Film theory & criticism books

Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan's postwar ""economic miracle,"" challenging the...  Read More >>

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The book is beautifully illustrated with over 100 black and white archival images and is the first book to be published...  Read More >>

""Includes unpublished letters, photographs, and private reflections""--Cover.  Read More >>

""Includes unpublished letters, photographs, and private reflections""--Cover.  Read More >>

This book explores the depiction of suicide in American youth films from 1900 to 2019. Anchored in Sociology, this...  Read More >>

Capitalizing on the popularity of the Turner Classic Movies series and reaching underserved fans of late-night cinema,...  Read More >>

An accessible beginner's tour to the wildly popular world of Japanese animated cinema.  Read More >>

Based on case studies, it discusses three subgenres of mainland Chinese commercial mainstream films and offers an...  Read More >>

When released in 2003, The Room, an obscure, self-financed relationship drama by an eccentric self-taught filmmaker...  Read More >>

Acclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into English for the first time  Read More >>

Revealing cinema's place in the coevolution of media technology and the human Cinema did not die with the digital,...  Read More >>

For over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings...  Read More >>

When released in 2003, The Room, an obscure, self-financed relationship drama by an eccentric self-taught filmmaker...  Read More >>

Revealing cinema's place in the coevolution of media technology and the human Cinema did not die with the digital,...  Read More >>

Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen fundamentally altered the perception of American comic books and remains...  Read More >>

Alan Moore’s and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen fundamentally altered the perception of American comic books and remains...  Read More >>

With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books...  Read More >>

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In Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and...  Read More >>

"Which actor in 1962 told Jean-Paul Belmondo: ""Kid, you're me at 20. Who was the first man to figure on the cover...  Read More >>

Providing an indispensable resource for students and general readers, this book serves as an entry point for a conversation...  Read More >>

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Gizmo. Michael Myers. Hellboy. Predator. Pinhead. Twisty the Clown. Spielberg's dinosaurs. Brundlefly. This is just...  Read More >>