Film theory & criticism books

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

Analyses the cinematic and social significance of the star phenomenon in Southeast Asia.  Read More >>

""This collection re-introduces Marxism into the studies of Third Cinema and World Cinema""--  Read More >>

""A collection offering new research and insights into Steven Spielberg's classic thriller Jaws""--  Read More >>

John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was voted the seventh greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's...  Read More >>

Trevor Lynch views cinema and television from the Right. Trevor Lynch's Classics of Right-Wing Cinema is his fifth...  Read More >>

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""A study of the Italian horror director Mario Bava, exploring issues in authorship, genre, and film style, and...  Read More >>

""Examining political walls as screened media and media screens through the artworks and films they inspire, Walled...  Read More >>

Popular-culture historian Ed Hulse has written this collection of informative, extensively researched essays on...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception,...  Read More >>

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. For the first half of...  Read More >>

Was there experimental cinema behind the Iron Curtain? What forms did experiments with film take in state-socialist...  Read More >>

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

Examines the role of film in shaping social psychology’s landmark postwar experiments. Examining the dramaturgy,...  Read More >>

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Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure...  Read More >>

Examines the role of film in shaping social psychology’s landmark postwar experiments. Examining the dramaturgy,...  Read More >>

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Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure...  Read More >>

This handbook takes us through the making of The Wandering Earth, one of the highest grossing non-English films...  Read More >>

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

This handbook takes us through the making of The Wandering Earth, one of the highest grossing non-English films...  Read More >>

""The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author of the behind-the-scenes explorations...  Read More >>

American women who contributed their talents to the silent film industry are still largely unrecognized, in spite...  Read More >>