Film: styles and genres

In dark or desperate times, the artwork is placed in a difficult position.

This book reflects and analyzes the relationship between media and genre, focusing on both aesthetics and discursive meaning.

How do we understand types of cinema that offer experiences of discomfort, awkwardness or disquieting uncertainty?

The freedom to go anywhere and become anyone has profoundly shaped our national psyche.

Sit back, grab some popcorn, and let the credits roll.

Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work.

Examining post-1990s Indie cinema alongside more mainstream films, Brereton explores the emergence of smart independent sensibility and how films break the classic linear narratives that have defined Hollywood and its alternative 'art' cinema.

This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant.

Between the late 1950s and mid-1970s, British cinema experienced an explosion of X-certificated films.

A 25th anniversary history and celebration of The Shawshank Redemption, one of the most cherished American films of the late twentieth century and one of the finest movies made from a Stephen King story.

Eco-theory and Annihilation is part of the Film Theory in Practice series, which blends the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film and provides discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis.

Few lives provide as much history or drama as those of monarchs.

Like many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present.

From the beginning of the sound cinema era, singing actresses captivated Chinese audiences.

The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema explores contemporary debates around the concepts of 'Europe' and 'European identity' through an examination of recent European films dealing with various aspects of globalization (the refugee crisis, labour migration, the resurgence of nationalism and ethnic violence, neoliberalism, post-colonialism) with a particular attention to the figure of the migrant and the ways in which this figure challenges us to rethink Europe and its core Enlightenment values (citizenship, justice, ethics, liberty, tolerance, and hospitality) in a post-national context of ephemerality, volatility, and contingency that finds people desperately looking for firmer markers of identity.

Honourable Mention, Best Monograph Award, BAFTSS Publication Awards 2022Sheldon Lu's wide-ranging new book investigates how filmmakers and visual artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have envisioned China as it transitions from a socialist to a globalized capitalist state.

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

Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual equality.

Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific artists working in film.

"e;Art cinema"e; has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s.

This book rethinks the study of European Cinema in a way that centres on students and their needs, in a comprehensive volume introducing undergraduates to the main discourses, directions and genres of twenty-first-century European film.

Like a lovingly guided midnight tour, this book covers the seductive shadows of the most fascinating horror films and melodramas from the 1930s and 1940s.

Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller's War Movies is the first book to focus on the genre that best defined the American director's career: the war film.

';What's so wonderful about Bramesco's book, outside of a visually splendid layout that embraces the first word of that title with detailed color breakdowns of each palette, is how much it enhances the critical language of the average viewer.

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.

Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment.

A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction - remaking and remodelling - which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial, textual and critical perspectives.

Looks at the role of love in 1950s Bombay cinema in terms of its cultural function and its social significance.

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

A collection of essays exploring the philosophical elements present in Neo-Noir films.

This book is a scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today's Hong Kong.

In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film, video, and time-based contemporary art.

Out of print for years and newly retitled and expanded, this deluxe new edition of Gifford's celebrated handbook unlocks the secrets of noir movies and their relevance todayFor a tour ofnoircinema, No Daylight in That Faceis the perfect companion, and Barry Gifford is an ideal guide.

The multiple award-winning Doctor Zhivago (1965) is one of America's finest films of all time.

Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You?

Since the dawn of film in the 1890s, religious themes and biblical subjects have been a staple of cinema.

The Britpop movement of the mid-1990s defined a generation, and the films were just as exciting as the music.

Science Fiction Film develops a historical and cultural approach to the genre that moves beyond close readings of iconography and formal conventions.

An auteur and the creator of multiple cinematic universes, James Wan has become one of the most successful directors in history, his films breaking box office records worldwide.

One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand.

From Hollywood films to novels by Louis L'Amour and television series like Gunsmoke and Deadwood, the Wild West has exerted a powerful hold on the cultural imagination of the United States.

In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial motion picture theaters.

Our century has seen the proliferation of reality shows devoted to ghost hunts, documentaries on hauntings, and horror films presented as found footage.

This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance.

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

In 1915, British moviegoers voted Fred Evans second only to Charles Chaplin as their favorite film comedian.

The frightening yet comic clown is one of the best and most enduring characters in literature, theater, television, and film.

The clock plays a significant part in our understanding of temporality, but while it simplifies, regulates and coordinates, it fails to reflect and communicate the more experiential dimensions of time.