As Film Studies

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 ...

Reducere. Breaking Bad (2008-2013), a remarkable synthesis of the crime film, the sitcom, the western, and the family melodrama, is a foundational example of...

Reducere. For those who are too young to know the GrandmaMoseX of the GLBT community, Artemis Smith, also now known as ArtemisSmith Morpurgo, is a contempora...

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...

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...

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

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

Reducere. A Deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and ev...

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...

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

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...

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...

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. SECOND EDITION.In The World of Ted Serios, Jule Eisenbud, a Denver based psychiatrist and psychical researcher, examined anomalous "thoughtographic...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Reducere. More in Time is a celebration and tribute to Ted Kooser, two-time U.S. Poet Laureate, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Presidential Pro...

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...

Reducere. The Master Key System was a source of inspiration for the book and blockbuster film The Secret. Originally published in 1912 as a correspondence co...

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

Reducere. The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 that recounts his experiences while overseeing the construction of a rail...

Reducere. Bible study is serious fun The Discover 4 Yourself(R) Inductive Bible Studies for Kids help you find out for yourself what the Bible is all about -...

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

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

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

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

Reducere. In this new scene-by-scene breakdown of Videodrome, John David Ebert illuminates David Cronenberg's 1983 classic film utilizing ideas drawn from th...

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

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

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...

How the Holocaust is depicted and memorialized is key to our understanding of the atrocity and its impact. Through 18 case studies dating from the ...

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

Reducere. The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

DescriptionAn official sequel to the cult classic film The Dark Crystal and the bestselling comic series The Power of the Dark Crystal. Kensho and ...

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

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

Reducere. Writer and filmmaker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists. Part of ...

Bollywood's New Woman examines Bollywood's construction and presentation of the Indian Woman since the 1990s. The groundbreaking collection illumin...

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

Reducere. A critical reader on culture and society in postwar Central and Eastern EuropeIn Cold Revolution, essayists examine the relationship between visual...

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. 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. 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...

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...

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

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

Reducere. Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between dar...

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

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

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