Film theory & criticism books

""This book investigates women's representation and work in the Swedish film industry, focusing on both historical...  Read More >>

""This book analyses the complete cinematic work (1968 to 2020) of Alejandro Jodorowsky""--  Read More >>

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What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlands—and how this...  Read More >>

Offers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework  Read More >>

What a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlands—and how this...  Read More >>

The road to the Oscars may be golden, but it’s paved in blood, sweat, and broken hearts.In Oscar Wars, Michael Schulman...  Read More >>

Na Hong-jin’s The Wailing (2016) has been acclaimed as one of the very best horror films of recent years.  Read More >>

Considers over sixty Hollywood films set in Austria, examining the film industry, the influence of domestic factors...  Read More >>

An academic reader bridging the disciplines of aesthetics and film studies by focusing on cinematic sublimity. Original...  Read More >>

Contributeurs: Cedric Aguzzi, Nicolas Bareit, Didier Blanc, Alexis Blouet, Pierrick Bruyas, Damien Connil, Marie-Odile...  Read More >>

Lingzhen Wang examines the work of Chinese women filmmakers of the Mao and post-Mao eras to theorize socialist and...  Read More >>

Writing Australian History on Screen reveals the depths in Australian history from convict times to the present...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire examines Taylor's stardom as symbolic of American Empire at the apex of...  Read More >>

Charlie Chaplin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works captures his life, and legacy. It features a chronology,...  Read More >>

Este estudio analiza la recepción de crítica y público del filme Ask the Dust y el papel de la fidelidad en sus...  Read More >>

A comprehensive and timely source for studying depictions in film of enslaved African Americans and slavery from...  Read More >>

Exploresthe encounter between Emmanuel Levinas' ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the body  Read More >>

Examines portrayals of plants and landscapes in recent German novels and films, addressing the contemporary forms...  Read More >>

This volume examines the relationship between oneiric and historical episodes of atrocity in twentieth- and twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

This volume examines the interaction of mountain and dream narratives in literature and film from a transcultural...  Read More >>

This book uses popular films to understand the convergence of crime control and the ideology of repression in contemporary...  Read More >>

Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear...  Read More >>

An introduction to adaptations between theatre and film, considering these as distinct from literary adaptation....  Read More >>