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The world's first play set and performed on a Yarra riverboat. The audience are invited as the very best friends of  divorcee Samantha Hart Byrne. They arrive on the boat to help her celebrate her recent separation from husband Michael. The...

Growing from their early roots in Caribbean voodoo to their popularity today, zombies are epidemic. Their presence is pervasive, whether they are found in video games, street signs, hard drives, or even international politics. These eighteen original...

George Lucas's first Star Wars trilogy shows the influences of its era; Cold War tension is evident in its theme of rebellion against totalitarianism. Recent entries in the Star Wars saga--The Phantom Menace (1999) and Attack of the Clones (2002)--are...

Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses Waititi's feature films and places his other works and...

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global...

Robin Wood-one of the foremost critics of cinema-has laid the groundwork for anyone writing about the horror film in the last half-century. Wood's interest in horror spanned his entire career and was a form of popular cinema to which he devoted...

The Second World War was one of the defining historical events of the Twentieth Century. This global conflict was responsible for enormous trials and great heroism, and the horrors and gallantry that it inspired have formed the basis of some of the most...

The world’s second play set and performed on board a typical Melbourne tram as it makes its way from the St. Kilda terminus to the City and back. An audience gathers at the terminus where the tram soon arrives carrying a conductress and a sleeping...

The Alien films are perceived to be a fractured franchise, each one loosely related to the others. They are nonlinear, complicated, convoluted: a collection of genre movies ranging from horror to war to farce. But on closer examination, the threads that...

Midnight Marquee magazine issue 81, now in it's 59th year of publication includes THE RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE: Bela Lugosi's Finest Hour as an Undead Count by Barry Atkinson; THE BLACK ROOM:  Boris Karloff as Victim and Villain by Nathalie...

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, The Visual Music Film explores the concept and expression of musicality in the visual music film, in which visual presentations are given musical attributes such as rhythmical form, structure and harmony.

This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical and existential themes presented to viewers and their...

A common misconception is that professors who use popular culture and fantasy in the classroom have abandoned the classics, yet in a variety of contexts--high school, college freshman composition, senior seminars, literature, computer science,...

"This lively, funny, moving history of a movie studio and the people who made it feels uncannily like ... an Ealing comedy." Martin ScorseseA behind-the-scenes account of life at Ealing Studios - one of the great cinematic success stories of post-war...

Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them--The Shape of Water--won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400...

Horror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy. Horror literature, cinema, comic books and television expose audiences to an "alien" reality, playing with the logical mind and challenging "known" concepts such as...

The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and reality shows, and advertising) both on cable and network...

This book is the first to explore 'old age' in cinema at the intersection of gender, ageing, celebrity and genre studies. It takes its cue from the dual meanings of 'silvering' - economics and ageing - and explores shifting formulations of 'old age' and...

This book broadens the frameworks by which horror is generally addressed. Rather than being constrained by psychoanalytical models of repression and castration, the volume embraces M.M. Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque body. For Bakhtin, the grotesque...

This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth. From medieval manuscript illustrations to modern works of science...

This book explores the idiosyncratic effects generated as fairytale and gothic horror join, clash or merge in cinema. Identifying long-held traditions that have inspired this topical phenomenon, the book features close analysis of classical through to...

Just because you can't respect a movie doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. A seminal text of the VHS nostalgia movement, The Golden Age of Crap serves up a sampling of junk-food flicks that gained their audiences on videocassette rental shelves during...

Featuring interviews with 27 award-winning and emerging filmmakers, this book is the first comprehensive look at independent filmmaking careers in South East Asia with never-before published insights into the lives and careers of some of the most...

This book analyzes early twenty-first century film and television's fascination with representing the Anglo-American eighteenth century. Grounded in cultural studies, film studies, and adaptation theory, the book examines how these works represented the...

This book offers the first full length study on the pervasive archetype of The Gothic Forest in Western culture. The idea of the forest as deep, dark, and dangerous has an extensive history and continues to resonate throughout contemporary popular...

This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven Pinker, Julia Kristeva, and in particular Amartya Sen on...

These essays all-in various ways-address the relationship between adaptation, "true events," and cultural memory. They ask (and frequently answer) the question: how do we script stories about real events that are often still fresh in our memories and may...

