Film Theory & Criticism

Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jamesons remarkable contributi...

Black Panther was the first Black superhero in mainstream American comics. Black Panther was a cultural phenomenon that broke box office records. Y...

Like the haggadah, the traditional telling of the story of the Israelites exodus from Egypt that is read at the Passover seder, cinema offers a val...

In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during the most ferocious ...

Keywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged politics, combining a m...

In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, moving image artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This st...

The 1940s offered ever-increasing outlets for writers in book publishing, magazines, radio, film, and the nascent television industry, but the stan...

Though often seen as one of America's native cinematic genres, the road movie has lent itself to diverse international contexts and inspired a host...

For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization...

Ethical Encounters is an exploration of the intersection of feminism, human rights, and memory to illuminate how visual practices of recollecting v...

Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine wit...

Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. Now, as the Baby Boomer ...

2024 MPCA/ACA Best Edited Collection, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association (MPCA/ACA) How work and capitalism...

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era offers a new account of the AIDS crisis and the emergence of New Queer Cinema. Author Laura Stamm asks why queer f...

In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, fro...

In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of the films of Stanley Kubrick, fro...

In this official centennial history of the greatest studio in Hollywood, unforgettable stars, untold stories, and rare images from the Warner Bros....

In recent years, the representation of alternative sexuality in the horror film and television has outed itself from the shadows from which it once...

The War of the Worlds was one of a handful of high-prestige science fiction productions in a low-budget era, and initiated modern cinema's reliance...

Matthew Solomon's study of Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film's production and reception history, placing i...

David Lynch's Dune (1984) is the film that science fiction--and the director's most ardent fans--can neither forgive nor forget. Frank Herbert's or...

Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973) has been called a ghost story for adults. Certainly, in contrast to the more explicitly violent and bloodthirs...

George A. Romero is recognised as one of the most culturally significant horror auteurs in American cinema. From his debut Night of the Living Dead...

Explores the rise of animated documentary and non-fiction in the 21st century Examines the digitalisation and virtualisation of culture as the bac...

A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in unde...

Examines the extensive and diverse oeuvre of American filmmaker William Wyler Explores Wyler's work in connection with current themes and topics i...

Examines the cinematic strategies that elicit visceral pleasure in the face of content that is crass, politically problematic, or unethical Discus...

Hong Kong Cinema and Sinophone Transnationalisms explores the intricate complexity of selected films and film-making practices from 1930s Hong Kong...

Explores the cinematic appeal and star persona of Yul Brynner Examines Brynner's star image and performance style over his whole career through ri...

Considers the remake from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives and positions it alongside other serialized cultural forms Examines t...

With sequels, prequels, remakes, spin-offs, or copies of successful films or franchises dominating film and television production, it sometimes see...

Explores the encounter between Emmanuel Levinas' ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the body Presents an interdisciplinary approach that br...