The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thematic elements, from unusual camera angles and lighting to moral ambiguity and femmes fatales.
Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the most common forms of film and television comedy today.
Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world.
When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work.
Film noir-literally "e;black cinema"e;-is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959.
Whether chronicling an athlete's rise, fall, and redemption or following a team's improbable triumph on the field, sports have been a favorite theme of filmmakers almost since movies were first produced.
This short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally.
Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world.
Although considered a relatively new genre, the mockumentary has existed nearly as long as filmmaking itself and has become one of the most common forms of film and television comedy today.
Flash Gordon, Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe--the most expensive and popular movie serials ever made--have been favorites of film buffs and comics fans for decades.
Award-winning author John Kenneth Muir returns for his fifth "e;Horror Films of"e; decade book for McFarland, reviewing 275 horror films that premiered between 2010 and 2019.
This first volume of a two-volume set covers every film released during the "e;first wave"e; of Hollywood horror (1931-1939), providing 74 chilling entries with important historical context, frightening facts and terrifying trivia.
This first volume of a two-volume set covers every film released during the "e;first wave"e; of Hollywood horror (1931-1939), providing 74 chilling entries with important historical context, frightening facts and terrifying trivia.
In 1985, Marty, Doc, and the citizens of Hill Valley first burst onto the big screen in an epic time-traveling adventure that has entertained audiences for more than a generation.
The Scottish novelist Alistair MacLean didn't speak English until he was six, but he went on to become one of the world's best-selling authors (over 150 million copies sold) and Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriter.
Peter Sellers first pratfalled onto the silver screen as the bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau in 1963's The Pink Panther, turning him into an international comedy superstar.
Go behind the scenes of Hollywood's horror and science fiction classics (and classic schlock) in Tom Weaver's 13th compilation of confrontations with their makers: more than 25 writers, producers, directors, actors and more.
In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the 'long duree' of the 20th century and into the 21st.
The Southern Gothic on Screen explores a body of screen texts that conform to certain generic conventions and aesthetics that, since the early twentieth century, have led to the construction of the American South as a space of ruin, decay, melancholy, loss, and haunting.
