Films, cinema

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

This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.

This book provides a corpus-led analysis of multi-word units (MWUs) in English, specifically fixed pairs of nouns which are linked by a conjunction, such as 'mum and dad', 'bride and groom' and 'law and order'.

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.

Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People explores how, over the past four decades, fiction and film have transformed our perceptions and representations of contemporary air travel.

This book explores some of the less frequently questioned ideas which underpin comics creation and criticism.

This book engages non-digital role-playing games-such as table-top RPGs and live-action role-plays-in and from Japan, to sketch their possibilities and fluidities in a global context.

"e;Dukore's style is fluid and his wit delightful.

The Modernist Screenplay explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature.

This book is a scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir in today's Hong Kong.

This book charts the complex history of the relationship between the Disney fairy tale and the American Dream, demonstrating the ways in which the Disney fairy tale has been reconstructed and renegotiated alongside, and in response to important changes within American society.

This book critically examines how Walt Disney Animation Studios has depicted - and sometimes failed to depict - different forms of harming and objectifying non-human animals in their films.

This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced.

Robert De Niro at Work is the first critical study to examine how Robert de Niro, perhaps the finest screen actor of his generation, works with screenplays to imagine, prepare and denote his performance.

This book addresses the preoccupation with memory in contemporary artists' moving image installations.

This book examines how Shakespeare's plays resurface in current complex TV series.

This book explores cinema and film theory through classical Indian theories.

This book challenges common sense understandings of the unconscious effects of cinema and visual culture.

This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies-that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films.

This book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemporary cinema.

Neo-Noir as Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema suggests the terms "e;noir"e; and "e;neo-noir"e; have been rendered almost meaningless by overuse.

This book offers a theoretical framework and numerous cases studies - from early comic books to contemporary graphic novels - to understand the uses of genres in comics.

This book assesses the contemporary status of photochemical film practice against a backdrop of technological transition and obsolescence.

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.

How do James Bond's X-ray glasses work, the ones he uses to see whether the lady at the roulette table has a pistol concealed in her underwear?

After over a century of existence, the cinema still has its mysteries.

This study of 'independent' animation opens up a quietly subversive and vibrant dimension of contemporary Chinese culture which, hitherto, has not received as much attention as dissident art or political activism.

What impact did walking tours and scenic films have on leisure activities?

This book covers Mai Masri's three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history.

The book examines the war of images between France and Algeria.

This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant.

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

Built around close readings of 11 noir films, this book seeks to refresh our understanding of "e;film noir"e; by returning to the films themselves.

DreamWorks is one of the biggest names in modern computer-animation: a studio whose commercial success and impact on the medium rivals that of Pixar, and yet has received far less critical attention.

This book offers a descriptive and practical analysis of prosody in dubbed speech, examining the most distinctive traits that typify dubbed dialogue at the prosodic level.

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

The American Roadside in Emigre Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955-1985 traces the origin of a postmodern iconography of mobile consumption equating roadside America with an authentic experience of the United States through the postwar road narrative, a narrative which, Elsa Court argues, has been shaped by and through white male emigre narratives of the American road, in both literature and visual culture.

This book provides an in-depth study of pinboards in contemporary television series and develops the interdisciplinary and innovative concept of Serial Pinboarding.

This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde.

This book offers the first full length study on the pervasive archetype of The Gothic Forest in Western culture.

This book argues that certain films have more to offer by way of conceptualising education than textual scholarship.

Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century's most successful double-act.

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This book rethinks the study of European Cinema in a way that centres on students and their needs, in a comprehensive volume introducing undergraduates to the main discourses, directions and genres of twenty-first-century European film.

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation.

Movie magazines are crucial but widely underused sources for writing the history of films and cinema.

This book applies Heidegger's writings to experimental fictions and film genres in order to study a being-there that performs itself beyond liveness and a future that is already here.

This book assembles ten scholarly examinations of the politics of representation in the groundbreaking animated children's television series Steven Universe.

This book introduces a new form of documentary film: the Geo-Doc, designed to maximize the influential power of the documentary film as an agent of social change.

The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentaries of award-winning Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu.