Bøker i Constellations-serien

Mad Max (1979) is a singular piece of action cinema, one which had a major cultural impact. This monograph examines its considerable formal qualities in detail, including director George Miller s theory of cinema as "visual rock n roll" and his marriage of classical Hollywood editing and Soviet-style montage.

Dan Dinello explicates Alfonso Cuaron's visionary Children of Men (2006) from ideological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. Dinello explores the film's criticism of reactionary politics, arguing that it prods us to imagine an egalitarian alternative by urging identification with rebels, outcasts, and racial and ethnic outsiders.

This book is the first long-form critical study of David Lynch's DUNE (1984). It considers the relationship with the source novel, the rapidly changing context of early 1980s science fiction, and takes a close look at Lynch s attempt to breathe sincerity and mysticism into a blockbuster movie format that was shifting radically around him.

William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever made, the tale of an American superhero with disastrously misguided priorities.