Film Theory & Criticism

Examines new sinophone modes of filmic address in Hong Kong cinema in the 20th century, enabling a developing cosmopolitanism to emerge Examines n...

Reassesses the post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema from a new mnemo-political perspective Establishes a new framework of understanding the tensions ...

Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying...

Louis Van Gasteren was one of the most prolific filmmakers in the history of the Netherlands, with a resume that includes nearly eighty documentari...

Louis Van Gasteren was one of the most prolific filmmakers in the history of the Netherlands, with a resume that includes nearly eighty documentari...

This volume examines afresh the impact upon acting and performance of digital technologies. It is concerned with how digital culture combines the t...

Since the release of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! in 2001, the film musical has returned to popularity as one of the most important cinematic genre...

In the fading atmosphere of the New Hollywood era, William Friedkin the wunderkind director with an Academy Award for his cop drama, The French Co...

Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was one of most charismatic and protean figures to emerge from the American independent film movement of the 1960s and '7...

As sites of continual change and transformation, cities are fundamentally forgetful places. Yet at the same time, urban areas are also homes to mus...

Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by...

The German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II left a lasting mark on Dutch memory and culture. This book is the first to explore dep...

This book argues that there are constitutive links between early twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice, on the one hand, and...

Jolted Images brings together a large cast of mainstream and avant-garde cineastes, artists, photographers, comics creators, poets, and more, to re...

Orphan works, or artworks for which no copyright holder is traceable, pose a growing problem for museums, archives, and other heritage institutions...

A key figure in early avant-garde cinema, Walter Ruttmann was a pioneer of experimental animation and the creative force behind one of the silent e...

Arguing that today's viewers move through a character's brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape, this book approaches ...

The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural f...

In the 1970s, cities across the United States and Western Europe faced a deep social and political crisis that challenged established principles of...

Film criticism is in crisis. Dwelling on the many film journalists made redundant at newspapers, magazines, and other 'old media' in past years, co...

This rich study provides a comprehensive introduction to media philosophy while offering a new perspective on the concept and function of transmiss...

Much of our time at the movies is spent in other peoples homes. Cinema is, after all, often about everyday life. Spectacle of Property is the first...

Why do early films present the Netherlands as a country full of canals and windmills, where people wear traditional costumes and wooden shoes, whil...

For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meuniers insightful thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. ...

The impact of French film critic André Bazin (1918-1958) on the development of film studies, though generally acknowledged, remains contested. A pa...

Sparked by a groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop titled Disorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film, scholarly and archival interest in colour as a cruc...

With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images...

When is it OK to lie about the past? If history is a story, then everyone knows that the 'official story' is told by the winners. No matter what we...

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers re...

Planet Auschwitz explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing ...

Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum b...

Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked monolith of paranoia, part science fiction, part body horror, part noir thriller cum b...

Planet Auschwitz explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing ...

From their very inception, movies have served two seemingly contradictory purposes. On one hand, they transport us to fantastical worlds and displa...

From their very inception, movies have served two seemingly contradictory purposes. On one hand, they transport us to fantastical worlds and displa...

After Authority explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system that ideally stems the ree...