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This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror. The chapters consider the artistic styles, historical contexts, cultural tensions and cinematic fears that distinguish folk horror from other forms of horror and from traditional ways of viewing the folk.

Melodrama - the key cinematic form of post war Italy, central to popular life and the dramatic arts. This book uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films. It provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society.

Journeys on Screen: Theory, Ethics and Aesthetics Edited by Louis Bayman and Natália Pinazza Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collection reveals the journey to be a persistent presence across cinema and in cultural modernity. Drawing on examples from different regions and cultures that traverse art and genre cinema, the book explores the j...

The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to the re-establishment of the post-war Italian film industry, ensuring cinema's position at the forefront of 20th century mass culture. This title provides an analysis of cineopera or opera film.

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Best known to international audiences for its carnivalesque irreverence and recent gangster blockbusters, Brazilian cinema is gaining prominence with critics, at global film festivals, and on DVD shelves. This title seeks to introduce newcomers to Brazilian cinema and to offer valuable insights to those already well-versed in the topic.