In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, why is it that most contemporary American films aimed at women still focus almost exclusively on their pursuit of a heteros
This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre's mid-twentieth-century popul
American film in the first decade of the 21st century became a cultural battleground on which a war of representation was waged, but did these films endorse the 'War on Terror' or challenge it? More t
This book provides the first comprehensive history of the birth and development of that myth in Hollywood cinema from 1939-1979. Utilising extensive archival research and interviews with filmmakers an
Explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon.This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's silent French crim
Popular cinema is often derided with the epithet 'it's only a movie', but is there any more potent cultural artefact than popular film? Where could one turn for a more effective cultural barometer tha
