Bøger i AFI Film Readers serien

This collection redresses the absence of scholarly attention to the modern day blockbuster, with provocative studies of such major films as Silence of the Lambs, Terminator II and Pretty Woman.

This latest volume in our successful AFI Film Readers series analyzes violence, examining its nature, its effects, and its cinematic and social meaning.

An interdisciplinary examination of Walt Disney and his empire. Examining Disney at a time of expansion with new mall stores and theme parks, these essays look at its domestic cultural production and global politics.

The Persistence of History is an anthology of essays from major film scholars and historians which focuses on a radical contemporary challenge to historical representation in film.

Lehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists and cultural critics.

A collection of essays that looks at specific issues related to the film documentary form. Types of documentary include educational TV, personality profiles, ethnography and polemic tracts. The authors address such questions as "What is documentary?" and "How fictional is non-fiction?".

Setting out to broaden the previous field of research on sound, this book promises to renew the debate over the importance of sound to cinema, from a theoretical as well as an historical perspective.

These fifteen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development.