Critics regularly use the term "provocateur" to describe controversial film directors. Although most individuals who att......more

Abject Pleasures in the Cinematic examines the cinematic strategies that elicit visceral pleasure--tears, goosebumps, se......more

Yul Brynner’s star image was built on cosmopolitan flair, shifting tales of origin, baldness, as well as film roles as f......more

This is a reference book on the 1979 television series Flambards, which was in 13 episodes. It includes all episodes in ......more

A detailed guide to preparing to record music for media (film/TV/games) covering everything from organization, budgeting......more

One of the most influential thrillers in media history, Jaws first surfaced as a best-selling novel by first-time noveli......more

Celebrate the heroic swagger of Agent 007 with the ultimate fan’s guide to all things James Bond. For millions of Americ......more

How, through the cinematographic medium, can we construct an ancient history without giving it back? A grotesque questio......more

Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencing a personal crisis. ......more

This collection reads the science fiction genre and television medium as examples of heterotopia (and television as scie......more

This book explores the representation of London’s nightlife in popular films and newspapers of the interwar period. Thro......more

This book presents extensive research into the cinematic representation of the British-identifying Protestant, unionist ......more

To unravel the mysteries of his majesty’s faithful secret agent, Alyosha Wald Lasowski uses the best techniques of curre......more

This is a reference book on the 1970-71 TV series UFO. The book includes all 26 episodes, as well as six compilation fil......more

This is the first full-length book in English devoted to the work of one of the most widely read and intriguing contempo......more

A deluxe look at the new Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man movie. An in-depth behind-the-scenes look at Marvel Studios’ spectac......more

Rabindranath Tagore composed over 2000 songs that are revered and sung by Bengalis everywhere. However, they remain most......more

Thinking across the boundaries of utopian studies, film studies, and the sociology of globalisation, this book argues th......more

31 Days, 31 Nights is a strange, odd and acid-trip style journalistic retelling of the summer of 2022 through the often ......more

31 Days, 31 Nights is a strange, odd and acid-trip style journalistic retelling of the summer of 2022 through the often ......more

This book uses popular culture to highlight the intersections and interplay between ideologies, technological advancemen......more

This is a reference book on the 1975 television series Quiller. The book includes all episodes in original date of trans......more

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Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances offers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and d......more

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Devotional Fanscapes examines the practices and materiality of fans who worship film stars as divine figures. This book ......more

Charlie Chaplin was a skilled comedian, filmmaker and composer, and the mission of this book is to educate readers on th......more

This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication--the email, blog, text message, tweet--a......more

Explore the Multiverse with the cast and crew of the blockbuster movie in this deluxe official souvenir guide to Marvel ......more

This book uses popular films to understand the convergence of crime control and the ideology of repression in contempora......more

Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft brings together essays on the theory and practice of adapting H.P. Lovecraft’s ficti......more

Sharon Marie Tate Polanski, born on January 24, 1943, Dallas, Texas, U.S., was an actress and model. During the 1960s sh......more

Using cine-ethnomusicology as a focus, Cineworlding introduces readers to ways of thinking eco-cinematically. Screens ar......more

Often identified as one of the most genuine and enduring American film genres, the road movie has never been explored in......more

An introduction to adaptations between theatre and film, considering these as distinct from literary adaptation. Places ......more

A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explor......more

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Deploying the term ’late-colonial’ to describe a body of largely French films made during, and in response to, the Alger......more

What relates the early films of Yorgos Lanthimos with Vasilis Kekatos’s 2019 Cannes triumph The Distance Between Us and ......more

Exploring the stories, memories and experiences attached to places, Western China on Screen is the first monograph to ex......more

This book brings genre back to the forefront of the current transmedia trend. Genres are perhaps the most innately trans......more

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This interdisciplinary collection explores four distinct perspectives about the mask, as object of use for protection, i......more

This book analyzes the rise of socially and politically engaged Algerian documentaries, created in the period immediatel......more

This edited collection is the first book-length critical study of the Showtime-Sky Atlantic television series Penny Drea......more

This study examines Soviet science fiction cinema from 1957 to 1990 and its relation to the space age. The author examin......more

This book examines recent innovations in Polish film. The authors analyzes the ways in which Polish directors challenge ......more

Based on visionary author George R. R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon charts the earth-shattering event......more

This book is a comprehensive anthology comprising essays on women film directors, producers and screenwriters from Bolly......more

This is a reference book on the TV series The Champions, which ran for 30 hour-long episodes from 1968-69. The book incl......more

Despite an output of only 7 feature films in 20 years, Andrei Tarkovsky has had a profound influence on international ci......more

Alongside the upsurge in violence that came with the downfall of the Oslo era in the early 2000s, a new wave of document......more

India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India is an attempt to situate and historicize the en......more

Horror cinema grants bodies and images a precarious hold on sense and order: from the zombie’s gory disintegration to th......more

Although Chinese film audiences have always maintained a foundational cultural interest in the fantastic, this trend has......more

The apparent shift in power relations between the developed and developing world, along with the increasing emphasis tha......more

It’s Forever Strictly Personal concludes Eric Friedmann’s journey through the movies during the eight year period of 199......more

The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate ......more

Adaptation Before Cinema highlights a range of pre-cinematic media forms, including theater, novelization, painting and ......more

This is the final issue for volume one. We are making number six a special edition hardback as these have become collect......more

Eldred Gregory Peck, born on April 5th, 1916, La Jolla, San Diego, California, U.S., was an actor, having been one of th......more

At the turn of the millennium Canadian cinema appeared to have reached an apex of aesthetic and commercial transformatio......more

At the turn of the millennium Canadian cinema appeared to have reached an apex of aesthetic and commercial transformatio......more

This volume examines Mary Poppins as a 1960s film reflecting and invested in its radically changing times, a largely but......more

This is the ninth reference book in a series on British films, dealing with more than thirty motion pictures that were m......more

Death at an early age has a tendency to preserve, and oftentimes enhance, a star’s fame, whether from the film (Marilyn ......more

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This edited book brings together new perspectives on fashion, the body, and politics. The intention of this collection i......more

This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ’humanitarian crise......more

Chris Wade takes a look at the films of Henry Jaglom, one of the most fiercely independent filmmakers in American histor......more

Introduction: The Death of God, the Birth of Film, and the New Metaphysics Chapter One Image Breakthrough: Disclosure an......more

This book studies women’s resistance in the three countries of the Maghreb, concentrating on two questions: First, what ......more

Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare synthesizes Laura Mulvey’s male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson......more

This book explores a new character archetype that permeated Soviet film during what became known as the era of Stagnatio......more