The story of the birth of the cinema begins in a Parisian theater in 1895 when a street scene of horses and carriages suddenly begins to move--and rep ...
This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences ...
This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences ...
In Bollywood, anthropologist and film scholar Tejaswini Ganti provides a guide to the cultural, social and political significance of Hindi cinema, out ...
Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. But until now, no one has undertaken a major examination of the ways in ...
Books in Motion addresses the hybrid, interstitial field of film adaptation. The introductory essay integrates a retrospective survey of the developme ...
This provocative book follows MGM's Gene Kelly musical Brigadoon through the worlds of 1940s Broadway theatre and 1950s Hollywood and documents the co ...
The editors and authors have opened my eyes to many British films of the 1950s that sound perfectly fascinating and which I have never seen. Corin Red ...
This is the first substantial study of British cinema's most neglected genre. Bringing together original work from some of the leading writers on Brit ...
This is the first substantial study of British cinema's most neglected genre. Bringing together original work from some of the leading writers on Brit ...
From no-budget to the Hammer studio, British Horror Cinema investigates a wealth of horror films including classics such as Peeping Tom and The Wicker ...
The first substantial overview of the British film industry with emphasis on its genres, stars, and socioeconomic context, British National Cinema by ...
British Science Fiction Cinema is the first substantial study of a genre which, despite a sometimes troubled history, has produced some of the best Br ...
Since its release in 2005, Brokeback Mountain became a major cultural event and a milestone in independent American filmmaking. Based on the short sto ...
From the origins of the New Spanish Cinema in the 1950s to the end of the last century, Burning Darkness features essays on a selection of essential f ...
Cahiers du Cinema is famous as the critical journal of the French "New Wave." Fran?ois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, and ma ...
The Cahiers du Cin?ma has played a major role in establishing film theory and criticism as an essential part of the late twentieth century culture. Th ...
At the turn of the twenty-first century, Chinese filmmakers produced a great number of films portraying male homosexuality. Prominent examples include ...
From Lolita to The Sixth Sense, the figure of the child in cinematic works has been a contested site of symbolism and controversy. Childhood and Cinem ...
Using original research, this book explores the recurring debates in Britain and America about children and how they use and respond to the media, foc ...
Using original research, this book explores the recurring debates in Britain and America about children and how they use and respond to the media, foc ...
