Filmteori & kritik

Delving into Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films, this book uncovers a plethora of conceptual paradigms. Apichatpong's films frequently utilize rural Thailand as a backdrop, …

In war films, the portrayal of deep friendships between men is commonplace. Given the sexually anxious nature of the American imagination, such bonds are often interpreted as …

A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, …

Demonising Disney is nothing new. Disney films have long been synonymous with a certain conservative, patriarchal, heterosexual ideology, occupying a centre-stage position at the …

In his bestselling book The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian (1965), Jess Stearn announced that, contrary to the assumptions of many Americans, most lesbians …

Este libro explora la obra literaria y cinematográfica de John Steinbeck sobre México durante el periodo que consolida la hegemonía mundial de Estados Unidos, y que va de la Gran …

Through the looking-glass of Russian national cinema, Pride and Panic explores Russia's anxious adjustment towards the expansion of Western culture. Russian film is shown, in both …

This book examines the concept of coherence in film studies. The author then proceeds to a close analysis of stylistically perplexing narrative films, in order to demonstrate how …

Global Cult Cinemas calls for a decolonisation of cult film studies. To date, discourses of cult cinema have predominantly focused upon Anglo-American cinema and its reception in …

The 1940 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic romance Rebecca begins by echoing the novel's famous opening line, 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.' Patricia …