Film Studies

From Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and In the Mood for Love, this lively and accessible collection explores film culture's obsession with the past, offering searching and provocative analyses of a wide range of titles...

In this highly entertaining history, the author traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from 1899 until the establishment of sound in 1929. This work, first published in 1968, brings history to life with excerpts from scenarios, from reviews and from contemporary film journals, and ..

Originally published in 1990, this is a rigorous and subtle interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with historical and biographical s..

This book examines the ways in which the house appears in films and the modes by which it moves beyond being merely a backdrop for action. Specifically, it explores the ways that domestic spaces carry inherent connotations that filmmakers exploit to enhance meanings and pleasures within film...

This book examines the ways in which the house appears in films and the modes by which it moves beyond being merely a backdrop for action. Specifically, it explores the ways that domestic spaces carry inherent connotations that filmmakers exploit to enhance meanings and pleasures within film...

An examination of the importance of popular action films such as Rambo and Thelma and Louise in a cinematic and political context. This is an area that has previously been ignored by contemporary film criticism...

This scholarly contribution to the study of sport in films is one of the first of its kind to examine how sport has been used in movies and documentaries as a metaphor for other areas of social life, including insights into the representation of social identities, politics, consumerism and violence..

This scholarly contribution to the study of sport in films is one of the first of its kind to examine how sport has been used in movies and documentaries as a metaphor for other areas of social life, including insights into the representation of social identities, politics, consumerism and violence..

An examination of the effect Stalinism has had on the Soviet cinema. Contributors look at the development of the relationship and how the Soviet cinema is coming to terms with the disintergration of the established structures...

An examination of the effect Stalinism has had on the Soviet cinema. Contributors look at the development of the relationship and how the Soviet cinema is coming to terms with the disintergration of the established structures...

Combining film theory with a rich body of ethnographic research, Stacey applies theories of spectatorship to female spectators. Stacey's research analyses what memories female movie goers have of stars Bette Davis and Lauren Bacall...

Stardom brings together for the first time major writing of the last decade which seeks to understand the phenomenon of stars and stardom. It draws on a range of approaches from cultural studies and textual analysis to audience research...