Film Theory & Criticism

Monsters of the Upside Down, beware!Travis Langley (author of the acclaimed Batman and Psychology) returns with a group of expert contributors to e...

'A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 18282017' is a multidisciplinary investigation into the history of cultural r...

Godzilla, a traditional natural monster and representation of cinemas subgenre of natural attack, also provides a cautionary symbol of the dangerou...

Stanley Kubrick Produces provides the first comprehensive account of Stanley Kubricks role as a producer, and of the role of the producers he worke...

German Ways of War deploys theories of space, mobility, and affect to investigate how war films realize their political projects. Analyzing films a...

Whether its Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to F...

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the commerceartpolitics nexus of Hong Kong cinema from 2000 to 2020, investigating the current nascent g...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) and its various offshoots, such as Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic, have been making fun of movies for over thi...

In Visitation, Jennifer DeClue shows how Black feminist avant-garde filmmakers draw from historical archives in order to visualize and reckon with ...

How does a film come to look the way it does? What influence does a film's look have on our reaction to it? Cinematography's role as a science and ...

This special issue of Cinéma & Cie explores the cultural dynamics, ideological aporias and political struggles that characterize the relationsh...

While digging an extension to the London Underground Railway, workmen discover an object which might be an ancient Martian spaceship and Professor...

Guillermo del Toro's cult masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth (2006), won a total of 76 awards and is one of the most commercially successful Spanish-lang...

From a little before ten years of age Brian McFarlane became addicted to stories told on the screen, and the mere fact that he had difficulty in ge...

Inspired by an alleged real case of demonic possession in 1949, The Exorcist became an international phenomenon on its release in 1973. A blockbust...

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppolas oeuvre that situates her work broadly in relation to contemporary...