Film theory & criticism books

The book examinesMonty Python's enduring status as an unconventional, anti-authoritarian comedy touchstone, this...  Read More >>

Tells the story of how film-makers use and manipulate the appearance and performances of muscular men and women...  Read More >>

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From Edison's Leonard-Cushing Fight to The Joe Louis Story, Rocky and beyond, this book explores why boxing has...  Read More >>

In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the...  Read More >>

A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick provides an in-depth analysis of the director’s work and offers an enriching...  Read More >>

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From Edison's Leonard-Cushing Fight to The Joe Louis Story, Rocky and beyond, this book explores why boxing has...  Read More >>

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes...  Read More >>

In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic,...  Read More >>

In Poetics of Deconstruction, Lynn Turner develops an intimate attention to independent films, art and the psychoanalyses...  Read More >>

In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the...  Read More >>

Made in collaboration with George Lucas and Lucasfilm, this volume covers the making of the prequel trilogy: The...  Read More >>

Murray Pomerance, venerated film scholar, is the first to take on the 'cheat' in film, where 'cheating' constitutes...  Read More >>

Hailed since its initial release, Film and the Anarchist Imagination offers the authoritative account of films featuring...  Read More >>

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory....  Read More >>

Examines motion pictures produced or sponsored by Ford Motor Company from a rhetorical perspective, demonstrating...  Read More >>

WALERIAN BOROWCZYK: THE BEAST ---- By Jeremy Robinson ---- Walerian Borowczyk (known as 'Boro') is one of cinema's...  Read More >>

Annette Michelson's erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov,...  Read More >>

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Shane Denson examines the ways in which computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional...  Read More >>

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