Film Theory & Criticism

From Norman Bates dressed as Mother in Psycho to the rouged cheeks of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, many slasher icons have borne tra...

This sixth volume in the Docalogue series explores the significance of Flee, the award-winning and critically acclaimed 2021 animated documentary a...

The term art cinema has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film dart movement, the postwar avant-gardes, various Asian new wave...

Film and philosophy have much in common, and books have been written on film and philosophy. But can films be, or do, philosophy? Can they think? F...

One of the most fascinating phenomena of 1960s film culture is the emergence of American sexploitation filmssalacious indies made on the margins of...

The theory and practice of propaganda is of increasing interest in this century, as its use by authoritarian regimes is growing. This anthology is ...

Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement is the first film-philosophy book on radical, pioneer, visionary' (Dargis 2013) filmmaker Shirley Clarke ...

From immigrant ghetto love stories such as The Cohens and the Kellys (1926), through romantic comedies including Meet the Parents (2000) and Knocke...

On its release in 1986, Aliens was an immediate commercial and critical success and consolidated writer-director James Camerons status as a major n...

Exotic Cinema is the first systematic analysis of decentred exoticism in contemporary transnational and world cinema. By critically examining regim...

From Sergei Eisenstein, a legendary pioneer in filmmaking and director of Battleship Potemkin, Film Form collects twelve essays written between 192...

One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely t...

This is a book about Palestinians elsewhere and Palestinian elsewheres. Articulating an ambiguous right to remain out-of-place as a spatialized res...

Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernismwith a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outrig...

This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics....

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.The volume explores three...

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full...

From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasse...

Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, inclu...

The newest volume in the Film Theory in Practice Series, Auteur Theory and My Son John offers a concise introduction to authorship and auteur theo...

What are the barriers to womens participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era?In this book, Ellie Tomsett ...

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over the past 30 years, the fields ...

In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a renaissance. For the ...

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

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward womens ...

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward womens ...

This volume brings together scholarship from both established scholars and early career academics to provide fresh insights and new research on the...

Romantic comedies have had an incredible influence on popular culture, shaping everything from how we think of relationships to fashion. Often swep...

Brisk [and] forceful. Sight & SoundLucidly argued. Total FilmMargarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorffs The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1...

Discovering the potential of video and film artAn informative, inspiring, richly illustrated book on contemporary moving-image art. This book sets ...

Dive into the dark and dazzling world of Repo! The Genetic Opera with this comprehensive guide by Hollywood historian Staci Layne Wilson. From on-s...

Hollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IA...

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes a collection of production, per...

Hitchcock was a masterful director, popular with audiences of all ages and critically acclaimed both during and after his unusually long career. Wh...

March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, ...

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

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier ...

Rediscover all the reasons you love The Matrix!Whether you saw the movie in theaters in 1999 or watched it for the first time at home, there is no ...

Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impa...

Between the end of the Civil War (1949) and the colonels' military coup (1967) Greece underwent tremendous political, economic, and social trans...

The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the his...

This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of...

Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a...