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The first intensive study of Mervyn LeRoy's work, as varied in form as it is crucial to an understanding of American cinema and American culture.
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Critical Approaches to Sjon: North of the Sun is the first English-language book-length study of the works of the Icelandic contemporary poet, Sigurjon Birgir Sigur?sson, who is considered by some…
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Linda Badley
In this sequel to Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic, Badley examines horror fiction as a fantastic genre in which images of the body and the self are articulated and…
A perceptive analysis of the daring Danish filmmaker’s oeuvre
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Professor Linda Badley
Linda Badley offers an in-depth examination of Lars von Trier’s Antichrist (2009), Melancholia (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013-14), and The House That Jack Built (2018) and the contexts that produced them. She…
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Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation deploys the tools of current adaptation studies to undertake a wide-ranging transcultural, intermedial exploration, adding an important new layer to the rich scholarship that has arisen…
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This ground-breaking collection, the first sustained examination of the work of female practitioners within American independent cinema, reclaims the ‘difference’ of female indie filmmaking.
Aga Skrodzka
This series presents diverse and fascinating movements in world cinema. Each volume concentrates on a set of films from a different national, regional or, in some cases, cross-cultural cinema which…
Nurith Gertz,George Khleifi
A study of Palestinian cinema and its response to political and social transformations in the Middle East.
MS Linda R Badley,R Barton Palmer,Steven Jay Schneider
An introduction to a wide range of traditions in world cinema.
Elyce Rae Helford
This volume examines women on American television in the nineties in an attempt to uncover the cultural obsession with tough, sexy heroines in mythical pasts, the girl power present, and…
