Film theory & criticism books

From the beginning, American cinema has been both a powerful mythmaker and a social critic. D.W. Griffith's Birth...  Read More >>

From the beginning, American cinema has been both a powerful mythmaker and a social critic. D.W. Griffith's Birth...  Read More >>

From the beginning, American cinema has been both a powerful mythmaker and a social critic. D.W. Griffith's Birth...  Read More >>

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""Explores the changing relationship of fiction to truth, politics, and ethics by picking through the bones of postmodernism...  Read More >>

The Politics of Nordsploitation takes a transnational approach to exploring Nordic ‘exploitation’ films in their...  Read More >>

""Deconstructs Huppert's star persona and public profile through critical and theoretical analysis of her various...  Read More >>

This open access book explores the enduring qualities that have marked Snow White’s influence and legacy, providing...  Read More >>

""Explores the changing relationship of fiction to truth, politics, and ethics by picking through the bones of postmodernism...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive volume on Stanley Kubrick's entire oeuvre from a multi-author perspective.  Read More >>

Since the very first dai kaiju eiga, GODZILLA (1954), made its way across the Pacific to U.S. shores, the Japanese...  Read More >>

Hollywood is UniversalAnyone can be a Hollywood film buff.No matter where you live in the world, and no matter how...  Read More >>

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1977) is arguably the most thoughtful science fiction film ever made. This book attempts...  Read More >>

""Pulses of Abstraction uncovers important epistemological shifts around film and related media""--  Read More >>

Sound is a new area of interest in the Arts and Humanities. The study of sound in cinema has only recently been...  Read More >>

In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers...  Read More >>

""Pulses of Abstraction uncovers important epistemological shifts around film and related media""--  Read More >>

In the 1950s, the gangster movie and film noir crisscrossed to create gangster noir. Robert Miklitsch takes readers...  Read More >>

The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955–1985 traces the origin of a postmodern iconography...  Read More >>

A Russian Jewish emigre who spent most of his life in England and the United States, Alexander Bakshy (1885-1949)...  Read More >>

Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical...  Read More >>

Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical...  Read More >>

Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling reveals an Altman barely glimpsed in previous critical...  Read More >>

Examining the special relationship between footwear and film, Shoe Reelsexplores images of shoes in cinema.It questions...  Read More >>

"""The Wrong Kind of Woman: Dismantling the Gods of Hollywood is a personal, collective, and metrics-driven dive...  Read More >>