Film Theory & Criticism

The long-established dialogue between architecture and film offers an interdisciplinary platform for a critical examination of spaces of in-between...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. The Stanley Kubrick Archive is a collection held at the Univ...

Covering everything from Hollywood films to Soviet cinema, Londons queer spaces to spaceships, horror architecture and action scenes, Screen Interi...

Film and television offer important insights into social outlooks on borders in France and Europe more generally. This book undertakes a visual cul...

Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies through...

Critical wisdom has it that we said a long goodbye to film noir in the 1950s. Robert Miklitsch begs to differ. Pursuing leads down the back streets...

Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies through...

'Prepare to laugh, sob and dance: this lively history of Indian cinema is imprinted with the memories of a life-long cinephile.' The Telegraph'A ge...

Understanding democracy through film philosophy and political theory Shining new light on our understanding of cinemas ways of political thinking, ...

Lights! Camera! Play ball! From the early silent era to the present day baseball movies have always been a staple of the cinema from coming-of-ag...

Illuminating the impacts of environmental disasters and climate crises globally, this book examines the experiences of teens grappling with eco-dis...

This monograph addresses a subject in star studies that is still developing outside of (and even within) Hollywood and cinemas of the West the fi...

How did a low-key prison drama which was considered a box-office flop on its original release become one of the most popular movies of all time? ...

What distinguished the Soviet 'look'? How did Soviet thinkers and artists reimagine the relationship between observer and observed? Soviet Specta...

Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouses cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emer...

Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies throu...

The official retrospective for the British cinematic masterpiece The Third Man, directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Jose...

A fascinating look at the United States conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel When weekly newsreels lau...

Through an identification of key case studies both mainstream and lesser known, Blood on the Lens: Trauma and Anxiety in American Found Footage Hor...

This book explores the role that talent intermediaries, including talent agents, talent managers and producers, play in packaging, marketing and se...

Global Film Studios is a series of books devoted to examining international film studios and their global influence. Each volume will address sever...

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...

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

Cinemasaurus examines contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse. Focusing on deba...

One of the silver screens greatest beauties, Greta Garbo was also one of its most profound enigmas. A star in both silent pictures and talkies, Gar...

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on films unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as the univer...

This book focuses on Joyce's interest and involvement in early modern cinema and his subsequent thematic and formal borrowing for this genre; It wi...

Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind...

Lawrence of Arabia, The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Gypsy, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Longest Day, The Music Man...

Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s circles around questions of stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind...

During the 1910s, films about war often featured a female protagonist.  The films portrayed women as spies, cross-dressing soldiers, and athletic d...