Film Theory & Criticism

What do novels such as Annie Proulxs The Shipping News, Michael Cunninghams A Home at the End of the World, and Jayne Anne Phillips MotherKind have...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and fil...

This irreverent, balls-out celebration of the greatest matchups in sports movie history includes analysis, maps and diagrams, and designed memorabi...

An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since th...

What is folk horror and how culturally significant is it? This collection is the first study to address these questions while considering the speci...

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers...

Since the release of Jordan Peele's Academy Award-winning horror hit Get Out (2017), interest in Black horror films has erupted. This renewed intri...

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...

To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj iek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the h...

By examining three case studies of award-winning soundtracks from cult filmsBarton Fink (1991), Bram Stokers Dracula (1992), and The English Patien...

A philosophical exploration of how modern global cinema represents everyday means of resisting authoritarianism and totalitarianism VÁclav Havels c...

A philosophical exploration of how modern global cinema represents everyday means of resisting authoritarianism and totalitarianism VÁclav Havels c...

In The Queer Coming of Age Film Genre, Brad J. Windhauser argues for the existence of this genre and, using a genre and queer theory lens, investig...

Wicked Leadership in Film offers a novel theory of how leaders can contend with so-called wicked problems, a class of important, entrenched, and fa...

Reel Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema studies the ways in which fictional film in the first decade of the twenty-...

Reel Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism and Neo-Hasidism in Contemporary Cinema studies the ways in which fictional film in the first decade of the twenty-...

The release of No Time To Die in 2021 heralds the arrival of the twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film series. Since the release of Dr. N...

A study of Denis Villeneuves genre-transcendent film. In Denis Villeneuves Arrival (2016), scientists must decipher the language of and peacefully ...

A study of Denis Villeneuves genre-transcendent film. In Denis Villeneuves Arrival (2016), scientists must decipher the language of and peacefully ...

A Taste of Honey (1961) is a landmark in British cinema history. In this book, Melanie Williams explores the many, extraordinary ways in which it w...

This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and popular music to illuminate the int...

A new reading of Fassbinder's most popular film that highlights the roles of race and gender. The Marriage of Maria Braun is the most popular film...

Psychocinema reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film, arguing for a return to the universalist core of both cinema and subjectivi...

Psychocinema reexamines the connection between psychoanalysis and film, arguing for a return to the universalist core of both cinema and subjectivi...

Contributions by Vlad Dima, Laura Hatry, Alicia Kozma, Lynette Kuliyeva, Madhuja Mukherjee, Frank Percaccio, Gary D. Rhodes, Courtney Ruffner Grien...

How filmmaker-philosophers brought the dream of making documentaries and strengthening democracy to award-winning realitywith help from nuns, gang ...