Film Theory & Criticism

'So funny -- Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.' - Stephen Merchant'Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.' - Tim Key'Absolutely miraculous.' - Jesse Eisenberg'A ...

In 2013 an apparently simple, back-to-basics scary movie transformed horror cinema for the rest of the decade. Based on the allegedly true story of...

Widely regarded as one of the foundational 'Unholy Trinity' of folk horror film, The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) has been comparatively over-shado...

Drawing on critical analysis of film, the horror genre, the Gothic, and Stephen King scholarship, this book considers Andy Muschiettis IT Chapter O...

Charting new territory in filmmaking technologies and Steven Spielbergs oeuvre, Minority Report (2002) portrays a dystopian near-future that commen...

One of the most acclaimed debut features of this century, Moon (2009) tells the superficially simple story of Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), who mines He...

Nosferatu in the 21st Century is a celebration and a critical study of F. W. Murnaus seminal vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens on ...

Reviled on its release, Peeping Tom (1960) all-but ended the career of director Michael Powell, previously one of Britain's most revered filmmakers...

The Masque of the Red Death (1964), the seventh collaboration between producer-director Roger Corman and horror icon Vincent Price, became the crow...

In 2013 an apparently simple, back-to-basics scary movie transformed horror cinema for the rest of the decade. Based on the allegedly true story of...

Critical discussion of cult cinema has often noted its tendency to straddle or ignore boundaries, to pull together different sets of conventions, n...

Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema addresses collections of comprehensive studies on horror within selective chapters, focusing on American h...

There is something weird and eerie going on in the oneiric Iranian ghost-town Bad City. A mysterious female vampire, clad in a long-black veil, imb...

In the period since 2001, cinema has witnessed a notable influx in fantasy film. Many constitute adaptations from British fantasy literature, often...

This book stems from a simple yet disturbing observation: contemporary British fiction is full of children killing or being killed. Thoughtfully co...

Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid...

In the late eighties and early nineties, while other kids were playing softball, Emily was sporting a Pink Ladies jacket, perfecting Michelle Pfeif...

After the end, the world will be un-American. This speculation forms the nucleus of Un-American Dreams, a study of US apocalyptic science fiction a...

With an interdisciplinary agenda, Film Phenomenologies investigates the emerging field of film phenomenology, linking the fundamental significance ...

Monsters are a part of every society, and ours is no exception. They are deeply embedded in our history, our mythos, and our culture. However, trea...

The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the 'trick films'of the early silen...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Boston fashioned itself as a global hub. By the early 1970s, it was barely a dot on the national picture. It had gai...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Boston fashioned itself as a global hub. By the early 1970s, it was barely a dot on the national picture. It had gai...

Comprising seven different chapters, the collection Men in Color attempts to analyze, and revisit, the representation of ethnic masculinities, both...

The mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped and are currently transforming...

Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am presents a philosophical exploration of the world of Alien, the simultaneously horrifying and though...

Some films are remembered long after they are released; others are soon forgotten, but do they deserve oblivion? Are factors other than quality inv...

Danny Powell encourages readers to reevaluate the 1970s through the medium of film. Combining cultural and sociological analysis, he focuses on the...