A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing......more

The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country’s most prominent film journal......more

Following Stalin’s death in 1953 and Khrushchev’s acknowledgment of Stalin’s crimes in 1956, "sincerity" emerged as a cu......more

This book explores how the generation of filmmakers born in the aftermath of the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990) use ci......more

Who’s afraid of a midnight swim? This book dissects more than 100 horror films, covering nine decades and four continent......more

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Since cinema’s beginning, live actors and cartoon characters have traded places and invaded each other’s spaces, with re......more

In Psychoanalytic Film Theory: A Contemporary Introduction, Ben Tyrer presents an overview of psychoanalytic approaches ......more

Rich in detail, this is a study of the interrelationships between film historical discourse and archival practices. Expl......more

With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transformi......more

This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video wo......more

As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today’s ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift ......more

This study traces the evolution of early film societies in Germany and Austria, from the emergence of mass movie theater......more

The color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) have largely been neglected, despite the fact that Bres......more

Unique, truthful, brutal... Neorealism is often associated with adjectives stressing its peculiarities in representing t......more

Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emer......more

We live in an age of lists, from magazine features to online clickbait. This book situates the list in a long tradition,......more

This book presents the bold and original proposal to replace the general appellation of ’world cinema’ with the more sub......more