Film theory & criticism books

Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC explores...  Read More >>

Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC explores...  Read More >>

Celebrate the greatest saga ever told: All of us who are deeply influenced by the epic saga of Star Wars have our...  Read More >>

Celebrate the greatest saga ever told: All of us who are deeply influenced by the epic saga of Star Wars have our...  Read More >>

Celebrate the greatest saga ever told: All of us who are deeply influenced by the epic saga of Star Wars have our...  Read More >>

This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema’s first years. In addition...  Read More >>

Mafia Movies: A Reader provides incisive interpretations of over fifty films and television programs about the Italian...  Read More >>

This collection focuses both on the films Elaine May has directed, and also emphasises her work with other high...  Read More >>

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This book contains spoilers-as well as entertaining and thoughtful analysis of them.  Read More >>

Mafia Movies: A Reader provides incisive interpretations of over fifty films and television programs about the Italian...  Read More >>

What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre,...  Read More >>

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.  Read More >>

Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.  Read More >>

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.  Read More >>

Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.  Read More >>

In this vibrant and dynamic book-length study drawing on a broad...  Read More >>

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

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Analyses supernatural creatures in order to demonstrate how German fairy tales treat difference, alterity, and Otherness...  Read More >>

Explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social...  Read More >>

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Analyses supernatural creatures in order to demonstrate how German fairy tales treat difference, alterity, and Otherness...  Read More >>

The first book to focus exclusively on the significance of trial films for both film and legal studies. Chapters...  Read More >>