Film Theory & Criticism

The stories we tell and show, in whatever medium, play varied roles in human cultures. One such role is to contribute to moral understanding. Moral...

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers re...

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers re...

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers re...

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers re...

Hitchcock Annual volume 26 will include essays on Rebecca, and an expanded section of review essays on recent books on such topics as Vertigo and t...

No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one-of-a-kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagi...

Today, over half a century later, great films are measured by those of the 70s. Has there been a more impactful 10-year period? For the first time,...

How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in cont...

James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmm...

For the past twenty years there has been a virtual consensus in philosophy that there is a special link between fiction and the imagination. In par...

The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with ...

Transnational films that represent intimacy and inequality produce new experiences that result in the displacement of the universal spectator, in a...

Written by experienced Film Studies authors and teachers, and endorsed by WJEC Eduqas, this key resource provides high-quality content, insight and...

Stalin-era cinema was designed to promote emotional and affective education. The filmmakers of the period were called to help forge the emotions an...

Biopolitical Ethics in Global Cinema takes a new approach to world cinema through critical theory. Whereas world cinema often refers to non-America...

From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, and cultural transformations have unsettled established assumptions about the relation...

Many fans of Robin Hardys The Wicker Man (1973) may know that this classic is considered a fine sample of folk horror. Few will consider that its a...