Film theory & criticism books

A full-scale, comprehensive biography that examines the tension between Dan Duryea's villainous screen image and...  Read More >>

From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, this book casts new...  Read More >>

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Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan’s active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation...  Read More >>

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you? When The Graduate premiered in December 1967, its filmmakers...  Read More >>

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Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and...  Read More >>

The interdisciplinary French-American thinker René Girard (1923-2015) has been one of the towering figures of the...  Read More >>

Drawing on new archival research into Hollywood production history and detailed textual analysis of individual films,...  Read More >>

A camp lipsynched routine by three air stewards distracts unsuspecting passengers from the fact that their plane...  Read More >>

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The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production  Read More >>

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Radical Mainstream examines independent film and video cultures in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s in the context...  Read More >>

This book shows that there's much more to Jurassic Park than a simple special effects extravaganza. It does this...  Read More >>

Taking a transnational approach to Moroccan cinema, this book examines diversity in its production models, its barriers...  Read More >>

Robert Eggers' The Witch (2015) is one of the most critically acclaimed horror films of recent years, praised as...  Read More >>

The author uses his experience in professional practice, teaching, and academia to throw light on the divergent...  Read More >>

Robert Eggers' The Witch (2015) is one of the most critically acclaimed horror films of recent years, praised as...  Read More >>

The James Bond universe is greater than you might think. Even if you have seen all the movies and devoured Ian Fleming's...  Read More >>

42nd Street Pete's GP Issue #17 brings more joy! Interviews with Lynn Lowry (I Drink Your Blood) and Judy Matheson...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation.  Read More >>

This book revisits discourse analytic practice, analyzing the idea that the field has access to, provides, or even...  Read More >>

Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of the blockbuster, showing how it became a complex economic...  Read More >>

This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film...  Read More >>