Film & movie: styles & genres books

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Writer, director, and producer Alan Rosenthal presents a manual for screenwriters to develop their bio-pic or docudrama...  Read More >>

A comprehensive volume that grasps Japanese cinema under the rubric of the global and also fills the gap between...  Read More >>

What does it mean to live as a ghost? Exploring spectrality as a metaphor in the contemporary British and American...  Read More >>

Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture is a fascinating study of queer nostalgia in films, animation and music...  Read More >>

A leading figure of the interwar avant-garde, director Walter Ruttmann enriched the language of the cinema through...  Read More >>

In this book, film historian Matthew Kennedy explores the downfall of a beloved genre caught in the hands of misguided...  Read More >>

Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language...  Read More >>

""Dark Laughter provides us with a refreshingly new set of frames for viewing Spanish dark comedy.""--Eva Woods...  Read More >>

The 1970s and early '80s were the golden era of the American hardcore sex film. This legendary cycle of adult filmmaking...  Read More >>

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Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel, Carrie (1976), is one of the defining films of 1970s...  Read More >>

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Thirty years on, and with a recent prequel reigniting interest, Jez Conolly looks back to the film's antecedents...  Read More >>

Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to:...  Read More >>

Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture is a fascinating study of queer nostalgia in films, animation and music...  Read More >>

Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways...  Read More >>

This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures...  Read More >>

Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and instantly recognizable in the world. East Asian...  Read More >>

Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach...  Read More >>

Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since...  Read More >>

Class, Crime and International Film Noir argues that, in its postwar, classical phase, this dark variant of the...  Read More >>

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