Film Theory & Criticism

From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the la...

Is there more to 1970s British cinema than sex, horror and James Bond? This lively account argues that this is definitely the case and explores the...

How do we define the globalized cinema and media cultures of Bollywood in an age when it has become part of the cultural diplomacy of an emerging s...

Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox explores the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze using the framework of Hollywood's current obsessi...

An accessible case study of television heritage, Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archive draws on the memories of fans and extra...

Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that ...

What are Arabic Europeans watching on television and how does it affect their identities as Europeans? New evidence from seven capitals shows that,...

The Highway Horror Film argues that 'Highway Horror' is a hither-to overlooked sub-genre of the American horror movie. In these films, the American...

Media Framing of the Muslim World examines and explains how news about Islam and the Muslim world is produced and consumed, and how it impacts on r...

The Internet is the most terrifying and most beautifully innovative invention of the twentieth century. Using film theory and close textual analysi...

Media Framing of the Muslim World examines and explains how news about Islam and the Muslim world is produced and consumed, and how it impacts on r...

Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and his...

Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990, Hannah Andrews explores th...

Many stars from China, Japan and Korea are the most popular and instantly recognizable in the world. East Asian Film Stars brings together some of ...

Hitchcock and Contemporary Art introduces readers to the fascinating and diverse range of artistic practices devoted to Alfred Hitchcock's films. H...

Wes Anderson's films can be divisive, but he is widely recognized as the inspiration for several recent trends in indie films. Using both practical...

Eric Rohmer was a key figure in French New Wave cinema. Contributors to this volume revisit, complicate, and upend accepted readings and interpreta...

A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-vis...

How does film affect the way we understand crises of the body and mind and how does it manifest other kinds of crises levelled at the spectator? Th...

Drawing on comparisons with historical shake-ups in the film industry, Screen Distribution Post-Hollywood offers a timely account of the changes br...

The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to...

After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first tim...

After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first tim...