Film Theory & Criticism

Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941, Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, Greta Garbo is in people's minds, hearts, and dreams. Strik...

Over the last eighty years, Marlon Brando has become such an object of fascination, buried under so many accreted layers of mythos and half-truth, ...

Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times. Germany's twentieth-century history has made i...

Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of violence elsewhere - exploring works and discourses about violence in d...

In recent years, teen witches have become highly visible figures. Fictional adolescent witches have headlined popular television shows like The Chi...

This book analyses the work of Oliver Stone - arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. From ear...

You've read the books. You've seen the films. Now get inside the heads of your favorite Twilight characters (just like Edward can!) in The Psycholo...

In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, proces...

As only an accomplished author, consummate collector, and savvy insider can, John Kobal tells the story of the man who invented Hollywood, Cecil Bl...

Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11 is the first multigenre study of representations of mascul...

Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta em...

From the late 1920s through the thirties, Greta Garbo (19051990) was the biggest star in Hollywood. She stopped making films in 1941, at only thirt...

For over a decade, Tyler Perry has been a lightning rod for both criticism and praise. To some he is most widely known for his drag performances as...

In Albert and David Maysles: Interviews, editor Keith Beattie has compiled a wide-ranging collection in which the brothers, together and separately...

Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self-or so goes the old saw from fans and schol...

Martin Scorsese (b. 1942) has long been considered one of Americas greatest cinematic storytellers. Over the last fifty years he has created some o...

The undead are very much alive in contemporary entertainment and lore. Indeed, vampires and zombies have garnered attention in print media, cinema,...

On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl (b. 1927) took the stage at San Franciscos hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about every...

In a world where movie marketers are the stars of the story, Opening Weekend: An Insider's Look at Marketing Hollywood's Hits and Flops recounts Ji...

'So funny -- Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.' - Stephen Merchant'Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.' - Tim Key'Absolutely miraculous.' - Jesse Eisenberg'A ...

In The Anti-Enlightenment in Popular Culture, author George A. Gonzalez argues that the politics of greed and hate lie at the center of the long tw...

Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together, for the first time, interviews made over a span of fifty years with director James Ivory (b. 1928), pr...

Despite Hollywoods recent efforts to appeal to more racially diverse audiences, mainstream movies routinely present a limited view of nonwhites gen...

Nothing succeeds like success, as the saying goes, but in the case of Donald Duck the opposite is true: the candor with which Donald reveals his we...

Nominated for 2022 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book award Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the K...

Nothing succeeds like success, as the saying goes, but in the case of Donald Duck the opposite is true: the candor with which Donald reveals his we...

One of the greatest collaborations of cinema history, L'Âge d'Or(1930) united the geniuses of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali in the making of a Surr...

New political realities and shared histories connect film cultures across bordersIn South Asia massive anticolonial movements in the twentieth cent...

Journey with award-winning filmmaker and author Laurent Bouzereau through acclaimed director Brian De Palma's renowned-and controversial-horror and...

The 1990s was a decade of significant turmoil in Hollywood cinema, which resulted in a watershed moment in the interplay of gender and genre. Patri...

The first decades of the twenty-first century saw a resurgence of the biblical epic film, such as Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings, which was in tur...

How do contemporary Chinese audiences access art cinema? What are the alternative channels for the distribution and exhibition of art cinema in Chi...