Film Theory & Criticism

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...

Tim Burton has had a massive impact on twentieth and twenty-first century culture through his films, art, and writings. This book examines how his ...

This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It ...

This book discusses British cinema's representation of the Great War during the 1920s. It argues that popular cinematic representations of the war ...

The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a sou...

The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical ...

The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical ...

This comprehensive historical account demonstrates the rich diversity in 1970s British experimental filmmaking, acting as a form of reclamation for...

East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and childr...

East Germany's film monopoly, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft, produced a films ranging beyond simple propaganda to westerns, musicals, and childr...

Gaming Film explores the growing influence of computer games on contemporary cinema. From the type of stories told to their complex structural patt...

Using the four tissue types (connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular), Dudenhoeffer expands and complicates the subgenre of body horror. Chan...

By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema...

This book argues theoretically for, and exemplify through critical and historical analysis, the interrelatedness of discourses on scale, distance, ...

This study examines how a particular selection of films turned American cultural material of the 1990s into satirical experiences for viewers and f...

3D Cinema: Optical Illusions and Tactile Experiences questions the common frameworks used for discussing 3D cinema, realism and spectacle, in order...

In examining the enduring appeal that rags-to-riches stories exert on our collective imagination, this book highlights the central role that films ...

A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. I...

This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety d...

Offering a multifaceted approach to the Mexican-born director Guillermo del Toro, this volume examines his wide-ranging oeuvre and traces the conne...

Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and...