Film theory & criticism books

Many fans of Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973) may know that this classic is considered a fine sample of folk...  Read More >>

Many fans of Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973) may know that this classic is considered a fine sample of folk...  Read More >>

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora...  Read More >>

Val Lewton's I Walked with a Zombie (1943) has been described as 'the most delicate poetic fantasy in American cinema.'...  Read More >>

"The first boom of teen cinema occurred with the arrival of rock and roll in the mid-1950s and extended until the...  Read More >>

Gothic Cinema closes a gap in German-language film discourse: for the first time, the volume sheds light on a hitherto...  Read More >>

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From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, cultural, and social transformations have unsettled...  Read More >>

This often-startlingly original book introduces a new way of thinking about color in film as distinct from existing...  Read More >>

This book focuses on expressions of the tragic in Spanish cinema. Its main premise is that elements from the classical...  Read More >>

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Writings on people and places, theater and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's...  Read More >>

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""Inspired by my friend Bobby Driscoll's performance in The Window (1949), Robert Strom has written a groundbreaking...  Read More >>

How work and capitalism inspire horror in modern film.  Read More >>

Provocative and compulsively readable, on the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the landmark blockbuster The...  Read More >>

Provocative and compulsively readable, on the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the landmark blockbuster The...  Read More >>

In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of...  Read More >>

The Worst We Can Find looks at how “riffing” of films came about, the history of the shows, and why what could be...  Read More >>

""An explanation of realist film theory and how it explicates Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves""--  Read More >>

This book, the first on Blaxploitation horror films such as Blacula, compares them with both mainstream horror movies...  Read More >>

An insightful read on film and video as measuring devices to test the effectiveness of art in public space.  Read More >>

In a comprehensively revised and updated new edition, James Naremore provides an illuminating critical account of...  Read More >>