Film Theory & Criticism

In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse eth...

Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculin...

This book is a thought-provoking study that expands on film scholarship on noir and feminist scholarship on postfeminism, subjectivity, and represe...

Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memo...

Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing comedies produced in Italy f...

The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema. This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, foc...

Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have ...

COLOUR - OR DO NOT. THERE IS NO TRY.Feel the force and colour your way through a galaxy of iconic artwork from Star Wars. From Ewoks on Endor to st...

Powers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinemas persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news ...

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteu...

Cahiers du Cinéma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the ...

World Cinema and the Visual Arts combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. ...

Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining various films and filmmakers who are not...

King Vidor (1894-1982) had the longest career of any Hollywood director, and his works include some of the most dramatic, sublime moments in the...

In this new edition of Licence To Thrill, James Chapman builds upon the success of his classic work, regarded as the definitive scholarly study of ...

Film and Female Consciousness analyses three contemporary films that offer complex and original representations of women's thoughtfulness and indiv...

'An enlightening page-turner, stacked with stories and stats that will have your jaw on the floor'Anna Smith, host of the Girls On Film podcast'Thi...

This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines current cinematic and media landscapes from the perspective of transnational feminist practice...

A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this col...

A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, indust...

The zombie apocalypse hasnt happenedyetbut zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the unde...

David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), as they investigate a series of...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the evolving landscape of Bollywood cinema in response to recent socio-political changes in India, in...

Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. This is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within th...

In Describing Cinema, award-winning film scholar Timothy Corrigan explores the art and poetics of writing about film. Part theory, part rhetoric, a...

The Cinema Van, a vehicle equipped with film screening equipment, was used by the British, Belgian and French governments to distribute their educa...

A fascinating guide to themes and films in the expanding Japanese megaverse. For fans, culture watchers, and perplexed outsiders, this expanded edi...

Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Joao Rui Guerra da Mata are one of the most cosmopolitan duos in contemporary world cinema. Their films tell us stories of...

States of danger and deceit places key films (Z (1969), The Mattei Affair (1972), State of Siege (1972), The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), ...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Screenplay Theory offers a comprehensive introduction and overview of screenplay theory as applied in the analysi...