Film Theory & Criticism

Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist. Blending a trademark black hum...

Establishing a new vision for film history, Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema urges readers to consider the importance of complex ...

In Tisa Bryant's Unexplained Presence, readers are spectators of mis-en-scènes in which black subjectivity has been distorted and denied within var...

From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new moveme...

Lana and Lilly Wachowski have redefined the technically and topically possible while joyfully defying audience expectations. Visionary films like T...

Through film composer Henry Mancini, mere background music in movies became part of pop culture--an expression of sophistication and wit with a mod...

Put your Christmas-movie expertise to the test with nearly 500 trivia questions, accompanied by entertaining illustrations capturing your favorite ...

Is Harpo Free? is a lively appreciation of film and television's ability to artistically explore concepts typical of philosophical metaphysics, suc...

On November 18, 1928, the worlds most famous mouse made his very first public debut. Today, we celebrate 90+ years of Mickey in one of the most exp...

If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and...

Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over the past decade. A broadening of scope and inte...

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescap...

One of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney built a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe. Like scarcely any other classics...

Throughout the history of film, censorship has existed everywherein all shapes, colours, and dimensions. The act of restricting the free production...

During the early era of cinema, moviegoers turned to women editors and writers for the latest on everyone's favorite stars, films, and filmmakers. ...

You might not know the name Tyrus Wong, but you probably know some of the images he created, including scenes from the beloved Disney classic Bamb...

This book presents a comprehensive history and analysis of Secret Cinema the leading producer of large-scale immersive experiences in the UK. It e...

Its dangerous to be an honest man. Michael Corleone, Godfather III As special photographer on the sets and locations of Francis Ford Coppolas Th...

Gangster movie, Western, film noir, rom com, screwball, musical, even the Biblical epic... There are few genres left untouched and untwisted by sib...

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most iconic and best loved movie directors of the last two decades. Whether he's shooting up the Deep South, slicin...

The incredible-yet-true story of celebrated South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee, abducted in 1978 by North Korean secret agents on the orders of thei...

How a new generation of counterculture talent changed the landscape of Hollywood, the film industry, and celebrity culture.   By 1967, the commerci...

Get ready to quake in fear with this revised and expanded edition of our history of horror cinema. This chilling volume packs 640 pages full with t...