Bøger i Studying Films serien

Drawing on a broad tapestry of research, Terence McSweeney offers an exploration of The Hurt Locker (2009), its stylistic and narrative devices, its cultural impact, its reception, and its relationship to the genre of the war film.

Pawel Pawlikowski's Academy Award-winning 2013 film Ida has drawn acclaim and controversy. Sheila Skaff explains the film's historical setting and provides political and cultural analysis to aid the reader in understanding the film's setting and narrative. Skaff also touches on the influence of the film on current events in Poland.

Neil Archer considers to what extent a modestly funded film such as this can be considered 'British' at all

Aimed at newcomers to literature and film, this book is a guide for the analysis of Shakespeare on film.

Studying Waltz with Bashir explores the tension between documentary and animation that makes the film so complex and interesting, allowing for multiple themes and discourses to coexist, including Israel's role during the Lebanon War and the impact of trauma upon narrative, but also the representation of Holocaust memory and its role in the formation of Israeli identity.

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