Books in the Framing Film series

Intends to examine the role of other states in fomenting war during the 1940s-1970s and in keeping the subsequent peace. The author provokes the reader to look beyond the standard national parameters of Japanese culture.

This book attempts to bridge the fields of film archiving and academic research by addressing the discourse on film's existence and analysing how it affects the important role of the film archive.

This book explores archival restoration, colour film technology, colour theory, and experimental film alongside beautifully saturated images of silent cinema.

This book is the first to explore depictions of the Second World War in films made a generation later, between 1962 and 1986.

Contributors with a wide range of expertise in the film and media world consider the practical and theoretical challenges posed by changing formats and technologies.

This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course of seven decades.

Contributors with a wide range of expertise in the film and media world consider the practical and theoretical challenges posed by changing formats and technologies.

The first monograph of the work of one of the Netherlands' most prolific filmmakers spanning sixty years of cultural history.

Dutch cinema, when discussed, is typically treated only in terms of pre-war films or documentaries, leaving post-war fictional film largely understudied. At the same time, a "e;Hollandse school,"e; a term first coined in the 1980s, has developed through deadpan, ironic films like those of director and actor Alex van Warmerdam. Using seminal theories on humour and comedy, this book explores a number of Dutch films using the notion of categories, such as low-class comedies, neurotic romances, deliberate camp, and grotesque satire. With its original approach, this study makes surprising connections between Dutch films from various decades.

Offers a fresh approach to the study of transnational cinema by examining the representation of Chinese identity in Ang Lee's films and the public discourse from various audience communities. This book focuses on his transnational films "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000) and "Lust, Caution" (2007) as two case studies.

Suffrage and the Silver Screen is an essential resource for those studying early cinema, women and cinema, the woman suffrage movement, and the use of visual media in social movements.

The Hispanic Image in Hollywood: A Postcolonial Approach offers an in-depth analysis of how Hispanics are represented in American cinema. As the research of this book clearly shows, film depictions of Hispanics have created negative visual taxonomies based on gender, race, and class.

The 29 prose poems in Cinematic Reveries: Gestures, Stillness, Water provide distinctive points of entry into a select group of films through attention to evocative gestures, a sense of stillness, and images of water. These original writings offer film criticism in a new form, with a tone that is at once exploratory, familiar, and elegiac.

Foreign Devils investigates representations of exile in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1956 through the films of Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, and Conrad Veidt. This book dispels the assumption that by virtue of its hegemonic, reactionary, and exclusionary modes of representation, otherness is excluded from or only obliquely alluded to in classical Hollywood cinema.

Contributes to the international development of screenplay studies. This title elaborates on the cultural baggage that the screenplay carries since it is text imbued with multiple signs that - for various reasons - often get lost in the process and never make it to the screen.

Explains the racial component of the relationship between Italy and Africa by looking at the imagery of national and cultural identity found in the films shot in Africa during the Italian expansionist intervention in the 1920s and 1930s.

Focuses on the concept of postcolonial film as a framework for identifying films produced within and outside of various formerly colonized nations, nor is there a scholarly text that addresses pedagogical issues about and frameworks for teaching such films. This book provides the methodology to read and teach postcolonial film.

Dangerous Dreams: Essays on American Film and Television employs aesthetic, feminist, historical, Marxist, psychoanalytic, semiological, and sociological criticism to explore five decades of film and television texts that have captivated audiences. The study is divided into four sections, each comprised of several essays that explore the effects of narrative and visual texts.

Exploring the history of several important collections from the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam, Bregt Lameris shows how archival films and collections always carry historical traces.

This is the first book-length study of Morrison's work, covering the whole of his career.

This book offers one of the most comprehensive accounts yet of the place of women in silent film in Europe.