Film theory & criticism books

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This is a book about the fifty films that have played an important part in my life, from as far back as the early...  Read More >>

Go back in time to the 1980s, and visit the sets of movies like Back to the Future, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and...  Read More >>

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Hitchcock was a masterful director, popular with audiences of all ages and critically acclaimed both during and...  Read More >>

Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema.  Read More >>

This important collection of essays acknowledges the long and distinctive history of the alternate history genre...  Read More >>

Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema....  Read More >>

Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artists In Hollywood’s heyday, almost...  Read More >>

Neil Archer’s original study makes a timely and politically-engaged intervention in debates about national cinema...  Read More >>

Georges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher of images whose work is overdue for attention from English-language readers....  Read More >>

""This comprehensive history of cinematic adaptations of French literature analyses the reworking of a key body...  Read More >>

Presents a new history of Brazilian Cinema, based on its dialogue with other arts and media  Read More >>

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Provides a theoretical reconceptualization of the paradigms of early cinema, highlighting the latest methods in...  Read More >>

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The New Wave Cinema in Iran is a historical and analytical study of the Iranian New Wave Cinema (Mowj-e No) as an...  Read More >>

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A new, updated edition of The Star-Spangled Screen.  Read More >>

Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.  Read More >>

Hadewijch of Antwerp and Joan of Arc have made it clear that Bruno Dumont's naturalism did not preclude an aesthetic...  Read More >>

In this book, Philip Allen examines the presence of Lope de Vega’s adapted work on Spanish screens since the mid-twentieth...  Read More >>

Provides an original, vivid investigation of innovative collaborations between renowned contemporary jazz artists...  Read More >>

""More than just spooky, moonlit castles and morbid graveyards, the Gothic represents a vibrant, emergent perspective...  Read More >>