Film Theory & Criticism

The Ku Klux Klan was reestablished in Atlanta in 1915, barely a week before the Atlanta premiere of The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith's paean t...

This book explicates how many films intersect black suffering and God-talk in ways that instantiate secular limitations to divine efficacy. The boo...

This book explores fictional representations and narrative functions of animal characters in animated and live-action film and television, examinin...

Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hall...

Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hall...

Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festiv...

This history of British and American television drama since 1970 charts the increased transnationalisation of the two production systems. From The ...

An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the...

Studying British Cinema: 19992009 adopts a number of approaches to popularist, mainstream, and esoteric arthouse films. The book considers the inst...

The third issue of Splice Volume 6 is a 'Prison on film'-themed issue, which will include a long article on the film Bronson, which, in star Tom Ha...

The third issue of Splice Volume 6 is a 'Prison on film'-themed issue, which will include a long article on the film Bronson, which, in star Tom Ha...

Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an intere...

Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an intere...

Tsotsi (2005) is a life-affirming, if raw, coming-of-age story that boldly confronts the legacy of Apartheid and Africa's present struggle to overc...

The Devil's Backbone (2001) is a Gothic film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, 2006). The story centers on a ghost that ...

Few filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovskys cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker (1977), is arguably the most th...

The makers of Brainstorm (1983) spent more than a decade transferring the revolutionary concept of an empathy machine from page to screen, only for...

Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielbergs most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four seque...

Ex Machina (2014) impressed critics and audiences alike with its bold ideas and all-too-realistic depiction of the unexpected consequences of const...

Few filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovskys cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker (1977), is arguably the most th...

Ex Machina (2014) impressed critics and audiences alike with its bold ideas and all-too-realistic depiction of the unexpected consequences of const...

Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an intere...

Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an intere...

Studying British Cinema: 19992009 adopts a number of approaches to popularist, mainstream, and esoteric arthouse films. The book considers the inst...