The Cinematic Sublime

The Cinematic SublimeAn academic reader bridging the disciplines of aesthetics and film studies by focusing on cinematic sublimity. Original essays by contemporary film scholars and philosophers with topics and case studies ranging from early cinema and classical Hollywood to avant garde film and contemporary digital cinema.

Caged crinolines that encased the hapless wearer in hoops of steel

development

and facing serious criminal charges

Surrealist sabotage and the war on work is an art historical study devoted to international surrealism’s critique of wage labour between 1920 and 1980

‘Theatricality in the Horror Film’ argues that scary movies often create their terrifying effects stylistically and structurally through a radical break with the realism of normality in the form of monstrous theatricality

This book presents a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa: Senegal

This book examines the creation and collapse of the first power-sharing administration in Northern Ireland

A study of the Bond phenomenon and its relation to the rise of playboy culture from the 1960s onwards

This book argues that the image of medieval England created by writers of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries was deeply informed by medieval and modern Scandinavia

from model case of rapid development

Encounters in the Levant prompted travellers to reflect critically on Britain’s own materialism and its effects on morality

Based on newly discovered sources