Film Theory & Criticism

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 ...

The writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its kind, Deco...

Images of southern Italy as a place of arrival for migrants with different origins and backgrounds have in recent years proliferated in Italian med...

Focusing on the incidence of the Westerns film genre in the 120-odd years of Australian cinema history, exploring how the American genre has been a...

Independent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where 'independent' operates ...

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

In the late 1990s and early 2000s Latin American films like Amores perros, Y tu mam tambin and Cidade de Deus enjoyed an unprecedented level of cri...

Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and regional cinema. The book draws ke...

The popularity of cinema and cinema-going in Scotland was exceptional. By 1929 Glasgow had 127 cinemas, and by 1939 it claimed more cinema seats pe...

When we think of the pulse in cinema, we may think of the heartbeat of the spectator as they respond to affective or moving scenes in the film, or ...

The political films that have emerged on the global film festival circuit since the 1990s mark a shift in cinematic strategies for critically addre...

In fascist Spain, Francoism like German and Italian fascism produced its own particular brand of kitsch. Deploying religious and historical icono...

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

To what extent have digital innovations transformed the UK film industry? What new practices and processes are emerging within the contemporary UK ...

Precisely, perhaps, because they are so immediately absorbing, narrative films can also be profoundly confusing and disorienting. This fascinating ...

Focusing on a recent wave of international art cinema, Animal Worlds offers the first sustained analysis of the relations between cinematic time an...

For three decades, state-sponsored short filmmaking educated Danish citizens, promoted Denmark to the world, and shaped the careers of renowned dir...

Dumplings stuffed with diabolical fillings. Sword-wielding zombies. Hopping cadavers. Big-head babies. For decades, Hong Kong cinema has served up ...

This book, like its twin volume Female Authorship and Documentary Strategies, centres on pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contem...

Greek Cinema and Migration provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greece, and to determine the cap...

'My' Self on Camera is the first book to explore first person narrative documentary in China's post-Mao era. Since the emergence of the individual ...

Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collectio...