Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.

The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking.

Traces the giallo mystery/horror genre from its genesis in Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s to its contemporary place in the global cult-film canon.

Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.

Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor works.

Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.

An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Demonstrates that slapstick film comedies display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium.

Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music’s original subversive energy.

Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship.

Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.

Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.

Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.

The first book-length study of Trecartin’s artistic genealogy, evolving aesthetics, radical approach to digital and Internet culture, and impact on contemporary art, film, and media.

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

Identifies a new genre—misdirection films—and explains its appeal to contemporary producers and audiences.

Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.

Argues that understanding Huston’s film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker.

Offers new and compelling perspectives on the deeply moral nature of Hitchcock’s films.

Explores the influence of Bertolt Brecht’s ideas on the practice and study of cinema.

Reconstructs how Ray became a “rebel auteur” in cinema culture.