Film Theory & Criticism

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...

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...