This edited volume examines the historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic implications of re-visiting Restoration Spain (1874-1931) in television costume dramas produced since 2000. Contributors analyze, from different theoretical approaches and...

Ever since the early days of cinema, starting with the 1910 FRANKENSTEIN, monsters have been the stuff that movies are made of. This guidebook includes all of Universal's "Classic Monster" movies from DRACULA (1931) to ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY...

If you want to have a good time no matter your age, then keep reading.This kids’ book is a collection of more than 300 brain teasing riddles, trick questions and puzzles for kids. Their purpose is to make children think and stretch their minds...

Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of...

Eastern Heroes presents the Bruce Lee Enter the Dragon Scrapbook Volumes 11 Collector's Hardback Edition! Immerse yourself in the world of this iconic film through over 80 pages of captivating images, delving deep into the essence of Enter the Dragon...

This book is a complete history of the 1944 horror film, with introduction by film star Peter Coe. It contains complete original shooting script, details of the making, rare behind the scenes photographs, complete pressbook, and a special interview with...

This book is a complete history of the 1944 horror film, with introduction by film star Peter Coe. It contains complete original shooting script, details of the making, rare behind the scenes photographs, complete pressbook, and a special interview with...

“O’Toole is Ireland’s best interviewer.”—Irish Mail on SundayAs Matt Damon’s character said in Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed”, “What Freud said about the Irish is, ‘We’re the only...

The laws of man end at Baron Sardonicus' gate.When lights burn inside,    the castle façade looks like a skull.Wolfbane and hemlock grow in the garden.Why is Sardonicus masked?The peasants do not know.They only know that within the...

Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The 'Public Be Damned' provides a unique and ground-breaking analysis of corporate wrongdoing depictions, identifying, describing, and categorizing harms perpetrated by corporations. The book provides a history of corporate...

This edited volume focuses on South and East Asian cinema, exploring transnational connections between these film industries from the point of view of narratives, topics and themes, as well as in terms of co-productions. At a time of resurgent...

With an in-depth perspective, CONNERY, SEAN CONNERY defines and distinguishes the iconic star's life and career BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER HIS MOST FAMOUS ROLE. With a Foreword by Barbara Carrera, the actor's co-star from Never Say Never Again (his final...

With an in-depth perspective, CONNERY, SEAN CONNERY defines and distinguishes the iconic star's life and career BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER HIS MOST FAMOUS ROLE. With a Foreword by Barbara Carrera, the actor's co-star from Never Say Never Again (his final...

Cinema emerged alongside the rules that ushered in boxing's modern age and the "squared circle" proved the ideal stage for cinematic display. The public had its first taste of the new medium in 1894 through a heavyweight bout, recognized today as the...

A collector's edition of over 350 Color photos from the award winning motion picture Tales of Frankenstein - Four gruesome stories spanning a century, in an all star cast, in classic Frankenstein style. Celebrating the 200 year anniversary of Mary...

Contemporary American Science Fiction Film explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the first two decades of the new millennium, offering a ground-breaking investigation of the...

This book offers new ways of constellating the literary and cinematic delineations of Indian and Pakistani Muslim diasporic and migrant trajectories narrated in the two decades after the 9/11 attacks. Focusing on four Pakistani English novels and four...

Death at an early age has a tendency to preserve, and oftentimes enhance, a star's fame, whether from the film (Marilyn Monroe, James Dean) or music (Elvis Presley and John Lennon immediately becoming iconic figures this is the case with Martial arts...

180-page special. inside this issue.Beyond Martial Arts: An In-Depth Academic Analysis of 'Enter the Dragon'and Its Impact on Hollywood FilmmakingRobert Clouse: The Genius Behind the "Enter the Dragon"Enter the Dragon the PlayersThe King of...

Death at an early age has a tendency to preserve, and oftentimes enhance, a star's fame, whether from movies (Marilyn Monroe, James Dean) or music (Elvis Presley and John Lennon immediately becoming iconic figures this is the case with Martial arts...

Vol 4 compiles a selection of photographs taken both on set and off set.Bruce lee is one of the most photographed artists in the world. During the filming of "Enter the Dragon", the camera continuously highlights many facial emotions of Bruce.Often the...