Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine......more

Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine......more

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages. Though Studies in Medievalism has hosted many......more

Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history......more

In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America’s ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homele......more

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Hollywood Online provides a historical account of motion picture websites from 1993 to 2008 and their marketing function......more

The extraordinary story of the making of Cleopatra, the film that changed the face of Hollywood Cleopatra has its place ......more

James Bond the the 60s Spy Craze will explore James Bond films and the number of movies and television shows of the 1960......more

Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema....more

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Wasn’t the......more

What distinguishes humanity from artificial beings? What do constructed creatures tell us about ourselves? From sex doll......more

What distinguishes humanity from artificial beings? What do constructed creatures tell us about ourselves? From sex doll......more

At their peak, architectural marvels such as the Sagrada Família, the Tower of London, the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, ......more

Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, in......more

Propaganda played an essential role in influencing the attitudes and policies of German National Socialism on racial pur......more

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films ......more

This book challenges the association of abortion with the radical and pregnancy with the conventional by exploring the r......more

An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technolog......more

An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technolog......more

A timely examination of the often-overlooked agency, trauma, and fluidity of pregnancy and motherhood in horror...more

A timely examination of the often-overlooked agency, trauma, and fluidity of pregnancy and motherhood in horror...more

In what ways can or should art engage with its social context? Authors, readers, and critics have been preoccupied with ......more

"This book is the most comprehensive account to date of the intellectual and artistic development of one of Hollywood’s ......more

JEAN-LUC GODARD: THE PASSION OF CINEMA VOLUME 1: TO 1968 By Jeremy Mark Robinson There’s no one else quite like Jean-Luc......more

"Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape......more

Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema explores how contemporary films (2000-2020) participate in the evolution and circul......more

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decoloniali......more

A special Centennial Edition celebrating 100 years of Hollywood and indigenous filmmaking in the state of Utah. "Mr. D’A......more

Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate--or so a slew o......more

Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times. Germany’s twentieth-c......more

This book explicates how many films intersect black suffering and God-talk in ways that instantiate secular limitations ......more

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decoloniali......more

Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in ......more

Lawrence of Arabia, The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Gypsy, Sweet Bird of Youth, The......more

Posits a new, aesthetically and politically radical, transnational German cinema-"transnational" also in the sense of co......more

From the toppling of the Qing Empire in 1911 to the Chinese Communist Party coming to power in 1949 to the various campa......more

Since the early days of motion picture production, film scores have helped define our emotional and aesthetic perception......more

This multinational, multidisciplinary collection of essays focuses on Hallmark Channel movies and Hallmark’s position in......more

First published in 1983, Shiguéhiko Hasumi’s Directed by Yasujirō Ozu has become one of the most influential books on ci......more

First published in 1983, Shiguéhiko Hasumi’s Directed by Yasujirō Ozu has become one of the most influential books on ci......more

From 1947 to 1955, Jean Peters (1926-2000) appeared in films opposite such Hollywood leading men as Tyrone Power, Marlon......more

This new and updated edition covers the full life’s work of iconic director Tim Burton, including the Netflix phenomenon......more

The director and cowriter of some of the world’s most iconic films--including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like ......more

Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema’s fascination with media and communi......more

From the exaggerated emotions of 1930s Egyptian melodrama to the cryptic allegories of late 20th-century Palestinian cin......more

How should we understand film authorship in an era when the idea of the solitary and sovereign auteur has come under att......more

Isabelle Hesse identifies an important relational turn in British and German literature, TV drama, and film published an......more

The man who created the boldest hard boiled fiction, Dashiell Hammett, wrote The Thin Man in 1933 and launched the fun-l......more

French critic Serge Daney was a central figure in film, television and media criticism of the second half of the twentie......more

Known as the first film teenager, Deanna Durbin was one of the most popular actresses of the 1930s and 1940s. From starr......more

Biopics and other movies and television shows based on real events are increasingly appearing at the multiplex and on st......more

The New Wave Cinema in Iran is a historical and analytical study of the Iranian New Wave Cinema (Mowj-e No) as an artist......more

From the critical and commercial fanfare his films generate, it is largely understood that Yorgos Lanthimos is one of th......more

The financial collapse of 2008 extended and deepened a prolonged, multilayered crisis that has transformed, often in une......more

Costa-Gavras: Encounters with History explores the life and work of the director intertwined with historical and socio-p......more

Jess Conrad is a name that will be instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with 1960s pop culture. Emerging from the d......more

Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror is the first book-length exploration of female creators at the cutting edge of c......more

Jess Conrad is a name that will be instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with 1960s pop culture. Emerging from the d......more

Across his directorial films, American filmmaker Dennis Hopper used music and sound to propel the narrative, signpost th......more

In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, kn......more

In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, kn......more

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most prominent and productive authors of the twentieth century-and h......more

The Money Behind the Screen maps the changing landscape of film finance in Britain during a transformative period for th......more

Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity became a cornerstone of her philosophy and influenced a radical rethinking of f......more

This is the first book-length study to examine the enduring popularity of block-buster films based on DC or Marvel super......more

Lucrecia Martel has made only four feature films to date, but has nonetheless become one of the world’s most admired dir......more

Focused on French cultural responses to the 2008 global financial crisis in cinema, literature and theory, Derivative Im......more

What Is Lighting Design?: A Genealogy of People and Ideas explains what lighting design is by looking at the history of ......more

What Is Lighting Design?: A Genealogy of People and Ideas explains what lighting design is by looking at the history of ......more

Drawing on cultural policy, queer and feminist theory, materialist media studies, and postcolonial historiography, Bliss......more

This volume adds to previous historical and political studies about ’Gladiator’ with essays about the movie’s relation t......more

Film Figures develops a figural account of the memory structure of films. Employing theoretical concepts drawn from a ra......more

The definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema--the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre--from a......more