Film Theory & Criticism

A cornerstone of the resurgence in Spanish horror cinema, [REC] (2007) is a propulsive single-location found-footage film in which a news reporter ...

In 1965 producers Joseph E. Levine and Bill Sargent were racing to get their problem-laden biopics of Jean Harlow (both titled Harlow) into thea...

Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future reconsiders Robert Casillos definition of Italian-American cinema as ap...

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a prestige force. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult ...

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction. In contemporary fil...

Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter tur...

World Cinema and the Visual Arts combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. ...

Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter tur...

2023 Wall Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association How a Hollywood gem transformed the national discourse on post-traumatic stress disorder. Rel...

Released in 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives became an immediate success. Life magazine called it the first big, good movie of the post-war era to...

Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema   From the East African and Red Sea c...

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...

For many years, Canadian cinema was dominated by the documentarytradition of the National Film Board, which tended to promote what filmscholar Jim ...

Alexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteu...

A behind-the-scenes guide to the National Trust locations in some of the most iconic film and TV moments. Fully updated to include the latest drama...

This is the first book-length study to examine the enduring popularity of block-buster films based on DC or Marvel superhero comics properties. It ...

It is commonly proposed that since the mid-2000s, the slasher subgenre has been dominated by unoriginal remakes of classics. Consequently, most ori...

The New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and early 1970s has become one of the most romanticized periods in motion picture history, celebrated for i...

A camp lipsynched routine by three air stewards distracts unsuspecting passengers from the fact that their plane is to make a crash landing. Perfor...

Of all the artisans who work in the American film industry, directors have been given the lion's share of attention. Yet few books in this literatu...

Location shooting has always been a vital counterpart to soundstage production, and at times, the primary form of Hollywood filmmaking. But until n...

The expert contributors together trace how the arts of editingand effects have evolved in tandem, starting with the 'trick films'of the early silen...

Hollywood Diplomacy contends that, rather than simply reflect the Wests cultural fantasies of an imagined Orient, images of Chinese, Japanese, and ...

Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where lightness of tone permits audience engagement wi...

Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection ...

Fashioning Spain is a cultural history of Spanish fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries, a period of significant social, political, and economic u...

Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even after it evolves int...

Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best Monograph Starting out as an independent filmmaker, and despite his films being subjected to censors...

Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda outlines a sustai...

Suspicious of what he called the spectators sticky adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude towards cinema. Falling into a h...

Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietz...