Film Theory & Criticism

In the mid-nineteenth century, Boston fashioned itself as a global hub. By the early 1970s, it was barely a dot on the national picture. It had gai...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Boston fashioned itself as a global hub. By the early 1970s, it was barely a dot on the national picture. It had gai...

Comprising seven different chapters, the collection Men in Color attempts to analyze, and revisit, the representation of ethnic masculinities, both...

The mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped and are currently transforming...

Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am presents a philosophical exploration of the world of Alien, the simultaneously horrifying and though...

Some films are remembered long after they are released; others are soon forgotten, but do they deserve oblivion? Are factors other than quality inv...

Danny Powell encourages readers to reevaluate the 1970s through the medium of film. Combining cultural and sociological analysis, he focuses on the...

What do novels such as Annie Proulxs The Shipping News, Michael Cunninghams A Home at the End of the World, and Jayne Anne Phillips MotherKind have...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and fil...

This irreverent, balls-out celebration of the greatest matchups in sports movie history includes analysis, maps and diagrams, and designed memorabi...

An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since th...

What is folk horror and how culturally significant is it? This collection is the first study to address these questions while considering the speci...

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers...