Film Theory & Criticism

Perturbatory narration is a heuristic concept, applicable both quantitatively and qualitatively to a specific type of complex narratives for which ...

Robert T. Eberwein uses a hypothesis from psychoanalytic theory to explore the frequently noticed similarity between dreaming and watching a film. ...

 A collection of essays by American art critic Dave Hickey, nicknamed The Bad Boy of Art Criticism.   When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surf...

Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialized films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of...

Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers...

The first full-length study of the iconic 1960s film The Great Escape and its place in Hollywood and American history.Escaped POW Virgil Hilts (Ste...

Mario Bavas Blood and Black Lace (1964) is a legendary title, and is commonly considered as the archetypal giallo. A murder mystery about a faceles...

Alternate history is a genre of fiction that, although connected to science fiction, has its own rich history and lineage. With its roots in the wr...

Shadow of a Doubt (1943) was British-born Alfred Hitchcocks sixth American film and the one that he at various times identified as his favourite an...

Snuff (1976) occupies a unique place in cinematic history, as the first commercially successful film to capitalise upon the myth of the snuff movie...

The Stepford Wives (1975) occupies an unusual position in cinematic history. As is often the case with cult texts, the film was both a box office f...

Since its release at the mid-point of the 1980s American horror boom, Stuart Gordons Re-Animator (1985) has endured as one of the most beloved cult...

William Kleins Mr. Freedom (1969) is one of the most important American satirical films ever produced, the tale of an American superhero with disas...

Images of southern Italy as a place of arrival for migrants with different origins and backgrounds have in recent years proliferated in Italian med...

Prevenge (2016) is an entertainingly dark 21st-century horror movie detailing the serial killing journey of heavily pregnant Ruth. Its a cleverly c...

Directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer, The Omen (1976) is perhaps the best in the devil-child cycle of movies that followed in th...

Martin Scorseses Cape Fear (1991) opens with a shot of water and climaxes on a raging river. Despite, or perhaps because of, the films great commer...

Premiering at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Andrzej uawskis Possession remains a distinct phenomenon. Though in competition for the illustrious Pa...

Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywoods contradictory attitudes tow...

Scarred by the Second World War, divided during the Cold War, and turned into a massive construction site in the early postwall years, Berlin has d...

Robert Eggers' The Witch (2015) is one of the most critically acclaimed horror films of recent years, praised as a genre film of unusual depth wh...

Robert Eggers' The Witch (2015) is one of the most critically acclaimed horror films of recent years, praised as a genre film of unusual depth wh...

Widely regarded as one of the foundational 'Unholy Trinity' of folk horror film, The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) has been comparatively over-shado...

This volume offers a new and expanded history of the documentary form across a range of times and contexts, featuring original essays by leading hi...

There is something weird and eerie going on in the oneiric Iranian ghost-town Bad City. A mysterious female vampire, clad in a long-black veil, imb...

Sam Raimis The Evil Dead (1981) is one of the most inventive and energetic horror movies of the last 40 years. Released during a period in which th...

Sam Raimis The Evil Dead (1981) is one of the most inventive and energetic horror movies of the last 40 years. Released during a period in which th...

Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with internationa...

Costa Rica is a country known internationally for its eco-credentials, dazzling coastlines, and reputation as one of the happiest and most peaceful...