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Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film, 2002-2012

by Geoffrey O'Brien

“We watch what is moving fast from a platform that is also moving fast,” writes Geoffrey O’Brien in the beginning of Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows. This collection—gathering the best of a decade’s...


Castaways of the Image Planet: Movies, Show Business, Public Spectacle

by Geoffrey O'Brien

One of our best cultural critics here collects sixteen years' worth of essays on film and popular culture. Topics range from the invention of cinema to contemporary F-X aesthetics, from Shakespeare on film to...


Cinema as Weather: Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change

by Kristi McKim

How do cinematic portrayals of the weather reflect and affect our experience of the world? While weatherly predictability and surprise can impact our daily experience, the history of cinema attests to the stylistic...


Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

by Anna Ball

Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist...


Cinema  and Inter-American Relations

by Adrián| Pérez Melgosa

Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America...


European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia

by Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou

This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil...


Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism: Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's Italy

by Ora Gelley

In this exciting new book, Gelley considers the collaboration between Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman in light of the neorealist aesthetic. This study re-examines the director's postwar works in relation to the...


Independent Film Producing: The Craft of Low Budget Filmmaking

by Suzanne Lyons

Indie Film Producing explains the simple, basic, clear cut role of the independent film producer. Raising funds to do your dream project, producing award-winning films with a low budget, putting name actors...


Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies

by Mia Mask

Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the...


Underground U.S.A.: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon

by Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Jay Schneider

Whether defined by the carnivalesque excesses of Troma studios (The Toxic Avenger), the arthouse erotica of Radley Metzger and Doris Wishman, or the narrative experimentations of Abel Ferrara, Melvin Van Peebles,...


Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques & Entanglements

by Richard K K Sherwin

Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the practice and theory of law. Today, lawyers, judges, and lay jurors face a vast...


World Cinema, Theology, and the Human: Humanity in Deep Focus

by Antonio Sison

Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience, World Cinema, Theology, and the...


Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953-2003

by Nathan Richardson

Constructing Spain explores the interactions between culture, geography, and society over fifty years of recent Spanish history through close readings of over a dozen films and novels.


Filming Forster: The Challenges of Adapting E.M. Forster's Novels for the Screen

by Earl Ingersoll

Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges filmmakers confronted in producing film adaptations of E. M. Forster’s fiction. Working on the principle of an interactive relationship between two equally valuable...


Stolen Images: Lumumba and the Early Films of Raoul Peck

by Raoul Peck, Catherine Temerson & Bertrand Tavernier

Among today’s leading filmmakers, none brings to the screen such a deep awareness of how power is channeled from First to Third World societies, or exhibits such great human sensitivity, as Raoul Peck. Collected...


Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas

by Philippa Gates & Lisa Funnell

This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, texts that...


William Haggar: Fairground Film Maker

by Peter Yorke

Biography of William Haggar, a pioneer of the cinema.


Documentary

by John Ellis

Digital technologies have transformed documentary for both filmmakers and audiences.

Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation takes an audience-centred approach to documentary, arguing that everyday experiences...


Feminism at the Movies

by Hilary Radner & Rebecca Stringer

Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central...


Neoliberalism and Global Cinema

by Jyotsna Kapur & Keith B. Wagner

In cinema studies today, rarely do we find a direct investigation into the culture of capitalism and how it has been refracted and fabricated in global cinema production under neoliberalism. However, the current...