A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, and the slasher horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a stron…
Histories of science fiction often discuss Fritz Lang's Metropolis as a classic text within the genre--yet the term "science fiction" had not been invented at the time of the film's release. Does retroactive assignment to a genre change our understanding of a film? These provoca…
Philosophy and Film is the first collection of essays on film to be written exclusively by philosophers. Its premise is that philosophy offers a unique perspective with the potential to make distinctive and valuable contribtutions to film studies. The collection includes essays …
