Film theory & criticism books

In contemporary culture, existing audiovisual recordings are constantly reused and repurposed for various ends,...  Read More >>

Reviled on its release, Peeping Tom (1960) all-but ended the career of director Michael Powell, previously one of...  Read More >>

Combining the studies of modern film, traditional narratology, and Roman art, this interdisciplinary work explores...  Read More >>

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Star Wars: The Triumph of Nerd Culture engagingly reveals how the most popular film franchise of all time sprang...  Read More >>

""A collection of historically focused chapters that examines the hidden history of cinema's abandoned, halted,...  Read More >>

This volume closely examines the near-ubiquitous images of state security walls, domes, and other such defense enclosures...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates that a contemporary form of political cinema has emerged, centered on the production of subjectivity...  Read More >>

Examining how traditional media incumbents like studios and networks have responded to the rise of new entrants...  Read More >>

This book recounts the reception of selected films about the Great War released between 1918 and 1938 in the USA...  Read More >>

Terence McSweeney provides a concise and up-to-date overview of the superhero genre. He lays out its narrative codes...  Read More >>

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Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World...  Read More >>

Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the...  Read More >>

In this first book on The LEGO Movie, renowned film and TV scholar Dana Polan shows how, through irony, savvy self-awareness,...  Read More >>

A study of spectatorship, desire, identification and identity  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the singing voice in contemporary cinema and considers different contextual formations of...  Read More >>

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World...  Read More >>

Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the singing voice in contemporary cinema and considers different contextual formations of...  Read More >>

Unlike most histories of Hollywood during World War II or the genre of war movies, World War II on Film examines...  Read More >>

Is culture a luxury? In this era of austerity, the value of the arts has been a topic of heated debate in Greece,...  Read More >>

Is culture a luxury? In this era of austerity, the value of the arts has been a topic of heated debate in Greece,...  Read More >>

Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and...  Read More >>

The vivid and untold story of the Golden Age of classic animation and the often larger-than-life artists who created...  Read More >>