Film theory & criticism books

In true Pop Art style, movies of the 1960s blurred the lines between art, mass market, and pop culture into one...  Read More >>

Original essays bring together the entangled reproductive politics of abortion, adoption, and commercial surrogacy...  Read More >>

This book attempts to clarify the narrative conditions of humanism, asking how we can use stories to complicate...  Read More >>

Exploring Mamardashvili's extensive philosophical output, as well as a range of recent Russian films, Alyssa DeBlasio...  Read More >>

Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere introduces a new concept to Nordic film studies as well as to other...  Read More >>

Dan Dinello explicates Alfonso Cuarón’s visionary Children of Men (2006) from ideological, psychological, and philosophical...  Read More >>

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A history and critique of horror films of the 1930s.  Read More >>

Suspicious of what he called the spectator’s “sticky” adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude...  Read More >>

Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media offers a new approach to understanding the networked...  Read More >>

In this edited collection, contributors tackle current water issues in the era of climate change using a wide variety...  Read More >>

In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound...  Read More >>

Jan Bryant looks at the strategies visual artists and filmmakers are using to criticise the social and economic...  Read More >>

American Pie represents the most commercially successful example of the vulgar teen comedy, and this book analyses...  Read More >>

Documents the rich allusiveness and intellectual probity of experimental filmmaking-a form that thrived despite...  Read More >>

Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the perceived fictional nature...  Read More >>

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Nur eine poetische Kraft der Theorie kann sich den Informations- und Kontrollalgorithmen von heute widersetzen  Read More >>

Midnight Marquee ventures into the Iron Age of Hammer (and British horror) with a collection examining the work...  Read More >>

Films like Zama and The Headless Woman have made Lucrecia Martel a fixture on festival marquees and critic's best...  Read More >>

A key figure in the Russian Formalist school of literary theory, Yuri Tynianov sought to revolutionize-and liberate-thinking...  Read More >>

Priya Jaikumar examines seven decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals...  Read More >>

A key figure in the Russian Formalist school of literary theory, Yuri Tynianov sought to revolutionize-and liberate-thinking...  Read More >>

Priya Jaikumar examines seven decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals...  Read More >>

From the Red Room in Twin Peaks to Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive, the work of David Lynch contains some of the...  Read More >>