A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick’s work and its focus on masculine desire The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts......more
A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick’s work and its focus on masculine desire The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts......more
From his early horror movies, including Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid, and The Fly--with their exploding heads, mutating s......more
From his early horror movies, including Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid, and The Fly--with their exploding heads, mutating s......more
The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola’s oeuvre that situates her work broadly......more
Being There and the Evolution of a Screenplay provides an insightful look at the drafting of one of Hollywood history’s ......more
The Making of the Movie Sheena To some, she was the female Tarzan. To others, she was the sexiest pin-up of their teenag......more
The Making of the Movie Sheena To some, she was the female Tarzan. To others, she was the sexiest pin-up of their teenag......more
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Award-winning cine-maVRicks Eric R. Williams, Carrie Love and Matt Love introduce virtual reality cinema (also known as ......more
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Horror’s longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films......more
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This book covers Mai Masri’s three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her fi......more
HOW TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD (WITHOUT LOSING YOUR SOUL) For everything you wanted to know about making or understanding f......more
Its unique ability to sway the masses has led many observers to consider cinema the artform with the greatest political ......more
Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although W......more
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising is an essential guide to the crucial role that music plays in relation to t......more
This Reader brings together for the first time key works by Steve Neale, one of the founding figures of UK film studies.......more
This book offers a descriptive and practical analysis of prosody in dubbed speech, examining the most distinctive traits......more
Until the 1990s, animation occupied a relatively marginal presence in Hollywood. Today, it is at the very heart of both ......more
Featuring a lineup of distinguished academics, this collection remedies the absence of scholarly attention on French cin......more
This book provides an analysis of five of the best known comedies of the award winning American film makers Joel and Eth......more
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Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical accou......more
For too long, the field of amateur cinema has focused on North America and Europe. In Global Perspectives on Amateur Fil......more
For too long, the field of amateur cinema has focused on North America and Europe. In Global Perspectives on Amateur Fil......more
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Beginning with her critically acclaimed independent feature film Eve’s Bayou (1997), writer-director Kasi Lemmons’s miss......more
Beginning with her critically acclaimed independent feature film Eve’s Bayou (1997), writer-director Kasi Lemmons’s miss......more
Greek Cinema and Migration provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greec......more
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Since the earliest days of the movie industry, Hollywood has mythologized itself through stories of stardom. A female pr......more
An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversati......more
Digital Filmmaking: The Ultimate Guide to Web Video Production for Beginners and Non-Professionals, Learn Useful Tips an......more
Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected ’national’ and regiona......more
Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate c......more
One of the Best Hollywood Directors Nobody Knows If you have seen The Towering Inferno, King Kong or The Death on the N......more
In the late 1960s, the collapse of the classic Hollywood studio system led in part, and for less than a decade, to a pro......more
This handbook is an essential creative, critical and practical guide for students and educators of screen production int......more
THE SACRED CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY By Jeremy Robinson A major new study of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1......more
The book explores the challenges Palestinian filmmakers confront to develop a cinema that gives expression to the nation......more
Ermanno Olmi is one of cinema’s great, unsung filmmakers. Emerging onto the Italian art film scene just as the last cano......more
Filmmakers and cinema industries across the globe invest more time, money and creative energy in projects and ideas that......more
This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein. The collecti......more
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An in-depth look at Christopher Nolan, considered to be the most profound, commercially successful director at work toda......more
This book examines the challenges often experienced by film practitioners who find themselves researching within the aca......more
This volume provides an overview of the landscape of mediated female agencies and subjectivities in the last decade. In ......more
Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for t......more
This book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigat......more
At head of title: TCM Turner Classic movies....more
ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director’s films......more
Francesco Rosi is one of the great realist artists of post-war Italian, indeed post-war world cinema. In this book, auth......more
In the late 1950s, Mike Nichols (1931-2014) and Elaine May (b. 1932) soared to superstar status as a sketch comedy duo i......more
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In the late 1950s, Mike Nichols (1931-2014) and Elaine May (b. 1932) soared to superstar status as a sketch comedy duo i......more
A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of Robert Zemec......more
Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing......more
Extensive account of the cameo’s production history and how audiences affirm their mastery of celebrity culture. Stars a......more
Extensive account of the cameo’s production history and how audiences affirm their mastery of celebrity culture. Stars a......more
This collection presents comprehensive, unique scholarly analyses of Terrence Malick’s films through the lenses of philo......more
For over three decades, director Ken Kwapis has charted a career full of exceptional movies and television, from seminal......more
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From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has hist......more
From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has hist......more
Explores Haneke’s historically complex film as a reflection on purity, ideology, violence, and child-rearing. White ribb......more
Provides an aesthetic and historical overview of and new critical insights into Paul Wegener’s great 1920 film, recogniz......more
Pablo Larraín is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original ci......more
A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal a......more
A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal a......more
Only a few years after the 2013 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Blackfish - an independent documentary film that crit......more
The first book on Hitchcock that focuses exclusively on his work with actors Alfred Hitchcock is said to have once remar......more
Action and suspense films have almost always been made by ’seat of the pants’ filmmakers. Crafting their films on gut in......more
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