Film theory & criticism books

In this book, adopting Žižek’s own tactic of counterintuitive observation, we shall read the corpus of Alfred Hitchcock’s...  Read More >>

This close analysis of Alfonso Cuarón's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban examines how collaborative authorship...  Read More >>

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

This book tracks the changing of the guard in the 1970s from the classic Hollywood studio system to a new generation...  Read More >>

Ray offers closereadings that call attention to what we have missed in such classic films as La Règle du Jeu, It...  Read More >>

The works probed most fully are ones by Theo Angelopoulos, Ingmar Bergman, Harun Farocki, Theodor Fontane, Henry...  Read More >>

Since the days of silent cinema, opening title sequences have provided audiences with far more than just a list...  Read More >>

To millions of fans, All About Eve represents all that's witty and wonderful in classic Hollywood movies. Its old-fashioned,...  Read More >>

To millions of fans, All About Eve represents all that's witty and wonderful in classic Hollywood movies. Its old-fashioned,...  Read More >>

The definitive look at the 1983 cinematic adaptation of Stephen King's terrifying novel about the eponymous demonic...  Read More >>

The definitive look at the 1983 cinematic adaptation of Stephen King's terrifying novel about the eponymous demonic...  Read More >>

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Pedro Almodóvar’s 1988 black comedy-melodrama Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown established its director...  Read More >>

The 1940 film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic romance Rebecca begins by echoing the novel’s famous opening...  Read More >>

This volume offers a new and expanded history of the documentary form across a range of times and contexts, featuring...  Read More >>

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Time and temporality are not only inherent to the moving image because it is time-based, but also because it is...  Read More >>

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

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

Offers an original theoretical paradigm for thinking through race and nature by showing that diverse constructions...  Read More >>

Starting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020's The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades...  Read More >>

MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry explores evolving definitions of media and interrogates how media technologies...  Read More >>

Carcanet's Graham Greene Film Reader reissued as a Carcanet Classic, the only book to collect his written contributions...  Read More >>

The book describes the political background for the events of the year 1956, including the changing Soviet atmosphere...  Read More >>

Drawing on over 30 interviews with key personnel from Working Title, Polygram and Universal, the author examines...  Read More >>