Film theory & criticism books

This collection analyses the audio-visual representations of several heightened events in Mexican history.  Read More >>

Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom provides an account of Johansson’s persona, work and stardom,...  Read More >>

Understanding Film: A Viewers Guide bucks the trend of current film analysis texts (few of which contain actual...  Read More >>

Cinema Derrida charts Jacques Derrida's collaborations and appearances in film, video, and television from 1983's...  Read More >>

Understanding Film: A Viewers Guide bucks the trend of current film analysis texts (few of which contain actual...  Read More >>

Informed by its disaster-prone history, Japan's science fiction cinema is distinctive. SF covers a wide variety...  Read More >>

A new look at Indian film dance, this book engages with the display and mobilization of the female dancing body...  Read More >>

""An examination of Gilles Deleuze's writings on film and film theory and how these writings relate to Max Ophuls's...  Read More >>

Artists, scholars, filmmakers, and writers revisit the films of Dani le Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Artists,...  Read More >>

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This comprehensive book on Francesco Rosi explores the work of this extraordinary filmmaker whose representations...  Read More >>

Georges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher of images whose work is overdue for attention from English-language readers....  Read More >>

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The creator of the leading classic Hollywood Instagram account, This Was Hollywood, offers a fresh take on film...  Read More >>

""An examination of Gilles Deleuze's writings on film and film theory and how these writings relate to Max Ophuls's...  Read More >>

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive...  Read More >>

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Included in this book are reviews of the 5 best horror films for each year between 2000 and 2020, and reviews of...  Read More >>

In 1985 film director Robert Zemeckis introduced the world to a time machine built out of a DeLorean sports car...  Read More >>

Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate...  Read More >>

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Francophone Belgian Cinema offers an original critical analysis of filmmaking in an oft-neglected 'national' and...  Read More >>

This book covers the films of Dario Argento, Italy's acknowledged master of horror and suspense, has made a career...  Read More >>

This book looks at the film career of Dario Argento, Italy's acknowledged master of horror and suspense, has made...  Read More >>