Film Theory & Criticism

This book shows that screens dont just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physica...

Alicia Malones Take on Influential Women in Film!Once again Alicia Malone champions women filmmakers, opening the floodgates to a great new wave of...

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

Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in globa...

The Housing Film examines how a century of realities and possibilities in domestic living have been profiled and foregrounded through studies and r...

In Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times recounts the surprising and dramatic story of how Network made it to the screen. The movie was t...

How Directors Dress uses clothing to tell exciting new stories about directors, their lives, their movies, and the times in which they were made, f...

One of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney built a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe. Like scarcely any other classics...

One of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney built a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe. Like scarcely any other classics...

Music in Action Film is the first volume to address the central role of music and sound in action filmarguably the most dominant form of commercial...

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and ...

Easy A (2010) is the last significant box-office success in the high-school teen movie subgenre and a film that has already been deemed a classic b...

This book explores the ways in which Hollywood film cycles from the 1930s to the 1960s were shaped by their surrounding industrial contexts and mar...

This work outlines a new methodology for film analysis based on the radical materialist thought of Baruch Spinoza, re-evaluating contemporary cogni...

The western, one of Hollywoods great film genres, has, surprisingly, enjoyed a revival recently in Asia and in other parts of the world, whilst at ...

Film Comedy and the American Dream is an examination of national identity in the era of the American superpower as projected in popular comedic fil...

This ground-breaking book explores the moral dimensions of sexual imagery in contemporary, general-release Asian films. It examines debates that ar...

This book traces the development of Richard Linklaters Boyhood from its audacious concept through its tenacious production to its celebrated recept...

During the last two decades Spain has undergone an unprecedented transformation from being a country of emigrants to receiving a significant number...

This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of Indias cultural diplom...

This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental processes that are elicited and triggered by found footage horror...

Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audi...