One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts.

From Freaks to Land of the Pharaohs, Dune to Speed 2, and Catwoman to Cats - a riotous and revealing story of Hollywood's most spectacular flops.

The Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry (1999) offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America. This book relocates the film within historical and conceptual contexts that influenced its ambivalent reception while emphasizing the importance of trans visibilities and representations in the mainstream.

Widely believed to be Terry Gilliam's best film, Brazil's brilliantly imaginative vision of a retro-futuristic bureaucracy has had a lasting influence on genre cinema. Exploring its complex history and relationship with other dystopias, Paul McAuley explains why this satire on the unchecked power of the state is more relevant than ever.

This text brings together Henry A. Giroux's best-known essays from the last 20 years, centring on important subjects on the cultural studies and pop culture agenda, including violence, race, class, gender, identity, politics, and children's culture.

This re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British film history covers a variety of genres, such as B-movies, war films, women's pictures and theatrical adaptations, as well as social issues which affect film-making, such as censorship.

A reference guide to British film directors covering both contemporary and historically important figures.

This is a comprehensive and systematic history of British film studios, arranged in alphabetical order and cross-referenced throughout. It also studies the roles of directors, producers and stars including Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor.

British Films of the 1970s offers highly detailed and insightful critical analysis of a range of individual films of the period. This analysis draws upon an innovative range of critical methodologies which place the film texts within a rich variety of historical contexts.

The cinema during the Second World War became an important medium for influencing mass opinion. This book focuses on how the army, navy and air force worked with the film industry, and other government departments, to try to shape what people thought about the struggle.

Featuring exclusive interviews with key players such as Simon Pegg, Irvine Welsh, Michael Winterbottom and Edgar Wright, Britpop Cinema combines eyewitness accounts, close analysis and social history to celebrate a golden age for UK film.

An innovative study of the successful indie film Brokeback Mountain.

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The author is the godfather of American independent cinema, saluted by virtually every US maverick who's followed in his stead, from Martin Scorsese to Sean Penn. This title includes his major films such as: "Faces", "Woman Under the Influence", "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie", "Opening Night" and "Gloria".

Novelist and critic Kim Newman assesses the horror noir Cat People (1943), produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur. This important and influential film is considered in the light of its place in film history and as a work of ambitious horror. The new edition includes a postscript about the sequel, The Curse of the Cat People.

A global overview of the history and progress of women film directors around the world. With over 20 contributors including directors, writers, critics, producers, academics and fans. Includes exclusive interviews with leading female directors and industry insiders. Essential resource for film students, gender studies courses and film fans alike.

This book examines notable twentieth-century cases of censorship in theatre and cinema involving the Lord Chamberlain's theatre censorship and the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC).

An analysis of the ideologies and artistic conventions of American movies includes examinations of films such as Casablanca, Taxi Driver, and The Godfather.