As Film Studies

An unpretentious guide for all those who want to learn to analyse, understand and evaluate films.Film Studies: An Introduction provides an overview...

Written by experienced Film Studies authors and teachers, this key resource provides students with the core knowledge and exemplification they need...

Designed to complement the WJEC Eduqas Film Studies for A Level & AS Student Book, this practical and concise Revision Guide supports students prep...

DescriptionThis collection of essays explores intermediality as a new perspective in the interpretation of the cinemas that have emerged after the ...

Critical Visions in Film Theory is a new book for a new generation, embracing groundbreaking approaches in the field without ignoring the history o...

Reducere. Ever since his first feature film I Killed My Mother premiered at Cannes, every film from the 29-year-old director Xavier Dolan has generated signi...

Reducere. Studies of adaptation from novels to film are common, but not as widely known are adaptations with the opposite relationship. In Novelization: From...

Reducere. Andre Bazin's "What Is Cinema?" (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the ...

Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is essential reading for anyone interested in film. Providing accessible coverage of a comprehensive range of genr...

Reducere. Peter Hutchings's Hammer and beyond remains a landmark work in British film criticism. This new, illustrated edition brings the book back into prin...

This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic h...

Reducere. Contemporary French cinema is an essential introduction to popular French film of the last 35 years. It charts recent developments in all genres of...

Reducere. In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of the streets not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but a...

Reducere. It has been more than thirty-five years since the first commercial recordings of hip-hop music were made. This Companion, written by renowned schol...

From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, amusing book about the golden age of movies and how the studios worked...

Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the ...

Reducere. What exactly is film comedy and what is the basis for its widespread appeal? Film Comedy uses formal, socio-historical and industrial perspectives ...

Reducere. From his film festival debut Hard Eight to ambitious studio epics Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's unique c...

DescriptionFrom the silent era to the present, film productions have shaped the way the public views campus life. Collaborations between universiti...

Reducere. In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with...

Lok Fung explores the political, linguistic and cultural tensions of being both from Hong Kong and a feminist in her first major bilingual collecti...

Reducere. Speculative fiction--encompassing both science fiction and fantasy--has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing...

Reducere. An anthology on film noir, this book contains early writings on the genre as well as more recent literature, some published here for the first time...

Through a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise...

DescriptionThe Cinema of Ken Loach examines the connection between art and politics that distinguishes the work of this leading British film direct...

Writing About Screen Media presents strategies for writing about a broad range of media objects - including film, television, social media, adverti...

Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuo...

Reducere. Béla Balázs's two works, Visible Man (1924) and The Spirit of Film (1930), are published here for the first time in full English translation. The e...

The only Japanese director to have won the Palme d'Or from Cannes more than once, and second only to Ozu Yasujiro in the number of times he has won...

DescriptionHistory and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to under...

Reducere. DescriptionHe Disagreed with Something that Ate Him analyses the two James Bond films starring Timothy Dalton made in 1987 and 1989. Critically ove...

Surrealism and Film after 1945 is the first collection devoted to the vibrant culture of transnational surrealist cinema since the Second World War...

Reducere. DescriptionLargely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often ...

Since his death in 1989, John Cassavettes has become increasingly renowned as a cinematic hero--a renegade loner who fought the Hollywood system, s...

This volume compares the cinemas of Iran and Turkey in terms of the presence and absence of women on both sides of the camera. From a critical poin...

Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the "death of cinema" debate, Film History as...

Cult movies are emerging as a distinct subject of film and media theory. This book brings together various works in the field on the structure, for...

Reducere. Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on debat...

Both politically and aesthetically, the contemporary German and Austrian film landscape is a far cry from the early days of the medium, when critic...

DescriptionSpike Lee's challenging film Bamboozled (2000) is often read as a surface level satire of blackface minstrelsy. Careful analysis, howeve...

This unique collection focuses on the work of legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Written in the wake of the centenary of Bergman's birth i...

Arranged chronologically and illustrated wherever possible with frame stills, the aims of the collection are threefold: to provide detailed account...

Reducere. The whiteness of mainstream environmentalism often fails to account for the richness and variety of Latinx environmental thought. Building on insig...

From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Address...

DescriptionAfrican American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discip...

Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guid...

Reducere. This wide-ranging collection places well-known auteurs such as Carl Th. Dreyer, Lars von Trier and Susanne Bier in their cultural context, and intr...

Description Through his influential work on cultural capital and social mobility, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has provided critical insi...

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and...

Environmental themes are present in cinema more than ever before. But the relationship between film and the natural world is a long and complex one...

Description"George Stevens could do anything, " said veteran Hollywood producer Pandro S. Berman, "break your heart or make you laugh." Winner of t...

Orlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the ...

Reducere. DescriptionOrlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in p...

Reducere. Orlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the ...

While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identiti...

The fast-moving pace of technology makes it hard to keep abreast of current practices in production design. However, the ethos and skills behind fi...

Reducere. Mass communication is a sub-field of communication studies and often associated with media studies. It is the process by which a person or organiza...

Social Studies Today will help educators--teachers, curriculum specialists, and researchers--think deeply about contemporary social studies educati...

Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists - she was also an influential philosopher, whose work wa...

Offers a range of approaches and case studies whose organizing principle is the developing idea of polycentrism as applied to cinema. In this title...

Reducere. Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German Expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interw...

Reducere. From the triumphant "Main Title" in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores...

The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next gener...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Raul S. ChavezUsing race theory, film studies, colonialist and post-colonialist literature, while studying a cross-section ...

Description'The authors draw on an impressive array of contemporary literature and critical studies to provide original and illuminating analyses o...

DescriptionBeyond the Frame: The Films and Film Theory of Andrei Tarkovsky is a vibrant and critically informed exploration of one of the giants of...

Reducere. Best-selling horror novelist Clive Barker's 1987 film Hellraiser has become an undisputed horror classic, spawning a movie franchise that to date i...

From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a ma...

Reducere. In Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order t...

Reducere. Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age explores the relationship between macro environmental factors, such as politics, economics, culture and techn...