Film Theory & Criticism

Examines the moving image in relation to nineteenth-century literature, theories of mind, and visual media This book examines how the productive i...

New Essays on Clint Eastwood is a companion to Engels previous book, Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives. It includes discussion o...

This book features extended conversations with Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) and interviews with his family members, friends and col...

Charlie Chaplin produced some of the greatest films of all time, including The Gold Rush, The Circus, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dict...

In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the c...

Direk, a collection of essays on Filipino filmmakers, presents an accessible and provocative introduction to Philippine cinema. Notable Filipino cr...

In recent years, the media landscape in the United States has followed a pattern similar to that of the physical landscape by becoming increasingly...

This is an in-depth study of how this notorious figure has captured the public imagination, in both life and legend. For two centuries the image of...

Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and ...

Dagur Kári's Noi the Albino (Nói Albinói, 2003) succeeded on the international festival circuit as a film that was both distinctively Icelandic and...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the young unknown artists, Arnaldo Ginna, Bruno Corra, and Leopold Survage, chose cinema in order to ex...