Film Theory & Criticism

With high-profile Academy Award nominations and an increasing number of big-name actors eager to sign on to promising projects, independent films h...

Music and Levels of Narration in Film is the first book-length study to synthesize scholarly contributions toward a narrative theory of film music....

The first part of a three-volume work devoted to mapping the transnational history of Australian film studies, Australian Film Theory and Criticism...

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Makes an excellent case for Parrott as an unjustly forgotten historical figure.The New YorkerRemind[s] us of the brazenly talented women sidelined ...

The analysis of film music is emerging as one of the fastest-growing areas of interest in film studies. Yet scholarship in this up-and-coming field...

Marcel Duchamps urinal re-named fountain and placed in an art gallery. The classic image that can be seen as a duck or a rabbit, depending on how y...

With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan and...

This volume offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing's filmmaking across Chinas marginal spaces and against the backdrop of the state-sanctioned '...

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...

Monsters have always rampant border crossers, from Dracula's journey from Romania to Whitby, to the rampaging monsters of Godzilla movies across gl...

Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to con...

Is Michael Mann an auteur? Mann is a formidable filmmaking personality, no doubt, but the notion that today's celebrity cult of director immediatel...

Vivre Ici invites the reader on a journey through the vast viewing landscape of contemporary French documentary film, a genre that has experienced ...

Michel Foucaults work on film, although not extensive, compellingly illustrates the power of bringing his unique vision to bear on the subject and ...

Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is the lively story of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose career encapsulated the coming of age of the institutions, ...

Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the c...

Written in an engaging narrative style, this text provides a thorough overview of the fascinating intersection of economics, culture, artistry and ...

Hitchcocks previously untold origin story.Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger the first true Hitchcock movie, the one that anticipated all the other...

Hitchcocks previously untold origin story.Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger the first true Hitchcock movie, the one that anticipated all the other...

Adaptation was central to André Bazins lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and...

Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial l...

A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film presents a collection of original essays that explore major issues surrounding the state of current do...

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly s...

Is culture a luxury? In this era of austerity, the value of the arts has been a topic of heated debate in Greece, where the countrys economic troub...

Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japans active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the f...

Sue Short examines how fairy tale tropes have been reworked in contemporary film, identifying familiar themes in a range of genres including rom c...

This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 ma...

During the 1930s, Austrian film production companies developed a process to navigate the competing demands of audiences in Nazi Germany and those f...