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Comebacks

Edited by Gloria Monti and Martin Shingler

Series edited by Barry Keith Grant

Publication Date: December 2025

Their work reveals the unique circumstances of each actor's comeback trajectory as they seek to understand the consequences of aging in a largely sexist and ageist film industry, while providing new ways of conceptualizing films featuring comeback stars.

Appropriated Tales

by Michelle Anya Anjirbag

Series edited by Anne E. Duggan

Publication Date: November 2025

Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths a new framework for studies of Disney fairy tales and how they shape popular culture.

New German Cinema and Its Global Contexts

Edited by Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher

Afterword by Eric Rentschler

Series edited by Barry Keith Grant

Publication Date: January 2025

Contributors explore these films' transnational circuits of production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as how the films were made and received, thereby inviting us to reexamine the roots of what New German Cinema was and imagine what it might yet become.

Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance

by Florence Jacobowitz

Foreword by Serge Toubiana

Publication Date: October 2024

Thus, Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance demonstrates its premise through close readings considering how performance must be read in tandem with the whole.

Movie-Made Los Angeles

by John Trafton

Publication Date: October 2023

A more complete story of the American film industry’s ascendency in Los Angeles emerges when one considers how the City of Angels cultivated its self-image through pre-cinema narrative art.

Hidden Light

by Dan Chyutin

Publication Date: September 2023

By virtue of this exploration, Judaic-themed Israeli cinema emerges as a crucial example of how film's particular form of "magicmay be exploited for the purpose of affecting mystical states in the audience.

Gene Tierney

by Will Scheibel

Publication Date: September 2022

Film studies scholars, film students, and those interested in Hollywood history and the legacy of Gene Tierney will be delighted by this read.

Mothers of Invention

Edited by So Mayer and Corinn Columpar

Publication Date: April 2022

This collection belongs on the bookshelves of students and scholars of cinema and media studies, feminist and queer media studies, labor studies, filmmaking and production, and cultural studies.

Resetting the Scene

Edited by Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring

Publication Date: August 2021

Intended for scholars and students of Hollywood film history, Resetting the Scene intersects with numerous fields consonant with film studies, including star studies, media industry studies, and critical race theory.

New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation

Edited by Betty Kaklamanidou

Publication Date: November 2020

Scholars of cultural, gender, film, literary, and adaptation studies will find this collection innovative and thought-provoking.

V. F. Perkins on Movies

Edited by Douglas Pye

Foreword by George M. Wilson

Publication Date: November 2020

Perkins on Movies gives unimpeded access to one of the most distinctive and distinguished of critical voices and will be widely welcomed by academics, students of film, and informed film enthusiasts.

Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World

Edited by Carl Fischer and Vania Barraza

Publication Date: October 2020

Intended for scholars, students, and researchers of film and Latin American studies, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World evaluates an active and emergent film movement that has yet to receive sufficient attention in global cinema studies.

Reality, Magic, and Other Lies

by Pauline Greenhill

Publication Date: October 2020

Reality, Magic, and Other Lies—which will be of interest to film and fairy-tale scholars and students—considers the ways in which fairy tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer alternative views for peaceful, appropriate, just, and intersectionally multifaceted encounters with humans, non-human animals, and the rest of the...

Stars and Silhouettes

by Joceline Andersen

Publication Date: October 2020

Stars and Silhouettes belongs on the shelf of every scholar, student, and reader interested in film history and star studies.

The Cinema of Ettore Scola

Edited by Rémi Lanzoni and Edward Bowen

Foreword by Vito Zagarrio

Publication Date: September 2020

The Cinema of Ettore Scola makes Scola accessible to English-reading audiences and helps readers better understand his film style, the major themes of his work, and the representations of twentieth-century Italian history in his films.

The Construction of Testimony

Edited by Erin McGlothlin, Brad Prager and Markus Zisselsberger

Publication Date: April 2020

Scholars and students of film studies and Holocaust studies will value this close analysis.

Cinemagritte

by Lucy Fischer

Publication Date: November 2019

Students, scholars, and fans of art history and film will enjoy this thoughtful marriage of the two.

African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness

Edited by Mark A. Reid

Publication Date: January 2019

The interdisciplinary quality of the anthology makes it approachable to students and scholars of fields ranging from film to culture to African American studies alike.

Cinematic Cryptonymies

by Ofer Eliaz

Publication Date: November 2018

Scholars interested in postwar film and history, trauma and war, or psychoanalytic theory will all find this volume of interest.

Robin Wood on the Horror Film

by Robin Wood

Edited by Barry Keith Grant

Introduction by Richard Lippe

Publication Date: November 2018

Robin Wood on the Horror Film will be an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in horror, science fiction, and film genre.

1968 and Global Cinema

Edited by Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi

Publication Date: October 2018

The volume is ideal for graduate and undergraduate courses on the long sixties, political cinema, 1968, and new waves in art history, cultural studies, and film and media studies.

The Films of Jess Franco

Edited by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney

Publication Date: August 2018

The Films of Jess Franco seeks to address the scholarly neglect of this legendary cult director and to broaden the conversation around the director's work in ways that will be of interest to fans and academics alike.

Beyond Method

by Scott Balcerzak

Publication Date: June 2018

Film and theater scholars, as well as those interested in gender studies, are sure to benefit from this thorough study.

The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts

Edited by Jaimey Fisher and Marco Abel

Publication Date: June 2018

This volume will be of great interest to scholars of German and global cinema.

