Film & movie: styles & genres books

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It's widely assumed that Britain in the 1950s experienced a return to traditional gender roles. Popular cinema has...  Read More >>

Belinda Smaill proposes an original approach to documentary studies, examining how emotions such as pleasure, hope,...  Read More >>

Robin Wood has noted that horror 'has consistently been one of the most popular and, at the same time, the most...  Read More >>

Belinda Smaill proposes an original approach to documentary studies, examining how emotions such as pleasure, hope,...  Read More >>

Includes critiques of science fiction classics and cult hits released between 1950 and 1962, from """"Abbott""""...  Read More >>

Offers a thought-provoking depiction of Hollywood film as a contested terrain between conservative and liberal forces...  Read More >>

Offers a thought-provoking depiction of Hollywood film as a contested terrain between conservative and liberal forces...  Read More >>

Offers a thought-provoking depiction of Hollywood film as a contested terrain between conservative and liberal forces...  Read More >>

Film aficionados and musical aficionados. Students and scholars in film studies and in music theater studies. People...  Read More >>

This book traces film noir’s emergent connection to European cinema, its movement within a cosmopolitan culture...  Read More >>

This book traces film noir’s emergent connection to European cinema, its movement within a cosmopolitan culture...  Read More >>

Martin Dines explores the relationship between the physical and metaphorical spaces of suburbia and the evolution...  Read More >>

"""A.I. Artificial Intelligence"" was the extraordinary collaboration of two cinematic giants, Stanley Kubrick and...  Read More >>

Blood, Guns, and Testosterone: Action Films, Audiences, and a Thirst for Violence is a study of the modern action...  Read More >>

Thanks to the record-breaking success of the Twilight series of books and films, the vampire genre has been reinvigorated...  Read More >>

Renowned film critic David Thomson plumbs the horror and inspiration of Alfred Hitchcocks greatest film  Read More >>

An examination of modern horror cinema that highlights particularly how such films reflect social anxieties, representing...  Read More >>

From automatons to zombies, many fantastic elements have been cross-pollinated with the western genre. This work...  Read More >>

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This is the first book to provide a thorough examination of the British 'B' movie, from the war years to the 1960s....  Read More >>

This is the first book to provide a thorough examination of the British 'B' movie, from the war years to the 1960s....  Read More >>

"In the context of nineteenth-century Victorinoir and close readings of original-cycle film noir, Julie Grossman...  Read More >>

The premier study of an incomparable American director  Read More >>

The premier study of an incomparable American director  Read More >>