Film Theory & Criticism

The motion picture industry is dependent on technology. It is therefore important for scholars and students of film, media, and communication to un...

Often hailed as one of the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos is a product of its time, firmly embedded in the problems of post-i...

John Paizss Crime Wave examines the Winnipeg filmmakers 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a significant prec...

With more than 250 million speakers globally, the Lusophone world has a rich history of filmmaking. This edited volume explores the representation ...

French comedy films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural references, but at the same time...

Animation, Sport and Culture is a wide-ranging study of both sport and animated films. From Goofy to Goalkeepers, Wallace and Gromit to Tiger Woods...

Human rights film festivals have been steadily growing in number in recent years. They are all bound by a common thread, human rights, and yet show...

As the leading fan magazine in the postwar era, Photoplay constructed female stars as social types who embodied a romantic and leisured Californi...

For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellinis death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole. Exploring an e...

The decades following the independences from colonialism saw a pioneering generation of realist novels and films emerge across Africa and South Asi...

Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost,...

Since the golden era of silent movies, stars have been described as screen gods, goddesses and idols. This is the story of how Olympus moved to Hol...

Uniquely placed to explore the worldwide phenomenon of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy beginning with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the book ...

The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other fi...

Virtually every current widescreen movie, tv broadcast or streamed image benefits from the techniques that have evolved since the widespread ado...

Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses the p...

Released in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien has come to be regarded as a classic film, and has been widely written about. But how have audiences engage...

This collection explores the post-2000 film Western. With examples ranging from major American films, through acclaimed international productions, ...

As film history's oldest and one of today's most prominent forms, the live-action short film has both historical and contemporary significance. Fel...

Anyone who has loved British films will want to read this book. In choosing twenty films, many of them classics of their kind think of Brief Encou...

This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Cont...

The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influe...