Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.

Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

Offers a cross section of international fringe cinema.

A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.

Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product.

Explores the revolutionary potential of Bruce Lee and hip hop culture in the context of antiglobalization struggles and transnational capitalism.

A study of three classical filmmakers and the films they made at the cusp of the modernist movement in cinema.

Assesses the layered meanings and persistent global legacy of an American film classic.

Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.

Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.

Explores philosophical ideas through an examination of popular film.

Provides insight into the ritual lures and effects of mass media spectatorship, especially regarding the pleasures, risks, and purposes of violent display.

Interviews with prominent filmmakers, actors, and others on the art, craft, and business of moviemaking.

Looks at how therapy and the "talking cure" have been portrayed in the movies.

Examines recent Austen remakes as well as other “post-heritage” films and television shows to show how the past is reshaped for a contemporary market.

Explores the historical evolution of Belgian cinema as well as its contemporary situation within the evolving contexts of global media and European unity.

Integrates contemporary film theory into the teaching of film production, presenting alternatives to the standard Hollywood model of filmmaking.

Critically surveys the films of Tony Richardson, one of Britain’s most inventive directors of stage and screen.

Re-Viewing British Cinema, 1900–1992 is a collection of essays on British cinema history and practice. It offers both the casual reader and the film scholar a different view of British filmmaking during ...

In this bold political rethinking of contemporary film theory, Zavarzadeh overturns the dominant concepts that fetishize film as a work of art or simple entertainment. He demonstrates how aesthetic notions ...