Film Theory & Criticism

The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier ...

Theorists of the soundtrack have helped us understand how the voice and music in the cinema impact a spectator's experience. James Buhler and Hanna...

In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers into this fascinating subgenre ...

Eschewing the idea of film reviewer-as-solitary-expert, Jonathan Rosenbaum continues to advance his belief that a critic's ideal role is to mediate...

JAMES DEAN: THE SECRET LIFE OF AN AMERICAN REBEL

Cinema history might have been very different had the first James Bond film not been Dr. No starring Sean Connery in 1962, but Thunderball directed...

Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community's journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Politicised dramas like Victim i...

A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imaginations of filmmakers and audiences for over a century...

A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imaginations of filmmakers and audiences for over a century...

It has long been known that Hollywood was actively involved in shaping US public opinion during World War II. Less well documented are the ways in ...

Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in c...

How has the digital turn shaped the practices of film historical research and teaching? While computational approaches have been used by film histo...

The cinema of Iran is celebrated both locally and internationally, yet elements of this diverse field remain comparatively understudied. This book ...

This book traces the development of popular cinema from its inception to the present day to understand why humankind has expanded its viewing of po...