Film Theory & Criticism

The first book-length study in any language of the Berlin School, the most significant filmmaking movement to come out of Germany since the 1970s. ...

From Hollywood to Nollywood: this issue of African Literature Today examines the relationship between film and video and the literatures of Africa...

A compelling account of the role of Fado and the fadista in Portuguese film and the wider culture. Colvin studies the evolution of Fado music as t...

With 28 vintage posters featuring artwork from popular Disney films, interior design enthusiasts and Disney collectors will love decorating their w...

As a highly visual writer, Ray Bradbury's works have frequently been adapted for film and television. One of the most stylized and haunting dramati...

In this edited collection of essays, ten experts in film philosophy explore the importance of transcendence for understanding cinema as an art form...

Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and space aliens like the Transformers share a surprising connection along with James Bond, Indiana Jones, and Rocky...

The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed,...

The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed,...

The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema offers an overview of the field of cult cinema films at the margin of popular culture and art that have rec...

This book is a pioneering study of Blaxploitation horror films, connecting them with both mainstream horror movies and classic Gothic texts. The au...

Cognitive Film and Media Ethics provides a grounding in the use of cognitive science to address key questions in film, television and screen media ...

Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna, as well as literature, film, caricature, and beauty discourse, convey h...

Celebrity culture today teems with stars who challenge long-held ideas about a normal body. Plus-size and older actresses are rebelling against the...

Boaz Hagin carries out a philosophical examination of the issue of death as it is represented and problematized in Hollywood cinema of the classica...

A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male actors in American film and popula...

Spanning a broad trajectory, from the New Gaelic Man of post-independence Ireland to the slick urban gangsters of contemporary productions, this st...

In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regar...

Virgil's Cinematic Art concerns the rhetoric of visual manipulation that provokes us to envision what is written on the page, treating visual detai...

How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable? What happens when narrative authority fails and, just as importantly, why doe...

Repetition and seriality are inherent in pornography and is constitutive for its functionality as a film genre, an industry, and an area of gender ...

The Lola film is a distinct subgenre of the woman's film in which woman's claim to pleasure is entertained without recourse to the figure of the f...

Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture is a fascinating study of queer nostalgia in films, animation and music videos as means of empowerment, r...

This indispensable collection offers 51 chapters, each focused on a distinct American independent film. Screening American Independent Film present...