Film: styles and genres

Comprising 91 A-Z entries, this encyclopedia provides a broad and comprehensive introduction to the topic of religion within film.

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

Mind-game films and other complex narratives have been a prominent phenomenon of the cinematic landscape during the period 1990-2010, when films like The Sixth Sense, Memento, Fight Club and Source Code became critical and commercial successes, often acquiring a cult status with audiences.

This work provides an accurate, in-depth examination and scientific evaluation of the most famous hauntings in American history as depicted in popular films and television programs.

Women are now central to many science fiction films--but that has not always been the case.

This is the first major study in English of cine quinqui, a cycle of popular Spanish films from the late 1970s and early 1980s that starred real-life juvenile delinquents.

Reception studies have made film audiences increasingly visible, while surveys track trends and policymakers gather information about audience preferences and demographics.

A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the comic book film.

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

Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition is a bold intervention that seeks to center the bodily and affective dimensions of film traditionally regarded as "e;feminine"e;.

Using the Hollywood studio system (1931-1960) as a historical center, this book performs close readings of classic horror films (such as Frankenstein and Cat People) while asking the following three questions: What about this movie is weird?

From the Star Wars expanded universe to Westworld, the science fiction western has captivated audiences for more than fifty years.

This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, acting as a form of reclamation for films and filmmakers marginalized within established histories.

"e;An essential book for courses on Native film, indigenous media, not to mention more general courses .

This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism as they apply to film.

This compilation of essential information on 100 superheroes from comic book issues, various print and online references, and scholarly analyses provides readers all of the relevant material on superheroes in one place.

Tim Burton is one of the most popular and remarkable filmmakers of the last 30 years, being responsible for such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride and Alice in Wonderland.

Appreciating Melodrama: Theory and Practice in Indian Cinema and Television seeks to identify and appreciate the continual influence of the ancient Sanskrit drama treatise, the Natyashastra, and its theory of aesthetics, the rasa theory, on the unique narrative attributes of Indian cinema.

This book explores the idiosyncratic effects generated as fairytale and gothic horror join, clash or merge in cinema.

This book examines the contrasting forms neo-noir has taken on screen, asking what prompts our continued interest in tales of criminality and moral uncertainty.

Viele erinnern sich aus ihrer Jugend an die Slapstick-Serien im Vorabendprogramm, die bis Ende der 1990er Jahre regelmäßig ausgestrahlt wurden.

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

For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic.

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

Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the most inventive American films of the 1980s.

This book examines the concept of persuasion in written texts for specialist audiences in the English and Czech languages.

Winner of the Dark Fest Film Festival Award for Best Genre Author 2024David Pirie's acclaimed history of British gothic film and television has long been regarded as a foundational study of the roots of British horror, identifying it as 'the only staple cinematic myth which Britain can properly claim as its own.

Explore the magical, mysterious world of Korean cinema, in this new book from the authors of Ghibliotheque.

Horror fiction--in literature, film and television--display a wealth of potential, and appeal to diverse audiences.

This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers.

Charles Crichton is perhaps best remembered as the director of the unlikely blockbuster hit A Fish Called Wanda, made when he was seventy-seven years old.

Robert Mitchum was--and still is--one of Hollywood's defining stars of Western film.

This book shines much-needed light on the history, structures and films of the Amharic film industry in Ethiopia.

Exploring musical theater on film for fans of the genre, Listen to Movie Musicals!

Fragile yet powerful, macho yet transgressive, Jacques Audiard's films portray disabled, marginalised or otherwise non-normative bodies in constant states of crisis and transformation.

The story of Star Trek's resurrection between the 1969 cancellation of the original series and the 1979 release of Robert Wise's Star Trek--The Motion Picture, has become legend and like so many other legends, it tends to get printed instead of the facts.

Science fiction and fantasy are often thought of as stereotypically male genres, yet both have a long and celebrated history of female creators, characters, and fans.

The sacred Scriptures, stylized in poetryAfter thorough readings through the Bible and study of biblical languages, The Haiku Bible started as an effort to make better sense of the complex and nuanced anthology.

In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness.

Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow.

In nur zwanzig Jahren, von seiner Einführung durch die Brüder Skladanowsky und die Brüder Lumière 1895 bis zu David Wark Griffithʼ The Birth of a Nation 1915, hat der Film seine Sprache gefunden und etabliert.

From early twentieth-century stag films to 1960s sexploitation pictures to the boom in 1970s "e;porno chic,"e; adult cinema's vintage forms are now being reappraised by a new generation of historians, fans, preservationists, and home video entrepreneurs-all of whom depend on and help shape the archive of film history.

This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre.

The theme of death is an essential component of film narrative, particularly in how it affects the hero.

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.

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.