Film Theory & Criticism

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The n...

Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the wyrd is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Piers Haggard (Blood on Satan's Claw...

In the early 1980s, Walt Disney Productions was struggling, largely bolstered by the success of its theme parks. Within fifteen years, however, it ...

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks...

Sylvain Chomet is a multifaceted French artist best known for his feature animation films The Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist. Although ...

Cinematic Sociology is a one-of-a-kind resource that helps students to view films sociologically while also providing much-needed pedagogy for teac...

Although a major star in the 1910s, Theda Bara--known as The Vamp--was largely neglected until the 1990s, when her fame began to resurface. Sinc...

Offering new historical information coupled with refined close readings and an impressive amount of archival work, East German Film and the Holocau...

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The n...

What unleashed the forces of global capitalism which continue to shape the world that we live in? Economists and economic historians variously poin...

The Slumdog Phenomenon addresses multiple issues related to Slumdog Millionaire and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controver...

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It is obviously a study written with great enthusiasm for its subjectItalian stardom. The work covers a wid...

Gustafsson's comprehensive study of the consummate film artist Hasse Ekman casts a new light on Swedish cinema. Combining auteur study with an ency...

Gustafsson's comprehensive study of the consummate film artist Hasse Ekman casts a new light on Swedish cinema. Combining auteur study with an ency...

From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted rela...

The Demons of Modernity hits the ground running. We travel around the sociology, aesthetics and demonology of Ingmar Bergman with John Orr's great ...

One of the most visually compelling films ever made, Barry Lyndon can--and should, argues the author--be seen as Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece. ...

Considers the challenges of historical audience research in the field of screen studies Outlines and expands on the wide range of sources which ca...

'A blast' - Ian Rankin'A joyous celebration of 80s action cinema' - Robbie Collin, Telegraph'Vastly entertaining' - The TimesThe behind-the-scenes ...

In Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize ...

In the early days of moving pictures, filmmakers learned that the montage could be an effective tool to show changes in time or locale. Casablanca'...

This book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Ita...

The long 1950s, which extend back to the early postwar period and forward into the early 1960s, were a period of containment culture in America, as...

Given the current momentpolarized populations, increasing climate fears, and decline of supranational institutions in favor of a rising tide of nat...

In Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize ...

Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh is an unconventional book about an unconventional filmmaker. Rithy Panh survived the Cambodian genoci...

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The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Rancière relates c...

In recent years, the recognition of Gilles Deleuze as one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century has heightened attention to his brilli...

Based on the Turner Classic Movies series, TCM Underground is the movie-lover's guide to 50 of the most campy, kitschy, shocking, and weirdly wonde...

The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masqueradethe representation of Whiteness as Indigeneitydu...