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.
This book investigates film’s complex role in representing ecological traumas. Contributors to this volume engage with eco-trauma cinema in its three ..
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. Specificall..
This collection of essays offers a pioneering analysis of the political and conceptual complexities of teaching transnational cinema in university cla..
By combining the study of films with the text-based primary sources, Screening America gives students clear guidance in studying, interpreting, and un..
Acclaimed for its breakthrough approach and its combination of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, this is the standard work on the classical..
Offers a fresh perspective on this most 'national' of national cinemas, re-evaluating the arguments which view genres and movements as typically Germa..
The Politics of Pictures is a history of looking from Aristotle to the meaning of picnics. Hartley investigates popular media reality, showing how pic..
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..
Most critical writings on horror films conceptualise woman as victim. Creed challenges this view with a feminist psychoanalytic critique, discussing f..
`This superbly illustrated, readable and authoritative work is a major step in the revision of Soviet film history and will be an indispensible stari..
Both a work of feminist film criticism and an analysis of popular culture, this provocative book examines from a cultural studies perspective top film..