Films, cinema

An abundantly illustrated biography of the British animation producer behind Yellow Submarine, The Snowman, and other classics.

The Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellence, and permeating popular culture around the world.

An exploration of the political economy of media, and to what extent global communications and popular entertainment continue to serve elite interests.

Nordic Exposures explores how Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity functioned in classical Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars.

The films of Quentin Tarantino are ripe for philosophical speculation, raising compelling questions about justice and ethics, violence and aggression, the nature of causality, and the flow of time.

With films ranging from High Noon to Guess Whos Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer (19132001) was one of the most successful and prolific director-producers of his day.

When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "e;Hong Kong on a bad day,"e; he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance.

A revealing look at contemporary Japanese culture.

At the age of ten, Charley Chase was singing and dancing on the street corners of Baltimore.

This entertaining collection of essays shows that Sherlock Holmes sees things others dont.

This is the third adventure in our series on cool inventions created in Asia.

The devil gets his due in the latest entry in the Pop Culture and Philosophy series.

The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson's spectacular film about the death of Jesus, has quickly become one of the most widely-viewed movies of all timeand one of the most fiercely vilified.

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.

Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going.

America Reflected offers eclectic film criticism and considerations of distinctive American voices from the ante-bellum era to the present.

In this entertaining and informative book, Victor L.

This book investigates what Bataille, in "e;The Pineal Eye,"e; calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology.

The past 40 years of technological innovation have significantly altered the materials of production and revolutionized the possibilities for experiment and exhibition.

Seventeen essays examining the impact of new media on the history of cinema.

A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.

From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated by this frame.

Twenty-three essays by young professional philosophers examine crucial ethical and metaphysical aspects of the Buffyverse (the world of Buffy).

Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world.

This book offers an industrial, economic and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry from 1899 1911, through a case study of one of the most celebrated pioneer film makers, Cecil Hepworth.

Whats the best bud when you go out to party and want to live it up?

Written by former commercial-scale grower Mel Thomas, Cannabis Cultivation divulges the expertise, tips and insight he learned at the helm of one of the world's largest marijuana growing operations.

Matt Mernagh's Marijuana Smoker's Guidebook is the ultimate field guide for marijuana.

Cartoons-both from the classic Hollywood era and from more contemporary feature films and television series-offer a rich field for detailed investigation and analysis.

From her fairytale childhood to her impressive array of movies and marriages, Elizabeth Taylors life, both on and off the screen, has enchanted, saddened, appalled, and entertained us for the past seven decades.

Political philosopher Noelle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror.

Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements.

Examines the social and historical significance of women s contributions to American silent film comedy.

The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries.

This is a highly anticipated examination of the popular film and fiction consumed by Britons in the 1920s and 1930s.

British films of the 1970s offers highly detailed and insightful critical analysis of a range of individual films of the period.

Saccharine for some, poignant for others, Jacques Demy's 'enchanted' world is familiar to generations of French audiences accustomed to watching Christmas repeats of his fairytale Peau d'ane (1970) or seeing Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac prance and pirouette in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1966).

Saccharine for some, poignant for others, Jacques Demy's 'enchanted' world is familiar to generations of French audiences accustomed to watching Christmas repeats of his fairytale Peau d'ane (1970) or seeing Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac prance and pirouette in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1966).

In the 30 years since its original release in 1986, Jim Henson's timeless fantasy film Labyrinth has captured the minds and imaginations of authors, artists, filmmakers, and fans across the world.

Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forbears about the purity of the child, depictions of children as monsters have held a tremendous fascination for film audiences for decades.

George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Adams, Tom Hanks--many of today's most celebrated actors began their careers on the sets of horror movies.

Mike Nichols burst onto the American cultural scene in the late 1950s as one half of the comic cabaret team of Nichols and May.

Fantasy and science fiction began in print, and from the first films to the latest blockbusters, print stories have provided the inspirations, the ideas, and in some cases the detailed blueprints.

Death rays!

Surfing has fascinated filmmakers since Thomas Edison shot footage of Waikiki beachboys in 1906.

With 2005's acclaimed and controversial The New World, one of cinema's most enigmatic filmmakers returned to the screen with only his fourth feature film in a career spanning thirty years.

Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies.

From automatons to zombies, many elements of fantasy and science fiction have been cross-pollinated with the Western movie genre.

Beginning in the mid-1940s, the bleak, brooding mood of film noir began seeping into that most optimistic of film genres, the western.