Film: styles and genres

A collection of essays on fifteen feature-length silent films and two silent serial features.

';How far would The Laws of the Universe -The Age of Elohim have an impact, advised by the guardian spirit of Stan Lee?

Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars.

Love stories have always been at the heart of French cinema, but romantic comedies have, until recently, been absent from it.

Despite a glut of black and white filters, the digital revolution in videography has all but abandoned the art, science, beauty, and power of cinematic lighting that literally illuminated the Golden Age of motion pictures.

Throughout the history of cinema, horror has proven to be a genre of consistent popularity, which adapts to different cultural contexts while retaining a recognizable core.

A popular phenomenon since antiquity, the image of the haunted house is one that has translated elegantly into the modern medium of film.

This book brings together nine original chapters to examine genre agency in East Asian cinema within the transnational context.

This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of the most famous director who has ever lived, Steven Spielberg.

The large literature about the politics of Hollywood in the period of McCarthy and the blacklist has largely overlooked political filmmaking during those agitated years.

We're currently in the golden age of superhero blockbusters.

This book explores vampire narratives that have been expressed across multiple media and new technologies.

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.

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.

Film noir was a cycle in American cinema which first came into prominence during World War II, peaked in the 1950s, and began to taper off as a definable trend by 1960.

The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960-2000 combines digital cartography with close readings of representative films from 1960 to 2000.

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.

From the 1950s through the 1970s, disaster movies were a wildly popular genre.

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;.

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

Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism.

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.

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J.

Indian cinema teems with a multitude of different voices.

The films made by the British Instructional Films (BIF) company in the decade following the end of the First World War helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered.

Is there more to 1970s British cinema than sex, horror and James Bond?

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Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still being employed today.

Inventive new methods of audio-visual mediation and aesthetic activism have been giving shape, since at least the mid-2000s, to feelings of despair, disappointment, and rage at the injustice that South Africa's colonial and apartheid histories continue to trail in their wake.

"e;Funny, incisive, and timely .

A detailed, theoretically attuned analysis of all of the Scorsese-directed features from The Last Waltz  to Bringing Out the Dead .

We live in a world at risk.

Cinema has long played a major role in the formation of community among marginalised groups, and this book details that process for gay men in Sydney, Australia from the 1950s to the present.

Few studies of Canadian cinema to date have engaged deeply with genre cinema and its connection to Canadian culture.

"e;[A] well-plotted survey.

The ideal popular guide to, and story of, the implausible international fusion of directors, actors and personnel who created the mythical Spaghetti West in the most improbable of circumstances.

This book argues that adaptation is an underrecognized yet constitutive element of Nordic noir.

This history of British and American television drama since 1970 charts the increased transnationalisation of the two production systems.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation took over the leading roles in Hollywood films.

The science fiction genre maintains a remarkable hold on the imagination and enthusiasm of the filmgoing public, captivating large audiences worldwide and garnering ever-larger profits.

Set in the American Southwest, "e;desert terror"e; films combine elements from horror, film noir and road movies to tell stories of isolation and violence.

The vast and influential American military has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium.

Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leather coat, walking the streets of Manhattan to Isaac Hayes' iconic theme music.

Even for those who have never read Jules Verne (1828-1905), the author's very name conjures visions of the submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the epic race in Around the World in Eighty Days, the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon, and the daring descent in Journey to the Center of the Earth.

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

In 1957, A Face in the Crowd incorporated live video images to warn about the future of broadcast TV.

This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski.

Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman's best-selling novel and its recent film adaptation, which broke streaming records and became a cultural touchstone, emerging as a staple in the genre of contemporary horror.