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Bridget Kies, Barry Keith Grant
Embark on a journey through the mysteries of Cabot Cove and beyond to learn why Murder, She Wrote remains a timeless classic.
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Vincent L Stephens
Through elegant prose deeply rooted in an intersectional feminist perspective, Stephens expands the aesthetic and narrative grammars of contemporary television.
Eric Rentschler, Barry Keith Grant
Contributors explore these films' transnational circuits of production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as how the films were made and received, thereby inviting us to reexamine the roots of what…
Barry Keith Grant
British filmmaker Ken Russell discusses his colourful life and career, from his youth fascinated by movies to his early work in television through his feature films and his retreat to…
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Barry Grant
When James Wilson retires from journalism, he decides to settle down in Herefordshire with a roommate, a Mr. Cedric Coombes, and at first thinks little of his new friend’s eccentric…
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Having emerged from a Swiss glacier and solved his first murder case in more than 90 years (described in The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes ), the world’s most famous…
Barry Grant Marsh
Barry Grant Marsh, who was a third-generation Jehovah’s Witness, seeks to help others struggling to leave behind the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society dogma in this memoir that looks at…
A comprehensive guide to science fiction films, which analyzes and contextualizes the most important examples of the genre, from Un voyage dans la lune (1902), to The Road (2009).
A guide to 100 of the most notable American horror movies by leading popular cinema expert Barry Keith Grant in the BFI Screen Guides series.
The Twilight Zone remains a benchmark of serious telefantasy and one of the most iconic series in the history of American television. Barry Keith Grant carefully situates thes series within…
The Hollywood Film Musical examines the cross-fertilization between the genre and the popular music industry, tracing the function of this relationship in aesthetic, ideological and industrial terms, and outlining the…
Grant questions the idea that Hollywood movies reflect moments of crisis in the dominant image of masculinity. Arguing instead that part of the mythic function of genre movies is to…
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Newly revised and expanded nearly a decade after the third edition, Film Genre Reader is the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more…
Offering an accessible introduction to the study of film genres and genre films, this book examines the use of genre in cinema from its beginnings to the present day.
This fascinating collection covers Fritz Lang’s conversations about his life and his works over a period of forty years. They reveal how cinema for Lang was an intensely personal art…
Offers a concise evaluation of film genre, discussing genre theory and sample analyses of genre films, from the western, science fiction and the musical through to horror, comedy and the…
Stagecoach is one of the classics of Hollywood cinema. Made in 1939, it revitalized the Western genre, served as a milestone in John Ford’s career, and made John Wayne a…
Introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of film history, Grant presents us with an eclectic array of monster movies, from Nosferatu to…
Auteurs and Authorship: A Film Reader offers students an introductory and comprehensive view of perhaps the most central concept in film studies. This unique anthology addresses the aesthetic and historical…
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Voyages of Discovery is the definitive account of Frederick Wiseman's career, offering a comprehensive analysis of the work of the leading documentary filmmaker in the United States. In this updated…
Allison Barrie
Invisible tanks. Thought-controlled fighter jets. Drone swarms. Rail guns slinging Mach 6 slugs. Terminator-style robot troops and cyborg fighters. Space based lasers blasting threats on the ground. Micro missiles. Next-gen…
Edited collection of works by this extraordinary practitioner and brilliant theoretical writer.
Robin Wood
An expanded version of Robin Wood’s influential study of Ingmar Bergman, including more recent essays on the director.
A comprehensive anthology of criticism on the horror film.
Maurice Yacowar
A reissued classic that examines the structure and themes of each of Hitchcock’s British feature films.
Examines some of the myriad forms of popular culture in the Niagara region of Canada. Essays consider common assumptions and definitions of what popular culture is and seek to determine…
With articles by such luminaries as Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, Andre Bazin, Robert Warshow, and Claude Chabrol, this anthology is the only single-volume source for important…
Robin Wood - one of the foremost critics of cinema - has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Robin Wood on the…
This engaging collection explores the multi-media intersections of comics, film, television, and popular culture over the last century, ranging from Felix the Cat to Black Panther.
Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman is among America’s foremost documentary film-makers. Providing transcriptions of five of Wiseman’s most important films, this book enables readers to scrutinize the films’ complex structural patterns, recurring motifs…
Barry M Goldenberg
Now with an updated author foreword for 2017!
Winner of the prestigious Carey McWilliams Prize for best Undergraduate Honors History Thesis at the University of California-Los Angeles, The Unknown Architects…
Film critic Robin Wood offers a persuasive detailed reading of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy, widely regarded as landmarks of world cinema.
Essays on important documentary films from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives.
