Film Theory & Criticism

As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic p...

As blockbusters employ ever greater numbers of dazzling visual effects and digital illusions, this book explores the material roots and stylistic p...

The Croatian film scene has remained largely inaccessible until now. In this first comprehensive volume on the subject recognized scholars explo...

Anyone who has loved British films will want to read this book. In choosing twenty films, many of them of classics of their kind think of Brief En...

Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred. Today, we are living through a new a...

Both in life and death, Queen Victoria is among the most popular monarchs to be committed to film. Her reign was characterized by an explosion i...

Despite years of propaganda attempting to convince us otherwise, popular media is beginning to catch on to the idea that the home is one of the mos...

Images from movies and film have had a powerful influence in how Native Americans are seen. In many cases, they have been represented as violent...

In a prolific career spanning six decades, actor Burt Reynolds was one of the world's most famous stars of film and television. As much a folk h...

Film itself is an artifact of memory. A blend of all the other fine arts, film portrays and preserves human memory, someone's memory, faulty or ...

We are living in a science fiction cinema age. This is the genre that delivers the grandest visions with the latest effects in the biggest blockbus...

In sharp contrast to many 1960s science fiction films, with idealized views of space exploration, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) terrified audience...

In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of delayed cinema to ideas on time and the relat...

Though it lasted just two seasons, Twin Peaks (1990-1991) raised the bar for television and is now considered one of the great dramas in TV hist...

A comprehensive guide to all major film adaptations based on the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, this is an essential volume fo...

While Woody Allen is generally considered to be a master of the comic genre he created, his serious films are very important in understanding hi...

This is an exploration of the figuring of absence in film. This study considers the placement of the breathing body in the film experience and its ...

Examines the moving image in relation to nineteenth-century literature, theories of mind, and visual media This book examines how the productive i...

New Essays on Clint Eastwood is a companion to Engels previous book, Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives. It includes discussion o...

This book features extended conversations with Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) and interviews with his family members, friends and col...

Charlie Chaplin produced some of the greatest films of all time, including The Gold Rush, The Circus, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dict...

In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the c...

Direk, a collection of essays on Filipino filmmakers, presents an accessible and provocative introduction to Philippine cinema. Notable Filipino cr...

In recent years, the media landscape in the United States has followed a pattern similar to that of the physical landscape by becoming increasingly...

This is an in-depth study of how this notorious figure has captured the public imagination, in both life and legend. For two centuries the image of...

Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and ...

Dagur Kári's Noi the Albino (Nói Albinói, 2003) succeeded on the international festival circuit as a film that was both distinctively Icelandic and...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the young unknown artists, Arnaldo Ginna, Bruno Corra, and Leopold Survage, chose cinema in order to ex...

Hitchcock gets onto the analyst''s couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies. The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and t...