Film Theory & Criticism
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Blood in the Streets: Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema
Austin FisherCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Current price €93.59Original price €103.99Save 10% -
The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television
Caetlin Benson-AllottCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Film 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...
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Theatre Through the Camera Eye: The Poetics of an Intermedial Encounter
Laura SavaCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99How do we experience theatre through film? Laura Sava critically engages with the filmic representation of theatre, focusing on a selection of art ...
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Direct Address in the Cinema
Tom BrownCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50This book examines the role of direct address within fiction cinema. Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when t...
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Adaptation, Authorship, and Contemporary Women Filmmakers
S. CobbCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. T...
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Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman''s Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror
David GrevenCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physic...
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God on the Big Screen: A History of Hollywood Prayer from the Silent Era to Today
Terry LindvallCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Links film history with church history over the past century, illuminating Americas broader relationship with religious currents over time Moments...
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America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies
Harry M. BenshoffCurrent price €47.83Original price €51.99A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and ...
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Round Our Way: Sam Hanna''s Visual Legacy
Heather NicholsonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the Lowry of filmmaking by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 19...
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Kafkaesque Cinema
Angelos KoutsourakisCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99For all its familiarity as a widely used term, Kafkaesque cinema remains an often-baffling concept that is poorly understood by film scholars. Taki...
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Studying The Hurt Locker
Terence McSweeneyCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99In this vibrant and dynamic book-length study drawing on a broad tapestry of research, Terence McSweeney offers an exploration of The Hurt Locker (...
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Robert Lepage''s Original Stage Productions: Making Theatre Global
Karen FrickerCurrent price €24.38Original price €26.50This book explores the development of Robert Lepages distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages...
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The Cinema of Oliver Stone: Art, Authorship and Activism
Henry ThompsonCurrent price €23.91Original price €25.99This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book analyses the work of Oliver Ston...
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King Hu''s Kung Fu Cinematic Art: An Interdisciplinary Discourse
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €87.29Original price €96.99This scholarly compendium offers a comprehensive analysis of King Hu's transformative impact on Chinese martial arts cinema. It begins with a found...
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Hollywood Remakes of Iconic British Films: Class, Gender and Stardom
Agnieszka RasmusCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99This is the first book-length study to address film remaking from a unique perspective of a cross-cultural exchange between two countries which not...
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Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton
Michael LeeCurrent price €23.91Original price €25.99Val Lewton's horror films revolutionized a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasizing shadows and abse...
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Transnational Kaiju: Exploitation, Globalisation and Cult Monster Movies
Steven RawleCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99From relatively humble beginnings in a King Kong-inspired Japanese studio picture, the kaij? eiga has developed into a global genre. While the orig...
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Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99From its inception, Brazilian cinema has combined extra-filmic artistic and cultural forms, both local and imported, resulting in an original aesth...
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Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Francophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis
Martin O'ShaughnessyCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Looking Beyond Neoliberalism explores how cinema is responding to the economic crisis that sprang to public attention in 2008 and continues to shap...
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Film, Hot War Traces and Cold War Spaces
Maurizio CinquegraniCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99This book explores the ways in which film engages with historical events and their impact on present-day landscapes, through a spatial reading of f...
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Greek Film Noir
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Offering the first comprehensive study of Greek film noir, this book explores the reception and influence of U.S. and European film noir and neo-no...
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Reanimated: The Contemporary American Horror Remake
Laura MeeCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Reanimated offers a new perspective on twenty-first century American horror film remakes. Counter to the critical dismissal of genre remakes as der...
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Screen Acting: A Cognitive Approach
Dan LebergCurrent price €23.91Original price €25.99This book approaches film and television acting from an actor's perspective rather than that of an audience member, and therefore theorizes how scr...
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Norwegian Nightmares: The Horror Cinema of a Nordic Country
Christer Bakke AndresenCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Since the early 2000s, Norway has produced a regular stream of horror cinema including Cold Prey, Troll Hunter, Thelma and The Innocents. Norwegian...
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