Film Theory & Criticism

Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniqu...

Featuring Field of Dreams, The Bad News Bears, A League of Their Own, and more: a probing and entertaining work at the intersection of pop culture ...

As cinema industries around the globe adjusted to the introduction of synch-sound technology, the Soviet Union was also shifting culturally, politi...

During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the Best Director...

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...

This exploration of fashion in American silent film offers fresh perspectives on the era preceding the studio system, and the evolution of Hollywoo...

The first behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the Academy Awards.   For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Ac...

Exploration, intertwined with home-seeking, has always defined America. Corbin argues that films about significant cultural landscapes in America e...

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for ...

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for ...

In 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy's heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger's heart was grafted into his body. Numerous com...

In 1991, Jean-Luc Nancy's heart gave out. In one of the first such procedures in France, a stranger's heart was grafted into his body. Numerous com...

What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies after World War II? In Travel...

Set to generate and influence discussions in the field for years to come, this is an encyclopaedic work on the ever-evolving genre of poetry film. ...

Bollywoods New Woman examines Bollywoods construction and presentation of the Indian Woman since the 1990s. The groundbreaking collection illuminat...

Bollywoods New Woman examines Bollywoods construction and presentation of the Indian Woman since the 1990s. The groundbreaking collection illuminat...

What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies after World War II? In Travel...

Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists and critics...

Ken Loach's 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of Billy, a working class boy who find...

In Revisiting Womens Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and e...

A New History of Documentary Film, Second Edition offers a much-needed resource, considering the very rapid changes taking place within documentary...

One of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, Antonio Pietrangeli went on to focus his lens upon the female subject. Ei...

Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique f...

Bringing together a group of international scholars from diverse academic backgrounds, Grease Is the Word analyses the cultural phenomenon Grease. ...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. This critical study engages with the films of the Danish dir...