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Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace (1964) is a legendary title, and is commonly considered as the archetypal giallo. This book explores its production history, putting it within the context of the Italian film industry of the period and includes plenty of previously unheard-of data.

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Drawing on a broad tapestry of research, Terence McSweeney offers an exploration of The Hurt Locker (2009), its stylistic and narrative devices, its cultural impact, its reception, and its relationship to the genre of the war film.

Rollerball, Norman Jewison's 1975 vision of a future dominated by anonymous corporations in which all individual effort is subsumed into a horrifically violent sport, remains critically overlooked. Andrew Nette examines Rollerball's making and reception to show how it anticipates numerous contemporary concerns.

In the years since the release of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, there has begun to be a gradual wave of reappraisal and appreciation, resulting in this new Devil's Advocate.

Pawel Pawlikowski's Academy Award-winning 2013 film Ida has drawn acclaim and controversy. Sheila Skaff explains the film's historical setting and provides political and cultural analysis to aid the reader in understanding the film's setting and narrative. Skaff also touches on the influence of the film on current events in Poland.

Jon Towlson considers how Candyman might be read both as a "return of the repressed" and as an example of nineties neoconservative horror. He traces the film's origins as a Clive Barker short story, discusses the importance of its real-life Cabrini-Green setting, and analyzes its appropriation and interrogation of urban myth.

The Damned (1963) is the most intriguing of director Joseph Losey's British 'journeyman' films. Nick Riddle concentrates on historical and cultural context, place, genre, and other themes in order to try to make sense of a fascinating, underappreciated film.

This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in their wider social, political and historical context whilst a concerted engagement with various ideological strands that underpin each film is also evident. In addition to exploring the films in their wider contexts, the author analyses selected s...

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Aimed explicitly at students and teachers coming to British cinema for the first time, the Studying British Cinema series considers key texts from the decade under discussion and accessibly considers them in their artistic and historical contexts. Beginning with an extended introduction, 1960s British Cinema analyses this famously revolutionary decade, showing how changes in society and culture changed the face of Britain irreversibly, beginni...

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Don't Look Now (1973), `a ghost story for adults', stands apart from the more explicitly violent horror films of the 1970s. Jessica Gildersleeve puts the film in the context of mid-century literary anxious narratives, arguing that it represents a crossover between 1970s literature and film and a cultural commentary on the modern family.

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