Film Theory & Criticism

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other small national, transnational and...

Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie is the first academic monograph to consider the aesthetic and narrative potential of this highly popular, yet o...

Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women's contr...

The name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspensethat is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling sus...

Over 6000 different languages are used in the world today, but the conventions of 'media speak' are far from universal and the complexities of tran...

What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies, D&D playe...

Independent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where 'independent' operates ...

Examines the politics of female authorship in relation to contemporary documentary practicesThis book, like its twin volume 'Female Authorship and ...

Since the turn of the millennium, films such asChicago (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004) have reinvigorated the popularity of the screen music...

When did the sentimental start to mean 'awful'? Why are so many popular mainstream films dismissed for their sentimentality, and are there any mean...

Cinema has often been seen as a form between media. Early cinema borrowed heavily from traditional performing arts, like theatre and tableau vivant...

As one of the most popular and versatile Hong Kong film stars, Chow Yun-fat has enjoyed international success over the last four decades. Using Cho...

The political films that have emerged on the global film festival circuit since the 1990s mark a shift in cinematic strategies for critically addre...

Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--go...

A ground-breaking comparative treatment of cinematic images of atrocity, combining critical perspectives on contemporary film and human rights. A f...

This is a ground-breaking comparative treatment of cinematic images of atrocity, combining critical perspectives on contemporary film and human rig...

The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of t...

First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Pet...

The concept of North American borderlands in the cultural imagination fluctuated greatly during the Progressive Era as it was affected by similarly...

Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume II continues the work presented in the first volume of this title, published by Cambridge...

Robert E. Burns, a World War I veteran coerced into taking part in a petty crime in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to hard labor on a chain gan...

Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, ...

Spanning from obscurity to notoriety, the films of director, screenwriter, actor and comic Elaine May have recently seen a long-overdue renaissance...

Examining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of th...

Over the decades, Richard Mathesons 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science-fiction films, including The Last Man ...

Historically, zombies have been portrayed in films and television series as mindless, shuffling monsters. In recent years, this has changed dram...

Screenwriting is the second of the 'Behind the Silver Screen' series of ten volumes, which will together cover for the first time the full art, cra...

How does cinema imagine our place in the world? Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan looks at the studios, films and...

From the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C. C. Baxter loans out to his superiors in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) to the crumbling tenement i...

First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people are familiar with the title character from the movie...

The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it i...