Film Theory & Criticism

A comprehensive critical survey of the impact of 9/11 on Film, written by some of the foremost scholars in American cinemaAmerican Cinema in the Sh...

A visual exploration of cyberpunk and its global impact and lasting influence on cinema culture Cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction, first ap...

Icons of Cinema: Baz Luhrmann explores the fascinating and flamboyant career of one of the world's best-loved movie directors. Famous for his lavis...

Still Modernism offers a critique of the modernist imperative to embrace motion, speed, and mobility. In the context of the rise of kinetic technol...

Spirited Away, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki, is Japan's most successful film, and one of the top-grossing 'foreign langu...

Winner - 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library AssociationBeginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by H...

Standing at the intersection of Native history, labor, and representation, Picturing Indians presents a vivid portrait of the complicated experienc...

By highlighting the links between cosmopolitanism and inclusive education, this book explores the potential of 21st-Century Disney films to tackle ...

Photographer Edward Curtiss 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigeno...

Winner - 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library AssociationBeginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by H...

Standing at the intersection of Native history, labor, and representation, Picturing Indians presents a vivid portrait of the complicated experienc...

Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema argues that art cinema draws attention to its disjointed, multi-parted form, but that criticism has too fre...

A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick offers a thorough and detailed study of the films of the legendary director. Labeled a recluse, a provocate...

A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick offers a thorough and detailed study of the works of Stanley Kubrick. Labeled a recluse, a provocateur, and...

Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (19051961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywoods...

While multicultural comedies criticise hegemonic whiteness and outdated stances on race relations, they simultaneously perpetuate the colonial aest...

Whether presented as exotic fantasy, a strategic location during World War II, or a site combining postwar leisure with military culture, Hawaii an...

The anthology brings together various approaches and contexts to Twin Peaks, addressing the show's unique production and reception aesthetics. The ...

The anthology brings together various approaches and contexts to Twin Peaks, addressing the show's unique production and reception aesthetics. The ...

One film out of every five made anywhere on earth comes from India. From its beginnings under colonial rule through to the heights of Bollywood , I...

Hitchcock Annual volume 27 includes essays on The Whole Hitchcock, and Nothing But the Parts, the complex villain in I Confess, Marnie and The Tam...

Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies through...

The name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspensethat is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling sus...