Film Theory & Criticism

This Devils Advocate explores the cinematic wonders of Brian Desmond Hursts much loved 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge, through the p...

This Devils Advocate explores the cinematic wonders of Brian Desmond Hursts much loved 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge, through the p...

Roman Polanskis Repulsion (1965), starring Catherine Deneuve as a repressed and tormented manicurist, is a gripping, visually inventive descent int...

Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspeakable urges and an overwhel...

Love on the Dole (1933), the iconic novel about 1930s British working-class life, has a significant place in British cultural history. Its author, ...

George A. Romeros Dawn of the Dead (1978) is celebrated both as a splatter movie and as a satire of 1970s consumerism. One of the most financially ...

Martin Scorseses Cape Fear (1991) opens with a shot of water and climaxes on a raging river. Despite, or perhaps because of, the films great commer...

Directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer, The Omen (1976) is perhaps the best in the devil-child cycle of movies that followed in th...

Premiering at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Andrzej uawskis Possession remains a distinct phenomenon. Though in competition for the illustrious Pa...

In The Morph-Image: The Subjunctive Synthesis of Time, Steen Ledet Christiansen argues for a new model of digital cinema that draws on Deleuzian an...

Fighting Stars provides a rich and diverse account of the emergence and legacies of Hong Kong martial arts cinema stars. Tracing the meanings and...

Fighting Stars provides a rich and diverse account of the emergence and legacies of Hong Kong martial arts cinema stars. Tracing the meanings and...

One of the most acclaimed debut features of this century, Moon (2009) tells the superficially simple story of Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), who mines He...

The Cabin in the Woods (2012), directed by Drew Goddard and co-authored by Goddard and Joss Whedon of Buffy-fame, was famously described by co-auth...

Most scholarship on Mary Lambert's Pet Sematary (1989) overarchingly focuses on the Stephen King novel (1983), and tends strongly towards housing t...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Disability and the Posth...

In A Siberian History of Soviet Film, Caroline Damiens explores how the depictions of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in Soviet cinema and te...

All art is propaganda, wrote George Orwell, but not all propaganda is art. Moving from World War I to the War on Terror and beyond, The Story of Br...

All art is propaganda, wrote George Orwell, but not all propaganda is art. Moving from World War I to the War on Terror and beyond, The Story of Br...

John Schlesingers 1969 drama, Midnight Cowboy, follows the story of naïve would-be hustler Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and ailing con man Ratso Rizzo (Du...

Kiyoshi Kurosawas 1997 psychological horror, Cure, follows a detective (played by Koji Yakusho) as he investigates a string of gruesome murders in ...

Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapmen...