Film theory & criticism books

This innovative study develops the concept of “retro” to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as...  Read More >>

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This volume explores the complex horizon of landscapes in horror film culture to better understand the use that...  Read More >>

An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence...  Read More >>

By arguing that this dissident Catholic's worldview is anti-anthropocentric, Angela Dalle Vacche concludes that...  Read More >>

Analysing key commercials over the decades that feature new technologies and film aesthetics that were subsequently...  Read More >>

Apropos of Nothing is a comprehensive account of Woody Allen's life, both personal and professional, and describes...  Read More >>

An exploration of psychosexual themes in a selection of classic Hollywood films and their contemporary successors....  Read More >>

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Using cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the...  Read More >>

Traversing classical Hollywood to the cinema of Park Chan-wook, Gina Kim, and Ramona Diaz, and Cannes award-winning...  Read More >>

The intoxicating story of Hollywood, as seen from the suites and bungalows of its most iconic hotel  Read More >>

Traversing classical Hollywood to the cinema of Park Chan-wook, Gina Kim, and Ramona Diaz, and Cannes award-winning...  Read More >>

Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory explores representations of the Red Army Faction...  Read More >>

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com....  Read More >>

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In Landscapes Between Then and Now, Nicola Brandt examines the increasingly compelling and diverse cross-disciplinary...  Read More >>

Stanley Cavell was, by many accounts, America's greatest philosophical thinker of film. Like Bazin in France and...  Read More >>

Wim Wenders: Making Films That Matter is the first book in 15 years to take a comprehensive look at Wim Wenders’s...  Read More >>

Motor City Movies, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population...  Read More >>

This is the first monograph to thoroughly analyse Benjamin’s film writings, contextualizing them within his oeuvre...  Read More >>

Motor City Movies, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population...  Read More >>

From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the untold story of the women of Walt Disney Studios,...  Read More >>

Find out all about the coolest flicks of the 50s, kids.  Read More >>