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For nearly a century, members of the Dildilian family practiced the art of photography in Ottoman Turkey, Greece and the United States. This book contains over 300 photographs, most taken during the …

BRITISH TRASH CINEMA is the first overview of the wilder shores of British exploitation and cult paracinema from the 1950s onwards. From obscure horror, science fiction and sexploitation, to art-hous …

It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography“s history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British and French phot …

The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I“m Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in Britis …

Modern Times was Charlie Chaplin“s last full-length silent film. The author situates “Modern Times“ within the context of Chaplin“s life work, exploring its history and influences. She explores h …

New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vi …

The book provides a detailed introduction to the essential themes, style, and aesthetics of Pedro Almodovar“s films, put in the context of Spain“s profound cultural transitions since 1980. With pre …

Civilized Violence provides a social and historical explanation for the popular appeal of cinema violence. There is a significant amount of research on the effects of media violence, but less work on …

Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, Fashioning Brazil analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures. Expl …

Thinking in Images addresses the current crisis in film theory by offering a new methodology for interrelating theory and film texts. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Michele Le Doeuff the autho …