Film Studies

Timothy Murray discusses relations between artistic practice, sexual and racial politics, theory and cultural studies through an examination of film, photography and art...

With readings of key `youth' films of the 1980s, this book expands the psychoanalytic framework within which current debates regarding fantasy and spectatorship have been taking place...

This anthology presents a selection from the Mass-Observation archive which offers unique insights into cinema-going trends, particularly in the years of the Second World War. This is a great reference work on the role of the cinema in national morale and other social effects during the war years wi..

Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Vertov: these Soviet film directors are acknowledged to be among the greatest in the history of cinematography. Written by an author who knew each of them personally, using personal recollections, diaries, notes, unpublished and published biographies, letters, press ..

A polemical introduction to the avant-garde and experimental in film (including making and viewing), this book is a highly original, thought-provoking book, originally published in 1989. The short chapters work through a series of concepts which will enable the reader to deal imaginatively with the ..

These readings reflect the current interest in the possible effects that communications media may have upon children's studies and cognition, and upon how children are likely to respond to education and educational media...

Kieslowski's last films have indelibly marked the past decade. His cinema has renewed the representation of the human subject and emotion in film: space and luminous surface reveal the finest, most fragile impressions of states of mind and human consciousness...

Examining key film texts and genres, and set in a broad historical and theoretical context, this student-friendly study provides a thorough and detailed account of the vital and complex relationship between cinema and national identity in Mexico...

Examining key film texts and genres, and set in a broad historical and theoretical context, this student-friendly study provides a thorough and detailed account of the vital and complex relationship between cinema and national identity in Mexico...

Middlebrow Cinema argues that the centre has been too long overlooked. Reaching beyond popular and art alternatives, the volume explores films that may be middling – even mediocre – by reassessing and reinvigorating the term ‘middlebrow’._x005F_x000D_ This ambitious and wide-ranging volume brings to..

This volume brings together original research on religion and cinema. Contributors look beyond the film text, content, or aesthetics, instead concentrating on the cinema-related actions, strategies, and policies developed by the Catholic Church and Catholic organizations in order to influence cinema..

This volume brings together original research on religion and cinema. Contributors look beyond the film text, content, or aesthetics, instead concentrating on the cinema-related actions, strategies, and policies developed by the Catholic Church and Catholic organizations in order to influence cinema..