Film Theory & Criticism

Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Zizek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of modernist and postmode...

Focusing on Netflixs child and family-orientated platform exclusive content, this book offers the first exploration of a controversial genre cycle ...

As a medium that aims to connect people through the communication and interpretation of experiences, cinema is uniquely positioned to showcase cult...

This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of ...

This book examines crisis, transition and metamorphosis in American independent cinema. By examining six films, all of which conform to the notion ...

In Policing Show Business, Francis MacDonnell explores the starring role played by J. Edgar Hoover in the development of the Hollywood blacklist in...

BLAZING SADDLES MEETS YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: HTE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE YEAR OF MEL BROOKS

David Pirie's acclaimed history of British gothic film and television has long been regarded as a foundational study of the roots of British horror...

David Pirie's acclaimed history of British gothic film and television has long been regarded as a foundational study of the roots of British horror...

Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australias so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on wh...

Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance situates the 1908 dance craze, which The New York Times called Salomania...

Beginning with a quick history of film scoring and then taking the reader backstage to interview a dozen major screen composers, Overhearing Film M...

The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, Am...

Cubism and futurism were related movements that vied with each other in the economy of renown. Perception, dynamism, and the dynamism of perception...

In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen. Join him as he gets lost in Russia...

Since the defeat of the pro-sovereigntists in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the loss of a cohesive nationalistic vision in the province has led many ...

Pedro Almodóvar may have helped put queer Iberian cinema on the map, but there are multitudes of LGBTQ filmmakers from Catalonia, Portugal, Castile...

Ever wonder why so many stars and featured players, male or female, in movies of Hollywoods Golden Age look like they just stepped out of a beauty ...

Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-...

A concise guide to global performances of Shakespeare, this volume combines methodologies of dramaturgy, film and performance studies, critical rac...

Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-...

Screens and Illusionism explores the effects of illusionism as foundational to contemporary acts of perception and aesthetics. Our point of departu...