Film Theory & Criticism

Aimed at newcomers to literature and film, this book is a guide for the analysis of Shakespeare on film. Starting with an introduction to the main ...

This is a comparative analysis of Maghrebi-French and North African emigre cinema in France. Since the early 1980s, the arrival of Beur cinema film...

Aimed at teachers and students new to the subject, Studying Horror Cinema is a comprehensive survey of the genre from silent cinema to its twenty-f...

States of danger and deceit places key films (Z (1969), The Mattei Affair (1972), State of Siege (1972), The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), ...

Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Ja...

Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Ja...

An exploration of the fundamental bond between cinema and the cosmos   The advent of cinema occurred alongside pivotal developments in astronomy a...

An exploration of the fundamental bond between cinema and the cosmos   The advent of cinema occurred alongside pivotal developments in astronomy a...

What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept ex- - meaning from, outside, and no lon...

Lucid, lively and extremely knowledgeable. Sight & Sound Catherine Fowlers study positions Jeanne Dielman as a contrary classic, its contrarin...

Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniqu...

Featuring Field of Dreams, The Bad News Bears, A League of Their Own, and more: a probing and entertaining work at the intersection of pop culture ...

As cinema industries around the globe adjusted to the introduction of synch-sound technology, the Soviet Union was also shifting culturally, politi...

During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the Best Director...