Film theory & criticism books

In When the Movies Mattered Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable collection of authors to revisit...  Read More >>

The first edition of Native Features, published in 2008, was the world's first book-length study of the nearly fifty...  Read More >>

Wie wird rechte Gewalt in deutschen Spiel- und Dokumentarfilmen dargestellt?  Read More >>

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In When the Movies Mattered Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable collection of authors to revisit...  Read More >>

Other than love and death and growth of the human spirit, World War II has been the subject of more motion pictures...  Read More >>

What is Horror? This terrifying genre gives shape to our anxieties as humans, and as a society. Short, accessible...  Read More >>

Casting fresh light on one of the most important movements in film history, Intermedial Dialogues is the first comprehensive...  Read More >>

This book discusses the representational geographies of the Bond film franchise and how they inform our reading...  Read More >>

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From January 1 to December 31 of 1927, the entries in this book cover every major news event—national and international—of...  Read More >>

"Analyzing the extraordinary transcultural popularity of the ""Ring"" phenomenon, this book locates much of its...  Read More >>

How creative freedom, race, class, and gender shaped the rebellion of two visionary artistsPostwar America experienced...  Read More >>

A closer look at the captivating history of American cinema.  Read More >>

Uneven, Michael Cimino's work deals mainly with the history of the United States. The study focusses on the three...  Read More >>

In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on...  Read More >>

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This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015....  Read More >>

This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women....  Read More >>

Anchoring her work in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, Naida García-Crespo argues that...  Read More >>

Using an auterist lens to challenge the notions of taste, genre and aesthetics that are commonly used to form the...  Read More >>

World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers...  Read More >>

Focusing on a recent wave of international art cinema, Animal Worlds offers the first sustained analysis of the...  Read More >>