Film & movie: styles & genres books

A comprehensive, fully updated guide to more than forty years of the beloved Star Wars franchise Discover everything...  Read More >>

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Exploring the poetics of popular genres, their cultural reverberations and modes of audience address, this book...  Read More >>

Examines representations of ancient epic and epic conventions in film and television.  Read More >>

The second edition of Peter Hutchings's landmark work on British horror cinema, featuring later writings by Hutchings...  Read More >>

Reassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective.  Read More >>

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An exploration and celebration of the life and work of the coolest man in Hollywood, Samuel L. Jackson, Gavin Edwards...  Read More >>

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This study analyzes North Korean comedy films from the late 1960s to present day. It analyzes their role in the...  Read More >>

Contains photographs and information about some of the horror films produced by Universal Studios between the 1920s...  Read More >>

Since its release at the mid-point of the 1980s American horror boom, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (1985) has endured...  Read More >>

Since its release at the mid-point of the 1980s American horror boom, Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (1985) has endured...  Read More >>

The Legendary Eastern Heroes magazine is back! The No 1 Hong kong film magazine has been relaunched and is back...  Read More >>

Foreword by Mick Garris; afterword by Christopher Young.  Read More >>

This book adopts an integrative research framework that primarily combines industrial and discourse analysis to...  Read More >>

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Based on the Ghibliotheque podcast, which leafs through the library of films from the world's greatest animation...  Read More >>

Presents essays that document, interpret, and explain the meaning of the George Romero legacy, drawing cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

"""Our comedies are not to be laughed at!"" A funny line, admittedly, but dead wrong. This quip, supposedly...  Read More >>

"""Our comedies are not to be laughed at!"" A funny line, admittedly, but dead wrong. This quip, supposedly...  Read More >>

From the earliest days of moving pictures, there have been the big blockbusters... Birth of a Nation, The Gold Rush,...  Read More >>

From the earliest days of moving pictures, there have been the big blockbusters... Birth of a Nation, The Gold Rush,...  Read More >>

This volume examines contemporary reformulations of the ‘Final Girl’ in film, TV, literature and comic, expanding...  Read More >>