Film Studies

In this Routledge Film Guidebook, audience researcher and film scholar Brigid Cherry provides a comprehensive overview of the horror film and explores how the genre works. Examining the way horror films create images of gore and the uncanny through film technology and effects, Cherry provides an acc..

Combining classic and recent articles, this book provides a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Blair Witch Project, it outlines the main critical debates and traces the development of horror film...

First Published in 1974. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

From the international successes of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, to the smaller productions of the new generation of Irish filmmakers, this book explores films from and about Ireland...

In this, the first critical study of James Cameron, Keller presents an overview of Cameron's work and its significance within cinematic history, featuring excerpts from interviews and analysis of key scenes from films such as Terminator and Titanic..

This first detailed account of Jane Campion's career as a filmmaker introduces students to the key debates surrounding this controversial and experimental director – a great introduction to one of the most important directors of contemporary cinema...

This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. Through her readings of canonical neorealist films, Minghelli unearths the memorial strata of the neorealist image. Films discussed..

This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers, examining the ways in which these writers seized the opportunity to reassert their relevance in the rapidly modernizing public sphere by actively – and often subversively – mediating encounters between Hollywood ..

Exploring the much neglected area of Latin American exploitation cinema, this anthology challenges established continental and national histories and canons which often exclude exploitation cinema due to its perceived ‘low’ cultural status. It argues that Latin American exploitation cinema makes an ..

Exploring the much neglected area of Latin American exploitation cinema, this anthology challenges established continental and national histories and canons which often exclude exploitation cinema due to its perceived ‘low’ cultural status. It argues that Latin American exploitation cinema makes an ..

This book notes that stories of lesbianism invariably engage with an apartment setting, a spatial motif not typically associated with lesbian history or cultural representation. Through the formal analysis of five lesbian apartment films, Wallace demonstrates how the standard repertoire of visual te..

This book notes that stories of lesbianism invariably engage with an apartment setting, a spatial motif not typically associated with lesbian history or cultural representation. Through the formal analysis of five lesbian apartment films, Wallace demonstrates how the standard repertoire of visual te..