Film theory & criticism books

This innovative study of significant contemporary film and media works provides readers with a new orientation to...  Read More >>

This book is a scholarly investigation of the historical development and contemporary transformation of film noir...  Read More >>

This exciting collection will appeal to an educated film going public, in addition to students and scholars of Lacanian...  Read More >>

Explores the intersection between movies, reality, and fantasy; between subjective and objective representation....  Read More >>

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This book offers the first in-depth look at the history, social context, and industrial practices behind this teen...  Read More >>

L’Auberge Espagnole looks at one of contemporary French cinema’s most influential and innovative youth films. examines...  Read More >>

This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to discussing Easy A, the last significant box-office success in...  Read More >>

Clueless: American Youth in the 1990s is a timely contribution to the increasingly prominent academic field of youth...  Read More >>

This book traces the development of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood from its audacious concept through its tenacious...  Read More >>

This book considers The Hunger Games as an intertextual field centred on this blockbuster film franchise but also...  Read More >>

Superheroes saturate popular culture and the mass media, but what can their representations tell us about the pleasure...  Read More >>

Explores the intersection between movies, reality, and fantasy; between subjective and objective representation....  Read More >>

Join this author on his quest of discovery; on the adventure to uncover some of the treasures hidden in motion pictures...  Read More >>

Provides the first comprehensive account of Stanley Kubrick's role as a producer, and of the role of the producers...  Read More >>

It draws on academic, literary, and personal material to start a dialogue with the Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel...  Read More >>

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Fans of the movie and those interested in deeper discussions about the film will revel in this thought-provoking...  Read More >>

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Sensing Justice examines the aesthetic frames that mediate the sensory perception and signification of law and justice...  Read More >>

The Pulse in Cinema acknowledges that the pulse is ""felt"" in the body, yet also argues that the pulse has a wider...  Read More >>

""This book explores the ways in which postwar Asian cinema was shaped by transnational collaborations and competitions...  Read More >>

Ian Aitken links the issue of cinematic realism to important questions concerning human experience, analysing the...  Read More >>

The book provides a response to urgent calls to comprehend the cultural impact of immigration in Greece, and to...  Read More >>