Film Theory & Criticism

Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an intere...

Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an intere...

Tsotsi (2005) is a life-affirming, if raw, coming-of-age story that boldly confronts the legacy of Apartheid and Africa's present struggle to overc...

The Devil's Backbone (2001) is a Gothic film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, 2006). The story centers on a ghost that ...

Few filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovskys cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker (1977), is arguably the most th...

The makers of Brainstorm (1983) spent more than a decade transferring the revolutionary concept of an empathy machine from page to screen, only for...

Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielbergs most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four seque...

Ex Machina (2014) impressed critics and audiences alike with its bold ideas and all-too-realistic depiction of the unexpected consequences of const...

Few filmmakers could even attempt the fearlessness of Andrei Tarkovskys cinema and his most ambitious work, Stalker (1977), is arguably the most th...

Ex Machina (2014) impressed critics and audiences alike with its bold ideas and all-too-realistic depiction of the unexpected consequences of const...

Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an intere...

Adopting a textual, chronological approach, Studying German Cinema is for students of German and film studies and the general reader with an intere...

Studying British Cinema: 19992009 adopts a number of approaches to popularist, mainstream, and esoteric arthouse films. The book considers the inst...

Studying British Cinema: 19992009 adopts a number of approaches to popularist, mainstream, and esoteric arthouse films. The book considers the inst...

Studying British Cinema: 19992009 adopts a number of approaches to popularist, mainstream, and esoteric arthouse films. The book considers the inst...

Jurassic Park (1993) is one of Steven Spielbergs most beloved films. Over twenty-five years on from its original release, it has accrued four seque...

Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner is now widely recognized as an undisputed masterwork of science fiction cinema and one of the most influentia...

For many, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) is not so much a movie as a religious experience. On its release in 1977, CE3K virtually redefi...

Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothics collusion with taxidermy. It tells the story of the e...

The behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic films original release.The story of how The Godfather was...

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

As American security became increasingly dependent on technology to shape the consciousness of its populace and to defend them, science fiction sho...

This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages ...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies ...