Hannah Hamad explores and contextualises how UK film culture became a focal point for feminist campaigning during the Yo......more
The 1930s was a magical age in Hollywood, with Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, Bette Davis and Clark Gable lighting up......more
The Korean Cinema Book provides a new and authoritative overview of one of the world’s most dynamic and celebrated filmm......more
The Korean Cinema Book provides a new and authoritative overview of one of the world’s most dynamic and celebrated filmm......more
From the photographs of Frederick Douglas published with his memoir to the circulation of Twitter hashtags after the mur......more
Screen advertising has been an integral part of popular cultural life in Britain for decades. From the Victorian period ......more
Screen advertising has been an integral part of popular cultural life in Britain for decades. From the Victorian period ......more
The History and Theory of Cut-out Animation surveys the history, theory and philosophy of the cut-out animation techniqu......more
The first full-length study to analyse the rise in refugee movement and its representation on screen in the twenty-first......more
Discussing titles as varied as Captain Milkshake (1970), The Losers (1970), Forced Entry (1972), The Exterminator (1980)......more
Posthuman Cinema launches a reimagining of experience, human exceptionalism, bodies, materiality, and the mystical. Post......more
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Aiming to understand the ways in which depictions of the Nazi genocide relate to the societies that produce them, Holoca......more
Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was met with widespread critical and commercial success on its release i......more
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ created a huge wave of controversy on its release in 2004. Some hailed it a relig......more
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The 1989 anime Kiki’s Delivery Service, the story of a young witch struggling to find her place in society, is one of th......more
Laura Mulvey’s importance and influence as a feminist filmmaker and theorist are explored in depth with critical essays ......more
Laura Mulvey’s importance and influence as a feminist filmmaker and theorist are explored in depth with critical essays ......more
This book examines the integral role that makeup plays in the construction and promotion of female stardom, focusing on ......more
This book examines the integral role that makeup plays in the construction and promotion of female stardom, focusing on ......more
The Reception of Archaeology in Film is an appraisal of how the profession of archaeology and its related fields are pre......more
Screen as Battlefield deals with the treatment of history in Polish cinema after the end of communist rule in 1989 and t......more
This open access book uncovers the untold story of the making of Cosgrove Hall Productions’ most successful works, booke......more
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This open access book presents the first critical analysis of the work of Stephen Dwoskin, groundbreaking filmmaker, art......more
This open access book presents the first critical analysis of the work of Stephen Dwoskin, groundbreaking filmmaker, art......more
Film scholar Andreas Halskov celebrates the work of two-time Oscar-winning director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuck......more
The Contemporary American Survival Film investigates and breaks down the contemporary American Survival Film (from Cast ......more
In Japanese Cinema and Punk, Mark Player examines how the do-it-yourself ethos of punk empowered a new generation of Jap......more
All new! All grue! It’s the long-awaited sequel to author/designer Mark Voger’s Rondo Award-winning book Monster Mash: T......more
This edited volume will examine the films of Roger Corman, an indie filmmaker known for producing and directing hundreds......more
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The first major biography of Martin Scorsese, America’s greatest modern filmmaker, a book as stylish and audacious as th......more
This volume brings together scholarship from both established scholars and early career academics to provide fresh insig......more
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A poignant, heartfelt, and funny memoir about how, in 1985, Michael J. Fox brought to ......more
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A fond and nostalgic cultural history of It’s a Wonderful Life, celebrating the beloved holiday film’s actors and creato......more
A sequel to Where Monsters Walked: California Locations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, 1925-1965, this bo......more
Edgar G. Ulmer was a prolific filmmaker whose career spanned from the 1920s through the 1960s and included a wide range ......more
The sensational, lurid, and wickedly entertaining true story of the brothers who invented Hollywood to become the godfat......more
An Atria Book. Atria Books has a great book for every reader....more
A focused study of an ancient myth and its reception, which provokes new consideration of how myth in general can challe......more
Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras, the Kinora system, launched in 1903, was one of the first amate......more
James Mason (1909-1984) was born to be an actor. He just didn’t know it. A Cambridge graduate with a degree in architect......more
How Hollywood’s greatest actresses proved women didn’t need leading men to rule the box office in one of cinema’s most d......more
Lew Ayres (1908-1996) became known to the public when he portrayed the leading character in the epic war film All Quiet ......more
After the groundbreaking success of his debut film Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968-2019) gained ......more
After the groundbreaking success of his debut film Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968-2019) gained ......more
"Orbit: Movie Magic: The Illustrated History of Film" explores the revolutionary first hundred years of motion pictures ......more
Med Hondo’s debut feature, Soleil Ô (1970), follows an unnamed African immigrant as he travels to Paris in search of wor......more
The ultimate guide to the making of cult classic film The Crow, featuring new interviews with filmmakers, behind-the-sce......more
Official retrospective companion book to the 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, featuring high-resolution screen gr......more
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This book considers significant ways in which trees have been represented in European and American cinemas, via the symb......more
Hollywood Noir’s Women Performers explores the meaning of performance through an analysis of the unfolding oeuvres of wo......more
Why have dynamic and shifting hairstyles, from Katniss Everdeen’s Power Plait to JoJo Siwa’s outsize bows, become such a......more
Over the last three decades, Russian filmmakers and audiences have engaged with documentary cinema with an intensity uns......more
Transmitting the crisis that Frederick Jackson Turner and Theodore Roosevelt feared when the frontier closed, the Wester......more
Hitchcock Annual volume 29 is due out in summer 2026. Planned contents include essays on I Confess, Catholic contexts fo......more
The films of Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) are at once ambiguous and singular, challenging easy categorisation in nationa......more
How are climate change, weather-related disasters, food and water insecurity, and energetic and infrastructural collapse......more
Argues that horror cinema originates from the overlooked Baltic region. Arguably, the Baltic region saw the birth of hor......more
The official retrospective of one of cinema’s most important films - Night of the Living Dead. The full story of the fir......more
Explores how contemporary Nigerian theatre, literature, film, music, and digital platforms confront the status quo, expr......more
Laura Investigation in Classic Hollywood provides a detailed investigation of Laura, the beloved, award-winning and fond......more
The contributors to this collection examine the roles that animals - fictional and real - play in Disney culture, past, ......more
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A riveting new look at the parallel lives of Charles Manson and Roman Polanski reveals connections beyond the notorious ......more
The enduring 1954 holiday film White Christmas has a devoted following and is an "evergreen" title, continuing to draw s......more
Scream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. Desp......more
ReFocus: The Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch responds to and reframes the films of German émigré director Ernst Lubit......more
Combining original research with insights from social sciences, philosophy and film theory, it argues that film can effe......more
This book offers a vivid account of how Italian cinema circulated and was received in the United States from Neorealism ......more
French Horror: Industry, Society and Media provides an overview of French horror film and television of the 21st century......more
Spanning six decades, her seventeen features and four shorts move from the late Soviet era to post-Soviet Ukraine, break......more