Transforming Harry

Edited by John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller

Publication Date: May 2018

Beyond the classroom, the Harry Potter series clearly enjoys a large and devoted global fan community, and this collection will be of interest to serious fans.

Comic Venus

by Kristen Anderson Wagner

Publication Date: March 2018

Those with an interest in film and representations of femininity in comedy will be fascinated by the analytical connections and thoroughly researched histories of these women and their groundbreaking movements in comedy and stage.

The Best Laid Plans

Edited by Jim Leach and Jeannette Sloniowski

Publication Date: December 2017

The Best Laid Plans includes an accessible group of essays that will meet the needs of students and scholars in film and media studies by offering new insights into an important and neglected area in genre criticism.

Warriors, Witches, Whores

by Rachel S. Harris

Publication Date: October 2017

Students and scholars of film, gender, or cultural studies will appreciate this approachable monograph.

Projecting the World

Edited by Russell Meeuf and Anna Cooper

Publication Date: June 2017

A fascinating exploration of an oft-overlooked aspect of classical Hollywood films, Projecting the World offers a series of striking new analyses that will entice cinema lovers, film historians, and those interested in the history of American neocolonialism.

From Tinseltown to Bordertown

by Celestino Deleyto

Publication Date: April 2017

Film scholars with an interest in history and place will appreciate this book.

The Boys in the Band

Edited by Matt Bell

Publication Date: December 2016

Scholars and students working in the disciplines of film studies, queer studies, history, theater, and sociology will surely find the book invaluable and a shaping influence on these fields in the coming years.

Beyond Blaxploitation

Edited by Novotny Lawrence and Gerald R. Butters Jr.

Publication Date: November 2016

Beyond Blaxploitation is a much-needed pedagogical tool, informing film scholars, critics, and fans alike, about blaxploitation's richness and complexity.

The Apu Trilogy

by Robin Wood

Introduction by Barry Keith Grant

Preface by Richard Lippe

Publication Date: October 2016

Robin Wood’s The Apu Trilogy offers an excellent account of evaluative criticism that will appeal to film scholars and students alike.

Blackness Is Burning

by TreaAndrea M. Russworm

Publication Date: October 2016

Blackness Is Burning's interdisciplinary reach is what makes it a vital component to nearly any scholar's library, particularly those with an interest in African American popular culture, film and media studies, or psychoanalytic theory.

Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering

Edited by Rebecca Bell-Metereau and Colleen Glenn

Publication Date: December 2015

Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering offers film buffs, students, and scholars a fresh take on casting, method acting, audience reception, and the tensions at play in our fascination with an actor’s dual role as private individual and cultural icon.

Christophe Honoré

by David A. Gerstner and Julien Nahmias

Publication Date: December 2015

Students and teachers of queer film will appreciate this thought-provoking volume.

Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic

by Anjeana Hans

Publication Date: September 2014

Scholars of film and German history will appreciate the intriguing study of Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic.

Arthur Penn

by Robin Wood

With Richard Lippe

Edited by Barry Keith Grant

Publication Date: June 2014

The fourth classic monograph by Wood to be republished by Wayne State University Press, this volume will be welcomed by film scholars and readers interested in American cinematic and cultural history.

Reading the Bromance

Edited by Michael DeAngelis

Publication Date: June 2014

Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in pop culture and queer studies will enjoy the insights of Reading the Bromance.

Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema

Edited by Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman

Publication Date: January 2014

Scholars of cinema and media studies as well as Middle Eastern cultural history will appreciate this introduction to a complex and fascinating cinema.

Documenting the Documentary

Edited by Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski

Foreword by Bill Nichols

Publication Date: December 2013

Documenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balance between theory and criticism, abstract conceptualization and concrete analysis.

Montgomery Clift, Queer Star

by Elisabetta Girelli

Publication Date: December 2013

Scholars of gender and film, performance studies, queer and sexuality studies, and masculinity studies will appreciate this compelling study.

Buffoon Men

by Scott Balcerzak

Publication Date: October 2013

Fans and scholars of film history, gender studies, and broadcast studies will appreciate Balcerzak's thorough exploration of the era's fascinating gender constructs.

Cinema and Community

by Moya Luckett

Publication Date: July 2013

Film scholars interested in the early years of American cinema will appreciate this insightful study.

The Last Laugh

Edited by Murray Pomerance

Publication Date: May 2013

For scholars of film and readers who love cinema, these essays will be rich and playful inspiration.

The Time of Our Lives

Edited by Siân Lincoln and Yannis Tzioumakis

Publication Date: March 2013

Fans of the movie and students and scholars of cultural, performance, and film history will appreciate the insight in The Time of Our Lives.

Millennial Masculinity

Edited by Timothy Shary

Publication Date: December 2012

Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.

Appetites and Anxieties

by Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson and Mark Bernard

Publication Date: November 2012

Scholars of film studies and food studies will enjoy the thought-provoking analysis of Appetites and Anxieties.

The Donna Reed Show

by Joanne Morreale

Publication Date: October 2012

Fans of the show, as well as students and teachers of television history, will enjoy this close look at The Donna Reed Show.

Hollywood's Chosen People

Edited by Daniel Bernardi, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Murray Pomerance

Publication Date: September 2012

Scholars of Jewish studies, film studies, American history, and American culture as well as anyone interested in film history will find this volume fascinating reading.

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