Film Theory & Criticism

This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Cont...

The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influe...

Tim Burton has had a massive impact on twentieth and twenty-first century culture through his films, art, and writings. This book examines how his ...

This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It ...

This book discusses British cinema's representation of the Great War during the 1920s. It argues that popular cinematic representations of the war ...

The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a sou...

The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical ...

The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical ...

This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, acting as a form of reclamation for...

East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and childr...

East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and childr...

Gaming Film explores the growing influence of computer games on contemporary cinema. From the type of stories told to their complex structural patt...

Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands and complicates the subgenre of body horror. Chan...

By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema...

This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, ...

This study examines how a particular selection of films turned American cultural material of the 1990s into satirical experiences for viewers and f...

3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing 3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order...

In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films ...

A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. I...

This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety d...

Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the conne...

Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and...

From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the la...

Is there more to 1970s British cinema than sex, horror and James Bond? This lively account argues that this is definitely the case and explores the...

How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging s...

Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of Hollywood's current obsessi...

An accessible case study of television heritage, Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archive draws on the memories of fans and extra...

Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that ...

What are Arabic Europeans watching on television and how does it affect their identities as Europeans? New evidence from seven capitals shows that,...

The Highway Horror Film argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films, the American...

Media Framing of the Muslim World examines and explains how news about Islam and the Muslim world is produced and consumed, and how it impacts on r...

The Internet is the most terrifying and most beautifully innovative invention of the twentieth century. Using film theory and close textual analysi...

Media Framing of the Muslim World examines and explains how news about Islam and the Muslim world is produced and consumed, and how it impacts on r...

Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and his...

Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores th...

Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and instantly recognizable in the world. East Asian Film Stars brings together some of ...