Film theory & criticism books

Offering a survey of Hollywood science fiction cinema from 1979 to 2017, Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood...  Read More >>

By focusing on the daily challenges and experiences of the Chinese workers at the Manchuria Film Association, Yuxin...  Read More >>

Upon his return to acting after the war, he became the embodiment of the uniquely French spirit - a persona that...  Read More >>

A novel and original reading of Theo Angelopoulos' films arguing for their political and existential depth.  Read More >>

An up-to-date historical overview of documentary history, the role of women in documentary history, and consideration...  Read More >>

India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India is an attempt to situate and historicize...  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas.  Read More >>

""Using extensive examples of films and filmmakers from French and Japanese cinemas, this book tracks the longstanding...  Read More >>

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""I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence."" These eight treasonous words delivered with intense earnestness...  Read More >>

A cornerstone of the resurgence in Spanish horror cinema, [REC] (2007) is a propulsive single-location ‘found-footage’...  Read More >>

A cornerstone of the resurgence in Spanish horror cinema, [REC] (2007) is a propulsive single-location ‘found-footage’...  Read More >>

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19 b/w illus, 123 col illus & 1 b/w tab.  Read More >>

A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising success of Get Out, Candyman,...  Read More >>

Post-Horror is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Over the past two decades Canadian filmmaking has undergone a dramatic transformation. Canadian Cinema in the New...  Read More >>

In Working the System: Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949-1966, Qiliang He inquires...  Read More >>

With mingled reverence and wry humor, best-selling author Tom Santopietro embarks on an investigation to decode...  Read More >>

Over the past two decades Canadian filmmaking has undergone a dramatic transformation. Canadian Cinema in the New...  Read More >>

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The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory...  Read More >>

Astaire by Numbers offers a complete re-assessment of a twentieth-century icon of American popular culture through...  Read More >>