Film Theory & Criticism

Studying British Cinema: 19992009 adopts a number of approaches to popularist, mainstream, and esoteric arthouse films. The book considers the inst...

Studying British Cinema: 19992009 adopts a number of approaches to popularist, mainstream, and esoteric arthouse films. The book considers the inst...

Studying British Cinema: 19992009 adopts a number of approaches to popularist, mainstream, and esoteric arthouse films. The book considers the inst...

Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielbergs most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four seque...

Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner is now widely recognized as an undisputed masterwork of science fiction cinema and one of the most influentia...

For many, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) is not so much a movie as a religious experience. On its release in 1977, CE3K virtually redefi...

Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothics collusion with taxidermy. It tells the story of the e...

The behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic films original release.The story of how The Godfather was...

This book reveals how marginalized communities and women are underrepresented on our screens and, too often, depicted in stereotypical ways. This i...

As American security became increasingly dependent on technology to shape the consciousness of its populace and to defend them, science fiction sho...

This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages ...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies ...

How do we experience theatre through film? Laura Sava critically engages with the filmic representation of theatre, focusing on a selection of art ...

The only Japanese director to have won the Palme d'Or from Cannes more than once, and second only to Ozu Yasujiro in the number of times he has won...

Influential, innovative and aesthetically experimental, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and k...

Focused on French cultural responses to the 2008 global financial crisis in cinema, literature and theory, Derivative Images offers detailed analys...

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

Explores the connections and tensions between Warner Bros. and the Roosevelt administration during 1933Harry and Jack Warner were among the most im...

One of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected critical category of research in film histo...

Exposing and illustrating how an ongoing engagement with nihilistic alienation may contribute to, rather than detract from, the value of life, Cine...

The first book-length English-language study of Hong Kong horror filmsDumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping c...

Why have films with diasporic family narratives increased in popularity in recent years? How do representations of the diasporic family differ from...

This collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-Francois Lyotard's major essays on film: 'Acinema', 'The Unconscious as Mise-en-scene...

For more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, la...

Examines the history of early cinema in Scotland from its inception in 1896 until the 1930sThe popularity of cinema and cinema-going in Scotland wa...

Few directors have played such a prominent role as Francis Veber in shaping the cinematic identity of France over the past forty years, yet in many...

Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political conte...

Film and television create worlds, but they are also of a world, a world that is made up of stuff, to which humans attach meaning. Think of the las...

How do we experience theatre through film? Laura Sava critically engages with the filmic representation of theatre, focusing on a selection of art ...

This book examines the role of direct address within fiction cinema. Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when t...

A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. T...

The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physic...

Links film history with church history over the past century, illuminating Americas broader relationship with religious currents over time Moments...

A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and ...

Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the Lowry of filmmaking by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 19...

For all its familiarity as a widely used term, Kafkaesque cinema remains an often-baffling concept that is poorly understood by film scholars. Taki...