Film theory & criticism books

Draws on the author's twenty-year friendship with the acclaimed actress, as well as interviews with family and intimates,...  Read More >>

A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and...  Read More >>

Explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval...  Read More >>

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Superheroes, Movies, and the State sets a new standard for exploring the government-Hollywood relationship as it...  Read More >>

""Coinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Capote's Breakast at Tiffany's, the acclaimed,...  Read More >>

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Addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. The purpose of the...  Read More >>

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"""We're Still Standing!"" The pandemic couldn't keep us down! Interviews with SWV's Lisa Petrucci, and filmmakers...  Read More >>

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Screening the Police explores the history of film's entwinement with law enforcement, showing the role that state...  Read More >>

This volume explores space, place and hybridity in today’s multicultural societies with a strong emphasis on the...  Read More >>

During the early era of cinema, moviegoers turned to women editors and writers for the latest on everyone's favorite...  Read More >>

The 1960s on Film tells the narrative of the 1960s through the lens of the movie camera, analyzing 10 films that...  Read More >>

Sports on Film takes readers behind the scenes of how movies get made and puts them in the stands for some of the...  Read More >>

This book examines Japanese horror films released from the 2010s to present day, analyzing the function of computers,...  Read More >>

Explores the history of witches and witchcraft in Hollywood films, starting with early depictions where the witch...  Read More >>

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Released in 1990, The Silence of the Lambs is one of the defining films of late twentieth century American cinema....  Read More >>

A study of the Marx Brothers' classic 1933 Hollywood comedy Duck Soup in the BFI Film Classics series.  Read More >>

An extra-terrestrial alien, capable of replicating any living form it touches, infiltrates an isolated research...  Read More >>