Film theory & criticism books

Als akademischer Semiotiker und literarischer Essayist wird Barthes mit „Mythen des Alltags“ berühmt und prägt die...  Read More >>

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

""Introduces a historicist perspective by placing the disaster movie film genre within the immediate context of...  Read More >>

""The first collection to make the relationship between cinema and secularism thematic, utilizing a number of different...  Read More >>

""Examines the relationship between popular images of American drive-ins in the 1950s and the historical evidence""--...  Read More >>

""An analysis of David Bowie's decades-long use of the moving image, from music video, to advertising appearances,...  Read More >>

""Explores films of the long 60s that were assigned an ""X"" certificate by the British Board of Film Censors alongside...  Read More >>

Korngold in America offers new ways of listening to the film scores and post-Hollywood concert works of Erich Wolfgang...  Read More >>

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The Cinematic Enfant Terrible is a groundbreaking study of rule...  Read More >>

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey: Movie Review An In-Depth Look at Kogonada's 2025 Romantic Fantasy Film Have you ever...  Read More >>

This book delivers a critical study of British-born Ida Lupino as both a constructed star image and an underappreciated...  Read More >>

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This book is the first comprehensive overview of the history of female-presenting AI and robots in US and UK live-action,...  Read More >>

Revoir aborde un film sur le mode de l'affrontement. Ce n'est pas une etude sur un film, un travail d'erudition,...  Read More >>

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This book focuses on the art and films produced between the years 2002 and 2017 in relation to the Colombian armed...  Read More >>

Seventy years after its November 3rd, 1954 Japanese premiere, Toho Studio's Gojira (aka Godzilla) continues to stir...  Read More >>

Meyer's musicology, this study treats music as a cinematic element, offering scholars and students of both music...  Read More >>

""Movies with Balls is equal parts fandom, analysis, and nerdiness. It's a wonderful time."" --Shea Serrano, New...  Read More >>

""Movies with Balls is equal parts fandom, analysis, and nerdiness. It's a wonderful time."" --Shea Serrano, New...  Read More >>

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From haunted houses to sandy beaches, The Nightmares of Presence explores the role of setting in inspiring fear...  Read More >>

Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema examines the phenomenon of Slow cinema, a style defined by its lingering focus...  Read More >>

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