Film Theory & Criticism

The newest volume in the Film Theory in Practice Series, Auteur Theory and My Son John offers a concise introduction to authorship and auteur theo...

What are the barriers to womens participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era?In this book, Ellie Tomsett ...

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over the past 30 years, the fields ...

In December 1967, Time magazine put Bonnie and Clyde on its cover and proudly declared that Hollywood cinema was undergoing a renaissance. For the ...

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescap...

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward womens ...

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward womens ...

This volume brings together scholarship from both established scholars and early career academics to provide fresh insights and new research on the...

Romantic comedies have had an incredible influence on popular culture, shaping everything from how we think of relationships to fashion. Often swep...

Brisk [and] forceful. Sight & SoundLucidly argued. Total FilmMargarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorffs The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1...

Discovering the potential of video and film artAn informative, inspiring, richly illustrated book on contemporary moving-image art. This book sets ...

Dive into the dark and dazzling world of Repo! The Genetic Opera with this comprehensive guide by Hollywood historian Staci Layne Wilson. From on-s...

Hollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IA...

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes a collection of production, per...

Hitchcock was a masterful director, popular with audiences of all ages and critically acclaimed both during and after his unusually long career. Wh...

March 20, 2019 marked the end of an era -- Disney took ownership of the movie empire that was Fox. For almost a century before that historic date, ...

Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist. Blending a trademark black hum...

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier ...

Rediscover all the reasons you love The Matrix!Whether you saw the movie in theaters in 1999 or watched it for the first time at home, there is no ...

Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impa...

Between the end of the Civil War (1949) and the colonels' military coup (1967) Greece underwent tremendous political, economic, and social trans...

The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the his...

This innovative study finds that, through his unique representation of violence, Argentine director Pablo Trapero has established himself as one of...

Global Cinema Studies in Landscape Allegory explores the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a...

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier ...

Theorists of the soundtrack have helped us understand how the voice and music in the cinema impact a spectator's experience. James Buhler and Hanna...

In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers into this fascinating subgenre ...

Eschewing the idea of film reviewer-as-solitary-expert, Jonathan Rosenbaum continues to advance his belief that a critic's ideal role is to mediate...

JAMES DEAN: THE SECRET LIFE OF AN AMERICAN REBEL

Cinema history might have been very different had the first James Bond film not been Dr. No starring Sean Connery in 1962, but Thunderball directed...

Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community's journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Politicised dramas like Victim i...