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 cultural context, describing its origin in German Expressionism, French Poetic Realism and in developments within American genres, the gangster/crime thriller, horror and the Gothic romance and its possible relationship to changes in American society.
Five chapters are devoted to...
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 i...
From the surrealist films of Luis Bunuel to the colourful melodramas of Pedro Almodovar, Spain has produced a condoning or dissenting eye on Spanish history and culture. For modern cinema-goers, it has often been the secually-charged and colourful nature of many contemporary Spanish films, which has made them popular world-wide and led directors and stars such as Almodovar, Banderas and Penelope Cruz to be welcomed by Hollywood.
From the surrealist films of Luis Bunuel to the colourful melodramas of Pedro Almodovar, Spain has produced a condoning or dissenting eye on Spanish h...
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 with a medium of mass appeal. The many films Buchanan studies are shown to be telling indicators of trends in Shakespearean performance interpretation, illuminating markers of developments in the film industry and culturally revealing about broader influences in the world beyond the movie theatre. ' How did...
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 ...
The Western provides a clear overview of the genre, from The Great Train Robbery (1903) to contemporary westerns such as Dances with Wolves (1990), Unforgiven (1992) and The Newton Boys (1998). The text manages to organize and make sense of the monumental scope of the theoretical and historical work on the genre so that it is comprehensible to novices and still intellectually stimulating for experts.
The Western provides a clear overview of the genre, from The Great Train Robbery (1903) to contemporary westerns such as Dances with Wolves (1990), Un...
This text examines developments in American film-making from the 1970s, seen as instances of both change and continuity within the practices and processes of classic Hollywood cinema. The study offers a survey of significant events and trends of the part thirty years of American cinema and combines this with a detailed exploration of its most important figures and individual works.
This text examines developments in American film-making from the 1970s, seen as instances of both change and continuity within the practices and proce...
This title aims to provide a broad introduction to Russian cinema, taking a thematic, genre and topical approach, rather than the political and historical approaches generally adopted. The key emphasis is on the aesthetic, rather than the contextual.
This title aims to provide a broad introduction to Russian cinema, taking a thematic, genre and topical approach, rather than the political and histor...
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 cultural context, describing its origin in German Expressionism, French Poetic Realism and in developments within American genres, the gangster/crime thriller, horror and the Gothic romance and its possible relationship to changes in American society.
Five chapters are devoted to...
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 i...
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 time when they were not being criticised, censored or banned. The Horror Film engages with the key issues raised by this most contentious of genres. It considers the reasons for horror's disreputability and seeks to explain why despite this horror has been so successful. Where...
The Horror Film is an in-depth exploration of one of the most consistently popular, but also most disreputable, of all the mainstream film...
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 music, especially the work of the composers Shostakovich and Prokofev, to Russian cinema. Subsequent chapters explore a variety of topics:
The literary space - the cinematic rendering of the literary text, from 'Sovietized' versions to bolder and more innovative...
Russian Cinema provides a lively and informative exploration of the film genres that developed during Russia's tumultuous history, with di...
