As Film Studies

The burgeoning film industry in the Weimar Republic was, among other things, a major site of German-Jewish experience, one that provided a sphere f...

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...

DescriptionSigns and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restric...

Reducere. The concept of identity in superhero narratives has become a burgeoning field in academic studies of this increasingly popular cinematic genre. Wom...

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...

Reducere. Horror's longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism...

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...

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

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

DescriptionThis edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted ...

DescriptionTattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, tel...

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

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

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

Description With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly...

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, P...

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

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

DescriptionDigital Media: Human-Technology Connection examines what it is like to be alive in today s technologically textured world and showcases ...

Reducere. DescriptionArt and business are often described as worlds apart, even diametric opposites. And yet, these realms are close cousins in creative indu...

Description In American Westerns, the main characters are most often gunfighters, lawmen, ranchers and dancehall girls. Civil professionals such a...

Reducere. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying he...

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

Reducere. PROSEIn 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented t...

Reducere. Entertainment is big business. Whether it's a favorite television show, an artist at the top of the music charts, a blockbuster film, or a hometown...

Reducere. DescriptionThe only text of its kind to explore central topics in sociology through feature films This one-of-a-kind text takes readers beyond watc...

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

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

Reducere. Now in its updated and expanded fourth edition, Here's Looking at You: Hollywood, Film & Politics examines how the tangled relationship between Hol...

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

Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India examines India's musical soundscape beyond the classical and folk traditions of old to consider the cult...

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

DescriptionIn Encounters on Contested Lands, Julie Burelle employs a performance studies lens to examine how instances of Indigenous self-represent...

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

Reducere. Beloved among cult horror devotees for its signature excesses of sex and violence, Italian giallo cinema is marked by switchblades, mysterious kill...

A blend of screenwriting technique and film studies, this work discusses screen stories as they have evolved through the years, focusing on the bas...

DescriptionAlthough the motion picture industry in India is one of the oldest and largest in the world--with literally thousands of productions rel...

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

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

The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies, addressing the ways in which...

Reducere. Expanded cinema: avant-garde moving image works that claim new territory for the cinematic, beyond the bounds of familiar filmmaking practices and ...

A Laboratory of Her Own gathers diverse voices to address women's interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production. This ...

For too long the main narratives of motherhood have been oppressive and exclusionary, frequently ignoring issues of female identity--especially reg...

Reducere. "The Cannon Film Guide is the greatest book anyone could ever write about the greatest movie studio that ever was. And is."--Mike McPadden, author ...

The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media offers the first sustained exploration of the soundtrack album as a distinctive form of media. Soundtrack ...

Riot is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influen...

This book discusses the use of authorship discourses and author figures in the promotion and marketing of media content, dealing with the U.S. main...

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...

DescriptionStephanie Day Powell illuminates the myriad forms of persuasion, inducement, discontent, and heartbreak experienced by readers of Ruth. ...

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

Reducere. On two separate days in August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the seventy-fift...

In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital. Since then Godzilla and oth...

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

DescriptionBased on a world-class curriculum and cutting-edge industry practices, Stop Motion Filmmaking offers step-by-step instruction in everyth...

Reducere. This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the pres...

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...

DescriptionDigital Media: Human-Technology Connection examines what it is like to be alive in today's technologically textured world and showcases ...

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

DescriptionAmateur Media and Participatory Cultures aims to delineate the boundary line between today's amateur media practice and the canons of pr...

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

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

Reducere. Bridging landmark territory in film studies, Psycho-Sexual is the first book to apply Alfred Hitchcock's legacy to three key directors of 1970s Hol...

Reducere. Winner of theMihajlo Misa Djordjevic Book Prizeawarded by the North American Society for Serbian Studies Metropolitan Belgrade presents a sociocult...

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...

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

Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African America...

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...

Reducere. Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable s...

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

Reducere. 2012 Honorable mention for the Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies Arkansas, 1943. The Deep South during...