Film theory & criticism books

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory,...  Read More >>

Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory,...  Read More >>

There are no two ways about it-the 1950s was the decade in which the American Western flourished and attained an...  Read More >>

There are no two ways about it-the 1950s was the decade in which the American Western flourished and attained an...  Read More >>

Imprints is a collection of essays, interviews, ephemera, and personal reflections that chart the life and work...  Read More >>

Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael...  Read More >>

Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael...  Read More >>

Gender representation in Mexico's contemporary audio-visual landscape  Read More >>

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An accessible illustrated guide to the 1999 sci-fi classic, exploring the unique elements that have helped The Matrix...  Read More >>

Through this figure and the medium of film, the author subverts Kant’s three Enlightenment questions and guides...  Read More >>

“Biographical Television Drama breaks new ground as, to my knowledge, the first book-length exploration of the terms...  Read More >>

Women in Marvel Films provides the first rigorous analysis of the portrayals of women, heroic and otherwise, in...  Read More >>

This book establishes a cinematic and cultural history of Greece during the last difficult decade in an engaged...  Read More >>

This wide-ranging collection examines the films of John Hughes from diverse angles, considering how he depicted...  Read More >>

The Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and...  Read More >>

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It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama...  Read More >>

It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama...  Read More >>

Film and television create worlds, but they are also of a world, a world that is made up of stuff, to which humans...  Read More >>

James J. Caterino, the author of Pop Culture Musings and other Stuff, and over forty novels and short stories, returns...  Read More >>

""The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author of the behind-the-scenes explorations...  Read More >>

""The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author of the behind-the-scenes explorations...  Read More >>

Film and television create worlds, but they are also of a world, a world that is made up of stuff, to which humans...  Read More >>