Film Theory & Criticism

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

Through the heart of Hollywood cinema runs an unexpected current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-...

Through the heart of Hollywood cinema runs an unexpected current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-...

Through the heart of Hollywood cinema runs an unexpected current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-...

Through the heart of Hollywood cinema runs an unexpected current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-...

A deep dive into Italian cinema under Mussolinis regime and the filmmakers who used it as a means of antifascist resistance   Looking at Italys na...

This is the first English translation of Alain Bergala's seminal text on the potentials, possibilities, and problems of bringing film to schools an...

Contemporary media seems incredibly unoriginal, as Hollywood produces an endless flood of remakes, sequels, reboots, and franchises. We watch as th...

Black women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about film h...

In contemporary culture, existing audiovisual recordings are constantly reused and repurposed for various ends, raising questions regarding the eth...

There She Goes Again interrogates the representation of ostensibly powerful women in transmedia franchises, examining how presumed feminine traitsl...

How the creative use of pop music in filmthink Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Nowhas shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s Quick: Wh...

Posits a new, aesthetically and politically radical, transnational German cinema - transnational also in the sense of concerns with migration, the ...

A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of methodness to entrenched understandings of screen performance still d...

On Screen and Off shows that the making of Nazism was a local affair and the Nazi city a product of more than models and plans emanating from Berli...

Drawing on cultural policy, queer and feminist theory, materialist media studies, and postcolonial historiography, Bliss Cua Lim analyzes the crisi...

Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period often described ...

New Screen Ecology in India is an open access book that provides an in depth exploration of the digital transformation of the Indian media industry...

New Screen Ecology in India is an open access book that provides an in depth exploration of the digital transformation of the Indian media industry...

One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely t...

Drawing on cultural policy, queer and feminist theory, materialist media studies, and postcolonial historiography, Bliss Cua Lim analyzes the crisi...

The Long Centurys Long Shadow approaches German Romanticism and Weimar cinema as continuous developments, enlisting both in a narrative of reciproc...

The Long Centurys Long Shadow approaches German Romanticism and Weimar cinema as continuous developments, enlisting both in a narrative of reciproc...

In its heyday from the late 1950s until the early 1980s Italian horror cinema was characterised by an excess of gore, violence and often incoherent...

Muslims in the Movies provides a series of essays that explore the portrayal and reception of Muslims in Euro-American film, transnational producti...