Enter the vibrant world of Pedro Almodóvar, the iconic Spanish filmmaker whose captivating, bold, and thought-provoking ......more

Updated edition published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Spielberg’s first feature film and featuring a foreword f......more

Thanks to his prolific movie career (seventy-eight movies as of 2023) and endearing real-life persona, Keanu Reeves has ......more

"An in-depth look at acclaimed filmmaker Brian De Palma’s unrivaled creative output from 1972 to 1981, featuring brand-n......more

A smart, funny crash course in 25 iconic horror movies, from Psycho to Hereditary, for people who love getting the refer......more

Half a century after Pasolini’s death, his legacy still pervades the diverse creative fields in which he worked; he rema......more

This book explores the role that talent intermediaries, including talent agents, talent managers and producers, play in ......more

This monograph addresses a subject in star studies that is still developing outside of (and even within) Hollywood and c......more

What purpose does place serve in films? When it is not just a background to actions, or indistinguishable from the lands......more

"That’s so meta!" The emergence of the prefix-turned-adjective "meta" to describe media productions is, no doubt, sympto......more

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Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood is the first in-depth study of Disney’s latest animated outpu......more

Through an identification of key case studies both mainstream and lesser known, Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in......more

Antoinetta Angelidi directed four full-length fiction films: Idées Fixes / Dies Irae (1977), Topos (1985), The Hours: A ......more

Richard Linklater is a popular American filmmaker who is widely celebrated for the breadth of his oeuvre. Over the past ......more

Combining film studies and ethnographic research methods within a memory studies framework, Coates examines the impact o......more

From Wild Tales to Zama, Argentine cinema has produced some of the most visually striking and critically lauded films of......more

A lavishly illustrated inside account of one of avant-garde film’s most original outsiders, the filmmaker Robert Beavers......more

Hitchcock Annual volume 27 is scheduled to be published in 2024. Planned contents include essays on Rebecca, I Confess, ......more

Virtually every current widescreen movie, tv broadcast or streamed image benefits from the techniques that have evolved ......more

Marco Ferreri (1928-1997) was one of Italian cinema’s most unique auteurs. A maverick personality, he worked with some o......more

Featuring case studies, essays, and conversation pieces by scholars and practitioners, this volume explores how Indian c......more

Cinema in the Arab world has been the subject of varied and rigorous studies, but most have focused on films as text, pr......more

Using cine-ethnomusicology as a focus, Cineworlding introduces readers to ways of thinking eco-cinematically. Screens ar......more

Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978) is as controversial as it is beloved. Whether due to the tear-jerking hit song ’Brig......more

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a theatre director, writer of graphic novels and comics, novelist, poet, and an expert in the Ta......more

When the first Fast & Furious film was released in June 2001, few predicted that it would be a box office hit, let alone......more

This collection considers Lubitsch, the famous author of Weimar and classical Hollywood cinema, as a role model for our ......more

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to eco......more

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to eco......more

The oral history of Disney’s Hocus Pocus, one of the most beloved Halloween movies of all time In July 1993, Disney’s Ho......more

Good Vibes and Things From the 80s "Readers called Brad’s last best-selling book ’The perfect blend of childlike wonder ......more

A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industry......more

Exploding off the page with over 1,000 of the best examples of exploitation, grindhouse, and pulp film poster design com......more

"Exploring the effects of intoxicants on film spectatorship, Movies under the Influence charts their entangled histories......more

Formative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker It is hard to imagine French cinema without La Jetée (19......more

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King Vidor (1894-1982) had the longest career of any Hollywood director, and his works include some of the most dramatic......more

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The fourth edition of Bill Nichols’s best-selling text provides new critical material on reenactments, encounter, and te......more

The fourth edition of Bill Nichols’s best-selling text, Introduction to Documentary, has been vastly altered in its enti......more

"Makes an excellent case for Parrott as an unjustly forgotten historical figure."--The New Yorker "Remind[s] us of the b......more

Hotbeds of Licentiousness is the first substantial critical engagement with British pornography on film across the 1970s......more

Since the release of Jordan Peele’s Academy Award-winning horror hit Get Out (2017), interest in Black horror films has ......more

More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly atten......more

The Films of Agnieszka Holland is the first monograph devoted to the internationally most famous Polish filmmaker, a thr......more

This is the first book-length academic study of Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier’s films. The book, written by an author w......more

Despite the brief span of her directorial career, lasting from 1963 to 1979, the Soviet Ukrainian director Larisa Shepit......more

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Highlighting Florida’s essential, often overlooked role in shaping American film and television Motion Picture Paradise ......more

The Female Avenger, Women’s Anger and Rape-Revenge Film and Television examines the contentious nature of the female rap......more

Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s work across the world following the author’s death in 1989, B......more

This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical int......more

Experience frightening puzzles inspired by famous horror films in Horror Movies Word Search Puzzles. Contains over 80 sp......more

Historical Turns reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the "crisis of historicism" widely diagnosed by German philosopher......more

Is there a shark movie that is scarier than Jaws? What is the sneaky secret hidden in the Loch Ness monster’s name? How ......more

The crack of thunder, a blood-curdling scream, creaking doors, or maybe complete silence. Sounds such as these have help......more

When you think of holiday romance in popular culture, you probably imagine the formulaic made-for-TV movies we all love ......more

Jane Austen originally wrote for a Regency period audience and would never have predicted the success of her original wo......more

One of the many reasons the How to Train Your Dragon films are loved by children and adults alike is the music. John Pow......more

Exploring the multiple aesthetic and cultural links between French and Japanese cinema, The Cinematic Influence is packe......more

Experimental film practice from an international and transdisciplinary perspective. Karel Doing is an experimental filmm......more

It’s spooky season all year round with this beautifully creepy wall calendar featuring gorgeous custom artwork that cele......more

From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape. Despite some of the earliest genre films with gay dire......more

Ann Sheridan was much more than just Hollywood’s glamorous and sexy "Oomph Girl." She was also a versatile actress who b......more

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Understanding democracy through film philosophy and political theory Shining new light on our understanding of cinema’s ......more

Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, ev......more

Stalin’s Final Films explores a neglected period in the history of Soviet cinema, breathing new life into a body of film......more

More than any other set of films from the classical era, the Hollywood film noir is known for its lighting: the cast sha......more

The book joins a growing scholarship in the field of Bollywood film studies, encompassing methodological sub-groups such......more

A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future. In the histor......more

Enter your nightmares with this blood-curdling coloring book and revisit iconic scenes inspired by best-loved horror mov......more

The story of how the movies assumed a gritty facade in the name of authenticity, with working actors transforming into a......more

Phillip Lopate fell hard for the movies as an adolescent. As he matured into an acclaimed critic and essayist, his infat......more