Film Theory & Criticism

The director's authorial role in filmmaking - the extent to which a film reflects his or her individual style and creative vision - has been much d...

From the late 1930s to the early twenty-first century, European and American filmmakers have displayed an enduring fascination with Nazi leaders, r...

Moving images of the British monarchy are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Qu...

The history of the 'video nasties' has been recounted many times and the films that caused so much offence have themselves been endlessly examined....

In Jacques Rancire and the Politics of Art Cinema, James Harvey contends that Rancire's writing allows us to broach art and politics on the very sa...

Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in the territories of the Second Polis...

Asks what political art look like today, and how art can act critically under neoliberalism Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and f...

This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate our understanding of others, and qu...

An Iranian immigrant struggling to integrate into 1970s German society, the filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-98) has become a neglected figure ...

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

From documentary to art-house cinema and from an abundance of onscreen images to their complete absence films that experiment variously with narr...

Since 1979, China has been undergoing a period of immense social and economic change, transitioning from state-run economics to free market capital...

In recent years queer identities have become increasingly visible in Irish cinema, a shift that can be linked to political, economic and social cha...

Following the Second World War, low-budget B-movies that explored and exploited Gothic narratives and aesthetics became a significant cinematic exp...

Often described as 'the Master of Gimmicks', William Castle is best known for the outrageous publicity stunts that characterised his genre films in...

The Hollywood Meme is the first comprehensive study of the transnational adaptations of Hollywood movies that have appeared throughout world cinema...

This collection reveals the journey to be a persistent presence across cinema and in cultural modernity. Draws on examples from different regions a...

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...

Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin in 1941 to justify state terror...

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

Twenty-first century film and television is overwhelmed with images of the undead. Vampires and zombies have often been seen as oppositional: one a...

Buster Keaton can impress a weary world with the vitally important fact that life, after all, is a foolishly inconsequential affair, wrote criti...

The study of amateur filmmaking and media history is a rapidly-growing specialist field, and this ground-breaking book is the first to address the ...

Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from American filmWhat actors do on-screen is a fascination for au...

The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational filmFor three decades, state-sponsored short filmmakin...

In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores films connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise an...

Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While...

Simone de Beauvoir''''s work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the f...