Film Theory & Criticism

The release of Star Wars in 1977 marked the start of what would become a colossal global franchise. Star Wars remains the second highest-grossing f...

Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and often controversi...

Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of pract...

Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking about the locations of though...

I feel like Scott Ryan could have written this directly to me and others in our generation who have basically given up on movies. It is at once tri...

An analysis of how since the end of te 19th-century advertising agencies and their housework product clients utilized a remarkably consistent depic...

Lights, Camera, Lions tells the remarkable story of Hungarian Hubert Geza Wells, who defects to America during the communist era and goes on to mak...

We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters tha...

In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected concept of the soul and to tr...

This account of the global switch to digital television, from its origins to its emerging outcomes, provides an understanding of how digital televi...

An eminent film writer looks behind the curtain of the California dream It hardly needs to be argued: nothing has contributed more to the mytholo...

This volume gets to the heart of what films mean to people on personal, political and commercial levels. Exploring value judgements that underpin s...

From neorealism's resolve to Berlusconian revisionist melodramas, this book examines cinema's role in constructing memories of Fascist Italy. Itali...

The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in...

Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets, Policies describes, analyses and evaluates the phenomenon of private television in Europe, ...

The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-maki...

The study of Hollywood detectives has often overlooked the B-Movie mystery series in favour of hard-boiled film. Hollywood's Detectives redresses t...

Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate...

Fan Phenomena: The Big Lebowski examines how this quirky movie evolved from its underwhelming debut to attract a mass following on par with that of...

Despite incredible political upheavals and a minimal national history of film production, movies such as Come Back, Africa (1959), uDeliwe (1975), ...

A state-of-the-art analysis of the situation of national television in Arab countries, addressing what Arab national broadcastings today say about ...

Projecting Race presents a history of educational documentary filmmaking in the postwar era in light of race relations and the fight for civil righ...

Popular films can do more than merely entertain us; they can contribute to our understanding of human nature and the ethical theory that informs it...

Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine wit...

Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting ...

Reality Effects brings together the reflections of leading film scholars and critics from Latin America, the UK and the United States on the re-eme...

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde....

  In the mid-1980s, film director Marco Bellocchio and renegade psychoanalyst Massimo Fagioli cowrote The Devil in the Flesh, a politically and sex...

While postwar British cinema and the British new wave have received much scholarly attention, the misunderstood period of the 1970s has been compar...

Often recognized as one of the happiest countries in the world, Denmark, like its Scandinavian neighbours, is known for its progressive culture, wh...

Frontiers of Screen History provides an insightful exploration into the depiction and imagination of European borders in cinema after the Second Wo...

Immigration Cinema in the New Europe examines a variety of films from the early 1990s that depict and address the lives and identities of both firs...

When political and civil unrest threatened Frances social order in the 1950s, French cinema provided audiences a unique form of escapism from such ...