Film theory & criticism books

She would appear in more than thirty films and be named after a Road Atlas by Cecil B. DeMille. A football play...  Read More >>

The film industry in the Weimar Republic was a major site for German-Jewish experience that provided a sphere for...  Read More >>

Sensitive Subjects examines how contemporary German-language cinema may be read as seeking to produce greater political...  Read More >>

Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.  Read More >>

Der Sammelband bringt verschiedene Zugänge und Kontexte zu Twin Peaks zusammen und greift dabei auch die besonderen...  Read More >>

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In this innovative volume, Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of three cinemas, yielding rich insights on the layers...  Read More >>

Examines the phenomenon the """"fanboy auteur"""". The volume discusses both popular fanboys, such as J.J. Abrams...  Read More >>

The Friday the 13th franchise is one of the most successful horror film franchises in history. In SEE! HEAR! CUT!...  Read More >>

An academic reader bridging the disciplines of aesthetics and film studies by focusing on cinematic sublimity. Original...  Read More >>

The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the second film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is often cited as the ‘best’...  Read More >>

Ritwik Ghatak’s The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960) has been hailed as ‘one of the great classics of...  Read More >>

Drawing on film theory, literary modernism, psychology and art history, Fields of View elucidates an expanded network...  Read More >>

First released in 1987, Near Dark is a vampire film set in the contemporary American Midwest that tells the story...  Read More >>

Kurosawa's Throne of Blood (1957) is widely regarded as the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.  Read More >>

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is one of the most historically pivotal of all films. The first American film...  Read More >>

""First published in 2008 by Palgrave Macmillan""--Copyright page.  Read More >>

First published in 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan.  Read More >>

For the first time, this book brings together Jean-Luc Godard's later multimedia works with an analysis of their...  Read More >>

First published in 1997 by the British Film Institute. Second edition published in 1998; revised second edition...  Read More >>

In this innovative volume, Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of three cinemas, yielding rich insights on the layers...  Read More >>

Focusing on films from Chile since 2000 and bringing together scholars from South and North America, Chilean Cinema...  Read More >>

Considers the ways in which fairy tales in their mediated forms deconstruct the world and offer alternative views...  Read More >>