Film: styles and genres

From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing forged perhaps the most successful collaboration in horror film history.

The Cold War on Film illustrates how to use film as a teaching tool.

Writing on the relationship between war and cinema has largely been dominated by an emphasis on optics and weaponised vision.

Exploring the multiple aesthetic and cultural links between French and Japanese cinema, The Cinematic Influence is packed with vivid examples and case studies of films by Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Claire Denis, Naomi Kawase, Michel Gondry and many others.

From the cheaply made “tax-shelter” films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary “eco-horror,” Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention.

The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through case studies ranging from Cliff Richard to The Rolling Stones, and from The Beatles to Plan B.

This book explores how British filmmakers of the 2000s engaged with the themes of love, sex and desire in a wide variety of movies.

Gaspar No 's Irreversible is uncompromising and visceral, an essential piece of modern cinema.

The Hollywood "e;sex comedy"e;--a feature-length film in which sex motivates the storyline and the laughs are triggered by sexual situations--came into its own with the 1953 release of the once-controversial The Moon Is Blue.

This wide-ranging, two-volume encyclopedia of musicals old and new will captivate young fans-and prove invaluable to those contemplating staging a musical production.

John Wayne worked on film sets around the globe.

Explore the enduring influence of the Western - the quintessential American film genre - and its essential role in US and world culture.

1909 in den USA und 1912 in Deutschland gab es die ersten Biographien über Autorfiguren im Kino zu sehen.

These essays all-in various ways-address the relationship between adaptation, "e;true events,"e; and cultural memory.

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

From 1976 to the present day, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King.

One of the most moving narratives from the American Revolution is the first presidential administration and the many precedents set by George Washington.

Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries.

This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywood's distinctive brand of glamour.

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.

Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science fiction films, including The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007).

Navigating a polarized society in their representation of social values, twenty-first-century horror films critically frame conflicting and divisive ideological issues.

Contemporary Russia stands apart as one of the most prolific generators of conspiracy theories and paranoid rhetoric.

The Civil War on Film informs high-school and college readers interested in Civil War film history on issues that arise when film viewers confuse entertainment with historical accuracy.

This book works to complicate and push against common arguments that the Western from its inception is an anti-feminist genre.

How is crime represented in art cinema?

Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms like metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche to describe visual things.

This book offers the first full length study on the pervasive archetype of The Gothic Forest in Western culture.

In this volume, contributors explore the deep ideological polarization in US society as portrayed in horror narratives and tropes.

Billy Wilder's classic screwball comedy Some Like it Hot (1959), starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, tells the story of two struggling Jazz musicians who accidentally witness a mob massacre in Chicago who then, disguised as women, join a female band to escape the gangsters' pursuit.

In the 1978 horror film classic Halloween, little Tommy Doyle asks his babysitter Laurie Strode "e;what is the Boogeyman?

The Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four vampire novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through the attention it has won from its predominantly teenaged fans.

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.

This work studies the ways vampiric narratives explore the eco-friendly credentials of the undead.

Hyperreality is an Alice-in-Wonderland dimension where copies have no originals, simulation is more real than reality, and living dreams undermine the barriers between imagination and objective experience.

Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, and immigration to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice and climate change.

Deutsche Western-Produktionen, das sind vor allem die ikonischen Karl-May-Verfilmungen der 1960er Jahre.

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory.

Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter presents a written companion to the popular, "e;Hermione-Approved"e; MuggleNet podcast by the same name.

Serial killers, mass murderers, spree killers, outlaws, and real-life homicidal maniacs have long held a grim fascination for both filmmakers and viewers.

Hyperreality is an Alice-in-Wonderland dimension where copies have no originals, simulation is more real than reality, and living dreams undermine the barriers between imagination and objective experience.

Disaster can strike at any time and most people are not prepared for it.

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

Sex and Sexuality in Modern Screen Remakes examines how sexiness, sexuality and revisited sexual politics are used to modernize film and TV remakes.

This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, True Grit, and Cowboys & Aliens.

Much of 20th century science fiction foretold technological and social developments beyond the year 2000.