Film theory & criticism books

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An original and lyrical reading of Bong Joon Ho’s films highlighting the philosophical underpinnings and critical...  Read More >>

The first English-language critical study of the films of Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch director of provocative films...  Read More >>

The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present,...  Read More >>

Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture presents a nuanced transnational analysis of the development,...  Read More >>

The Live-Action Animated Film looks at the history of movies that combine live action with animation to hallucinogenic...  Read More >>

The Reflective Age investigates the cultural and political context that led to the nostalgia boom in American media...  Read More >>

Black Orpheus and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture presents a nuanced transnational analysis of the development,...  Read More >>

The Live-Action Animated Film looks at the history of movies that combine live action with animation to hallucinogenic...  Read More >>

The Reflective Age investigates the cultural and political context that led to the nostalgia boom in American media...  Read More >>

""Bond, James Bond."" Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the most dashing secret agent in...  Read More >>

A behind-the-scenes deep dive into the decision-making process that can turn a script into either a blockbuster...  Read More >>

This book explores the twenty-first century upsurge in Gothic screen media emanating from the Basque region of Northern...  Read More >>

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The Fourteenth Doctor: A New Beginning explores the short but emotionally monumental era of David Tennant's return...  Read More >>

Re-examining film's potential as both an artistic and ideological discipline, Torn is the Curtain interrogates the...  Read More >>

Through close film analysis, applied critical theory, and social analysis of the Disney corporation, Anjirbag unearths...  Read More >>

Unearths key histories of overlooked figures in LA's pornography industries of the 1960s and 1970s.  Read More >>

The first book entirely devoted to the relationship between sound and space in film.  Read More >>

Explores the work of amateur and independent filmmakers working in Northern Ireland between 1929-1989.  Read More >>

Author Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh presents an unknown history of early film in Hong Kong. Drawing on screen practice and...  Read More >>

In this book, Robert K. Beshara applies decolonial film theory to an analysis of Youssef Chahine’s (1997) Al-Masir...  Read More >>

Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts speaks to how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate,...  Read More >>

Quiet Pictures approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadžhalilovicthrough...  Read More >>