Film studies

Catherine Rottenberg enjoys an analysis of a new generation of characters who are transforming the narrative possibilities for women on screen

Nathan Abrams is impressed by a comprehensive attempt to survey the ways Nazi atrocities have been represented on screen

Lucy Bolton is intrigued by an analysis of changing racial attitudes based on the career of a great Hollywood icon

Sir Michael Barber’s blueprint can help digital delivery enhance learning rather than acting as an inconvenient stopgap, says David Puttnam

Nathan Abrams considers the many ways Nazi atrocities continue to echo through popular culture on screen

Tributes paid to ‘a man of many worlds’ who was also ‘a uniquely versatile intellectual’

Nathan Abrams is intrigued by the creepy possibilities film directors have found in refrigerators, typewriters and shower curtains

Nathan Abrams is impressed by a new approach to one of the great masters of 20th-century cinema

Lucy Bolton enjoys a sharp new analysis of getting philosophical about the cinema 

Nathan Abrams would have liked a wider range of examples in this study of how America’s most traumatic war was represented in the cinema

Davina Quinlivan welcomes a bold new overview of where lesbian cinema is going today

Lucy Bolton reflects on the links between the action on screen and real life in American independent cinema

Nathan Abrams considers an attempt to unravel the mysteries of Kubrick’s cult masterpiece

Will Brooker considers the structures and intrastructures behind the creation of superheroes

Farah Mendlesohn considers a study of fantasy that ranges across a wide spectrum of genres

Tributes paid to footballer turned queer theorist

Davina Quinlivan on how film-makers recycle images to reimagine the past and the future

A pioneering female film auteur receives a long overdue close-up in a book that will appeal to general readers and specialists alike, says Ashvin Devasundaram

If those researching topics disliked by politicians can’t make a living in universities, scholarship will be impoverished, says Mark Steven

A primer on the work of the ‘two-headed monster’ teases out the Talmudic and Kubrickian influences on their cinematic universe, says Nathan Abrams

Book of the week: Linnie Blake is taken on an illuminating tour of the thematic evolution and history of the horror genre

Nathan Abrams admires an impressively researched, behind-the-scenes look at a science fiction classic

Davina Quinlivan ponders the importance of the French capital and its representation on screen to the development of film studies

A study exploring Natalie Portman’s role in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Céline Sciamma’s film Girlhood is a fascinating addition to the discipline’s output, argues Davina Quinlivan

Leeds Beckett University researchers are to publish a book exploring how the unheralded British actor became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars

Nathan Abrams examines an impressively close scrutiny of the 1950s film

Do you recognise seven stereotypes in literature and film? Richard Joyner appraises a study ranging from Sherlock to Frankenstein

By borrowing and recycling ideas, old Tinseltown pioneered cinematic narrative, says Lucy Bolton

Charles Drazin commends a perceptive although somewhat austere study of Hollywood’s power dynamic

Enduring popularity of flesh-eating monsters is a response to real threats, says Marcus Leaning

Generic courses may not be equipping students with much-needed skills, says British Film Institute

Film director Agnieszka Piotrowska’s new book details the challenges of working in the southern African country

Students and lecturers join forces for a national demonstration over cuts, fee rises and the plight of EU staff and students post-Brexit

We talk widening participation, gender discrimination in film, and wishing on shooting stars with the French former film executive

Scholars take an audience back to the movie nights of 50 years ago

New book considers why some stars burn out and others continue to shine

As the latest film about academia is released, Matthew Reisz considers the portrayal of mathematicians and other scholars in popular culture

Who wears the trousers? Women often played men in early Hollywood, and few were anything like the ‘monstrous butch’ archetype, Leanne Dawson finds

We talk diversity at the Oscars, the possibilities for British film-makers and the vital importance of film-making pedagogy

The creative industries are a good career choice now, and higher education should respond, says Anne Carlisle

Proposals to measure teaching excellence present major challenges for universities educating students for the creative industries, says Nigel Carrington

Lindsey Moore on a study of film and video from the Arabic-speaking world

Institution’s School of Media, Arts and Design is 25 this year. Its current dean takes Times Higher Education through the reasons behind its success

Fred Inglis on the innumerable shows and figures from 50 years of popular culture

A highly readable study traces how both women became part of cultural and political networks that shaped the 20th century, writes Ulrike Zitzlsperger

June Purvis, historical adviser on the film Suffragette, delivers her verdict

Elizabeth I. Watkins on a study about reparation that analyses recent works including Hunger and Waltz with Bashir

Gemma Edney on the arguments for the academic study of a genre too often dismissed for being à l’Américaine

Firm’s scheme offers degree funding in exchange for students returning home to work in the country

Matthew Reisz reflects on some academics' desire to be joylessly patronizing

Linnie Blake extols a study on films using the technology to tell their stories

Stina and the Wolf academics enlist students in bid to make first such full-length film from a UK university

Richard Bosworth has front-row seats for a subtle investigation of totalitarian cultural practice

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on a study of the muscle and myth movies of the 1950s and 1960s

Film-makers are challenging mainstream media depictions of state terror, finds Linnie Blake

Murray Smith learns much from an examination of the existential questions in a classic cinematic adaptation

A pioneer in an emerging artistic field deserves a prominent place in the annals of film, finds Philip Kemp

Philip Kemp revels in the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of western film-making

Philip Kemp wishes for more insight into child star’s life

Mega-budget shows are not a guaranteed recipe for success, says Janet Wasko. It’s not that simple