Film theory & criticism books

At last, the definitive book about possibly the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed from one of the most 'insubstantial'...  Read More >>

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Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong-influenced action movie aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up,...  Read More >>

No director of his era surpassed his ability to capture an audience's imagination. In Picturing Peter Bogdanovich:...  Read More >>

Explores how cinema influenced leading American philosopher Stanley Cavell’s moral and social philosophy and thinking...  Read More >>

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola’s oeuvre that situates her work...  Read More >>

Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong-influenced action movie aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up,...  Read More >>

The Cinema of Sofia Coppola provides the first comprehensive analysis of Coppola’s oeuvre that situates her work...  Read More >>

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""Explores the direct relation of cinema to the history of petroleum extraction through the lens of sponsored film""--...  Read More >>

""An interdisciplinary exploration of the forms, implications, and potentials of cinematic thinking""--  Read More >>

Bringing together a group of international scholars, 'Grease Is the Word' offers fresh insight into the impact and...  Read More >>

The brushed word in films and film cultures of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and PRC  Read More >>

What can we learn from a sex scene about the culture and society that produced it? This book looks at how the first...  Read More >>

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A call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that explores women's roles - both in front of...  Read More >>

Algo tan sencillo como amar o desear ha sido y es delito en segun que lugares del mundo si se trata de dos personas...  Read More >>

Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) is internationally recognized as one of the most important painters of the twentieth and...  Read More >>

Using an auterist lens to challenge the notions of taste, genre and aesthetics that are commonly used to form the...  Read More >>

Casting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dialogues is the first comprehensive...  Read More >>

Bringing together Murdoch's moral philosophy and contemporary cinema to build a dialogue about vision, ethics and...  Read More >>

This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established Francophone directors, who all chose...  Read More >>

By giving shape to Imamura Shohei's career, this collection positions him as a stylistic innovator as well as an...  Read More >>