(Hardback)

This book considers several aspects of Alfred Hitchcocks filmmaking from philosophical and social scientific points of view. Its principal aim is to place Hitchcocks films in the context of debates in various philosophical and cultural traditions.

(Hardback)

This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.

(Hardback)

The way in which the spectator responds to the song, and how narrative, lyrics, music, mise-en-scenes, all come together to accentuate sentimentality and melodrama in the Golden Age of Bollywood cinema (19511963) is the book's key thematic concern.

(Paperback)

A groundbreaking, incisive critical study of the Coen Bros., the quirky team of filmmaking brothers who delight in unsettling cinematic conventions and confounding audiences while raising disturbing questions about human nature.