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Post-9/11 Cinema: Through a Lens Darkly

by John Markert

Covering cinematic portrayals of 9/11 and the subsequent incursions into Iraq and Afghanistan, Post-9/11 Cinema: Through a Lens Darkly examines both dramas and documentaries that depict what some have termed...

Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare’s King Lear: A close study of the relationship between text and film

by Yvonne Griggs

This close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks atseveral different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic’offshoots’) and discusses: the literary text in its historicalcontext, key themes and...

Steve McQueen: A Biography

by Marc Eliot

Steve McQueen is one of America’s legendary movie stars best known for his hugely successful film career in classics such as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, and The...

Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity

by Drucilla Cornell

In this risk-taking book, a major feminist philosopher engages the work of the actor and director who has progressed from being the stereotypical "man's man" to pushing the boundaries of the very genres--the...

The Epic Films of David Lean

by Constantine Santas

In this volume, David Lean's now undervalued epics—The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage to India—are restored to the elevated esteem they once...

Screen Adaptations: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: A close study of the relationship between text and film

by Deborah Cartmell

The study of literature on screen is a growing area of study in schools and universities. Many students have to produce critical essays comparing the novel and film versions of a particular text. The Screen...

Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen

by Elaine Chang

Founded in 1997 by producer Anita Lee and journalist Andrew Sun, the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspora. The festival...

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies

by Matt Mogk

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ZOMBIE HANDBOOK EVER PUBLISHED

In one indispensable volume, Matt Mogk, founder and head of the Zombie Research Society, busts popular myths and answers all your raging questions about...

Movies and Money

by David Puttnam

From David Puttnam—producer of such modern film classics as Chariots of Fire, The Killing Fields, Midnight Express, and The Mission, and the only European to have run a major Hollywood studio—an insightful...

British Women's Cinema

by Melanie Bell & Melanie Williams

British Women's Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British 'chick flick'.

The woman's...

King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema

by Anupama Chopra

Here is the astonishing true story of Bollywood, a sweeping portrait about a country finding its identity, a movie industry that changed the face of India, and one man's struggle to become a star. Shah Rukh...

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, ConqueredHollywood, and Invented Modern Horror

by Jason Zinoman

Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time that Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorcese were producing their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors...