Film Theory & Criticism

This collection of exciting new research on British cinema of the 1960s reconsiders and reframes the film culture that emerged from that tumultuous...

Examining Monty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this book reappraises Python's comedy output f...

Making a compelling argument for the continuing relevance of Brechtian film theory and cinema, this book offers new research and analysis of Brecht...

The American television commercial has an aesthetic and historical dynamic linking it directly to cinematic and media cultures. Consuming Images: F...

The acclaimed French auteur behind the mind-bending modern classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for which he won an Academy Award for Bes...

ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze is the first collection of essays on this important and original contemporary filmmaker. It looks at his ground-b...

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual p...

Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists she was also an influential philosopher, whose work was...

Casting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dialogues: The French New Wave and the Other Arts is the fi...

Moroccan film production has increased rapidly since the late 2000s, and Morocco is a thriving service production hub for international film and te...

Youth has been represented on screen for decades and has informed many directors' visual, narrative and social perspectives, but there has not been...

Documentary cinema has always drawn from real life, but an increasing number of contemporary filmmakers are going further still, drawing onscreen i...

From cinema's earliest days, walking and filmmaking have been intrinsically linked. Technologically, culturally and aesthetically, the pioneers of ...

The award-winning Danish director Susanne Bier has become increasingly known for her generic innovations and industrial fluidity, moving confidentl...

This two volume set investigates the theoretical and practical framework that informs scholarship on documentary film that has hitherto neglected q...

This is an exploration of the impact of 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' on American cinema. Where could one turn for a more effective cultural baromet...

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual p...

Until the 1990s, animation occupied a relatively marginal presence in Hollywood. Today, it is at the very heart of both the film industry and conte...

Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Pa...

This book examines postcolonial filmmakers adapting Victorian literature in Hollywood to contend with both the legacy of British imperialism and th...

In Cinema, If You Please, Murray Pomerance explores our ways of watching film in light of socially organized forms of pleasure that date back to th...

Based on new archival evidence and interviews, and setting out a new theoretical framework for music video analysis, Emily Caston presents a major ...

This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time film and television have engaged with the golden age as formulated...

As Hollywood shifts towards the digital era, the role of the media franchise has become more prominent. This edited collection, from a range of int...

This book shows that screens dont just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physica...

Alicia Malones Take on Influential Women in Film!Once again Alicia Malone champions women filmmakers, opening the floodgates to a great new wave of...

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

Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in globa...

The Housing Film examines how a century of realities and possibilities in domestic living have been profiled and foregrounded through studies and r...

In Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times recounts the surprising and dramatic story of how Network made it to the screen. The movie was t...

How Directors Dress uses clothing to tell exciting new stories about directors, their lives, their movies, and the times in which they were made, f...

One of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney built a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe. Like scarcely any other classics...

One of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney built a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe. Like scarcely any other classics...

Music in Action Film is the first volume to address the central role of music and sound in action filmarguably the most dominant form of commercial...