Film & movie: styles & genres books

Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers...  Read More >>

This book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida's thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns...  Read More >>

The Style of Sleaze reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation...  Read More >>

With an influence felt on directors like Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis and John Waters, this volume reappraises Castle's...  Read More >>

This book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging,...  Read More >>

Examines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia,...  Read More >>

With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the 'rogue cop' film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances,...  Read More >>

Drawing on scholarship of popular music and the pop score as well as feminist film and media studies, Howell addresses...  Read More >>

This book visits the ‘Thing’ in its manifestations as an unnameable monster in literature and film, reinforcing...  Read More >>

Thomas Deane Tucker explores the intertwined relationship between cinema and walking from its very first steps breaking...  Read More >>

This book is a scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir...  Read More >>

The definitive guide to the most famous superhero movie that was never released.  Read More >>

This filmography details his initial forays into films and mastering of the medium, but also his banishment from...  Read More >>

Malcolm Turvey examines Jacques Tati’s unique comedic style and evaluates its significance for the history of film...  Read More >>

In December of 1992, filming began on a secret Fantastic Four movie. Several months earlier, Bernd Eichinger met...  Read More >>

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The world's second play on a moving tram unfolds as the vehicle makes its way from the St. Kilda Terminus to the...  Read More >>

He likes his vodka martinis shaken, not stirred. He drives one of the most recognizable cars in film history, and...  Read More >>

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Since cinema's earliest days, literary adaptation has provided the movies with stories; and so we use literary terms...  Read More >>

The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as...  Read More >>

Since 2000, numerous heroes of the ancient world have appeared on film and TV, from the mythical Hercules to leaders...  Read More >>

""Leading creators and scholars raise provocative questions about emerging and hybrid narrative forms of digital...  Read More >>

A behind the scenes guide to the most iconic non-human characters of the Star Wars saga. The creatures, aliens,...  Read More >>

Banned soon after its first midnight screenings, Jack Smith’s incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became...  Read More >>