Film Theory & Criticism

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...

Moving Pictures examines the Hollywood career of Karl Struss (18861981), a pioneering artist of both still and moving images who reached the highes...

Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still bei...

A queer auteur who plays with generic conventions, Francois Ozon is one of France's most prolific and best known international directors, who has b...

This is the first sustained critical collection on Albert Brooks, one of the key but under-examined figures in American stand-up, television comedy...

The movie High Fidelity is sacred ground for music lovers and cinephiles alike. The story of Rob Gordon and his coterie of vinyl snobs made it cool...

Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first volume to delve into the construction of children's subjectivity and agency in Latin America...

George Clayton Johnson was an up-and-coming short story writer who broke into Hollywood in a big way when he co-wrote the screenplay for Oceans Ele...

Known as the first film teenager, Deanna Durbin was one of the most popular actresses of the 1930s and 1940s. From starring alongside legends li...

In Sean Bakers award-winning 2017 film The Florida Project, a young girl, her single mother, and her friends live in rundown motels near Disney Wor...

This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of ...

Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times. Germany's twentieth-century history has made im...

Witty and well researched. THE TIMES A scientific dose of reality. MAIL ON SUNDAY A fun and comprehensive exploration. LINDA McROBBIE Endlessly fas...

Essays for teaching Chinese film, history, and societyThis volume brings a diverse range of voicesfrom anthropology, communication studies, ethnomu...

Essays for teaching Chinese film, history, and societyThis volume brings a diverse range of voicesfrom anthropology, communication studies, ethnomu...

For well over a century, those who create motion pictures have touched our hearts and souls; they have transported and transformed our minds, intox...

The man who created the boldest hard boiled fiction, Dashiell Hammett, wrote The Thin Man in 1933 and launched the fun-loving, booze-swilling, m...

TCM host Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in an ...

Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching critique of postcolonial African ...

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

The popular German streaming series Babylon Berlina neo-noir thriller set in the final years of the Weimar Republicbuilds on the fascination with 1...

'Well-researched ... I was fascinated' Roger Lewis, Daily MailFrom its debut in 1962, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a wild suc...

Before Herzog and Kinski, before Simon and Garfunkel, there was Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Despite their shared nickname, writer-producer C...

A prolific film industry has flourished on the banks of the Nile since the earliest days of cinema, producing movies that have been hugely popular ...

From the late 1970s into the early 1990s, a generation of female filmmakers took aim at their home countries popular myths of the frontier. Deeply ...

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

Documentary's Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary offers a theoretical mapping of contemporary non-standard documen...

This exciting collection of unpublished essays on Ernst Lubitsch addresses multiple gaps in scholarly and critical engagement with the director. Hi...

The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Comb...