Film theory & criticism books

Word Search Series for Movie Lovers (Release 5) 2000s Movie Word Search Large Print Word Search Refresh...  Read More >>

Widely regarded as one of the foundational 'Unholy Trinity' of folk horror film, The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Storytelling: An Introduction to Genre, Character, and Technique is a textbook focused on specific...  Read More >>

What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations...  Read More >>

Eastern Approaches to Western Film: Asian Aesthetics and Reception in Cinema offers a renewed critical outlook on...  Read More >>

How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of cities and urban culture since the 1960s? And what...  Read More >>

The book traces the reverberations of Ronald Reagan’s ideology in selected Hollywood blockbuster movies. The analysis...  Read More >>

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema...  Read More >>

Este libro examina la adaptación de la obra teatral, La vida conyugal,...  Read More >>

This volume explores post-1950s East Asian interpretations of Shakespeare and it analyses cinematic and dramatic...  Read More >>

Japan's Russia is a valuable resource that reinterprets modern Japanese culture and society and introducing readers...  Read More >>

This volume explores post-1950s East Asian interpretations of Shakespeare and it analyses cinematic and dramatic...  Read More >>

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Lingzhen Wang examines the work of Chinese women filmmakers of the Mao and post-Mao eras to theorize socialist and...  Read More >>

Essential reading for any Star Trek and movie fan.  Read More >>

Unleash your inner Soprano and relive all of your favourite moments with this companion guide to the award-winning...  Read More >>

Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood features an eclectic range...  Read More >>

As the first survey of its kind, Soft in the Middle positions the contemporary softcore feature as a middlebrow...  Read More >>

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Analysing dozens of keyanimated films, the book examines the emergence of new genres and stylistic approaches, as...  Read More >>

Men Out of Focus examines how and why the Soviet public came to worry openly about the state of masculinity during...  Read More >>

Full of humorous anecdotes and behind-the-scenes insights from the Golden Age, this riveting biography sheds new...  Read More >>

The first biography of Michael Curtiz, Academy Award-winning director.  Read More >>

Grindhouse Purgatory's first issue of 2021 says goodbye to old friends like Carmine Capobianco (Psychos in Love),...  Read More >>

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