Film Theory & Criticism

Considers the nature and status of contemporary cinema by way of a series of technological reflections on its pastArgues for a progressive historio...

There are so many insights even hardcore Bond fans will be surprised. Indispensable. David Lowbridge-Ellis MBEOnly six men can lay claim to weari...

Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. Unhomely Cinema explores how the un...

Nothing succeeds like success, as the saying goes, but in the case of Donald Duck the opposite is true: the candor with which Donald reveals his we...

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character development and narrative themes within the struggles and successes prese...

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character development and narrative themes within the struggles and successes prese...

Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Hos enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Joseph J...

From early cinema to the digital era, Color in Motion explores the vibrant history of color on screen The art of producing color in movies is a fa...

A CITY FULL OF HAWKS: ON THE WATERFRONT SEVENTY YEARS LATER, STILL THE GREAT CONTENDER

Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Hos enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Joseph J...

Whether its Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to F...

Whether its Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to F...

In 2020-21, the classic HBO show The Sopranos (1999-2007) saw a rapid increase in viewership and was proclaimed to be one of the hottest shows of l...

Dystopian and post-apocalyptic movies from 1968 to 2021 usually conclude with optimism, with a window into what is possible in the face of social d...

This book provides an overview of the growing field of screenwriting research and is essential reading for both those new to the field and establis...

This book undertakes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural interrogation of the Global South  through  the  prisms  of  media  and  cultural  stu...

Cinema under National Reconstruction calls for a revisionist understanding of state film censorship during successive Cold War military regimes in ...

Cinema under National Reconstruction calls for a revisionist understanding of state film censorship during successive Cold War military regimes in ...

'Well-researched ... I was fascinated' Roger Lewis, Daily MailFrom its debut in 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild suc...

Directed in 1974 by Roman Polanski from a script by Robert Towne, Chinatown is a brilliant reworking of film noir set in a drought-stricken Los Ang...

This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of...

Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974) is a renowned example of the paranoid conspiracy thriller, a genre that was a marker of the 1970s. The pe...

Released after the large-scale frescos of Nashville (1975) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bulls History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977)...

With contributions from Özcan Alper, Damir Arsenijevi, Friederike Bassenge, Alen Drljevi, Andreas Hamburger, Camellia Hancheva, Denana Husremovi, L...