Film theory & criticism books

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is widely regarded as one of the best films ever made. It has been...  Read More >>

Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, sparked a remarkable public discussion...  Read More >>

G.W. Pabst's 1929 silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora), stars Hollywood icon Louise Brooks as the...  Read More >>

""First published in 2002 by the British Film Institute""--Copyright page.  Read More >>

Drawing on Daphne du Maurier's short story and contemporary newspaper reports of bird attacks in California, Alfred...  Read More >>

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American...  Read More >>

*** Winner of the2019 Flaiano Prize in the category Italian Studies *** In Fellini’s Eternal Rome, Alessandro Carrera...  Read More >>

A study of Orson Welles' classic 1958 noir movie Touch of Evil in the BFI Film Classics series.  Read More >>

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""This anthology is based on a selection of the most relevant and interesting presentations from the first three...  Read More >>

Rosemary’s Baby is one of the greatest movies of the late 1960s and one of the best of all horror movies, an outstanding...  Read More >>

Ethan and Joel Coen's The Big Lebowski was released in 1998 to general bafflement. A decade on, it had become a...  Read More >>

""This critical anthology, featuring a joint authored critical introductory essay and 15 specially commissioned...  Read More >>

A critique of cinema, its history and future, in relation to Rudolf Steiner's vision.  Read More >>

Here be Kraken! The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vilem Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman...  Read More >>

Hong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled...  Read More >>

Drawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman,...  Read More >>

This book rethinks the study of European Cinema in a way that centres on students and their needs, in a comprehensive...  Read More >>

Gooding provides a thorough analysis and overview of black people that were nominated for their Hollywood roles,...  Read More >>

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Examines the work of British director Joanna Hogg from a film-philosophy perspective  Read More >>

Examines the work of British director Joanna Hogg from a film-philosophy perspective  Read More >>

How many times have you said, the book was better? And how many times was that actually true? The cinema of the...  Read More >>

Herstories on Screen is a transnational study of feature narrative films from Australia, Canada, the United States,...  Read More >>

""A look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel.""--...  Read More >>