Fully revised and updated to bring it in line with contemporary film analysis and new material published, this new edition now includes revised chapters, new illustrations, film theories and an expanded treatment of special effects and spectacle.
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..