Film theory & criticism books

At the beginning of the 21st century film criticism was described as in crisis. This book takes a deeper look at...  Read More >>

Este libro propone viajar vicariamente con filmes documentales y de ficción dirigidos por Mariano Llinás, Alicia...  Read More >>

Just like Godzilla, Gamera and their kaiju kin, King Kong was to be the star of many an unmade film. In this new...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive volume examining the state, stakes, and future direction of Korean cinema studies.  Read More >>

In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of ""delayed...  Read More >>

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Put simply, this volume asks: what do women who are creatively engaged with audio-visual industries do with genre...  Read More >>

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic,...  Read More >>

Through a textual analysis of six filmmakers (Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, Alfonso Cuarn, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando...  Read More >>

Featuring essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film...  Read More >>

Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers...  Read More >>

This book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida's thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns...  Read More >>

This book focuses on how the 'Reform Era' has been constructed in the work of the director Jia Zhangke, analysing...  Read More >>

The Style of Sleaze reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation...  Read More >>

With an influence felt on directors like Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis and John Waters, this volume reappraises Castle's...  Read More >>

This book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging,...  Read More >>

Examines the influence of Gothic B-movies on the cinematic traditions of the United States, Britain, Scandinavia,...  Read More >>

With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the 'rogue cop' film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances,...  Read More >>

O'Meara highlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific components, and...  Read More >>

Film Comedy and the American Dream is an examination of national identity in the era of the American superpower...  Read More >>

This book examines film as a multimodal text and an audiovisual synthesis, bringing together current work within...  Read More >>

This critical anthology sets out to explore the boom that horror cinema and TV productions have experienced in Spain...  Read More >>

This book explores the cultural, intellectual, and artistic fascination with camera-eye metaphors in film culture...  Read More >>

This book charts the articulations of the femme fatale in American cinema of the past twenty years, and contends...  Read More >>