Film theory & criticism books

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Almost from their very inception, European cinemas frequently undertook collaborative ventures in an attempt to...  Read More >>

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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 >>

It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What...  Read More >>

The practice of blurring the line between score and sound design has transformed contemporary film soundscape by...  Read More >>

How can we describe movements in animated films? In Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, Ryan Pierson introduces...  Read More >>

Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of 20th century film production...  Read More >>

Blade Runner 2049 is an outstanding collection of specially commissioned chapters on this long-awaited film, and...  Read More >>

In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse...  Read More >>

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

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem...  Read More >>

Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship.  Read More >>

Marcel Carne, 1943) present characters not identified as Jews but who exhibit negative Jewish traits, in contrast...  Read More >>

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In Documentary Across Platforms, noted scholar of film and experimental media Patricia R. Zimmermann offers a glimpse...  Read More >>

Part cultural criticism, part history, and wholly entertaining, this series of essays on specific films, books,...  Read More >>

Blade Runner 2049 is an outstanding collection of specially commissioned chapters on this long-awaited film, and...  Read More >>

Jerusalem is simultaneously a real physical place and a cultural object loaded with narratives and images. Cinema...  Read More >>

Organised as a series of discussions on a selection of the more well-known Jamaican films, this study employs close...  Read More >>

Forty years ago as a graduate student I wrote a book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It's...  Read More >>

'Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema' explores gender, race and place in selected Australian films in various...  Read More >>

The present volume is a cutting-edge collection of cross- and transdisciplinary take on multilingualism in film....  Read More >>

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This book includes 97 reviews of horror anthology films. The movies are ranked. Horror anthology films are feature-length...  Read More >>