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Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema is the indispensable history of underground cinema, an untold story that includes the British independent and French avant-garde cinemas of the 1920s, the counterculture film movements of the 1960s, the microcinema resurgence of the 1990s, and beyond. Dispensing with simplistic "art versus commerce" discourses, Subversion not only discovers the cultural roots of underground filmmaking in...

Jean Renoir (1894-1979) is one of cinema history's greatest directors. La Grande illusion (1937) and La Regle du jeu (1939) rank among the masterpieces of film. Turning to thinkers such as Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Girard, Derrida, and Cavell, Colin Davis examines Renoir's films and illustrates how his work engages with some of the great philosophical questions. In particular, Renoir's films reflect on the nature of murder and its link to desir...

Cinema has undergone huge changes in the last decade: Asian filmmaking has been making the running, the ne'er do well genre, documentary, has broken through, digitalization and DVD has revived film history and is revolutionizing projection, world cinema has shifted in the direction of the real and the visually grainy, and animation has become more dominant that any time since Disney. Month by month, in the acclaimed journal "Prospect , " criti...

Sally Potter is known for her award-winning films Thriller (1979), Orlando (1992), The Tango Lesson (1997), and YES (2004). These films are widely taught and theoretically valued for their poetic vision and incisive formulations of identities in flux. Potter's authorship comprises a fluid movement between director, screenwriter, composer, and performer. Central to this study is the politically radical potential in Potter's interaction with the...

This second title in the AlterImage series that investigates previously underexplored areas of popular and cult cinema ( Underground U.S.A. being the first volume) features over twenty essays from an eclectic range of writers uncovering the cult cinema of Europe. The writers consider such unusual and diverse topics as Russian horror cinema, British exploitation, Belgian alternative cinema, and black "Emmanuelle" films. Alternative Europe also ...

A series of essays considering the nature and direction of Irish film and television. Topics cover the 'Roy Keane' affair, the first Irish-language soap opera, the New Irish Gangsters, Irish identity post September eleventh, images of Belfast in contemporary Irish cinema and female punishment in Irish history and culture. Keeping it Real appeals to those interested in Irish film, media and cultural studies. It reflects the innovative popular a...

Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies is a collection of essays that explores the progression of film studies, an increasingly popular subject at universities, and how it has been approached theoretically, culturally and historically. In doing so, the contributors provide invaluable insight into many of the theories at the heart of film studies. The book focuses on classical theories, culture-based approaches, early and modern t...

And now for something completely different... a low-budget comedy gore film from New Zealand, influenced as much by the work of Monty Python and Buster Keaton as by the splatter masters, like Sam Raimi and George A. Romero. Composed by the gifted hands of Peter Jackson and his collaborators, Bad Taste is a steady-earning cult classic that launched the career of the world's highest-paid filmmaker. This book recounts the fascinating story of the...

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A keen observer of manners and mores, Mike Leigh has been hailed as a celebrator of "ordinary" people, yet it wasn't until relatively recently that audiences have been able to appreciate the full body of his work. In discussing all his films from Bleak Moments and High Hopes through Naked, the Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies and Topsy Turvy, to All or Nothing, Garry Watson considers this claim, examining the films'influence and their effect. ...

Often overlooked and overshadowed by its North American cousin, Canadian cinema has nevertheless produced some mesmerising films and directors, including Atom Egoyan, Robert Lepage and Denys Arcand. The Cinema of Canada contains 24 essays, each on a different film and divides itself into three distinct categories: English-Canadian cinema, Québec cinema, Aboriginal cinema. In so doing, it provides a fascinating historical account of the develop...

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The family unit has been a central theme in movies since the earliest days of the medium-- whether as a locus of domestic bliss, a dysfunctional source of drama, a collection of comic personalities or an inferno of repressed feelings. This new anthology brings the subject into sharp focus, collecting a range of multidisciplinary perspectives that attempt to directly penetrate the questions raised by the role of the family onscreen. Discussing ...

Released in 2003, Lars von Trier and Jorgen Leth's agonisitic film is one of the most intriguing and significant cinematic works of recent times. This first issue in the Dekalog series, the new home for serious film criticism, brings together writers from diverse disciplinary and national backgrounds to present a case for seeing The Five Obstructions as a philosophically compelling film that tests our understanding of key psychological, aesthe...

Haunted Images takes a close look at a range of treatments of the Holocaust in film, using sustained textual analysis to radically rethink film as a witness to history. Questioning the legitimacy of persistent claims that the Holocaust remains 'unrepresentable', this volume seeks to redefine the singular challenges this event presents to filmmakers, suggesting that filmic representations address the Holocaust as much through what they leave un...

A documentary, a mockumentary, indeed a rockumentary& mdash, Rob Reiner's phony road movie following the exploits of a fictitional heavy metal band has long been celebrated as a comedy landmark. This book is the first attempt to provide a sustained critical appraisal of the film's success, addressing general cinephiles and devoted Tapheads alike. The study considers the film within the context of cult cinema, real and mock documentaries, Holly...

With 2005's acclaimed and controversial The New World, one of cinema's most enigmatic filmmakers returned to the screen with only his fourth feature film in a career spanning thirty years. While Terrence Malick's work has always divided opinion, his poetic, transcendent filmic language has unquestionably redefined modern cinema, and with a new feature scheduled for 2008, contemporary cinema is finally catching up with his vision. This updated ...

A new volume in the Twenty-Four Frames series that focuses on twenty-four key films from Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Each of these national cinemas is able to boast directors of worldwide renown. Such as Ingmar Bergman, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Victor Sjöstrom and more contemporary film-makers such as Lukas Moodysson, Aki Kaurismäki and the co-founders of the Dogme 95 movement - Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg and Tomas Kr...

David Cronenberg has become one of North America's most respected movie directors. Since the early seventies, the soft-spoken Baron of Blood has attracted widespread controversy with a steady stream of shock--sex crazed parasites in Shivers (1975), exploding heads in Scanners (1981), revolutionary flesh technology in Videodrome (1983), mutating bugs in The Fly (1986), car-crash scars in Crash (1996), and psychopathic bursts of gun violence in ...