Film Theory & Criticism

The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook showcases the best academic debates, discussions and research from the previous year, as previously publis...

In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam. Ever a noisy genre, post-Viet...

This major reimagining of the history of Soviet film and its cultural impact explores the fundamental transformations in how film, through the sens...

This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the F...

In Womens Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting t...

What is the relationship between a cinematic grid of color and that most visceral of negative affects, disgust? How might anxiety be a matter of an...

This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical interwar period. The collectio...

In recent years, the enduring appeal of Alfred Hitchcock to film studies has been evidenced by the proliferation of innovative approaches to the di...

In recent years, the enduring appeal of Alfred Hitchcock to film studies has been evidenced by the proliferation of innovative approaches to the di...

From Memento and Insomnia to the Batman films, The Prestige, and Inception, lies play a central role in every Christopher Nolan film. Characters in...

In 2004, the Academy Awardnominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sou...

A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a r...

In this provocative study of cinematic and televisual representations of sex radicalism, Carol Siegel explores how representations of sexually expl...

Understanding democracy through film philosophy and political theory Shining new light on our understanding of cinemas ways of political thinking, ...

Recent critically and commercially acclaimed Latin American films such as XXY, Contracorriente, and Plan B create an affective and bodily connectio...

Stalin's Final Films explores a neglected period in the history of Soviet cinema, breathing new life into a body of films long considered moribund ...

For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person ...

Adapted by James Ivory from André Acimans novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, the film Call Me by Your Name has been passionately received among...