This anthology focuses on issues that confront us today, assessing the impact on the discipline of recent technological, cultural, and social developments; challenging received thinking, and reinventing film studies for the post-film era. In each of five thematic sections, early essays open up key problems, issues, and debates while a case study offers concrete examples of what various approaches can deliver. Covering all major topics and fully up to date, this reader will be a key text for all serious undergraduate and graduate students who want to understand where film is going in its second century.

"Barry Hampe's Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos is a road map for all those wanting to make a documentary. Such a book has been needed for so long . . . There is information here that cannot be found anywhere else—particularly the section on visual evidence."—Jeannette Paulson, Creative Director, Hawaii International Film Festival

Ranging from the mass culture critics to postcolonial and queer theory, this reader is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the main theoretical approaches within film studies. It provides students with an opportunity to engage with primary sources in the form of extracts from key critics while also offering a general introduction and chapter introductions that help to locate the extracts in historical contexts and explain their contributions to film study.

Using examples from key Gothic texts of the Romantic period, as well as more recent popular novels and films, this book examines the horror genre thematically. It includes chapters on horror, religion and identity; "mad science," vampires and the undead; madness and psycho-killers; forbidden knowledge and books; narratives of invasion and pestilence; Satanism and demonic possession; ghosts and the ghost-story; and body-horror and metamorphoses.

Explores the critical methods, resources and tools to study Spanish cinema plus pertinent information and analysis.

 

"A loving, passionate, wonderfully detailed and exquisitely written look at one of the few truly indispensable film artists who have come our way, from one of the people who knew him and his films best. I can't think of a better companion piece to the incomparable work of Federico Fellini."—Martin Scorsese

"The Tramp's Odyssey is sharp, fast, full of unexpected detail, and impressively succeeds in demystifying Chaplin while leaving the Tramp's mechanistic mystique largely intact."—New Statesman