Films, cinema

This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century.

In this book we learn that there is a clear but complex relationship between setting and character on screen.

This book shows how diverse, critical modern world narratives in prose fiction and film emphasize masculine subjectivities through affects and ethics.

This book proposes a new approach to the study of discourse in documentary film.

This book examines social aspects of humour relating to the judiciary, judicial behaviour, and judicial work across different cultures and eras, identifying how traditionally recorded wit and humorous portrayals of judges reflect social attitudes to the judiciary over time.

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

This book maps father failure and redemption through three decades of Hollywood family films, revealing how libertarian notions that align agency with autonomy lead to new conflicts for the contemporary father.

This book is a thorough analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and of its multiple connections with the Leopold and Loeb murder case and the adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's eponymous play.

This book recounts the reception of selected films about the Great War released between 1918 and 1938 in the USA and Great Britain.

This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic.

This book presents three interrelated essays about cinematography which offer a theoretical understanding of the ways that film practitioners orchestrate light in today's post-digital context.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts chronicles for the first time over 1,500 horror and horror-related short subjects theatrically released between 1915, at the dawn of the feature film era when shorts became a differentiated category of cinema, and 1976, when the last of the horror-related shorts were distributed to movie theaters.

Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the intersection between traditional modes of film production and new, transitional/transnational approaches to film genre and related discourses in a contemporary, global context.

This book explores the cycle of horror on US television in the decade following the launch of The Walking Dead, considering the horror genre from an industrial perspective.

This book offers an examination of Jeff Noon's iconoclastic debut novel, Vurt (1993).

This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality.

This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism.

While previous work on the Star Wars universe charts the Campbellian mythic arcs, political representations, and fan reactions associated with the films, this volume takes a transmedial approach to the material, recognizing that Star Wars TV projects interact with and relate to other Star Wars texts.

This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction.

Brilliantly introduced by Nezar Andary, this book is a work of creative nonfiction that approaches writing on film in a fresh and provocative way.

This volume is the first book-length account of Yves Montand's controversial tour of the Soviet Union at the turn of the years 1956/57.

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

This book examines representations of home in literary and visual cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Australian Western in the Fifties: Kangaroo, Hopalong Cassidy on Tour, and Whiplash looks at Australian Westerns from three points of view-film, personal appearance, and television at the beginning, middle, and end of the 1950s, the American Western's golden age.

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the flourishing genre of the contemporary Latin American road movie, of which Diarios de motocicleta and Y tu mama tambien are only the best-known examples.

This book offers a comparative study of historical television genres in Europe, with a special focus on Germany and Great Britain and their way of narrating twentieth century European history.

This book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B.

This book examines the crucial role of psychoanalysis in understanding what AI means for us as speaking, sexed subjects.

This book examines the convergent paths of the Internet and the American military, interweaving a history of the militarized Internet with analysis of a number of popular Hollywood movies in order to track how the introduction of the Internet into the war film has changed the genre, and how the movies often function as one part of the larger Military-Industrial- Media-Entertainment Network and the Total War Machine.

This book offers an approach to film music in which music and visuals are seen as equal players in the game.

Celebrated musician and entertainer Lizzo wowed audiences and left many "e;feeling good as hell.

This book explores how minds at the movies understand minds in the movies and introduces readers to some fundamental principles of Cognitive Studies-namely conceptual blending, Theory of Mind, and empathy/perspective-taking-through their application to film analysis.

In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions.

Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished directors in the history of world cinema.

This book undertakes a concentrated study of the impact of degraded and low-quality imagery in contemporary cinema and real-world portrayals of violence.

This volume provides an overview of the landscape of mediated female agencies and subjectivities in the last decade.

This book analyzes the nature and functions of horror films from the vantage of a theoretical reconstruction of George Santayana's account of beauty.

Fantasy author Neil Gaiman's 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of cinema in the communication strategy of the Italian Communist party (the PCI).

This book analyses the Korean film industry emergence and development in a global business and economic perspective.

This book centers on the role of media in shaping public perceptions of breastfeeding.

This book is the first history of British animated cartoons, from the earliest period of cinema in the 1890s up to the late 1920s.

This book explores the rich complexity of Japan's film history by tracing how cinema has been continually reshaped through its dynamic engagement within a shifting media ecology.

This book examines the multi-media explosion of contemporary political satire.

This book comprises what may be called exercises in 'comparative cinema'.

This book examines the concept of coherence in film studies.

This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the cinema of the new millennium.

This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant.

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like-and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape.

Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the "e;stone phenomenon"e; in Chinese film production and cinematic discourses triggered by the extraordinary success of the 2006 low-budget film, Crazy Stone.