Film Theory & Criticism

From the exaggerated emotions of 1930s Egyptian melodrama to the cryptic allegories of late 20th-century Palestinian cinema, Arab World Cinemas gui...

Danish film director Carl Th. Dreyer, one of the twentieth centurys most famous filmmakers, is best known for his masterpiece, The Passion of Joan ...

The essays in this collection address the German television series Babylon Berlin and explore its unique contribution to contemporary visual cultur...

Winner of the the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award from BAFTSSWinner of the 2021 British Fantasy Award in Best Non-FictionFinalist for the 2020 Br...

The imagined worlds of the cinematic mise-en-scène are rich with textiles: fabrics drape over sets, serve as props, and develop mood and character ...

Focused on French cultural responses to the 2008 global financial crisis in cinema, literature and theory, Derivative Images offers detailed analys...

In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts...

Since the early days of motion picture production, film scores have helped define our emotional and aesthetic perception of stories of innumerab...

After World War II, studies examining youth culture on the silver screen start with James Dean. But the angst that Dean symbolizedanxieties over pa...

After World War II, studies examining youth culture on the silver screen start with James Dean. But the angst that Dean symbolizedanxieties over pa...

Gustavo Subero offers an assessment of the influence, importance and impact of a body of films from the mid 1970s to date that, he argues, constitu...

In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Produc...

Albanian cinema truly represents a terra incognita for most of the world. Decidedly Europes most isolated country during the Cold War era, communis...

Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in visual culture by proposing...

Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in visual culture by proposing...

A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinemathe freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genrefrom a distinctive voice in film histor...

John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies, Popular Culture Association (PCA), ...

One of the most well regarded of non-Western film directors, responsible for acknowledged classics like Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro worked dur...

Hector Amaya advances into new territory in Latin American and U.S. cinema studies in this innovative analysis of the differing critical receptions...

In 1938, China City opened near downtown Los Angeles. Featuring a recreation of the House of Wang set from MGM's The Good Earth, this new Chinatown...

In 1938, China City opened near downtown Los Angeles. Featuring a recreation of the House of Wang set from MGM's The Good Earth, this new Chinatown...

Both a history and a critique of South Africa's film industry, this book recounts the long experience of filmmaker and producer Richard Green.Green...

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 ...

Lawrence of Arabia, The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Gypsy, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Longest Day, The Music Man...

Main melody films are propaganda works that pay tribute to the Chinese nation, the party and the army. Since the turn of the century, they have gra...

Whether we consider the digitally created and manipulated faces of Hollywood cinema or the social media filters, face apps, and surveillance softwa...

Exploring how Indigenous media has flourished across Canada from the 1990s to the present   In the early 1990s, Indigenous media experienced a boo...

Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will (1935), her ...

Jesus films arose with cinema itself. Richard Walsh and Jeffrey L. Staley introduce students to these films with a general overview of the Jesus fi...

The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel pictures as re-enactments of the United States' r...