Film theory & criticism books

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

Se presenta en este libro (A COLOR impreso en el interior tambien) una coleccion de todas las peliculas resenables...  Read More >>

In his first book, Tom Samp revisits and analyzes a group of 50 diverse films, spanning decades and genres, with...  Read More >>

Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked parable of paranoia - part SF, part body horror, part...  Read More >>

Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema,...  Read More >>

This book examines film flashback as a rich multimodal narrative device, analyzing the cognitive underpinnings of...  Read More >>

This special issue recognizes the work and legacy of Agnes Varda (1928-2019), a Belgian-born film director, screenwriter,...  Read More >>

Acclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into English for the first time  Read More >>

Seconds (1966) is John Frankenheimer's criminally overlooked parable of paranoia - part SF, part body horror, part...  Read More >>

Reframes the experimental audio-visual contributions of women in a wider perspective.  Read More >>

This volume looks into the ways in which film has contaminated and re-shaped culture(s) and the collective unconscious,...  Read More >>

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America on Film is a lively introduction to issues of diversity found within the American cinema. The book chronicles...  Read More >>

Suspicious of what he called the spectator’s “sticky” adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude...  Read More >>

Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld presents a theoretical investigation of whatmakes the films of Wes Anderson distinctive....  Read More >>

This definitive book provides a simple, straightforward and concise introduction to Film Noir. It illustrates that...  Read More >>

A collection of film comment and criticism, writing about movies.  Read More >>

This book analyzes Hungarian and Romanian cinema employs a film historical overview to merge the study of small...  Read More >>

This book charts the shape of future philosophical investigation by posing the question: “What is the Matrix?” Guided...  Read More >>

On the morning of March 5, 1959, fire engulfed the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville, killing...  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 >>

This book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures...  Read More >>

Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the “stone phenomenon” in Chinese...  Read More >>

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This book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures...  Read More >>