Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
Series Editor: Barry Keith Grant, Brock University
The Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series has as its focus original areas of film research and innovative critical approaches to film, television, and new media. The series publishes works that open further avenues for research and debate for the scholar. The titles are suitable for classroom use at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Advisory Editors: Robert J. Burgoyne, University of St. Andrews; Caren J. Deming, University of Arizona; Patricia B. Erens, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Peter X. Feng, University of Delaware; Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh; Frances Gateward, Howard University; Tom Gunning, University of Chicago; Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware; Walter Metz, Southern Illinois University.
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Justice on Demand
True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era
Explores the proliferation of true crime audiovisual texts across multiple media platforms.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340639
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814347201
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340646
Birth of the Binge
Serial TV and the End of Leisure
A deep-dive into the practice and execution of contemporary television viewing.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345269
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814345979
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345276
Cinematic Cryptonymies
The Absent Body in Postwar Film
How postwar film represents absent bodies via the cinematic practices of audiovisual erasure by key filmmakers.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345627
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814345610
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345634
Robin Wood on the Horror Film
Collected Essays and Reviews
Robin Wood’s writing on the horror film, published over five decades, collected in one volume.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814345238
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814345252
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814345245
1968 and Global Cinema
Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814342930
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814345429
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342947
The Films of Jess Franco
The first edited volume devoted to the legendary cult director Jess Franco.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343166
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814344934
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343173
Beyond Method
Stella Adler and the Male Actor
Explores the methodologies and influence of acting teacher Stella Adler on her male students.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814342916
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814344897
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342923
AWARDWINNER
The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts
A Transnational Art Cinema
Germany’s most important filmmaking movement in conversation with its peers across the globe.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814342008
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814344903
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342015
Transforming Harry
The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age
Focuses on the critical and theoretical implications of adapting the Harry Potter novels to films and media.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814342862
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814344910
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342879
Comic Venus
Women and Comedy in American Silent Film
Examines the social and historical significance of women’s contributions to American silent film comedy.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341025
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780814345290
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341032
The Best Laid Plans
Interrogating the Heist Film
Explores the significance of the heist film genre.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814342244
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342251
Raul Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry
Investigates the work of global filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341063
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341070
Warriors, Witches, Whores
Women in Israeli Cinema
Feminist reading of women’s representation and activism in Israeli cinema.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814339671
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339688
Projecting the World
Representing the "Foreign" in Classical Hollywood
Discussion of international culture and politics in Hollywood films from the mid-1930s to 1960s.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814343067
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814343074
From Tinseltown to Bordertown
Los Angeles on Film
Close readings that look for "the real Los Angeles" in a selection of contemporary movies.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814339855
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339862
The Boys in the Band
Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics
William Friedkin’s 1970 motion picture The Boys in the Band is perfectly poised for the wide-ranging reassessment and innovative readings that this edited volume accomplishes.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814341537
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814341544
AWARDWINNER
Beyond Blaxploitation
Beyond Blaxploitation is a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movement to demonstrate the richness, depth, and complexity of this intriguing period in motion picture history.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340769
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340776
The Apu Trilogy
New Edition
Film critic Robin Wood offers a persuasive detailed reading of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy, widely regarded as landmarks of world cinema.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332771
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342268
Blackness Is Burning
Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition
Blackness Is Burning critiques the way the politics of recognition and representation appear in popular culture as attempts to "humanize" black identity through stories of suffering and triumph or tales of destruction and survival.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340516
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340523
Red Alert
Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema
Explores the intersections of science fiction cinema and Marxism.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814340110
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814340127