Film theory & criticism books

Werner Herzog's protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation...  Read More >>

Between 1931 and 2000, India's popular cinema steadily overcame Hollywood domination. Bollywood, the film industry...  Read More >>

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This new edition of Lane's memoirs adds almost half a million words, restores dozens of adventures, and includes...  Read More >>

Anhand paradigmatischer sowjetischer, ost- und westdeutscher Filme über den Zweiten Weltkrieg, die die kollektive...  Read More >>

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When we see a murder played out in the movies, we become participants. When artfully crafted, murders become insidious...  Read More >>

When we see a murder played out in the movies, we become participants. When artfully crafted, murders become insidious...  Read More >>

Paolo Sorrentino has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film. This book...  Read More >>

Paolo Sorrentino has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film. This book...  Read More >>

The Cannon Film Guide Volume I explores forty films and franchises produced by The Cannon Group, the most prolific...  Read More >>

A special memoir for a special moment in Hollywood history...  Read More >>

A special memoir for a special moment in Hollywood history...  Read More >>

In this enthralling, sharply observant memoir, the author of In the Cut maps her journey from working as a model...  Read More >>

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Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. The second edition to this...  Read More >>

In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last 25 years and its subsequent theorization...  Read More >>

In The Art of Pure Cinema, Bruce Isaacs reexamines Alfred Hitchcock's filmography through the lens of what Hitchcock...  Read More >>

Reassessing the unique qualities of Renoir's influential visual style by interpreting his films through Gilles Deleuze's...  Read More >>

Drawing on case studies of films including Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Climates...  Read More >>

Journey to Poland addresses crucial issues of memory and history in relation to the Holocaust as it unfolded in...  Read More >>

Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing...  Read More >>

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