Film Theory & Criticism

Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their id...

Our Movies series enters the 21st century with this definitive lineup of the 100 most important films made during the 2000s, an age of evergreen fr...

Over the last twenty years, Ireland has undergone significant transformation and, as a consequence, notions of Irish identity and nationality have ...

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, author Hannah Lewis gives readers fascinating new insights into the development, style, and reception of the...

In the 21st century, blockbuster fantasy films have dominated film viewership in the United States. The increased popularity of fantasy films has g...

In the years after the First World War the British government had to adapt its communication policy to connect with the new mass electorate. This b...

World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based or...

This book explores the dramatic rise in popularity of the womens biopic in contemporary Bollywood, within the context of wider cultural shifts over...

This book provides a complete description of the development of Italian film and cinema from its beginnings in 1895 until today. Special emphasis i...

After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings. Se...

THINKING THROUGH FILM Thinking Through Film provides the best introduction available to the diverse relationships between film and philosophy. Clea...

Go beyond Kurosawa and discover an up-to-date and rigorous examination of historical and modern Japanese cinema  In A Companion to Japanese Cinema,...

A stimulating overview of the intellectual arguments and critical debates involved in the study of British and Irish cinemas British and Irish film...

Does it take faith to be a Jedi? Are droids capable of thought? Should Jar Jar Binks be held responsible for the rise of the Empire? Presenting ent...

A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar Marvin DLugo and Kathleen M. Vernon give us the ideal companion to Pedro Almodóvars films. Established and emerging ...

By reconsidering assumptions about mainstream popular culture and its revolutionary possibilities, author Dana Heller reveals that John Waters' pop...

An authoritative guide to the action-packed film genre With 24 incisive, cutting-edge contributions from esteemed scholars and critics, A Companion...

Top Hat is the first volume to spotlight this classic Hollywood film, probing the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, as well as th...

Written by experienced Film Studies authors and teachers, this Student Book provides the core knowledge and exemplification you will need throughou...

Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acti...

This book provides an in-depth examination and analysis of the film and television adaptations of Lope de Vegas theatrical dramas that have appeare...

In this three-part book-length study of the work of Gregg Toland, Philip Cowan explores approaches to co-authorship in collaborative filmmaking to ...

In this book, Paul Lynch explores the genre of the British conspiracy thriller, a confrontational and dark response to what novelists and filmmaker...

In The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place, Brian Brems explores how, as action emerged as a full-fledged genre of cinema, Walter Hil...

Theology of Horror explores the dark reaches of popular horror films, bringing to light their implicit theological and philosophical themes. Horror...

The Matrix (1999), directed by the Wachowski sisters and produced by Joel Silver, was a true end-of-the-millennium movie, a statement of the Americ...

Godard. Fuller. Rivette. Endfield. Tarr. In his celebrated career as a film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum has undertaken wide-ranging dialogues with m...

Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Thou...