With 11 original essays, this edited volume examines "chick flicks" from An Affair to Remember to Legally Blonde within the larger context of "chick culture" as well as women’s cinema. _x000D_
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Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for anyone interested in film. Providing accessible coverage of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, theories and production terms, this is a must-have guide to a fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern time..
With case studies on such figures as Hitchcock, Godard and Almovodar, this Reader, from successful and well published editors, is the first anthology devoted exclusively to the subject of colour in film and its history, production and technology...
From Easy Rider to The Blair Witch Project, this book comprehensively studies the independent film scene and traces the changing ideas and definitions of independent cinema, and the diversity of independent film practices over the past thirty years...
Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom, updated for a second edition, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since publication of the first edition...
Discussing canonical films such as Notorious and The Birds alongside Juno and the Paycock and Frenzy, this new collection of writings on Alfred Hitchcock considers him both in his time and as a continuing influence on filmmakers, films and film theory...
Discussing canonical films such as Notorious and The Birds alongside Juno and the Paycock and Frenzy, this new collection of writings on Alfred Hitchcock considers him both in his time and as a continuing influence on filmmakers, films and film theory...
The boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular culture. Horror Noire presents a critical history of blackness and American horror, from early cinema to the present. Robin R. Means Coleman traces the history of notable cha..