Film Theory & Criticism

Reflecting on a series of ethical and moral questions significant to contemporary Spanish culture, Cristina Sánchez-Conejero analyzes several issue...

Si les pratiques festivalières mobilisent depuis longtemps la recherche scientifi que, il semble quun tournant ait été opéré à la fi n du XXe siècl...

Despite its association with the broadly disparaged rape-revenge category, Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 is today considered one of the most significant fe...

Uncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns ...

Uncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns ...

Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen is a wide-ranging history of over seven decades of Israeli cinema.  The only book...

The 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American film, as a generation of New Hollywood directors like Scorsese, Coppola, and Altman ...

The 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American film, as a generation of New Hollywood directors like Scorsese, Coppola, and Altman ...

Peter Jackson's epic trilogy, the biggest film event of the 21st century, turned the best-selling book of the 20th century into a popular, critical...

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera per...

In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of delayed cinema to ideas on time and the relat...

The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architect...

Intercultural Screen Adaptation offers a wide-ranging examination of how film and television adaptations (and non-adaptations) interact with the cu...

The battles fought in the name of the 'war on terror' have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for tho...

Bringing together the latest developments in the study of serial formatting practices remakes, sequels, series Film Reboots is the first edited c...

Explores the aesthetic frames that mediate the sense(s) and experiences of justiceClose analysis of films such as Pan's Labyrinth, High Heels, Comm...

The first detailed study of what filmic images can tell us about iconic photographs, No Power Without an Image reveals the multifaceted connections...

A historically informed examination of independent moving image works made between 1990 and 2010 in China Showcasing an evolving personal mode of n...

The figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape a...

This is the first collection of critical essays on philosopher jacques Ranciere's recent work on film. Jacques Ranciere (1940) rose to prominence a...

ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director's films. Bouchareb was one of Fran...

This book looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the re-emergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical ap...

This book traces the dynamic relationship between film and the city. How do film and urban space work together to challenge and forge our changing ...

What actors do on-screen is a fascination for audiences all over the world. Indeed, the cultural visibility of movie stars is so pronounced that st...

Exposing and illustrating how an ongoing engagement with nihilistic alienation may contribute to, rather than detract from, the value of life, Cine...

Celluloid Singapore is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 19...

Over her six-film career, including works like Old Joy, Meek's Cutoff and Certain Women, the independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has established ...

Pablo Larran is among the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary Chilean cinema. Having created a highly original cinematic language and establi...

Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better understand factual political torture Examines role of images and film in (mis)understa...

As the Western matured, womens roles became more complex and modern transmitting a subtle cultural coding about the nature of westward expansionis...