Film Theory & Criticism

Yuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also included Viktor Shklovsky and ...

Peter Brunette and David Wills extend the work of Jacques Derrida into a new realm--with rewarding consequences. Although Derrida has never address...

A cultural history of the enduring relationship between film spectatorship and intoxicating substances   Movies under the Influence charts the enta...

Formative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker   It is hard to imagine French cinema without La Jetée (1962), the time-travel sho...

From the very beginning, filmmakers have struggled to free themselves from censorship and manipulation by special-interest groups, and this struggl...

How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning ...

How do the films of Kubrick communicate mental events of characters in a purely visual manner? And how does the music in his films express meaning ...

A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism Anime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but i...

A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industrys most powerful figures in ...

A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industrys most powerful figures in ...

The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the...

The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential ...

The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the...

Thirty-five years of nonfiction films offer a unique lens on twentieth-century French social issuesCritical Mass is the first sustained study to tr...

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticisms emphasis on peda...

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticisms emphasis on peda...

Barbara Hammer in the Seventies: Or, What a Body Can Do addresses the intersection of experimental film, lesbian sexuality, and the womens movement...

Yuri Tynianov was a key figure of Russian Formalism, an intellectual movement in early 20th century Russia that also included Viktor Shklovsky and ...

A cultural history of the enduring relationship between film spectatorship and intoxicating substances   Movies under the Influence charts the enta...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits Congress from abridging freedom of the press. But, as the printed press has been transformed...

Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema's love affair with the erotic. Forshaw's lively study moves from the sexual abandon o...

Sex and Film is a frank, comprehensive analysis of the cinema's love affair with the erotic. Forshaw's lively study moves from the sexual abandon o...

Fascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young readers. These go ba...

This collection addresses the significant cultural phenomenon of the 'zombie renaissance' the growing importance of zombie texts and zombie cultur...

Chapter 12 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. Well-established scholars from a variety of disciplines - including sociology, anthro...

Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, literature and music, Donaldson develops a stimulating understanding of a concept that has receiv...

Screenwriting in a Digital Era examines the practices of writing for the screen from early Hollywood to the new realism. Looking back to prehistori...

This collection brings together international experts on the cinema of migration and diaspora in postcolonial and postnational Europe. It offers a ...

This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central ...

This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central ...

A history of the love affair between BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism) and science fiction and fantasy. Lewis Call ...

Just how bad is television? Drawing on a range of theoretical sources including Husserl Lacan, Lefebvre, Sartre, Schutz and Adam Smith, this book t...

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion argues that the emergence of motion pictures constituted a defining m...