Film Theory & Criticism

In this vibrant and dynamic book-length study drawing on a broad tapestry of research, Terence McSweeney offers an exploration of The Hurt Locker (...

This book explores the development of Robert Lepages distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages...

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book analyses the work of Oliver Ston...

This scholarly compendium offers a comprehensive analysis of King Hu's transformative impact on Chinese martial arts cinema. It begins with a found...

This is the first book-length study to address film remaking from a unique perspective of a cross-cultural exchange between two countries which not...

Val Lewton's horror films revolutionized a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasizing shadows and abse...

From relatively humble beginnings in a King Kong-inspired Japanese studio picture, the kaij? eiga has developed into a global genre. While the orig...

From its inception, Brazilian cinema has combined extra-filmic artistic and cultural forms, both local and imported, resulting in an original aesth...

Looking Beyond Neoliberalism explores how cinema is responding to the economic crisis that sprang to public attention in 2008 and continues to shap...

This book explores the ways in which film engages with historical events and their impact on present-day landscapes, through a spatial reading of f...

Offering the first comprehensive study of Greek film noir, this book explores the reception and influence of U.S. and European film noir and neo-no...

Reanimated offers a new perspective on twenty-first century American horror film remakes. Counter to the critical dismissal of genre remakes as der...

This book approaches film and television acting from an actor's perspective rather than that of an audience member, and therefore theorizes how scr...

Since the early 2000s, Norway has produced a regular stream of horror cinema including Cold Prey, Troll Hunter, Thelma and The Innocents. Norwegian...

Born in Oklahoma into the Chickasaw Nation, Wallace Fox directed films over the span of four decades. Known primarily for Westerns and mystery film...

Cinema and Machine Vision unfolds the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television using computers. With...

The makers of Brainstorm (1983) spent more than a decade transferring the revolutionary concept of an empathy machine from page to screen, only for...

Aimed at newcomers to literature and film, this book is a guide for the analysis of Shakespeare on film. Starting with an introduction to the main ...

This is a comparative analysis of Maghrebi-French and North African emigre cinema in France. Since the early 1980s, the arrival of Beur cinema film...

Aimed at teachers and students new to the subject, Studying Horror Cinema is a comprehensive survey of the genre from silent cinema to its twenty-f...

States of danger and deceit places key films (Z (1969), The Mattei Affair (1972), State of Siege (1972), The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), ...

Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Ja...

Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Ja...

An exploration of the fundamental bond between cinema and the cosmos   The advent of cinema occurred alongside pivotal developments in astronomy a...

An exploration of the fundamental bond between cinema and the cosmos   The advent of cinema occurred alongside pivotal developments in astronomy a...

What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept ex- - meaning from, outside, and no lon...

Lucid, lively and extremely knowledgeable. Sight & Sound Catherine Fowlers study positions Jeanne Dielman as a contrary classic, its contrarin...