Film theory & criticism books

Beginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie...  Read More >>

A theoretical, interdisciplinary reading of French film and literary texts inspired by the 2008 global financial...  Read More >>

Explores the huge commercial success of contemporary superhero blockbusters and develops a critical theory of digital-era...  Read More >>

Collects critical essays on the influential Argentine director Lucrecia Martel  Read More >>

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""The Afterimage Reader"" is an anthology of articles on radical cinema drawn from the pages of the independent...  Read More >>

An entertaining, action-packed addition to the TCM program that celebrates an essential, but often overlooked part...  Read More >>

In Poetics of Deconstruction, Lynn Turner develops an intimate attention to independent films, art and the psychoanalyses...  Read More >>

Bringing together the human story of care with its representation in film, fiction and memoir, this book combines...  Read More >>

""Investigates the importance of cinema-going to social life in post-war Italy, and unpacks the complex relations...  Read More >>

"""This book scans six decades of videographic cinema from the point of view of its shifting conditions of existence""--"...  Read More >>

""Deleuze and the Gynesis of Horror takes a Deleuzian perspective on motherhood, mothering, and mothers in contemporary...  Read More >>

Chronicling more than 100 of the best movies ever made and bringing cinema to life, this title covers early visionaries...  Read More >>

Focuses on a group of films set in New York City between 1965 and 1995, reflecting a town besieged by criminality,...  Read More >>

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""This book explores the star image of Austrian born actress Romy Schneider (1938-1982), with her evolving cinema...  Read More >>

""A critical analysis of the depiction of vigilantism in 1970s American cinema""--  Read More >>

""Expands our understanding of the complex relationship between the American and European metropoles in the postwar...  Read More >>

""An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in...  Read More >>

A new critical study of the Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975).  Read More >>

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Through this figure and the medium of film, the author subverts Kant’s three Enlightenment questions and guides...  Read More >>

Considers parallels in the zombie genre to historical and current events on different political, theological and...  Read More >>

"In 1928, an archeological dig in Giza, Egypt, unearthed a giant ring and cover stone that had been buried for nearly...  Read More >>

""You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried"" takes readers back to the 1980s, interviewing key players from the Brat...  Read More >>