From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Holl......more
This book examines Chinese films made and shown abroad roughly between the 1920s and the 2020s, from the beginning of th......more
Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, in......more
With contributions by over 30 industry professionals, The Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Sc......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
With contributions by over 30 industry professionals, The Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Sc......more
From the exaggerated emotions of 1930s Egyptian melodrama to the cryptic allegories of late 20th-century Palestinian cin......more
In a tour-de-force study of sixty years of cinematic entertainment, Silver Screens and Golden Dreams traces the veins of......more
An analysis of the work of filmmaker Carlos Reichenbach, based on his films made in São Paulo’s Boca do Lixo. The book e......more
The influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly ......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
This fifth edition of Film, Form, and Culture offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects of fi......more
This fifth edition of Film, Form, and Culture offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects of fi......more
This book challenges the association of abortion with the radical and pregnancy with the conventional by exploring the r......more
Acknowledging the iconic, but with plenty of room for the rare and unfamiliar, The Art of the Classic Western Movie Post......more
This interdisciplinary text combines an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close readin......more
"Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape......more
In what ways can or should art engage with its social context? Authors, readers, and critics have been preoccupied with ......more
In what ways can or should art engage with its social context? Authors, readers, and critics have been preoccupied with ......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
From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Holl......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
Through close film analysis, Lajos Tribl has developed a category system from the repetitions he recognized when watchin......more
BRUCE LEE SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION EXTENDED SOFTBACK VOL NO2 WITH BONUS GIFTS FIRST 50 COPIES "154" PAGES.Dive into th......more
This book explores the Black Panther character’s multimedia legacy against the backdrop of contemporary sociopolitical r......more
"Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape......more
Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture offers a transnational investigation of vigilantism and its context acr......more
We are imprisoned in circadian rhythms, as well as in our life reviews that follow chronological and causal links. For t......more
Indigeneity in Latin American Cinema explores how contemporary films (2000-2020) participate in the evolution and circul......more
This book presents and analyses the results of the Lockdown Library Project survey, using a range of quantitative and qu......more
The aim of this book is to study, in a comparative analysis, the relationship between João Guimarães Rosa’s imagistic la......more
This book examines the role that the American Film Institute had in supporting experimental and independent cinema at a ......more
In this book, Mads M ller T. Andersen examines the methodological challenges that arise when studying creativity and cre......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
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
For the press tour following the record-breaking release of Greta Gerwig’s award-winning, acclaimed Barbie movie, produc......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
Inverting the "voiceover" cliche, Bergsmark advocates for a new approach to filmmaking in both theory and practice Swedi......more
This book explicates how many films intersect black suffering and God-talk in ways that instantiate secular limitations ......more
This book explores fictional representations and narrative functions of animal characters in animated and live-action fi......more
School education must go beyond basic teachings, and schools and universities need to educate citizens who are capable o......more
This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decoloniali......more
EASTERN HEROES ’THE CLONES OF BRUCE LEE’ SPECIAL EDITION The authors of THE NEW ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO HONG KONG MOVIES take......more
"Between accident and control: the poetic dimension of contemporary video documentary" investigates the relationship bet......more
This book explores visions of home in cinema and the ways in which women inhabit the onscreen realm. Looking closely at ......more
With assistance from Lizzy Goodman and Rob Sheffield, beloved music journalist Marc Spitz’s final work explores the myri......more
This collection brings together many of the world’s leading scholars on race and film to re-consider the legacy and impa......more
Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in ......more
Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in ......more
The seduction-theory defines film in a broader sense as a medium of seduction, based on the French concept of séduction.......more
Lawrence of Arabia, The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Gypsy, Sweet Bird of Youth, The......more
This book engages with current debates around refugeedom by examining cultural production that represents and interrogat......more
In the aftermath of a devastating fire that claimed her mother and sister, 17-year-old Harker Peters finds solace and be......more
This open access book examines how Pinewood came to be Britain’s dominant film studio complex, focusing on key years fol......more
This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between creative......more
A selection of articles from The Plymouth Review Current, from 2014 to 2024. Rodney Schroeter edited this monthly public......more
George A. Romero never intended to become a master of horror, but Night of the Living Dead made him a legend of the genr......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
Posits a new, aesthetically and politically radical, transnational German cinema-"transnational" also in the sense of co......more
The ecological, social, and aesthetic functions of garbage in literature and film from Argentina to Mexico This book loo......more
The ecological, social, and aesthetic functions of garbage in literature and film from Argentina to Mexico This book loo......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
’The City on Screen: Modern Strangers of Cinematic Istanbul’ attempts to analyze how Istanbul is captured through the pr......more
George A. Romero never intended to become a master of horror, but Night of the Living Dead made him a legend of the genr......more
Navigating the necessary skills for shooting film or TV is a challenge for any filmmaker. This book demystifies the art ......more
Navigating the necessary skills for shooting film or TV is a challenge for any filmmaker. This book demystifies the art ......more
The imagined worlds of the cinematic mise-en-scène are rich with textiles: fabrics drape over sets, serve as props, and ......more
Joan Crawford’s contribution to film noir during the 1940s and 1950s, though rarely discussed in its totality, is one of......more
Since the early days of motion picture production, film scores have helped define our emotional and aesthetic perception......more
This collection reads the science fiction genre and television medium as examples of heterotopia (and television as scie......more
The Ethics of Horror: Spectral Alterity in Twenty-First Century Horror Film examines the theme of spectral haunting in c......more
A special souvenir hardcover collection themed around the Mandalorians throughout the Star Wars galaxy, to include movie......more
Like other filmmakers in post-WWII Hollywood, John Ford (already a three-time Best Directing Oscar winner), longed for t......more
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"Grease, Tell Me More, Tell Me More is a fabulous rockin’ and rollin’ origin story with every juicy inspiration that wen......more
From 1947 to 1955, Jean Peters (1926-2000) appeared in films opposite such Hollywood leading men as Tyrone Power, Marlon......more
This book presents extensive research into the cinematic representation of the British-identifying Protestant, unionist ......more
This book aims to show how film can increase awareness of the plight of farmed animals without exploiting them. Much has......more
This new and updated edition covers the full life’s work of iconic director Tim Burton, including the Netflix phenomenon......more
The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs, videos, songs, poems, a......more
Italian Americans in Film and Other Media examines the representation of the Italian immigrant experience from D.W. Grif......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
The director and cowriter of some of the world’s most iconic films--including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like ......more
Exploring how Indigenous media has flourished across Canada from the 1990s to the present In the early 1990s, Indigenous......more
Exploring how Indigenous media has flourished across Canada from the 1990s to the present In the early 1990s, Indigenous......more