Film Theory & Criticism

The battles fought in the name of the war on terror have re-ignited questions about the changing nature of war, and the experience of war for those...

From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. W...

Refocus:The Films of Amy Heckerling is the first book-length study of the work of Amy Heckerling, the phenomenally popular director and screenwrite...

Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political, and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the 'border crossing' fro...

During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce t...

One of the first books to explore Russian cinema in the new millennium, this volume captures the emergence of a new cinematic sensibility and inter...

Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little at...

From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Delmer Daves was responsible for a unique body of work, but few filmmakers...

Extreme Cinema examines the highly stylized treatment of sex and violence in post-millennial transnational cinema, where the governing convention i...

This undergraduate textbook examines American independent cinema from the very beginnings of US cinema and includes chapters on independence within...

The emergence of these media enables new modes of perception that create special sensations of wonder, astonishment, marvel, and the fantastic. Suc...

Like his fellow filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Sofia Coppola, Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning o...

Like his fellow filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Sofia Coppola, Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning o...

By exploring the concept of the tender gaze in German film, theater, and literature, this volume's contributors illustrate how perspective-taking i...

Mai Elizabeth Zetterling (1925-94) is among the most exceptional postwar female filmmakers. Born in Sweden, she lived in England and France for mos...

All the worlds a stage - literally so, given the ubiquitous presence of webcams recording daily life in cities. This footage, allegedly documentary...

Attachment Film, Emotion, and Cognition is a bold intervention that seeks to center the bodily and affective dimensions of film traditionally regar...

Contemporary Directors Cinema refreshes the argument about the role of the director through the practice of evaluative criticism. The book identifi...