Film theory & criticism books

While the first few films about space travel-primarily those by George Pal- were relatively serious and full of...  Read More >>

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Chinese cinema has a long history of engagement with China's art traditions, and literati (wenren) landscape painting...  Read More >>

If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave to Get Out, to Black Panther tells us anything,...  Read More >>

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This volume offers film enthusiasts and teachers an investigation into what film critics do and examines what ideologies...  Read More >>

Phillip Maciak examines filmic depictions of Jesus to argue that cinema developed as a model technology of secularism,...  Read More >>

Stanley Kubrick's epic mind-expanding adventure traces man's journey from prehistory into the uncharted universe...  Read More >>

Once upon a time – the 1980s – in a galaxy not really all that far away – New York – Michael Gingold started a collection...  Read More >>

Phillip Maciak examines filmic depictions of Jesus to argue that cinema developed as a model technology of secularism,...  Read More >>

This important collection of essays acknowledges the long and distinctive history of the alternate history genre...  Read More >>

'Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative' examines the manner in which disparate Aesthetic traditions inform the...  Read More >>

'Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative' examines the manner in which disparate Aesthetic traditions inform the...  Read More >>

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not...  Read More >>

Indian cinema is the only body of world cinema that depicts courtesans as important characters. In early films courtesan...  Read More >>

For 60 years, the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, creator of the famed Man with a Movie Camera (1929), has been recognized...  Read More >>

An essential reference guide to the contemporary Thai cinema industry and its history.  Read More >>

Donald Richie was the first and most influential champion of Japanese cinema for American audiences. In his thoughtful...  Read More >>

This volume examines Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys (1995) with an eye to the film’s major themes, including mental...  Read More >>

The New York Times bestselling raucous and sardonic memoir from Bruce Campbell, a follow-up to the New York Times...  Read More >>

For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier's influential thoughts on the film experience available...  Read More >>

This book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the...  Read More >>

Michelle Devereaux explores the underlying philosophical and aesthetic Romantic connections between a selection...  Read More >>

This book looks at Spike Jonze's ground-breaking work in both features and short forms, exploring the impact of...  Read More >>

Films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness established Todd Solondz as independent cinema's premier satirist....  Read More >>