Film Theory & Criticism

In Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (1979), Syd Field first popularized the Three-Act Paradigm of Setup, Confrontation and Resolution f...

In Dying in Full Detail Jennifer Malkowski explores digital media's impact on one of documentary film's greatest taboos: the recording of death. De...

Media platforms continually evolve, but the issues surrounding media representations of gender and sexuality have persisted across decades. Spectat...

This book posits adaptations as 'hideous progeny,' Mary Shelley's term for her novel, Frankenstein . Like Shelley's novel and her fictional Creatur...

Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism provides a platform for a new politics of criticism, a collaborative ethos for a different kind...

Research shows that, while people around the world consistently nominate television as their most important news source, much of the content of new...

Why do screen narratives remain so different in an age of convergence and globalisation that many think is blurring distinctions? This collection a...

This book uses six canonical novelists and their recreations in a variety of media to argue a reconceptualisation of our approach to the study of a...

The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was denied by many-first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously urged his publis...

The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was denied by many-first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously urged his publis...

A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television is a response to a significant increase of judgment and judgmentalism in contemporary television, fil...

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold W...

Focusing on dark or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and film...

Body, Soul and Cyberspace explores how recent science-fiction cinema answers questions about body and soul, virtuality, and spirituality in the dig...

Many South American films that use the popular road movie format to examine regional culture and attitudes, especially in Argentina and Brazil. Pin...

The links between cinema and war machines have long been established. This book explores the range, form, and valences of trauma narratives that pe...

The BBC TV series Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013; this book analyses how promotion, commemorative merchandise and 3D cinema scr...

Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory...

Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through ...

This book presents a new approach to film analysis. It provides methods for analysing meaning making in film through tracking concrete details of f...

Marx and the Moving Image approaches cinema from a Marxist perspective. It argues that the supposed 'end of history', marked by the comprehensive t...

Stanley Kubrick hailed The Shining as 'the scariest horror film of all time' before its release in 1980. Though the film opened to poor reviews, it...

A retelling of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope featuring stunning development art from the original Lucasfilm concept artists.Relive the excitemen...