Film theory & criticism books

The contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film examine the place and role of race in educational...  Read More >>

How do English-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of China from a Chinese perspective? How do they keep...  Read More >>

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented...  Read More >>

Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence...  Read More >>

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Explore queer cinema over time with this comprehensive encyclopedia, helping readers understand films, directors,...  Read More >>

To describe women in film history as ""invisible"" may seem strange as throughout film history, women on the silver...  Read More >>

How to Be a Film Critic in Five Easy Lessons addresses the serious matter of the increasing gap between the published...  Read More >>

Explored are the function of violence in the film and how its depiction is radically different from what is seen...  Read More >>

Technikdebatten in Literatur und Film, komparatistisch beleuchtet  Read More >>

The volume spotlights post-war Italian film culture by locating a series of crossroads, i.e. topics barely examined...  Read More >>

Through metaphors and allusions to art, science, and religion, Andr� Bazin's writings on the cinema explore a simple...  Read More >>

Addresses these questions through closely examining Day's characters and performances across her thirty-eight films...  Read More >>

From popular genre films to cult avant-garde works, this book is an essential guide to Japan's vibrant cinema culture....  Read More >>

Sono sperimentali i film di cui ho parlato? Lo sono in quanto ricercano nuove strategie espressive diverse da e...  Read More >>

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The need to address complex interactions between colonization, past and present violence, and audio-visual representation...  Read More >>

An in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals, beautifully illustrated in color...  Read More >>

Conversation on the representations of Latina/os in American TV and film in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries....  Read More >>

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What are the hidden biases of Academy Awards voters? Do films that are more popular with audiences win more often?...  Read More >>

Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.  Read More >>

Covering thirty years of computer-animated film history, and analysing over 200 different examples, The Computer-Animated...  Read More >>

Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.  Read More >>