Film Theory & Criticism

'Great fun - Loretta is glorious!' Lucy Diamond'Sparkles with fun and wit' Libby Page'A fun, gossipy glimpse into Golden Era Hollywood' Julie Cohen...

Following Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union experienced a dramatic resurgence in cinematic production. The period of the Soviet Thaw ...

She Animates examines the work of twelve female animation directors in the Soviet Union and Russia, who have long been overlooked by film scholars ...

The story of Star Trek as told by the people who know it best: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley and the cast and crew! This lavishly...

In recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years' worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive...

This book reveals how marginalized communities and women are underrepresented on our screens and, too often, depicted in stereotypical ways. This i...

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...