Film theory & criticism books

This is the first book in English dedicated to the actress and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Her career overlapped with...  Read More >>

In this close reading of her films and production methods, E. Dawn Hall defines Reichardt's auteur characteristics,...  Read More >>

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

"""Rat Pack Confidential"" offers an ""exuberant, opinionated, and irreverent"" (""San Francisco Sunday Examiner...  Read More >>

"""Rat Pack Confidential"" offers an ""exuberant, opinionated, and irreverent"" (""San Francisco Sunday Examiner...  Read More >>

"""Rat Pack Confidential"" offers an ""exuberant, opinionated, and irreverent"" (""San Francisco Sunday Examiner...  Read More >>

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Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.  Read More >>

This volume can rightfully be called ""a film school in a single book."" Investigating and analyzing the elements...  Read More >>

Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but...  Read More >>

From inception to reception and afterlife, Eyes Wide Shut traces the details of the origins and production of Stanley...  Read More >>

Composed in January 1948, a few months before Sergei Eisenstein's death, Mise en jeu and Mise en gestesubordinates...  Read More >>

Cinephilic practice today - viewing, thinking, reading and writing about films - is marked by an unprecedented amount...  Read More >>

Explores the reciprocal redefinition of both moving images and wall art initiated by the museal estrangement of...  Read More >>

Lesley Stern is more interested in things than in death. It is thus the liveliness of corpses that lures her. Not...  Read More >>

A collections of essays by the author about films which were important to pop culture and the genre. Each essay...  Read More >>

Featuring a variety of disciplinary perspectives and analytical approaches, Celluloid Chains examines works from...  Read More >>

Who doesn't love a 'panic in the streets' scene? As a kid watching sci-fi movies, it was the part I always loved...  Read More >>

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Shares the life and career of the producer, writer, and director charting the changes in Hollywood over the decades....  Read More >>

The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas,...  Read More >>

Charles Burnett (b. 1944) is a groundbreaking African American filmmaker and one of America's finest directors,...  Read More >>

Cutting across a swath of recent French-produced cinema, French Blockbusters offers the first book-length consideration...  Read More >>

Historical Dictionary of Woody Allen contains a chronology, an introduction, a filmography, an appendix, and an...  Read More >>

A critical exploration of material media culture and technology, examining the philosophical implications of using...  Read More >>