Film Theory & Criticism

Adaptation was central to André Bazins lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and...

Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial l...

A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film presents a collection of original essays that explore major issues surrounding the state of current do...

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly s...

Is culture a luxury? In this era of austerity, the value of the arts has been a topic of heated debate in Greece, where the countrys economic troub...

Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japans active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the f...

Sue Short examines how fairy tale tropes have been reworked in contemporary film, identifying familiar themes in a range of genres including rom c...

This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 ma...

During the 1930s, Austrian film production companies developed a process to navigate the competing demands of audiences in Nazi Germany and those f...

Meta-Narrative in the Movies investigates narrative theory through close analysis of films featuring stories and storytelling. The cinematic interp...

Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where lightness of tone permits audience engagement wi...

This book explores, from a sociological perspective, the relationship between acting as symbolic work and the commercialization of popular culture....

Corporeality in Early Cinema inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture, and screen praxes overall are inherently embo...

In Public Spectacles of Violence Rielle Navitski examines the proliferation of cinematic and photographic images of criminality, bodily injury, and...

In Public Spectacles of Violence Rielle Navitski examines the proliferation of cinematic and photographic images of criminality, bodily injury, and...

Impressionism captured the world's imagination in the late nineteenth century and remains with us today. Portraying the dynamic effects of modernit...

At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer menus by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine h...

The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities in the contemporary mome...

For courses in Introduction to Film   An engaging, accessible introduction to film Understanding Movies provides valuable insight into the langua...