Film Theory & Criticism

The battles fought in the name of the war on terror have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those...

From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. W...

Refocus:The Films of Amy Heckerling is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and screenwrite...

Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political, and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' fro...

During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce t...

One of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium, this volume captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and inter...

Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little at...

From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Delmer Daves was responsible for a unique body of work, but few filmmakers...

Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention i...

This undergraduate textbook examines American independent cinema from the very beginnings of US cinema and includes chapters on independence within...

The emergence of these media enables new modes of perception that create special sensations of wonder, astonishment, marvel, and the fantastic. Suc...

Like his fellow filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Sofia Coppola, Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning o...

Like his fellow filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Sofia Coppola, Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning o...

By exploring the concept of the tender gaze in German film, theater, and literature, this volume's contributors illustrate how perspective-taking i...

Mai Elizabeth Zetterling (1925-94) is among the most exceptional postwar female filmmakers. Born in Sweden, she lived in England and France for mos...

All the worlds a stage - literally so, given the ubiquitous presence of webcams recording daily life in cities. This footage, allegedly documentary...

Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition is a bold intervention that seeks to center the bodily and affective dimensions of film traditionally regar...

Contemporary Directors Cinema refreshes the argument about the role of the director through the practice of evaluative criticism. The book identifi...

Using the Regenerative economic model also known as Doughnut Economics Susan Hayward offers a thought-provoking sketch for a renewed, tentatively...

Designed to complement the WJEC Eduqas Film Studies for A Level & AS Student Book, this practical and concise Revision Guide supports you in pr...

This book establishes a dialogue between Yorgos Lanthimos and Giorgio Agamben as a way of interpreting the weird roles, rules, and rituals that def...

Penny Siopis is internationally acclaimed for her pathbreaking paintings and installations. Your History with Me is a comprehensive study of her sh...

Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of blank screens in cinema. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's film-philosophy, author Tanya Shilin...

Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of blank screens in cinema. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's film-philosophy, author Tanya Shilin...

Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the...

Beginning with the premise that the biopic is a form of adaptation and an example of intermediality, this collection examines the multiplicity of '...

This handbook takes us through the making of The Wandering Earth, one of the highest-grossing non-English films of all time. It is a rare, in-depth...

This handbook takes us through the making of The Wandering Earth, one of the highest-grossing non-English films of all time. It is a rare, in-depth...

This is a critical study of the construction of gendered spaces through feminine labor and capital in Puerto Rican literature and film (1950-2010)....

Drawing on feminist psychoanalysis and Greek mythology, La madre muerta explores how matricide and unconscious matricidal fantasies have been portr...