Film & movie: styles & genres books

Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the...  Read More >>

The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration...  Read More >>

By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism...  Read More >>

There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of...  Read More >>

This is the first monograph-length work intended to enable readers with a humanities background and the general...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a series of essays that interrogate the notion of figuration in Indian cinemas. The...  Read More >>

From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked...  Read More >>

The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes...  Read More >>

The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese...  Read More >>

Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the...  Read More >>

What links the interviews with Saddam Hussein and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on British and American TV, the chase of journalists...  Read More >>

This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system,...  Read More >>

The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this...  Read More >>

Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music...  Read More >>

Is there more to 1970s British cinema than sex, horror and James Bond? This lively account argues that this is definitely...  Read More >>

Vampires are back - and this time they want to be us, not drain us. This collection considers the recent phenomena...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of cannibalism in literature and film, spanning colonial fiction, Gothic texts and contemporary...  Read More >>

In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected...  Read More >>

A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male...  Read More >>

In this book Martien Brinkman explores the Jesus incognito as found in Western film, literature, and the visual...  Read More >>

This pioneering book provides detailed analysis of scenes from nine British television dramas produced between 1954...  Read More >>

We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This...  Read More >>

A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve...  Read More >>

A unique, exhaustively researched viewers guide to movies about Jesus that takes readers film-by-film from Olcott's...  Read More >>

This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking...  Read More >>