Since its inception, Big Brother has been versioned in over thirty countries and reached an estimated audience of over two billion. The first of its kind, this book considers the…

Few studies of Canadian cinema to date have engaged deeply with genre cinema and its connection to Canadian culture. Ernest Mathijs does just that in this volume, which traces the…

Films of the Low Countries have long been regarded as isolated texts. This work points to the interconnectedness between Low Countries’ films from different genres, regions, languages and formats, considering…

How do science, producing knowledge and technology, and art, producing revelations and sensations, confront each other? The meeting between Einstein and Magritte is presented as an experiment, with which we…

When released in 2003, The Room, an obscure, self-financed relationship drama by an eccentric self-taught filmmaker named Tommy Wiseau, should have been completely forgotten. Yet nearly two decades later, the…