Film Theory & Criticism

In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere a...

This is an introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations. Critical questions specific to film adaptations need to be ...

Metropolis is a monumental work. On its release in 1925, after sixteen months''filming, it was Germany''s most expensive feature film, a canvas for...

Culture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as novelist, architect, journalist...

The numerous anti-bullying programs in schools across the United States have done little to reduce the number of reported bullying instances. On...

Is Michael Mann an auteur? Mann is a formidable filmmaking personality, no doubt, but the notion that today''s celebrity cult of director immediate...

Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010) is a difficult film to categorize. It partakes of various genres, blurring the distinctions between them. It i...

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers . ...

Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theo...

The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director''s entire oeuv...

The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director''s entire oeuv...

The director's authorial role in filmmaking - the extent to which a film reflects his or her individual style and creative vision - has been much d...

From the late 1930s to the early twenty-first century, European and American filmmakers have displayed an enduring fascination with Nazi leaders, r...

Moving images of the British monarchy are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Qu...

The history of the 'video nasties' has been recounted many times and the films that caused so much offence have themselves been endlessly examined....

In Jacques Rancire and the Politics of Art Cinema, James Harvey contends that Rancire's writing allows us to broach art and politics on the very sa...

Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polis...

Asks what political art look like today, and how art can act critically under neoliberalism Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and f...

This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and qu...

An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-98) has become a neglected figure ...

ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze is the first collection of essays on this important and original contemporary filmmaker. It looks at his groundbr...