Film theory & criticism books

Discusses a variety of Great War-themed films made from 1915 to the present, tracing the changing approaches to...  Read More >>

Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North...  Read More >>

From cinema’s silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative...  Read More >>

A new study of leading Chinese director Jia Zhangke's cinema, focussing on his often realist aesthetic and his representation...  Read More >>

A camp lipsynched routine by three air stewards distracts unsuspecting passengers from the fact that their plane...  Read More >>

Stanley Cavell was, by many accounts, America's greatest philosophical thinker of film. Like Bazin in France and...  Read More >>

""An extensive analysis of recent European films that puts forward new ways of theorizing contemporary Europe""--...  Read More >>

""Critically engages fifty years of theoretical and artistic reflection on video-its technical and social implications,...  Read More >>

Directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer, The Omen (1976) is perhaps the best in the devil-child...  Read More >>

In this study, William C. Carroll analyses a wide range of adaptations and appropriations of Macbeth across different...  Read More >>

From cinema’s silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative...  Read More >>

""Critically engages fifty years of theoretical and artistic reflection on video-its technical and social implications,...  Read More >>

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Directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer, The Omen (1976) is perhaps the best in the devil-child...  Read More >>

Explores the educational affordances of using film as text. The book further discusses the use of digital technology...  Read More >>

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Cinematic Independence traces...  Read More >>

Adaptation was central to André Bazin’s lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed...  Read More >>

This edited collection explores how contemporary western European film can reflect on and contribute to discourses...  Read More >>

Adaptation was central to André Bazin’s lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed...  Read More >>

Contemporary American Science Fiction Film explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally...  Read More >>

""Tracing discourses around film production and film consumption in the city of Hamburg, On Screen and Off illustrates...  Read More >>

Have you noticed something about every ""100 Greatest Movies Ever Made,"" or ""100 Films to See Before You Die""...  Read More >>

In July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeymoon with her husband Arthur Miller, to make The Prince...  Read More >>

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