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Criss-Cross

Stephen Rebello

Take a deep dive into the shadows and light of one of the most subversive, corrosively funny, and beloved suspense thriller masterworks as author Stephen Rebello unravels for the very first time the tense and drama-filled story of the making Alfred...

Making Monsters

Howard Berger , Marshall Julius

Explore behind the scenes of the greatest monster movies ever made!What makes a great movie monster? Academy Award-winning make-up effects artist Howard Berger and acclaimed journalist Marshall Julius have spoken to dozens of film industry legends to find out.A...

Tinsel and Rust

Michael D. Dwyer

Tinsel and Rust tells the story of Hollywood's role in the shaping of the Rust Belt in the United States. During the 1970s and 1980s, filmic representations of shuttered auto plants, furloughed millworkers, and decaying downtowns in the industrial heartland contributed...

These Fists Break Bricks (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Grady Hendrix , Chris Poggiali

From New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix and film historian Chris Poggiali comes the full story of how kung fu movies came to—and conquered—America in this revised and expanded edition. When a Hollywood studio released Five Fingers...

Every Man for Himself and God against All

Werner Herzog , Michael Hofmann

Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been...

Return to Twin Peaks

Catherine Spooner , Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Return to Twin Peaks offers new critical considerations and approaches to the Twin Peaks series, as well as reflections on its significance and legacy. With texts that analyze the ways in which readers and viewers endow texts with meaning in light of historically...

TCM Imports

Alicia Malone

Whether you’re a longtime film buff or new to foreign movies, TCM Imports is an essential, accessible guide to an absorbing selection of cinema from around the world, curated by Turner Classic Movies host Alicia Malone. International cinema offers a one-of-a-kind...

Dark City Dames

Eddie Muller

In this revised and expanded edition of his essential volume Dark City Dames, Eddie Muller—Turner Classic Movies host and author of Dark Cityand Noir Bar—offers a uniquely intimate look at the women who defined film noir, now featuring updated text, photos,...

Home Movies Hardly Silent

Matt Malzkuhn , Ted Supalla

This book on Deaf made home movies takes readers on a journey through the first fifty years of filmmaking (from 1925 through the 1970s), highlighting how the American Deaf community utilized silent film technology. Home movies and the visual nature of emerging cinema...

Algerian Cinema in Forty Five Lessons

Ahmed Bedjaoui

Algerian Cinema in Forty Five Lessons offers a fresh approach to examine the history ofAlgerian cinema, from its inception to the present day, providing in-depth analysis of forty five key films. While most scholarly and critical work onAlgerian cinema continues to...

Forever Girls

Jinhee Choi

Forever Girls explores girlhood manifest in contemporary South Korean cinema within the conflicting socio-political forces that shaped the nation: coloniality, postcolonial and postwar traumas, modernity, and democracy. Author Jinhee Choi reorients the direction of...

Light in the Dark

Björn Norðfjörð

Light in the Dark tells the dramatic history of Icelandic cinema from its modest origin in the early twentieth century to the heterogenous and complex national cinema of today. In tracing this wide-ranging history, author Björn Norðfjörð describes...

The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film

Robin R. Means Coleman , Novotny Lawrence

Since the release of Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning horror hit Get Out (2017), interest in Black horror films has erupted. This renewed intrigue in stories about Black life, history, culture, or "Blackness" has taken two forms. First, the history and politics of...

Hollywood Blackout

Ben Arogundade

William Raban's Nautical Twilight

William Raban

This book explores the practice of artist filmmaker William Raban from 1970 to the present.  The trajectory from his early experimental, landscape and expanded cinema works of the 1970s leads into more recent films on the River Thames and London; his techniques are...

Dmitry Shostakovich and Music for Stalinist Cinema (1936-1953)

Joan Titus

In her first volume, Joan Titus explored the early years of Dmitry Shostakovich's career as the first Russian musician to emerge as a composer for the Soviet cinema.In this second volume, Dmitry Shostakovich and Music for Stalinist Cinema (1936-1953), Titus explores...

Black Screens, White Frames

Tanya Shilina-Conte

Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of cinematic blankness. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's philosophy, Tanya Shilina-Conte provides a detailed examination of non-images throughout film history. In different arts, including cinema, absence has often been...

Quentin Tarantino

Dan Jolin

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most iconic and best loved movie directors of the last two decades. Whether he's shooting up the Deep South, slicing through the Japanese underworld, blasting Nazi-occupied France or taking a flamethrower to '60s Los Angeles, Tarantino is...

The Coen Brothers

Dan Jolin

Gangster movie, Western, film noir, rom com, screwball, musical, even the Biblical epic... There are few genres left untouched and untwisted by sibling visionaries Joel and Ethan Coen. Since 1984's Blood Simple, the inscrutable brothers have effortlessly forged their...

Psychocinema

Helen Rollins

Psychocinema reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film, arguing for a return to the universalist core of both cinema and subjectivity. It traces the history of the influence of psychoanalysis on cinema and shows how the detour into ideologies of identity...