Film theory & criticism books

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A collection of essays about films which were left out of The Most Important Science Fiction Films of The 20th Century...  Read More >>

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Already in 1929, Walter Benjamin described ""a one hundred per cent image-space."" Such an image space saturates...  Read More >>

In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing...  Read More >>

Charlie Chaplin's Own Story covers Chaplin's earliest life through his first brushes with fame and depicts Chaplin...  Read More >>

Argues that Alfred Hitchcock was as much a filmmaker of things and places as he was of people. Drawing on the thought...  Read More >>

The book analyses a variety of topics and current issues in linguistics and literary studies, focusing especially...  Read More >>

This book analyses how multiple factors coalesced to solidify the status of The Breakfast Club as one of the most...  Read More >>

A study of spectatorship, desire, identification and identity  Read More >>

"It was to be the motion picture that captured the public's attention much the same way the Emmanuelle film had...  Read More >>

In Borderline, Stan Goff unpacked the association of masculinity with war. In Tough Gynes, using an incisive and...  Read More >>

Now in its fourth edition, Here’s Looking at You: Hollywood, Film & Politics reexamines the symbiotic relationship...  Read More >>

China's role in the history of world animation has been trivialized or largely forgotten. In Animated Encounters,...  Read More >>

In Borderline, Stan Goff unpacked the association of masculinity with war. In Tough Gynes, using an incisive and...  Read More >>

Considered one of the finest performers in world cinema, Japanese actor Takashi Shimura (1905-1982) appeared in...  Read More >>

This book is aimed at helping media and film studies teachers introduce the basics of feminist film theory. No prior...  Read More >>

With James Bond preparing for the 25th film in a franchise that has spanned more than five decades, the legendary...  Read More >>

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In the bestselling tradition of Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, a wise and inspiring collection...  Read More >>

In the bestselling tradition of Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, a wise and inspiring collection...  Read More >>

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El cine de Guillén Landrián estremece la percepción habitual de los cuerpos y las cosas. En tanto transforma el...  Read More >>