Film Theory & Criticism
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Fashioning Spain: From Mantillas to Rosalía
Amanda LearmonthCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Fashioning Spain is a cultural history of Spanish fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries, a period of significant social, political, and economic u...
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The Critic as Amateur
Bloomsbury Publishing PlcCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99Can the criticism of literature and culture ever be completely professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even after it evolves int...
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The Cinema of Jia Zhangke: Realism and Memory in Chinese Film
Cecília MelloCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Shorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best Monograph Starting out as an independent filmmaker, and despite his films being subjected to censors...
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The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda: Feminist Practice and Pedagogy
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda outlines a sustai...
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The Coming Death: Traces of Mortality across East Asia
Richard F. CalichmanCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Current price €28.79Original price €31.99Save 10% -
The Unusual Suspects: 104 Films that Made World Cinema
Antony GinnaneCurrent price €39.55Original price €42.99Current price €39.55Original price €42.99Save 8% -
George Clooney
Paul McDonaldCurrent price €24.80Original price €28.50Paul McDonald's study of the actor-filmmaker George Clooney traces the star's career, from his role in the hit television medical drama ER to his d...
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Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics
Patrick ffrenchCurrent price €105.39Original price €123.99Suspicious of what he called the spectators sticky adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude towards cinema. Falling into a h...
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Movies with Meaning: Existentialism through Film
Daniel ShawCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99This book pairs close readings of some of the classic writings of existentialist philosophers with interpretations of films that reveal striking pa...
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Robert Pippin and Film: Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism
Dr Dominic LashCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietz...
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Postfeminism and Contemporary Vampire Romance: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film and Television
Lea GerhardsCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99In this book, Lea Gerhards traces connections between three recent vampire romance series; the Twilight film series (2008-2012), The Vampire Diarie...
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The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Cinema
Frances RestucciaCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99This title looks at films that map the spectator's private fantasy onto the one being played out on the screen, following Kristeva's sparse, but re...
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Migration Documentary Films in Post-War Australia
Liangwen KuoCurrent price €93.95Original price €107.99Current price €93.95Original price €107.99Save 13% -
Cinematic Terror: A Global History of Terrorism on Film
PhD Tony ShawCurrent price €33.58Original price €36.50Cinematic Terror takes a uniquely long view of filmmakers' depiction of terrorism, examining how cinema has been a site of intense conflict between...
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China and the Chinese in Popular Film: From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan
Jeffrey RichardsCurrent price €116.57Original price €133.99There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by...
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Equivocal Subjects: Between Italy and Africa -- Constructions of Racial and National Identity in the Italian Cinema
Shelleen GreeneCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99Analysing the depiction of African Italian mixed-race subjects from the historical epics of the Italian silent golden era to the contemporary perio...
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Shakespeare and East Asia
Alexa Alice JoubinCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes th...
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Shakespeare and East Asia
Alexa Alice JoubinCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes th...
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The Poetics of Iranian Cinema: Aesthetics, Modernity and Film After the Revolution
Khatereh SheibaniCurrent price €120.59Original price €133.99In the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iranian society and culture underwent massive changes. Here, Khatereh Sheibani argues that cinema evolv...
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Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film
Nathan AbramsCurrent price €35.87Original price €38.99Twenty years since its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, ...
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Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability
Gerald SimCurrent price €114.29Original price €126.99Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability rethinks theory and style through films that bring the limit...
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Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema
Thomas ElsaesserCurrent price €130.63Original price €141.99Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as...
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