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Film Noir

Film Noir

1st Edition

By Andrew Spicer
May 31, 2002

Film Noir is an overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An extended Background Chapter situates film noir within its...

Spanish Cinema

Spanish Cinema

1st Edition

By Rob Stone
November 14, 2001

From the surrealist films of Luis Buñuel to the colourful melodramas of Pedro Almodóvar, Spain has produced a wealth of exciting and distinctive film-makers who have consistently provided a condoning or dissenting eye on Spanish history and culture. For modern cinema-goers, it has often been the ...

Contemporary US Cinema

Contemporary US Cinema

1st Edition

By Michael Allen
October 21, 2002

Contemporary U.S. Cinema is a forceful exploration of the tumultuous changes that have dominated the shifting landscape of American film-making over the past three decades. From the explosive release of Easy Rider to the excesses of Heaven's Gate and the comic book figures of Spider-Man, its aim is...

Shakespeare on Film

Shakespeare on Film

1st Edition

By Judith R. Buchanan
September 22, 2005

 From the earliest days of the cinema to the present, Shakespeare has offered a tempting bank of source material than the film industry has been happy to plunder. Shakespeare on Film deftly examines an extensive range of films that have emerged from the curious union of an iconic dramatist ...

Russian Cinema

Russian Cinema

1st Edition

By David C. Gillespie
October 30, 2002

Russian Cinema provides a lively and informative exploration of the film genres that developed during Russia's tumultuous history, with discussion of the work of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Mikhalkov, Paradzhanov, Sokurov and others. The background section assesses the contribution of visual art and ...

The Western

The Western

1st Edition

By David Lusted
June 26, 2003

The Western introduces the novice to the pleasures and the meanings of the Western film, shares the excitement of the genre with the fan, addresses the suspicions of the cynic and develops the knowledge of the student. The Western is about the changing times of the Western, and about how it has ...

The Horror Film

The Horror Film

1st Edition

By Peter Hutchings
June 03, 2004

The Horror Film is an in-depth exploration of one of the most consistently popular, but also most disreputable, of all the mainstream film genres. Since the early 1930s there has never been a time when horror films were not being produced in substantial numbers somewhere in the world and never a ...

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