Film Theory & Criticism

Recollecting Lotte Eisner provides the first in-depth examination of the remarkable transnational career of film journalist, archivist, and histori...

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Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some ...

Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some ...

Since The Birth of a Nation became the first Hollywood blockbuster in 1915, movies have struggled to reckon with the American Southas both a place ...

The entrepreneur of phonograph concerts and motion-picture programs Lyman H. Howe was the leading traveling exhibitor of his time and the exemplar ...

George A. Romeros Dawn of the Dead (1978) is celebrated both as a splatter movie and as a satire of 1970s consumerism. One of the most financially ...

Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspeakable urges and an overwhel...

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...

Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than fo...

The second edition of Movies and American Society is a comprehensive collection of essays and primary documents that explore the ways in which movi...

Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonia...

How did the introduction of recorded music affect the production, viewing experience, and global export of movies? In Movies, Songs, and Electric S...

In December of 1997, the International Monetary Fund announced the largest bailout package in its history, aimed at stabilizing the South Korean ec...

Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonia...

In the 1950s, a group of critics writing for Cahiers du Cinéma launched one of the most successful and influential trends in the history of film cr...

Fans of cult films don't just watch the movies they love-they frequently engage with them in other, more creative ways as well. Making European Cul...

The work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of artistic inspiration and ideological controversy in literature, philosophy, and music, as well...

Media representations and practices that have emerged out of contemporary wars have been well documented by a wide array of books and articles. The...

Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until n...

Celebrity culture today teems with stars who challenge long-held ideas about a normal body. Plus-size and older actresses are rebelling against the...

Cormac McCarthy is renowned as the author of popular and acclaimed novels such as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Road. Throughout h...

In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is i...

Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal langua...

The American popular imagination has long portrayed World War II as the good war, fought by the greatest generation for the sake of freedom and dem...

In The Long Take, Lutz Koepnick posits extended shot durations as a powerful medium for exploring different modes of perception and attention in ou...

The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities in the contemporary mome...

On Story is film school in a box, a lifetimes worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages. Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Lo...

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

Global Cinema Networks investigates the evolving aesthetic forms, technological and industrial conditions, and social impacts of cinema in the twen...

Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformatio...

Since the 1970s, the name Stephen King has been synonymous with horror. His vast number of books has spawned a similar number of feature films and ...

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

An ethnographic study of the Egyptian film industry The enormous influence of the Egyptian film industry on popular culture and collective imaginat...