Cinematheque :: Research

The Naked And The Undead / Cynthia A. Freeland

The Naked and the Undead examines the fascination of horror by using methods of contemporary cognitive film theory.

Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema / Jay McRoy

Over the last two decades, Japanese filmmakers have produced some of the most important and innovative works of cinematic horror. At once visually arresting, philosophically complex, and politically charged.

Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film / Stephen Teo

Director in Action is the first book-length study on Johnnie To The book provides a comprehensive overview of To's career, concentrating on his action films.

Mr Hitchcock (Life & Times) / Quentin Falk

Lavishly illustrated, as befits a biography of this most 'visual' of moviemakers, this fascinating book examines Hitchcock's relationships with the series of 'Hitchcock Blondes', and how his complex attitudes to crime, guilt, innocence and sex recur as an intriguing subtext to the dazzling film-making of one of the greatest figures in cinema history.

The Battle of Britain on Screen / S. P. Mackenzie

S. P. Mackenzie examines in depth for the first time the origins, development, and reception of the major dramatic screen representations of 'The Few' in the Battle of Britain produced over the past seventy years

Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film / Kaarsholm Preben

The relationship between cinema and modernity in the Indian context is both complex and multifaceted. In this volume, some of the leading names in film and cultural studies explore its many dimensions.

Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism / Kenneth W. Harrow

Kenneth W. Harrow offers a new critical approach to African cinema.

Rush Hour: Lights, Camera, Action!

Coinciding with the launch of "Rush Hour 3," this official, full-color companion for fans features more than 250 photos and excerpts from the outrageously comic action-packed scripts.

Andre Techine / Bill Marshall

This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers.

Gangster Film Reader / Jeanine Basinger

Jeanine Basinger gives us an immensely entertaining look into the "star machine," examining how, at the height of the studio system, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the studios worked to manufacture star actors and actresses.

Uncanny Bodies: The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre / Robert Spadoni

Uncanny Bodies argues that the coming of sound inspired more in these massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves.

Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema / Santiago Fouz-Hernandez , Alfredo Martinez-Exposito

Using a fresh theoretical framework, embracing queer and feminist theory and concepts of nation, race and class, each chapter examines key films that represent the male body, highlighting notable elements - young, muscular, homosexual, (dis)abled, foreign and so on.

Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations / Jonathan Auerbach

This original and compelling book places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rested on visual spectacle for its own sake.

Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning / Kirk Douglas

At 90 years old, recovered from a stroke and a near-fatal helicopter crash, acting legend Douglas is in a reflective mood: "now is the time to have an audit of my life," he writes, and he does not disappoint.

The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age / Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus

Widely acknowledged as the "bible" of film and video production and used in courses around the world, this indispensable guide to making movies is now updated with the latest advances in high- definition formats.

Carmen on Film: A Cultural History / Phil Powrie, Bruce Babington, Ann Davies, Chris Perriam

The story of Carmen has captured the imagination of audiences and readers for more than 150 years. Powrie, Babington, Davies, and Perriam offer insight into the cultural significance of the fictional lives and deaths of Carmen.

The Virtual Life of Film / D. N. Rodowick

As almost (or, truly, virtually) every aspect of making and viewing movies is replaced by digital technologies, what will happen to cinema--and to cinema studies?

BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOUR : African History on Screen / Vivian Bickford-Smith, Richard Mendelsohn

Black and White in Colour: African History on Screen considers how the African past has been represented in a wide range of historical films.

Mike Leigh / Tony Whitehead

This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films Mike Leigh has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television.

Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis / Ed Sikov

In Dark Victory, the noted film critic and biographer Ed Sikov paints the most detailed picture ever delivered of this intelligent, opinionated, and unusual woman who was-in the words of a close friend-'one of the major events of the twentieth century.'

Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism / Kent Jones

Jones presents an engagingly personal journey through the medium that will attract novices and cinephiles alike

How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford / Kathryn Kalinak

This lively, accessible study is the first comprehensive analysis of Ford's use of music in his iconic westerns.

Deleuze and Horror Film / Anna Powell

This book argues that dominant psychoanalytic approaches to horror films neglect the aesthetics of horror. Yet cinematic devices such as mise en scène, editing, and sound, are central to the viewer's visceral fear and arousal

The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood / Kristin Thompson

Kristin Thompson interviewed seventy-six people to examine the movie's scripting and design and the new technologies deployed to produce the films, video games, and DVDs. She demonstrates the impact Rings had on the companies that made it, on the fantasy genre, on New Zealand, and on independent cinema. In fast-paced, compulsively readable prose, she affirms Jackson's Rings as one the most important films ever made.

Actors at Work / Rosemarie Tichler, Barry Jay Kaplan, and Mike Nichols

A fascinating, intelligent book, in which true masters of their craft, such as Meryl Streep, Kevin Spacey, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, share real information about acting and startling insights into literature of the kind that can't be communicated in a 15-second sound bite

Hitchcock's Romantic Irony / Richard Allen

In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete.

Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method / Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Mark Anderson, Richard deCordova, and Jon Lewis

Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a social, political, and cultural phenomenon extending far beyond the screen.

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