Film Theory & Criticism

The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the celebrated films of t...

First published in 1969, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema transformed the emerging discipline of film studies. Remarkably eclectic and informed, Pet...

The concept of North American borderlands in the cultural imagination fluctuated greatly during the Progressive Era as it was affected by similarly...

Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema, Volume II continues the work presented in the first volume of this title, published by Cambridge...

Robert E. Burns, a World War I veteran coerced into taking part in a petty crime in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to hard labor on a chain gan...

Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, ...

Spanning from obscurity to notoriety, the films of director, screenwriter, actor and comic Elaine May have recently seen a long-overdue renaissance...

Examining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots (1967) and the aftermath of th...

Over the decades, Richard Mathesons 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science-fiction films, including The Last Man ...

Historically, zombies have been portrayed in films and television series as mindless, shuffling monsters. In recent years, this has changed dram...

Screenwriting is the second of the 'Behind the Silver Screen' series of ten volumes, which will together cover for the first time the full art, cra...

How does cinema imagine our place in the world? Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan looks at the studios, films and...

From the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C. C. Baxter loans out to his superiors in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) to the crumbling tenement i...

First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people are familiar with the title character from the movie...

The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic considerations of US mainstream cinema where it i...

In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere a...

This is an introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations. Critical questions specific to film adaptations need to be ...

Metropolis is a monumental work. On its release in 1925, after sixteen months''filming, it was Germany''s most expensive feature film, a canvas for...

Culture in the Anteroom introduces an English-speaking readership to the full range of Siegfried Kracauer's work as novelist, architect, journalist...

The numerous anti-bullying programs in schools across the United States have done little to reduce the number of reported bullying instances. On...

Is Michael Mann an auteur? Mann is a formidable filmmaking personality, no doubt, but the notion that today''s celebrity cult of director immediate...

Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010) is a difficult film to categorize. It partakes of various genres, blurring the distinctions between them. It i...

The early years of film were dominated by competition between inventors in America and France, especially Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers . ...

Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theo...

The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director''s entire oeuv...

The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out considers for the first time in a single collection this acclaimed, award-winning director''s entire oeuv...