Film theory & criticism books

Cutting across a swath of recent French-produced cinema, French Blockbusters offers the first book-length consideration...  Read More >>

Examining how Hong Kong filmmakers, spectators and critics wrestled with this perturbation between the Leftist Riots...  Read More >>

This book looks at Spike Jonze's ground-breaking work in both features and short forms, exploring the impact of...  Read More >>

Michelle Devereaux explores the underlying philosophical and aesthetic Romantic connections between a selection...  Read More >>

This book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the...  Read More >>

This book focuses on Stanley Cavell's account of what makes Hollywood movies so magical, which proposes the remarkable...  Read More >>

In 1968 two ambitious young filmmakers, working on a shoestring, made a movie about a ruthless motorcycle gang....  Read More >>

Honor Among Thieves profiles Melville's eventful life & discusses his cinema as an essential body of work in our...  Read More >>

Con il sorprendente e inatteso trionfo di Parasite agli Oscar del febbraio 2020, a distanza di otto mesi dalla Palma...  Read More >>

Um den Vektorbegriff, seine Einzelteile und besondere Eigenheiten von Abänderungen und Nuancen in der Anwendung...  Read More >>

With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books...  Read More >>

Shortlisted for the BAFTSS 'Best Monograph' Award 2021 When watching the latest instalment of Batman, it is perfectly...  Read More >>

In this Open Access book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere...  Read More >>

Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury is the first anthology to explore the rockumentary as a central...  Read More >>

How do English-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of China from a Chinese perspective? How do they keep...  Read More >>

In Screening Queer Memory, Anamarija Horvat examines how LGBTQ history has been represented on-screen, and interrogates...  Read More >>

Over the decades since he was first hailed by critics and filmmakers around the world, Sergei Eisenstein has assumed...  Read More >>

In this Open Access book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere...  Read More >>

But is it a musical? This question is regularly asked of films, television shows and other media objects that sit...  Read More >>

Emotional Ethics of The Hunger Games expands the ‘ethical turn’ in Film Studies by analysing emotions as a source...  Read More >>

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Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film...  Read More >>

This book investigates the internationalization of Chinese culture in recent decades and the global dimensions of...  Read More >>