Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and ignorance reflected by the films that have entertained and shaped us.

Presents transcriptions of a series of interviews conducted by Francois Truffaut with celebrated filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock beginning in 1962; and includes photographs and a filmography.

The book focuses on recent postmodern examples such as The Blair Witch Project. In a daring move, the volume also examines Holocaust films in relation to horror. Part One features essays on the silent and classical Hollywood eras.

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Anime is consequently understood in this book as a complex cultural phenomenon: not simply a “genre,” but as an always shifting and changing set of texts.

The book reveals new details of every aspect of her life, from her guarded childhood, and her relationships with men and marriages, to her mysterious death.

Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender and sexuality in contemporary Hollywood, examining stars from Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Lopez and Dolly Parton.

A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity In Sculpting in Time, Andrey Tarkovsky has left his artistic testament, a remarkable revelation of both ...

A new edition of a genuine classic in film studies, featuring a new preface and several new sections.

DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div