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

Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive biography of H......more

Captures the history, cultural impact, and visual beauty of America’s iconic drive-in movie theaters. Beginning in 1933 ......more

Tied to the profundity of life and death, media are and have always been existential. Yet, as they are deeply embedded i......more

When Jagat Murari, a young film student in post-war America, finds himself at the feet of one of cinema’s true giants--O......more

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

Institutionalised as a child for a gruesome double murder and having undergone experimental psychiatric treatment into a......more

An innovative counter-history that places the liquid light show at the heart of a new understanding of experimental audi......more

An engaging and informative account of ’kitchen sink realism’ looking at the artists, musicians, playwrights and authors......more

A study of the rebirth and subversion of the violent lesbian trope in queer horror. Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a grou......more

Twenty-first century contemporary films like Emily Atef’s Das Fremde in mir and Savannah Leaf’s Earth Mama portray mothe......more

Twenty-first century contemporary films like Emily Atef’s Das Fremde in mir and Savannah Leaf’s Earth Mama portray mothe......more

An introduction to movie musicals in the golden age of Hollywood and the directors that brought them to the big screen. ......more

A Choice Significant University Press Title for Undergraduates This updated and expanded edition of A Short History of F......more

A history of cinema’s role in popularizing the politics of Palestinian liberation For decades, Arab American activists a......more

Hong Kong is known as an entrepôt in its colonial history, but its place in early cinema has not received the same schol......more

In this highly readable study of Australian cinema, Deb Verhoeven explores the relationship between a series of films pr......more

Magical’, ’out of this world’, ’an experience you’ll never forget’: Peter Weir’s films have enthralled audiences around ......more

This book focuses on the neoliberal self, which, far from being a stable marker of urban, liberal, millennial Indian ide......more

Fiction film has been and remains the privileged site of film studies, with film history regularly being viewed as the r......more

Fiction film has been and remains the privileged site of film studies, with film history regularly being viewed as the r......more

From cabaret songs inspired by Buster Keaton to Mickey Mouse’s diagnosis as a "melo-maniac," Weimar Slapstick and Hollyw......more

Celebrate legendary horror studio Blumhouse’s legacy with this lavishly illustrated visual compendium that takes you beh......more

The anthology brings together various approaches and contexts to Twin Peaks, addressing the show’s unique production and......more