Film Theory & Criticism

A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and ...

Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the Lowry of filmmaking by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 19...

For all its familiarity as a widely used term, Kafkaesque cinema remains an often-baffling concept that is poorly understood by film scholars. Taki...

In this vibrant and dynamic book-length study drawing on a broad tapestry of research, Terence McSweeney offers an exploration of The Hurt Locker (...

This book explores the development of Robert Lepages distinctive approach to stage direction in the early (1984-1994) and middle (1995-2008) stages...

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book analyses the work of Oliver Ston...

This scholarly compendium offers a comprehensive analysis of King Hu's transformative impact on Chinese martial arts cinema. It begins with a found...

This is the first book-length study to address film remaking from a unique perspective of a cross-cultural exchange between two countries which not...

Val Lewton's horror films revolutionized a popular genre through a much-studied and still widely emulated visual style emphasizing shadows and abse...

From relatively humble beginnings in a King Kong-inspired Japanese studio picture, the kaij? eiga has developed into a global genre. While the orig...

From its inception, Brazilian cinema has combined extra-filmic artistic and cultural forms, both local and imported, resulting in an original aesth...

Looking Beyond Neoliberalism explores how cinema is responding to the economic crisis that sprang to public attention in 2008 and continues to shap...

This book explores the ways in which film engages with historical events and their impact on present-day landscapes, through a spatial reading of f...

Offering the first comprehensive study of Greek film noir, this book explores the reception and influence of U.S. and European film noir and neo-no...

Reanimated offers a new perspective on twenty-first century American horror film remakes. Counter to the critical dismissal of genre remakes as der...

This book approaches film and television acting from an actor's perspective rather than that of an audience member, and therefore theorizes how scr...

Since the early 2000s, Norway has produced a regular stream of horror cinema including Cold Prey, Troll Hunter, Thelma and The Innocents. Norwegian...

Born in Oklahoma into the Chickasaw Nation, Wallace Fox directed films over the span of four decades. Known primarily for Westerns and mystery film...

Cinema and Machine Vision unfolds the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television using computers. With...

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