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Performing Stragismo and Counterspectacularisation offers a new theoretical lens on political violence as spectacle, dra......more

The Ballets Russes was one of the most influential performing arts companies of the twentieth century. In the years befo......more

Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction considers nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advances an understa......more

The first comprehensive English-language study of Bigas Luna’s complete filmography, this book explores genre, gender re......more

In the heart of 1920s England, where the glittering facade of London society conceals a labyrinth of human relationships......more

Identifies key - and in some cases previously overlooked - cult horror films from around the world and reappraises them ......more

The first English-language critical study of the films of Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch director of provocative and vividly ......more

This book examines the ways in which popular culture has entertained the notion of a female U.S. presidency through port......more

The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimo......more

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"Black Orpheus" and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture is the first historical study in English to examine the ......more

This book explores the twenty-first century upsurge in Gothic screen media emanating from the Basque region of Northern ......more

An exploration of new Gothic, old Gothic, and their intersection with the crises of our own times. This text shows Gothi......more

"A. S. Hamrah’s writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism, his writing makes art and life feel les......more

Re-examining film’s potential as both an artistic and ideological discipline, Torn is the Curtain interrogates the relat......more

This book will look at how the growth of Agatha Christie adaptations have grown increasingly darker. Of key relevance to......more

In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization in ......more

This book considers films that have experimented with new, increasingly complicated narrative approaches, including Stag......more

Film Phenomenology and Adaptation: Sensuous Elaboration argues that in order to make sense of film adaptation, we must f......more

This book is an ethnographic analysis of the familial life worlds of fans of a movie star named Rajinikanth as well as h......more

This is the first book-length study of Avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison’s work, covering the whole of his career....more

Paula Albuquerque’s original research and experimental films, presented in this book, expose fictionalising elements in ......more

This book develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin’s notion of the turn of time....more

This book offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls made use of th......more

This volume offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing’s filmmaking across China’s marginal spaces and against the backdr......more

Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema delves into the subject of literary and cinematic women characters entrap......more

This anthology collects the essays of distinguished film critic Adrian Martin in one volume, offering in-depth analysis ......more

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking......more

This work provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally......more

This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and popular ......more

Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained tracks how women and gay male entrepreneurs were central to the production, distributio......more

Sound/Space in Film: Craft, Aesthetics, Theory brings together two expanding fields in contemporary film studies: soundt......more

The Natural History of Film Form argues that, more than simply ingredients in film stock, gelatin, silver and celluloid ......more

Explores the work of amateur and independent filmmakers working in Northern Ireland between 1929-1989....more

Made in collaboration with George Lucas and Lucasfilm, this volume covers the making of the prequel trilogy: The Phantom......more

Inspired by the Wild About Horror segments on the Evolution of Horror Podcast, Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema investigate......more

Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts speaks to how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, th......more

In this book, Robert K. Beshara applies decolonial film theory to an analysis of Youssef Chahine’s (1997) Al-Masir (Dest......more

Who Killed Bruce Lee is probably the most extraordinary book of its kind ever written. A fascinating blend of fact and i......more

An exclusive look inside the surprising history and contentious future of Hollywood’s most unlikely blockbuster--the Fas......more

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