Film & movie: styles & genres books

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Examines Hollywood's negative portrayal of Muslim Arabs. This title lays out and dissects a defamatory history dating...  Read More >>

Explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to...  Read More >>

Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen - icons of Englishness...  Read More >>

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Film noir's popularity with cinema audiences, enthusiasts and scholars has remained unabated since post-war French...  Read More >>

Film noir's popularity with cinema audiences, enthusiasts and scholars has remained unabated since post-war French...  Read More >>

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On the surface it may seem slightly surprising that a master of verbal humour should also be a devotee of silent...  Read More >>

A loving look at disposable' horror culture from the 1960s and 1970s.'  Read More >>

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This pioneering book introduces a largely unremarked dimension of film, the “feminine,” which cannot be reduced...  Read More >>

American International released a tide of low-budget, sensationalistic films aimed at a young male audience, finding...  Read More >>

Historical film studies is a burgeoning field, with a large and ever growing number of publications from across...  Read More >>

Historical film studies is a burgeoning field, with a large and ever growing number of publications from across...  Read More >>

'40 years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's an...  Read More >>

Beginning with Victor Sjostrom's """"The Phantom Carriage"""" in 1921, this book tracks the evolution and influence...  Read More >>

Lush, vaguely liturgical music floods the theater. A sonorous offscreen male voice slowly articulates the words,...  Read More >>

This provocative assembly of essays examines Dracula films and their movement across borders of nationality, sexuality,...  Read More >>

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Lush, vaguely liturgical music floods the theater. A sonorous offscreen male voice slowly articulates the words,...  Read More >>

Sexy Comedy was a very popular genre of film in Italy in the 70's. All the saucy circumstances and situations depicted...  Read More >>

This is a collection of interviews with many of the men and women who defined blaxploitation--a genre of films produced...  Read More >>

Taboo breakers. Films that pushed boundaries, overstepped the line or simply went all out to shock. Whether through...  Read More >>