Film Theory & Criticism

In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the c...

Direk, a collection of essays on Filipino filmmakers, presents an accessible and provocative introduction to Philippine cinema. Notable Filipino cr...

In recent years, the media landscape in the United States has followed a pattern similar to that of the physical landscape by becoming increasingly...

This is an in-depth study of how this notorious figure has captured the public imagination, in both life and legend. For two centuries the image of...

Why do we find artificial people fascinating? Drawing from a rich fictional and cinematic tradition, Anatomy of a Robot explores the political and ...

Dagur Kári's Noi the Albino (Nói Albinói, 2003) succeeded on the international festival circuit as a film that was both distinctively Icelandic and...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the young unknown artists, Arnaldo Ginna, Bruno Corra, and Leopold Survage, chose cinema in order to ex...

Hitchcock gets onto the analyst''s couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies. The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and t...

In the mid-1990s Turkish cinema experienced a remarkable revival. However, what is particularly unusual about this revival is the emergence of a ne...

This anthology brings together essays written by BA, MA and PhD students of Nordic Cinema at UCL. The essays discuss the key directors and movement...