Screening the Sixties: Hollywood Cinema and the Politics of Memory: 2016
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This book provides a detailed and engaging account of how Hollywood cinema has represented and...
The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Cinema
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This title looks at films that map the spectator's private fantasy onto the one being played out on...
The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
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From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American...
Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender, Sex and the Deviant Body
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Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where...
Little Horrors: How Cinema's Evil Children Play on Our Guilt
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Zombies, werewolves and chainsaw-wielding maniacs are tried-and-true antagonists of horror films....
The Kaiju Film: A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters
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The Kaiju (strange monster) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond the "big monsters...
Cinema, Democracy and Perfectionism: Joshua Foa Dienstag in Dialogue
Joshua Foa Dienstag, Bert van den Brink, Anthony Simon Laden and Peter Niesen
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In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work...
Performing Femininity: Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema
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Oriental dancers, ballerinas, actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is...