Film Theory & Criticism

Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as...

This magisterial book offers comprehensive accounts of the professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France an...

Rich in detail, this is a study of the interrelationships between film historical discourse and archival practices. Exploring the history of severa...

This collection is the first to bring together scholars to explore the ways in which various people and groups in Italian society reacted to the ad...

The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international ...

This volume is the first book-length study of the international phenomenon of multiple-language versions of new films from the early days of the so...

Thanks to modern technology, we are now living in an age of multiplatform fictional worlds, as television, film, the Internet, graphic novels, toys...

Warped Minds explores the transformation of psychopathologies into cultural phenomena in the wake of the transition from an epistemological to an o...

South Korea is home to one of the most vibrant film industries in the world today, producing movies for a strong domestic market that are also draw...

This collection brings together a number of leading scholars in film studies to explore viewing and listening dispositives - the Foucauldian concep...

This is the first book to survey the entire career of Joris Ivens, a prolific documentary filmmaker who worked on every continent over the course o...

What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian? People in Hungary grappled with this far-reaching question in the wake of the losses an...

The collection of essays brings together texts from two decades, documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poetics of colour i...

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such a...

Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and ne...

When a work of art shows an interest in its own status as a work of arteither by reference to itself or to other workswe have become accustomed to ...

Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the 'death of cinema' debate, Film History as...

Bollywoods New Woman examines Bollywoods construction and presentation of the Indian Woman since the 1990s. The groundbreaking collection illuminat...

The color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) have largely been neglected, despite the fact that Bresson himself considered them...

The major essays of the distinguished and prolific Australian-born film critic Adrian Martin have long been difficult to access, so this anthology,...

Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European ...

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...