Representations of Antiquity in Film

Kevin M. McGeough

Representations of Antiquity in Film offers an introduction to how the ancient world is represented in film and especially Hollywood cinema. McGeough considers the potential that movies have for helping us think about antiquity and their relationship to more traditional academic historical work. The...

The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema

Mark Evans, Diane Hughes

This volume focuses on the singing voice in contemporary cinema from 1945 to the present day, and rather than being restricted to one particular genre, considers how the singing voice has helped define and/or confuse genre classification. Typically heard in song, the singing voice is arguably the mo...

Sounding Funny

Mark Evans, Philip Hayward

Comedy has been a feature of cinema since its inception. From mickey-moused accompaniments to slapstick scenes, ironic musical statements, clever musical allusions and jokes, well-worn sound effects, and even laugh tracks, sound has been integral to the development of the comedy on screen. This volu...

Movies, Moves and Music

Mark Evans, Mary Fogarty

Over the last 40 years, while the musical film has faded from its historical high-point to a more isolated and quirky phenomenon, the dance film has displayed refulgent growth and surprising resilience. It has spawned profitable global enterprises (Billy Elliot), has fashioned youthful angst as soci...

Terror Tracks

Philip Hayward

Commissioned and edited to appeal to a crossover Film and Music Studies readership, Terror Tracks is an anthology that analyses the use of music and sound in the popular genre of Horror cinema. Focusing on the post-War period, contributors analyse the role of music and sound in establishing and enha...

Gothic Fantasy

Edwin Page

Beginning his film career as an artist at Disney, Tim Burton is now best known as the mysterious and somewhat reclusive film director responsible for works ranging from arthouse and cult classics (Ed Wood, Beetlejuice) to sci-fi satire (Mars Attacks!) to Hollywood blockbuster (Charlie and the Cho...

Dogville Vs Hollywood

Jake Horsley

Interpreting Lars yon Trier's film Dogville as a comment on the Hollywood film industry and the moviegoing process, Jake Horsley examines the age-old conflict between 'artistic' and 'commercial' filmmaking. He proposes that the term 'independent', when applied to filmmaking, refers to se...

Persona and Shame

Ingmar Bergman

Keith Bradfield

Ingmar Bergman is known for masterpieces of controlled human emotion, exploring every facet of the personality in relentless detail. He wrote, I had the possibility of corresponding with the world around me in a language that is literally spoken from soul to soul.

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Stargazer

Stephen Koch

Stargazer is to die over.—Andy Warhol
The definitive critical study of twentieth-century pop culture icon Andy Warhol, the man who redrew the boundaries of art.

Andy Warhol’s work and personality changed American visual culture forever, making him an international supersta...

French Film Noir

Robert Buss

From the seething internal aftermath of the German Occupation to the stylish radicalism of the New Wave and the slick post-modern fantasies of today, French directors such as Melville, Becker, Godard, Truffaut, and Chabrol have adapted American crime movie conventions to create their own cinema o...