Film Theory & Criticism

Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on...

Iconic images from fiery scenes of catharsis in Gone With the Wind and Rebecca to The Third Man's decadent cinematography have proven inseparable f...

Monsters of the Upside Down, beware!Travis Langley (author of the acclaimed Batman and Psychology) returns with a group of expert contributors to e...

Inspired by the real life post-divorce experiences of television comedy writer Danny Simon, The Odd Couple has touched multiple generations of f...

Palestinian cinema arose during the political cinema movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, yet it was unique as an institutionalized, though...

How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself. For Hollywood, the golden age of science fiction w...

In 1945, a year when American crime films were apparently moving out on to the streets of contemporary Los Angeles and New York, one reviewer noted...

John Fair and David Chapman tell the story of how film-makers use and manipulate the appearance and performances of muscular men and women to enhan...

For well over a century, going to the movies has been a favorite pastime for billions across the globe. But is film actually good for anything? Thi...

I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Val Lewton's second feature for RKO Radio Pictures, was described by critic Robin Wood as 'perhaps the most delicate...

Since the late nineteenth century, Brazilians have turned to documentaries to explain their country to themselves and to the world. In a magisteria...

In Dying in Full Detail Jennifer Malkowski explores digital media's impact on one of documentary film's greatest taboos: the recording of death. De...

Taking 19591960 as a pivotal cultural and political moment, the contributors to Breathless Days reframe postwar Western art history, examining the ...

This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projectsabandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-endedas rich and underappreciated resourc...

Before Bemberg: Argentine Women Filmmakers calls into question the historiography of Argentine women filmmakers that has centered on María Luisa Be...

A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience How...

Chris Marker's La Jetée is 28 minutes long and almost entirely made up of black-and-white still images. Since its release in 1964, the film which ...

Kubrick and Control is an examination of authority, order, and independence in the films directed by Stanley Kubrick, as well as in his personal li...

Watching movies every night at home with his cats, film scholar and cat lover Daisuke Miyao noticed how frequently cats turned up on screen. They m...

No Joke is a detailed examination of Todd Phillipss Joker, one of the biggest global box-office hits of 2019. While his success was no doubt partly...

Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, artificial darkness has been overlookeduntil...

Examines new sinophone modes of filmic address in Hong Kong cinema in the 20th century, enabling a developing cosmopolitanism to emerge Examines n...