"e; is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy.

This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience.

Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the shifts in our emotional preferences, styles, and 'emotional regimes' in western societies from the 1920s to today, as viewed through the lens of film and television.

This book examines the Western genre in the period since Westerns ceased to be a regular feature of Hollywood filmmaking.

The Star Trek franchise reflects, conveys, and comments upon the key philosophical tensions of the modern era.

Return to Twin Peaks offers new critical considerations and approaches to the Twin Peaks series, as well as reflections on its significance and legacy.

What was it like to work behind the scenes, away from the spotlight's glare, in Hollywood's so-called Golden Age?

Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s.

This book examines the aesthetic qualities of particular Chinese-language films and the rich artistic traditions from which they spring.

While urban films often reinforce spatial stereotypes, they can also produce a resistant reading that helps transgress spatial boundaries, especially in in urban contexts where spatial inequalities and urban divisions are stark.

This book explores the role and centrality of women in the development of collaborative theatre practice, alongside the significance of collective creation and devising in the development of the modern theatre.

This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films.

Hand-Made Television explores the ongoing enchantment of many of the much-loved stop-frame children's television programmes of 1960s and 1970s Britain.

This book addresses a variety of regional humor traditions such as exploitation cinema, Brazilian chanchada, the Cantinflas heritage, the comedy of manners and light sexuality, iconic figures and characters, as well as a variety of humor registers evident in different Latin American films.

This book takes up the queer girl as a represented and rhetorical figure within film, television and video.

This collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'.

This book is about the British film-maker Lindsay Anderson.

This book questions the de facto dominance of narrative when watching films.

Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national boundaries, analyzing film texts from a variety of national contexts in the wake of globalization.

This book approaches the topic of the state of post-cinema from a new direction.

Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Imagining New Europe provides a comprehensive study of the way in which contemporary writers, filmmakers, and the media have represented the recent phenomenon of Eastern European migration to the UK and Western Europe following the enlargement of the EU in the 21st century, the social and political changes after the fall of communism, and the Brexit vote.

This core teaching text provides a thorough overview of the recently emerged field of transnational film studies.

The New Hollywood of the late 1960s and 1970s is among the most exciting and influential periods in the history of film.

This book offers a cross-cultural approach to cinematic representations of Alzheimer's disease in non-mainstream cinema.

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century.

Released in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien has come to be regarded as a classic film, and has been widely written about.

In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film.

An approachable guide to Shakespeare on film, this book establishes the differences between stage and screen.

This book features an in-depth analysis of the world's most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the representation of Andy's poster art as cross-gendered signifiers.

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This collection explores the post-2000 film Western.

This title offers a Marxist take on a selection of artistic and cultural achievements from the rap music of Tupac Shakur to the painting of Van Gogh, from HBO's Breaking Bad to Balzac's Cousin Bette , from the magical realm of Harry Potter to the apocalyptic landscape of The Walking Dead , from The Hunger Games to Game of Thrones .

Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cinema across genres developed an understanding of what the U.