Film Theory & Criticism

Drawing on film theory, literary modernism, psychology and art history, Fields of View elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-...

Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-making of Blackness, through an interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of Black ...

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact ...

Theorists of the soundtrack have helped us understand how the voice and music in the cinema impact a spectator's experience. James Buhler and Hanna...

Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the...

The words Asian American film might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festi...

Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema explores aspects of gender, race and region in films and television produced in the northern Australian sta...

Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema explores aspects of gender, race and region in films and television produced in the northern Australian sta...

Bringing together a group of international scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, Grease Is the Word analyses the cultural phenomenon Grease. ...

Bette Davis was not only one of Hollywoods brightest stars, but also one of its most outspoken advocates on matters of race. In Bette Davis Black a...

This book provides four key insights, beginning with how photographic stillness, depth, and motion emerged en masse, departing from the gradualist ...

World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot ...

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

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion argues that the emergence of motion pictures constituted a defining m...