Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series
The Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series has as its focus original areas of film research and innovative critical approaches to film, television, and new media. The series publishes works, including books and multimedia, that will open further avenues for research and debate for both the scholar and the general reader.
General Editor: Barry Keith Grant, Brock University
Britton on Film
The Complete Film Criticism of Andrew Britton
Introduction by Robin Wood
Collects all published film criticism by Andrew Britton, a singular voice in film studies whose promising career was cut short by his untimely death.
Contact Zones
Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema
By Sheila J. Petty
Explores the contributions of black diasporic filmmakers and thinkers to contemporary artistic and theoretical discourses.
Script Culture and the American Screenplay
By Kevin Alexander Boon
By considering the screenplay as a literary object worthy of critical inquiry, this volume breaks new ground in film studies.
Cinema and History
Marc Ferro
A comprehensive survey of the conceptual interrelations between cinema and history.
Germany on Film: Theme and Content in the Cinema of the Federal Republic of Germany
Hans Gunther Pflaum • Translated by Richard C. Helt and Roland Richter
Out of print.
Canadian Dreams and American Control: The Political Economy of the Canadian Film Industry
Manjunath Pendakur
A history of the Canadian film industry focusing on the tensions between capital and integrity.
Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama
Edited by Marcia Landy
A collection of essays examining melodrama from a variety of perspectives.
Bertolucci’s 1900: A Narrative and Historical Analysis
Robert Burgoyne
In his analysis of 1900, Robert Burgoyne not only explores a single cinematic work, but also provides a theoretical basis for understanding the historical film genre.
Hitchcock’s Rereleased Films: From Rope to Vertigo
Edited by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick
Studies of Rear Window, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rope, and The Trouble With Harry covering the entire range of contemporary film criticism and theory.