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 Music of Fantasy Cinema

Janet K. Halfyard

Fantasy has had a modern resurgence in cinema due largely to the success of superhero narratives and the two major fantasy series, the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Often regarded as mere escapism, works of both literature and cinema wishing to be taken seriously by the public, by critics and...

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...

Deadline at Dawn

Judith Williamson

Noted British critic Judith Williamson takes herself to the movies, and this book contains the reviews she wrote as film critic for Time Out, City Limits, the radical alternative London weekly listings paper, and the New Statesman. This book contains her journalism, ana...

Ingmar Bergman

Philip Mosely

Ingmar Bergman's work is both influential and highly acclaimed, leaving its mark indelibly on a whole generation of cineasts. Many of his films, notably The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and Cries and Whispers have been hailed as classics. Bergman has made over forty films in...