In recent decades, special effects have become a major new area of research in cinema studies. For the most part, they have been examined as spectacles or pract

A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.

Movie Circuits is a book about cinema; more precisely, it is about how technological changes are negotiated within the operation of the medium, thus resulting i

An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains

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