Film theory & criticism books

Podría pensarse que, en las actuales y gravísimas circunstancias que sacuden al mundo, este es un libro que se ocupa...  Read More >>

Uses Stephanie Rothman’s career as an in-depth case study, intertwining historical, archival, industrial, and filmic...  Read More >>

Este libro busca contribuir al impulso del estudio del actual cine poético hispanoamericano e íbero-peninsular,...  Read More >>

Reconsidering the German tendency to define itself vis-à-vis an eastern ""Other"" in light of fresh debate regarding...  Read More >>

Uses Stephanie Rothman’s career as an in-depth case study, intertwining historical, archival, industrial, and filmic...  Read More >>

With an introduction that establishes the multiple critical contexts for Irish cinema, literature, and their adaptive...  Read More >>

In his lively, accessible Some Versions of Cary Grant, author James Naremore argues for the outsized importance...  Read More >>

Takes the reader through the myriad methods Carmen Miranda consciously used to shape her performance of race, gender,...  Read More >>

Collected from across the nation, over twenty writers, film critics, academics, artists, filmmakers and editors...  Read More >>

Collected from across the nation, over twenty writers, film critics, academics, artists, filmmakers and editors...  Read More >>

A dive into the world of movie make-up effects, along with a treasure trove of hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs...  Read More >>

In time for Scorsese's 80th birthday and the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, a new edition of the seminal...  Read More >>

The decade of the 1950s was one of the most fascinating in the history of the cinema. Regarded as The Golden Age...  Read More >>

Once in a century, a book comes along that both defines a genre - and defies it. This is that century. This is that...  Read More >>

Lessons in Perception brings together film theory and psychological research by exploring how experimental filmmakers...  Read More >>

Pur rigorosamente escluso da ogni forma di censimento ufficiale, espulso da cataloghi, dizionari o annuari del cinema,...  Read More >>

In Making Audiences, author Hideaki Fujiki offers a social history of a century of Japanese cinema and considers...  Read More >>

Offers the first book-length study of Norwegian horror cinema  Read More >>

Offers a genuinely original critical approach to a well-covered chapter in film history. A mix of history, theory...  Read More >>

120 years of Labrador and Labradorians on both sides of the camera:...  Read More >>

This book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s,...  Read More >>

Examines the work of pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès in relationship to Second Industrial Revolution's advances...  Read More >>

Y Tu Mamá También (2001), an intelligent and sensual road movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón and co-written by him...  Read More >>

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic...  Read More >>

This book is an academic study of the work of an important American director working primarily in the action genre....  Read More >>