Films, cinema

This book explores Alan Moore's career as a cartoonist, as shaped by his transdisciplinary practice as a poet, illustrator, musician and playwright as well as his involvement in the Northampton Arts Lab and the hippie counterculture in which it took place.

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

This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century.

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 collection examines the nerd and/or geek stereotype in popular culture today.

This book identifies a new methodological strategy for the interpretation of film philosophizing.

This volume re-evaluates theories of genre and spectatorship in light of a critic-defined tendency in recent art cinema, coined 'extreme cinema'.

This book studies how the increase of visual representation of mixed-race Koreans formulates a particular racial project in contemporary South Korean media.

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

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

This book considers how women's experiences have been treated in films dealing with Nazi persecution.

This collection explores the centrality of The Who's classic album, and Franc Roddam's cult classic film of adolescent life, Quadrophenia to the recent cultural history of Britain, to British subcultural studies, and to a continuing fascination with Mod style and culture.

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 collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing.

This volume brings together writing on the topic of home media, and in particular releases described as appealing to 'cult' fans and audiences.

This book investigates the formations of masculinity in Hungarian cinema after the fall of communism and explores some of the cultural phenomena of the years following the 1989 regime change.

This volume analyses the role of Bram Stoker's Dracula and its sequels in the evolution of the Gothic.

This book explores the recent surge in true crime by critically exploring how murder and violence are represented in documentaries, films, podcasts, museums, novels and in the press, and the effects.

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.

This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation.

This book analyzes Walt Disney's impact on entertainment, new media, and consumer culture in terms of a materialist, psychoanalytic approach to fantasy.

This book examines the concept of coherence in film studies.

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

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 volume is dedicated to the elusive category of the Hitchcock Touch, the qualities and techniques which had manifested in Alfred Hitchcock's own films yet which cannot be limited to the realm of Hitchcockian cinema alone.

This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries.

This book presents close-readings of seven post-millennial comedic films: Up in the Air, Tropic Thunder, JCVD, Winnebago Man, The Trotsky, Be Kind Rewind, and Hamlet 2.

This book explores how Bakhtin's ideas can illuminate the compelling but uneasy fusion of Shakespeare and cinema.

This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and psychological suffering in the present and recent past.

This book gathers together essays written by leading scholars of adaptation studies to explore the full range of practices and issues currently of concern in the field.

This book examines postmodern theology and how it relates to the cinematic style of Robert Bresson, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, and Luis Bunuel.

This book addresses what a superhero body can do by developing several "e;x-rays"e; of the superbody's sensoria, anatomic structures, internal systems, cellular organizations, and orthotic, chemical, or technological enhancements.

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

This book is the first scholarly analysis that considers the specificity of situated experiences of the maternal from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland.

This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach.

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

This book systematically explores how popular Hollywood film portrays environmental issues through various genres.

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

This book examines post-war surrealist cinema in relation to surrealism's change in direction towards myth and magic following World War II.

This edited volume is an inquiry into the representation of intimate relationships in a diverse array of media including cinema, arts, literature, picture books, advertising and popular music.

This book offers a new approach to film studies by showing how our brains use our interpretations of various other films in order to understand Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

This book explores the intersection between adaptation studies and what James F.

This book explores composed scores and pre-existing music in French cinema from 1985 to 2015 so as to identify critical musical moments.

This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances.

This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world.

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

This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions.

This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture.

This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015.