Film Theory & Criticism

From Norman Bates dressed as Mother in Psycho to the rouged cheeks of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, many slasher icons have borne tra...

This sixth volume in the Docalogue series explores the significance of Flee, the award-winning and critically acclaimed 2021 animated documentary a...

The term art cinema has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film dart movement, the postwar avant-gardes, various Asian new wave...

Film and philosophy have much in common, and books have been written on film and philosophy. But can films be, or do, philosophy? Can they think? F...

One of the most fascinating phenomena of 1960s film culture is the emergence of American sexploitation filmssalacious indies made on the margins of...

The theory and practice of propaganda is of increasing interest in this century, as its use by authoritarian regimes is growing. This anthology is ...

Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement is the first film-philosophy book on radical, pioneer, visionary' (Dargis 2013) filmmaker Shirley Clarke ...

From immigrant ghetto love stories such as The Cohens and the Kellys (1926), through romantic comedies including Meet the Parents (2000) and Knocke...

On its release in 1986, Aliens was an immediate commercial and critical success and consolidated writer-director James Camerons status as a major n...

Exotic Cinema is the first systematic analysis of decentred exoticism in contemporary transnational and world cinema. By critically examining regim...

From Sergei Eisenstein, a legendary pioneer in filmmaking and director of Battleship Potemkin, Film Form collects twelve essays written between 192...

One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely t...

This is a book about Palestinians elsewhere and Palestinian elsewheres. Articulating an ambiguous right to remain out-of-place as a spatialized res...

Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernismwith a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outrig...

This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics....

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.The volume explores three...

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full...

From films that claim the status of harsh realism to others which embody aspects of the tradition of modernism or the poetic, art cinema encompasse...

Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, inclu...