Overview :From reviews of the third edition: "Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible... Read More
Overview :Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, whil... Read More
Overview :Documentary films constitute a major part of film history. Cinema's origins lie, arguably, more in non-fiction than fiction, and documentary... Read More
Overview :Stagecoach is one of the classics of Hollywood cinema. Made in 1939, it revitalized the Western genre, served as a milestone for John Ford's... Read More
Overview :This unique reference work is designed to bridge the gap between guides and dictionaries that are primarily academic and theoretical and tho... Read More
Overview :Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film stu... Read More
Overview :A comprehensive guide to science fiction films, which analyzes and contextualizes the most important examples of the genre, from Un voyage d... Read More
Overview :The films of Fritz Lang depict an entrapping, claustrophobic world in which people are controlled by larger forces. His overriding theme is ... Read More
Overview :This is a concise evaluation of film genre, discussing genre theory and sample analyses of the western, science fiction, the musical, horror... Read More
Overview :Offering an accessible introduction to the study of film genres and genre films, this book examines the use of genre in cinema from its begi... Read More
Overview :The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the... Read More
Overview :"The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It's rarely on the shelf at my un... Read More
Overview :Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudi... Read More
Overview :It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the block... Read More
Overview :CBS's The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) remains a benchmark of serious telefantasy and one of the most iconic series in the history of American ... Read More
Overview :In 100 American Horror Films, Barry Keith Grant presents entries on 100 films from one of American cinema's longest-standing, most diverse a... Read More