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This collection analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer’s diptych The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence as a cinematic event th......more
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Network Theory and Nashville offers a concise overview of network theory, the study of the way elements in a network int......more
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Between the late 1950s and mid-1970s, British cinema experienced an explosion of X-certificated films. In parallel with ......more
Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From Annihilation to High Life and Beyond places p......more
Academy Award-winning actress, fashion icon, ethereal beauty, wife, mother, World War II resistance activist, UNICEF cha......more
The History and Theory of Cut-out Animation surveys the history, theory and philosophy of the cut-out animation techniqu......more
From haunted houses to open fields, The Spaces and Places of Fear explores the role of setting in inspiring fear and won......more
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Drawing on rich archival materials, this open access book offers the first in-depth historical account of the feminist f......more
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Marketed as more affordable and safer than film cameras, the Kinora system, launched in 1903, was one of the first amate......more
Throughout films and television series like The Piano, Bright Star, In the Cut and Top of the Lake, Jane Campion has con......more
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From Norman Bates dressed as "Mother" in Psycho to the rouged cheeks of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, many......more
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On its release in 1986, Aliens was an immediate commercial and critical success and consolidated writer-director James C......more
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This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the Britis......more
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A series of definitive guides to the most influential film directors of our time. Charting the rise of these iconic film......more
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Although Michelangelo Antonioni became one of the icons of "modernist" cinema in the 1960s, his position in the pantheon......more
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