Film: styles and genres

Although the horror genre has been embraced by filmmakers around the world, Japan has been one of the most prolific and successful purveyors of such films.

This handbook is the first to provide a systematic investigation of the various roles of producers in commercial and not-for-profit musical theatre.

This book discusses the representational geographies of the Bond film franchise and how they inform our reading of 007 as a hero.

This volume explores cultural innovation and transformation as revealed through the emergence of new media genres.

This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015.

This book investigates desert islands in postwar anglophone popular culture, exploring representations in radio, print and screen advertising, magazine cartoons, cinema, video games, and comedy, drama and reality television.

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of cross-class romance films throughout the history of American cinema.

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

The Politics of Horror features contributions from scholars in a variety of fields-political science, English, communication studies, and others-that explore the connections between horror and politics.

This book addresses what a superhero body can do by developing several "e;x-rays"e; of the superbody's sensoria, anatomic structures, internal systems, cellular organizations, and orthotic, chemical, or technological enhancements.

This book presents close-readings of seven post-millennial comedic films: Up in the Air, Tropic Thunder, JCVD, Winnebago Man, The Trotsky, Be Kind Rewind, and Hamlet 2.

This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television's fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century.

This book explores how Bakhtin's ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema.

This book analyzes Walt Disney's impact on entertainment, new media, and consumer culture in terms of a materialist, psychoanalytic approach to fantasy.

This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century.

This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen.

Winning power in Westeros is hard, but holding power is much harder.

In contrast to the main body of current Victorian detective criticism, which tends to concentrate on Conan Doyle's creation and only uses other detectives as a backdrop, the texts gathered in this volume examine various contemporary ways of (re)presenting real and fictional detectives that originated in or are otherwise associated with that era: Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff, Inspector Reid, Tobias Gregson, Flaxman Low, and psychiatrists as detectives.

Japanese Horror and the Transnational Cinema of Sensations undertakes a critical reassessment of Japanese horror cinema by attending to its intermediality and transnational hybridity in relation to world horror cinema.

Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there across the full range of genres.

This book discusses slow cinema, a contemporary global production trend that has recently gained momentum in film theory and criticism.

The Formation of Chinese Art Cinema: 1990-2003 examines the development of Chinese art film in the People's Republic of China from 1990, when the first Sixth Generation film Mama was released, to 2003, when authorities acknowledged the legitimacy of underground filmmakers.

New Perspectives on the War Film addresses the gap in the representation of many forgotten faces of war in mainstream movies and global mass media.

This book presents an analysis of how the grassroots movement of Guangchang Wu or 'square dance' in China has become a national phenomenon.

This book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American crimefighter-whether cop, detective, or agent-who must safeguard society and the nation by any means necessary.

This edited book represents the first cohesive attempt to describe the literary genres of late-twentieth-century fiction in terms of lexico-grammatical patterns.

This book provides a corpus-led analysis of multi-word units (MWUs) in English, specifically fixed pairs of nouns which are linked by a conjunction, such as 'mum and dad', 'bride and groom' and 'law and order'.

How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen?

This book engages with Margaret Atwood's work and its adaptations.

The ground has shifted from the days in which "e;serious history"e; and "e;boring"e; went hand in glove.

This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs.

Since the release in 1929 of a popular book series with bright yellow covers, the Italian word giallo (yellow) has come to define a whole spectrum of mystery and detective fiction and films.

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This collection reads the science fiction genre and television medium as examples of heterotopia (and television as science fiction technology), in which forms, processes, and productions of space and time collide - a multiplicity of spaces produced and (re)configured.

Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games.

Knit adorable pairs of tiny mittens for the new baby in your life with this easy-to-use guide featuring twenty irresistible designs.

This book studies American science fiction films depicting invasions of the USA and Earth by extra- terrestrials within the context of imperialism from 1950-2020.

This book begins at the intersection of Dracula and War of the Worlds, both published in 1897 London, and describes the settings of Transylvania, Mars, and London as worlds linked by the body of the vampire.

John Wayne worked on film sets around the globe.

This book is a documentation of beautiful Naga culture who live in the hills.

"Films of the Dead" ist keine Enzyklopädie der Zombiefilme.

"Films of the Dead" ist keine Enzyklopädie der Zombiefilme.

The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood focuses on the American science fiction (SF) film during the period 2001-2020, in order to provide a theoretical mapping of the genre in the context of Conglomerate Hollywood.

The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood focuses on the American science fiction (SF) film during the period 2001-2020, in order to provide a theoretical mapping of the genre in the context of Conglomerate Hollywood.

Spielzeug aus der Kinderstube kann außerhalb dieser Wärmezone bisweilen zwielichtig erscheinen, sogar Furcht einflößen.

"Top 1500 Movies - Die besten Spielfilme aller Zeiten" stellt die wichtigsten Spielfilme und Regisseure seit den Anfängen des Kinos vor.

PAUL POPE 's new graphic novel Battling Boy debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and the original art is now the focus of a series of traveling art exhibits in the United States and Europe.

PAUL POPE 's new graphic novel Battling Boy debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and the original art is now the focus of a series of traveling art exhibits in the United States and Europe.

Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong.