Film Theory & Criticism

The study of amateur filmmaking and media history is a rapidly-growing specialist field, and this ground-breaking book is the first to address the ...

The writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its kind, Deco...

Images of southern Italy as a place of arrival for migrants with different origins and backgrounds have in recent years proliferated in Italian med...

Focusing on the incidence of the Westerns film genre in the 120-odd years of Australian cinema history, exploring how the American genre has been a...

Independent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where 'independent' operates ...

Examining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of th...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s Latin American films like Amores perros, Y tu mam tambin and Cidade de Deus enjoyed an unprecedented level of cri...

Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws ke...

The popularity of cinema and cinema-going in Scotland was exceptional. By 1929 Glasgow had 127 cinemas, and by 1939 it claimed more cinema seats pe...

When we think of the pulse in cinema, we may think of the heartbeat of the spectator as they respond to affective or moving scenes in the film, or ...

The political films that have emerged on the global film festival circuit since the 1990s mark a shift in cinematic strategies for critically addre...

In fascist Spain, Francoism like German and Italian fascism produced its own particular brand of kitsch. Deploying religious and historical icono...

The history of the 'video nasties' has been recounted many times and the films that caused so much offence have themselves been endlessly examined....

To what extent have digital innovations transformed the UK film industry? What new practices and processes are emerging within the contemporary UK ...

Precisely, perhaps, because they are so immediately absorbing, narrative films can also be profoundly confusing and disorienting. This fascinating ...

Focusing on a recent wave of international art cinema, Animal Worlds offers the first sustained analysis of the relations between cinematic time an...

For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned dir...

Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up ...

This book, like its twin volume Female Authorship and Documentary Strategies, centres on pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contem...

Greek Cinema and Migration provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greece, and to determine the cap...

'My' Self on Camera is the first book to explore first person narrative documentary in China's post-Mao era. Since the emergence of the individual ...

Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collectio...

This collection of exciting new research on British cinema of the 1960s reconsiders and reframes the film culture that emerged from that tumultuous...

Examining Monty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this book reappraises Python's comedy output f...

Making a compelling argument for the continuing relevance of Brechtian film theory and cinema, this book offers new research and analysis of Brecht...

The American television commercial has an aesthetic and historical dynamic linking it directly to cinematic and media cultures. Consuming Images: F...

The acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for which he won an Academy Award for Bes...

ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze is the first collection of essays on this important and original contemporary filmmaker. It looks at his ground-b...

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual p...

Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists she was also an influential philosopher, whose work was...

Casting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts is the fi...

Moroccan film production has increased rapidly since the late 2000s, and Morocco is a thriving service production hub for international film and te...

Youth has been represented on screen for decades and has informed many directors' visual, narrative and social perspectives, but there has not been...

Documentary cinema has always drawn from real life, but an increasing number of contemporary filmmakers are going further still, drawing onscreen i...

From cinema's earliest days, walking and filmmaking have been intrinsically linked. Technologically, culturally and aesthetically, the pioneers of ...

The award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving confidentl...

This two volume set investigates the theoretical and practical framework that informs scholarship on documentary film that has hitherto neglected q...

This is an exploration of the impact of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on American cinema. Where could one turn for a more effective cultural baromet...

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual p...

Until the 1990s, animation occupied a relatively marginal presence in Hollywood. Today, it is at the very heart of both the film industry and conte...

Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Pa...

This book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and th...

In Cinema, If You Please, Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to th...

Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major ...

This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time film and television have engaged with the golden age as formulated...

As Hollywood shifts towards the digital era, the role of the media franchise has become more prominent. This edited collection, from a range of int...