Film Theory & Criticism

Nothing succeeds like success, as the saying goes, but in the case of Donald Duck the opposite is true: the candor with which Donald reveals his we...

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character development and narrative themes within the struggles and successes prese...

Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character development and narrative themes within the struggles and successes prese...

Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Hos enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Joseph J...

From early cinema to the digital era, Color in Motion explores the vibrant history of color on screen The art of producing color in movies is a fa...

A CITY FULL OF HAWKS: ON THE WATERFRONT SEVENTY YEARS LATER, STILL THE GREAT CONTENDER

Successful cult films like The Host and Snowpiercer proved to be harbingers for Bong Joon Hos enormous breakthrough success with Parasite. Joseph J...

Whether its Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to F...

Whether its Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to F...

In 2020-21, the classic HBO show The Sopranos (1999-2007) saw a rapid increase in viewership and was proclaimed to be one of the hottest shows of l...

Dystopian and post-apocalyptic movies from 1968 to 2021 usually conclude with optimism, with a window into what is possible in the face of social d...

This book provides an overview of the growing field of screenwriting research and is essential reading for both those new to the field and establis...

This book undertakes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural interrogation of the Global South  through  the  prisms  of  media  and  cultural  stu...

Cinema under National Reconstruction calls for a revisionist understanding of state film censorship during successive Cold War military regimes in ...

Cinema under National Reconstruction calls for a revisionist understanding of state film censorship during successive Cold War military regimes in ...

'Well-researched ... I was fascinated' Roger Lewis, Daily MailFrom its debut in 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild suc...

Directed in 1974 by Roman Polanski from a script by Robert Towne, Chinatown is a brilliant reworking of film noir set in a drought-stricken Los Ang...

This book provides an examination of Big Wednesday as an unconventional film that employs a mythic sensibility in its representation of the loss of...

Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View (1974) is a renowned example of the paranoid conspiracy thriller, a genre that was a marker of the 1970s. The pe...

Released after the large-scale frescos of Nashville (1975) and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bulls History Lesson (1976), 3 Women (1977)...

With contributions from Özcan Alper, Damir Arsenijevi, Friederike Bassenge, Alen Drljevi, Andreas Hamburger, Camellia Hancheva, Denana Husremovi, L...

Celebrate the world of movie monsters and beasts with Kaiju Unleashed, a complete reference guide to strange creatures in film and how they came to...

Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studiesAfter the linguistic and the...

Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of violence elsewhere - exploring works and discourses about violence in d...

This book develops a critical and theoretical approach to the semiotics of motion pictures as they are applied to a broader range of constructions ...

This book, and its individual essays, examine key emerging and evolving practices, theories and methodologies that operate in the blurred boundary ...

Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s investigates the function of music in European cinema after the Second World...

This book is the first collection of essays to offer detailed examinations of the role that close attention to individual films plays in the philos...

'An instant classic . . . funny, sharp, entertaining.' ANDREW O'HAGAN, author of Caledonian RoadA riotous and revealing story of Hollywood's most s...

The definitive account of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent American film-making, if not the entire world.'Suprem...

Sie stehen oft in der zweiten oder dritten Reihe vieler Filme und sind dennoch das Herz und der Verstand zahlreicher Produktionen Frauen im Film. ...

SIDEWAYS UNCORKED: THE PERFECT MOVIE ABOUT DRINKING WINE

THE TAKING OF NEW YORK CITY: CRIME ON THE SCREEN AND IN THE STREETS IN THE 1970S BIG APPLE