Iranian Cinema Uncensored

Shiva Rahbaran

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• The New Iranian Cinema is considered by many to be the most fascinating cultural phenomenon produced within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Containing t... Lees meer

The Catholic Church and Hollywood

Alexander McGregor

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• During the 1930s, the Catholic Church in the US was engaged in a metaphorical 'war' against the increasingly modern and secular values of the American... Lees meer

Spectacular Television

Helen Wheatley

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• In terms of visual impact, television has often been regarded as inferior to cinema. It has been characterised as sound-led and consumed by a distract... Lees meer

International Film Festivals

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals ... Lees meer

Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• Although ostensibly presented as "light entertainment," the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror g... Lees meer

Home Movies

Claire Jenkins

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• The American family has long been at the centre of the typical Hollywood narrative. But the depiction of the nuclear family within contemporary mainst... Lees meer

The Europeanness of European Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• From The Artist to The White Ribbon, from Oscar to Palme d'Or-winning productions, European filmmaking is more prominent, world-wide, than ever before... Lees meer

Quality Hollywood

Geoff King

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• What defines 'quality' in contemporary Hollywood film? Although often seen as inhospitable to such work, the studios of the blockbuster-franchise era ... Lees meer

Screening Twilight

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• The Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four vampire novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through... Lees meer

Film Criticism and Digital Cultures

Andrew McWhirter

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• 'The critic is dead.' 'Everyone's a critic.' These statements reflect some of the perceptions of film criticism in a time when an opinion can be publi... Lees meer

Classic French Noir Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire

Deborah Walker-Morrison

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noi... Lees meer

Screening Twilight

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• The Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four vampire novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through... Lees meer

The Mummy on Screen

Basil Glynn

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• The Mummy is one of the most recognizable figures in horror and is as established in the popular imagination as virtually any other monster, yet the M... Lees meer

Sofia Coppola

Fiona Handyside

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• She has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, and in 2004 became the first ever American woman to be nominated... Lees meer

The Films of Claire Denis

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• The films of Claire Denis probe the idea of global citizenship and trace the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. Her films, includin... Lees meer

Political Animals

Sophie Mayer

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers ... Lees meer

Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• What is the significance of gendered identification in relation to artists' moving image? How do women artists grapple with the interlinked narratives... Lees meer

To Boldly Go

Djoymi Baker

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• Today's media, cinema and TV screens are host to new manifestations of myth, their modes of storytelling radically transformed from those of ancient G... Lees meer

Postcolonial Approaches to Eastern European Cinema

Ewa Mazierska, Lars Kristensen, Eva Näripea

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image | nr. 14
• All countries and nations are deeply affected by their neighbours and every national cinema reflects this relationship. This book explores how postcol... Lees meer

Stop the Clocks!

Helen Powell

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• The clock plays a significant part in our understanding of temporality, but while it simplifies, regulates and coordinates, it fails to reflect and co... Lees meer

Tainted Love

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• This is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversion on screen. Interrogating the recent shift t... Lees meer

The Cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Bülent Diken, Graeme Gilloch, Craig Hammond

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, visually stunning contributions to the 'New Turkish Cinema' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium.... Lees meer

Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• The continued interest in the social and cultural life of the former Warsaw pact countries - looking at but also beyond their socialist pasts - encomp... Lees meer

Liquid Space

Sean Redmond

• Paperback | Engels | International Library of the Moving Image
• In this remarkable and original book, Sean Redmond examines the issues and themes that are repeatedly found across a range of contemporary science fic... Lees meer