Film theory & criticism books

It draws on academic, literary, and personal material to start a dialogue with the Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel...  Read More >>

From the revered chief film critic for Slate, a fresh and captivating cultural analysis of Buster Keaton—and an...  Read More >>

Explores British cinematic representations of masculinity.  Read More >>

Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight...  Read More >>

Polish cinema has inescapably been shaped by the nation’s succession of different economic and ideological regimes...  Read More >>

Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to...  Read More >>

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Analysing key commercials over the decades that feature new technologies and film aesthetics that were subsequently...  Read More >>

From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines...  Read More >>

Challenging assumptions around Sixties stardom, the book focuses on creative collaboration and the contribution...  Read More >>

Since the early 1990s, Israel has greatly expanded a system checkpoints, walls and other barriers in the West Bank...  Read More >>

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage,' to post-cinematic...  Read More >>

This is the first English-language study of internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, examining...  Read More >>

What is film criticism for? This book aims to answer this question It argues that art cinema's political effect...  Read More >>

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Using the Regenerative economic model - also known as Doughnut Economics - Susan Hayward offers a thought-provoking...  Read More >>

In Landscapes Between Then and Now, Nicola Brandt examines the increasingly compelling and diverse cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

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Explores the blockbusters, low-budget sleepers, and films in between released in the 2010s. A decade seemingly dominated...  Read More >>

Desire indicates phenomena that are implicated in a productive ambiguity. These phenomena associate basic elements...  Read More >>

Analysing recent documentary films, the book seeks to investigate the interplay between European migration policies...  Read More >>

This book explains Tarantino's film aesthetics and also addresses the question of the aestheticization of violence....  Read More >>

This volume shares the fascinating story of the cinematic adaptation of one of the world's most influential novels....  Read More >>

This volume offers transdisciplinary perspectives on the study of acting and performance in moving image forms....  Read More >>

An in-depth look at the phenomenon of horror film remakes and the cultural fears and forces that shape the incessant...  Read More >>