Robert Schnakenberg 
Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers 

Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental …

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history and culture from the 1890s to the …

Genre is central to understanding the industrial context and visual form of television. This new edition of the key textbook on television genre brings together leading international scholars to …

In The Eloquence of the Vulgar, the distinguished academic Colin Mac Cabe reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between …

Let the world”s most celebrated drag queens transform and empower you with their sick”ning style, wit and wisdom. However you want to werk it – out-there eleganza, easy-breezy realness, and everyth …

Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But, should players worry about the morality of their …

This is a critical exploration of analytic and Continental philosophies of film, which puts film-philosophy into practice with detailed discussions of three filmmakers. The book includes …

The Cinema of the Precariat is the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of …

This revised and updated new edition provides a guide to 100 of the most interesting and influential American independent films, from Bonnie and Clyde to Junebug by way of Reservoir Dogs and The …