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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This cutting-edge collection features original essays by eminent scholars on one of cinema's most dynamic and enduringly popular genres, covering everything from the history of horror movies to the latest critical approaches.
Contributors include many of the finest academics working in the field,...
The Dream
A Diary of a Film
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In 1980, Syrian filmmaker Mohammad Malas traveled to Lebanon to film a documentary about the country's Palestinian refugee camps, during which time he kept a diary of his impressions. The Dream: A Diary of a Film is Malas's haunting chronicle of his immersion in the life of the camps, including Shatila,...
Extreme Cinema
The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Received an Honorable Mention for the 2017 British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Best Monograph Award
From Shortbus to Shame and from Oldboy to Irreversible, film festival premieres regularly make international headlines for their shockingly graphic depictions...
Religion and Spanish Film
Luis Buñuel, the Franco Era, and Contemporary Directors
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Treatments of religion found in Spanish cinema range from the pious to the anticlerical and atheistic, and every position in between. In a nation with a strong Catholic tradition, resistance to and rebellion against religious norms go back almost as far as the notion of “Sacred Spain.” Religion...
Salt of the Earth
The Story of a Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
In the history of Hollywood there are few films with a history as dramatically riveting as that of Salt of the Earth. Made during the height of the McCarthy era by a group of blacklisted filmmakers who were among the best and the brightest Hollywood talent of the day, Salt of the Earth is itself a...
Wuthering Heights on Film and Television
A Journey Across Time and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Emily Brontë’s beloved novel Wuthering Heights has been adapted countless times for film and television over the decades. Valérie V. Hazette offers here a historical and transnational study of those adaptations, presenting the afterlife of the book as a series of cultural journeys that focus...
Unspeakable Histories
Film and the Experience of Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
In Unspeakable Histories, William Guynn focuses on the sensation of encountering past events through film. Film is capable, he argues, of triggering moments of heightened awareness in which the barrier between the past and the present can fall and the reality of the past we thought lost can be momentarily...
by Barry Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Literary property theft happens every day.
Written by a writer, for writers, Don't Let Anyone Steal Your Story will help you protect yourself against plagiarists and anyone else who might infringe your right of sole ownership.
What if you wrote a script and later saw an eerily similar...
Hitchcock's Rear Window
The Well-Made Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2004
In the process of providing the most extensive analysis of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window to date, John Fawell also dismantles many myths and clichés about Hitchcock, particularly in regard to his attitude toward women.
Although Rear Window masquerades quite successfully as a piece of light...
Food on Film
Bringing Something New to the Table
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
From early cinematic depictions of food as a symbol of ethnic and cultural identity to more complex contemporary portrayals, movies have demonstrated how our ideas about food are always changing. On the big and small screens, representations of addiction, starvation, and even food as fetish reinforce...
Producing Bollywood
Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Producing Bollywood offers an unprecedented look inside the social and professional worlds of the Mumbai-based Hindi film industry and explains how it became "Bollywood," the global film phenomenon and potent symbol of India as a rising economic powerhouse. In this rich and entertaining...
When Stories Travel
Cross-Cultural Encounters between Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Adapting fiction into film is, as author Cristina Della Coletta asserts, a transformative encounter that takes place not just across media but across different cultures. In this book, Della Coletta explores what it means when the translation of fiction into film involves writers, directors, and audiences...
Noël Coward Screenplays
In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter, The Astonished Heart
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This collection brings together three of Coward's most important screenplays – In Which We Serve (1942), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Astonished Heart (1950). The collection features the shooting scripts for each film alongside contextual notes for each play, and a general introduction, by Barry...
Downton Abbey
The Official Film Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
The official tie-in book for Downton Abbey, the full-length feature film.
Downton Abbey: The Official Film Companion is a stunning memento, bringing the world and the characters of our favorite fictional country house to life. Featuring spectacular photographs from the production, interviews...