Film theory & criticism books

Lilian Mathieu shows that the TV series Columbo owes its success to its implicit but formidable political dimension,...  Read More >>

Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981) remains a distinct phenomenon. Skirting the boundary between art and exploitation,...  Read More >>

Hitchcock Annual, volume 21, contains essays on textured characters in The Skin Game, hospitality in Dial M for...  Read More >>

""Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen...  Read More >>

Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981) remains a distinct phenomenon. Skirting the boundary between art and exploitation,...  Read More >>

The Fourth issue of the Horror Guys Monthly review digest, Horror Bulletin, includes reviews of twenty-nine full-length...  Read More >>

A Surprising History of Cinema. When David Folster discovered that some of the earliest documentary motion pictures...  Read More >>

Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.  Read More >>

Provides a new way of thinking about film's relation to theatre.  Read More >>

Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M...  Read More >>

Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the uneveness...  Read More >>

Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy's most famous postwar film directors.  Read More >>

The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation...  Read More >>

Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.  Read More >>

Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.  Read More >>

Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban...  Read More >>

Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film's eleven shots.  Read More >>

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

Awarded the Tudor Vianu Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory by the National Museum of Romanian Literature. Over...  Read More >>

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Fred Schepisi is one of the crucial names associated with the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s....  Read More >>

Black Panther is one of the most successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry...  Read More >>

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