Film theory & criticism books

This volume is an extended dialogue between the internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke and film...  Read More >>

Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to...  Read More >>

This volume reassesses the film and television work of award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes in light...  Read More >>

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This volume reassesses the film and television work of award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes in light...  Read More >>

This volume is an extended dialogue between the internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke and film...  Read More >>

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era examines the use that New Queer Cinema filmmakers (Derek Jarman, Barbara Hammer,...  Read More >>

Argues that the Delmer Daves’ work warrants sustained scholarly attention. Examining all of Daves’ films, his screenplays,...  Read More >>

The first book devoted to the musicals of Daryl F. Zanuck. The volume spotlights how he placed his personal imprint...  Read More >>

Restores the first German feminist film, long neglected, to its rightful status as a classic forebear of more recent...  Read More >>

Examines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality....  Read More >>

A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse How can a philosophical...  Read More >>

A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse How can a philosophical...  Read More >>

The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future....  Read More >>

The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future....  Read More >>

In Seven Samurai (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Akira Kurosawa’s celebrated film,...  Read More >>

Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) shocked audiences around the world when it was released in 1963...  Read More >>

“Brisk [and] forceful.” Sight & Sound ""Lucidly argued.” Total Film Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff’s...  Read More >>

The first substantial study of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's work set in both the context of transnational film networks and...  Read More >>

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the...  Read More >>

Cinema and nationalism are two fundamentally modern phenomena, but how have films shaped our understanding of the...  Read More >>

The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating...  Read More >>

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