Film & movie: styles & genres books

Have you ever watched a black and white war film, made in the 1940’s or 1950’s and asked yourself, did this really...  Read More >>

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts chronicles for the first time over 1,500 horror and horror-related...  Read More >>

Belfast, Beirut and Berlin are notorious for their internal boundaries and borders. As symbols for political disunion,...  Read More >>

""An Atonal Cinema theorises contemporary Palestinian cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance...  Read More >>

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This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both...  Read More >>

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Looks exclusively at high school films as valuable markers of contemporary Japanese culture.  Read More >>

Examines representations of ancient epic and epic conventions in film and television.  Read More >>

Reassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective.  Read More >>

Argues that in the Obama-to-Trump era, a variety of media platforms, including film, television, news, and social...  Read More >>

What in the cultural zeitgeist causes a movie to be made? Is it current affairs, a popular event or trend, a best-selling...  Read More >>

Experience the creation of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune like never before with this startling collection of photography...  Read More >>

What in the cultural zeitgeist causes a movie to be made? Is it current affairs, a popular event or trend, a best-selling...  Read More >>

Locates humor as a key element in the American horror film, one that is not merely used for extraneous ‘comic relief’...  Read More >>

Horror films strive to make audiences scream, but they also make them laugh. Little work has been done, however,...  Read More >>

""Resisting James Bond is a transdisciplinary collection that explores how power, privilege, and social injustice...  Read More >>

""Resisting James Bond is a transdisciplinary collection that explores how power, privilege, and social injustice...  Read More >>

The first academic study on the work of Wes Craven.  Read More >>

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Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars for a new age.  Read More >>

Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films.  Read More >>

In About Time, the whole of Doctor Who is examined through the lens of the real-world social and political changes...  Read More >>