Film Theory & Criticism

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...

A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imaginations of filmmakers and audiences for over a century...

A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imaginations of filmmakers and audiences for over a century...

It has long been known that Hollywood was actively involved in shaping US public opinion during World War II. Less well documented are the ways in ...

Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in c...

How has the digital turn shaped the practices of film historical research and teaching? While computational approaches have been used by film histo...

The cinema of Iran is celebrated both locally and internationally, yet elements of this diverse field remain comparatively understudied. This book ...

This book traces the development of popular cinema from its inception to the present day to understand why humankind has expanded its viewing of po...

In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptica...

Re-examines notions of East and West in contemporary European cinemaTwenty-five years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of ...

What links Italian neorealism to Django Unchained, French comic books to Third-World insurgency, and Bollywood song-and-dance to Eastern Bloc film ...

During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce t...

Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain offers a rich new exploration of interwar women's fictions ...

This book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. Starting with a study of the kiss in sile...

Moving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognisable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronised line of...

Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body i...

Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little at...

Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention i...

As one of the most popular and versatile Hong Kong film stars, Chow Yun-fat has enjoyed international success over the last four decades. Using Cho...

Near to one billion people call slums their home, making it a reasonable claim to describe our world as a 'planet of slums.' But how has this hard ...

Offering a variety of case studies in which films have been remade across national borders, Transnational Film Remakes provides an analysis of cine...

Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political, and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' fro...

Over the past two decades road cinema has become an increasingly popular form of expression for European directors. Focusing on a corpus of films f...

The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it i...

Headline: Examines how LGBT filmmaking in France and Spain moves across borders and finds new audiencesBlurb: The book advances the current state o...

Extreme violence in contemporary European art cinema is generally interpreted for its affective potential, but what about the significance of the e...

From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andr Bazin...