Film Theory & Criticism

This book is an engaging and comprehensive exploration that delves into the possibility of artificial intelligence developing self-awareness, the c...

Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of race, class, and gender to cleanse...

Based on scholarly familiarity with the history and study of international modernisms, the book takes the case of Germany, where it is most clearly...

When a peaceful settlement on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisar...

Pop Cinema is the first book devoted to moving image works which engage with the central thematics and aesthetics of Pop Art. The essays in the col...

Tackling digital effects such as colourisation, time-ramping, compositing and photo-realistic rendering, this monograph explores how the growing us...

Eccentric Laughter explores new ways to watch postwar British film comedies, arguing that their representations of eccentricity offered a set of po...

Cine Craft (1974) is an ideal guide to the world of amateur film making, a treasure-house of authoritative information. It covers the equipment, bo...

Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve film makers in expressing their id...

Our Movies series enters the 21st century with this definitive lineup of the 100 most important films made during the 2000s, an age of evergreen fr...

Over the last twenty years, Ireland has undergone significant transformation and, as a consequence, notions of Irish identity and nationality have ...

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

In the 21st century, blockbuster fantasy films have dominated film viewership in the United States. The increased popularity of fantasy films has g...

In the years after the First World War the British government had to adapt its communication policy to connect with the new mass electorate. This b...

World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based or...