Film Theory & Criticism

In Coming of Age on Film: Stories of Transformation in World Cinema, essays by twelve film scholars examine the theme of coming of age in the cinem...

This book presents a detailed academic study of suspense building in Stephen Kings horror novels The Shining and Carrie and their respective film a...

This volume uses the metaphor of schooling to highlight the conviction that the widespread attention given to moving pictures in their various venu...

This collection of essays focuses on current theories of sensation and synaesthesia in films and audiovisual works from a variety of methodological...

Many critics have approached Terrence Malicks work from a philosophical perspective, arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema. With...

Since publication of Thomas Mores Utopia more than five hundred years ago, there has been a steady stream of literary works that depict a better wo...

The 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, based on Thomas Harris's bestseller, was a game-changer in the fields of both horror and crime cinema. FBI ...

With the consolidation of `indie culture in the 21st century, female filmmakers face an increasingly indifferent climate. This ground-breaking col...

With the success of novels such as The Shadow of the Wind and films like The Others, contemporary Spanish culture has contributed a great deal to t...

How do you make a successful documentary in an era of media turmoil, network disruption and increasing financial restrictions? This is the question...

Released in conjunction with the 75th-anniversary DVD release of The Wizard of Oz, this book is the definitive story of how one of Americas most be...

Ranging from the dawn of the silent era to todays blockbusters and independent films, this revamped second edition chronicles the significant contr...

David Peace is an emerging author who is widely read and taught, and whose novels are increasingly translated into commercial film (The Damned Unit...

Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool ...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES, featuring interviews with Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Guillermo del ToroBefore the Second World War t...

During her decades-long career in film, author Katherine Ann Wilson has amassed an amazing collection of movie memorabilia from 50 different major ...

Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies through...