Bøger i SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema serien

The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.

Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai¿i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.

Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship.

Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music's original subversive energy.

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

An expanded edition of a classic work of film criticism, with a provocative and eloquent new chapter on Marnie, Hitchcock's most heartfelt--and most controversial--film.

Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.

Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.

How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.

Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.

Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism's precarious state in the early twenty-first century.