An illustrated edition of the guide to Samurai films deconstructs key aspects of the genre, from its focus on violence and death as a means of understanding life, to the ...

Description Surfers loathed them, teenagers flocked to them, critics dismissed them, and producers banked on them. They were surf and beach movieswhich were Hollywoods ...

The most notorious of the Roman Emperors, Caligula was renowned for his acts of madness, cruelty and deviancy. Award winning writers Barber and Reed join forces to document in ...

Toward a New Film Aesthetic is a radical attempt to connect the study of film with the actual viewing and consumption practices of mainstream cinematic culture.

Provides information on manuscript preparation, punctuation, spelling, quotations, captions, tables, abbreviations, references, bibliographies, notes, and indexes, with ...

Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a listless haute bourgeouise wife with a secret afternoon life of prostitution. Her life twists repression and guilt together with uninhibited ...

In 1928, Georges Bataille published this first novel under a pseudonym, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies ...