Film Theory & Criticism

Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. H...

Wes Anderson's films can be divisive, but he is widely recognized as the inspiration for several recent trends in indie films. Using both practical...

Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. Contributors to this volume revisit, complicate, and upend accepted readings and interpreta...

A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-vis...

How does film affect the way we understand crises of the body and mind and how does it manifest other kinds of crises levelled at the spectator? Th...

Drawing on comparisons with historical shake-ups in the film industry, Screen Distribution Post-Hollywood offers a timely account of the changes br...

The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to...

After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first tim...

After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first tim...

Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen from WWII to the Present charts how the dominant white and black binary of American racial discourse influenc...

The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustaine...

Coates presents the face in film as a place where transformations begin, reflecting both the experience of modernity and such influential myths as ...

A detailed, theoretically attuned analysis of all of the Scorsese-directed features from The Last Waltz  to Bringing Out the Dead . Grist illuminat...

ENG: Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist Terror of the late 1930s, a nationalist cinema emerged in Uzbekistan givin...

An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era  What can the Gothic teach us about our curre...

'Ancient Rome at the Cinema' is a lucid study of the worlds created in Roman historical epics. Based on analysis of the visual and narrative fabric...

The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes, and critical approaches to th...

The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes, and critical approaches to th...

Mad movie ad collector Michael Gingold returns with Ad Nauseam II, a deep dive into his personal collection of horror movie newsprint notices from ...

Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship   Interactive Cinema explores various cinematic practices that work to transfo...

Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship   Interactive Cinema explores various cinematic practices that work to transfo...

Marco Ferreri (1928-1997) was one of Italian cinema's most unique auteurs. A maverick personality, he worked with some of the most popular actor...

The first English language scholarly collection of articles on the leading Berlin based German artist and film-maker Ulrike Ottinger. The articles ...

The first English language scholarly collection of articles on the leading Berlin based German artist and film-maker Ulrike Ottinger. The articles ...

Keywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged politics, combining a m...

Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead'...

In reading popular films of the Weimar Republic as candid commentaries on Jewish acculturation, Ofer Ashkenzi provides an alternative context for a...

Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the ...

Oppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the ...

Drawing on a variety of film semiotic theories, this book sheds light on works by mainland Chinese directors, Hong Kong New Wave directors, Taiwan ...

For many, the middle ages depicted in Walt Disney movies have come to figure as the middle ages, forming the earliest visions of the medieval past ...

In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as 'other,' different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophicall...

At their peak, architectural marvels such as the Sagrada Família, the Tower of London, the MosqueCathedral of Córdoba, and the Eiffel tower, had a ...