Film: stilar & genrer

The life, times, and mysteries of Fred Halsted, gay porn's first film auteur, in a new, updated, and expanded edition. Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first …

An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity, this volume looks at specific story-patterns and archetypes from Greco-Roman …

Death at an early age has a tendency to preserve, and oftentimes enhance, a star's fame, whether from movies (Marilyn Monroe, James Dean) or music (Elvis Presley and John Lennon …

Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book …

Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia's so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on …

Offers new and compelling perspectives on the deeply moral nature of Hitchcock's films.In his essays and interviews, Alfred Hitchcock was guarded about substantive matters of …

Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood examines the function of the mother figure in horror film. Using psychoanalytic film theory as well as comparisons with the melodrama …

Since the early days of cinema, the private eye has been one of its most memorable characters, often viewed as a romantic hero, a ‘lone wolf’ who confronts and tries to make sense …

Following the success of How to Speak Wookiee comes this essential manual for interacting with R2 units in various likely situations. Droids are made to be reliable, helpful and …

In Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema, Antonio Barrenechea launches an inquiry into inter-American exploitation cinema-a horror cinema which captured the rise of '60s counterculture …