Film theory & criticism books

Broadening the field of star studies to include animation, this pioneering book makes the case that iconic cartoon...  Read More >>

African Cinema and Human Rights is an interdisciplinary look at the role of moving images in human rights struggles...  Read More >>

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*EVILSPEAK MAGAZINE Volume 6: The long delayed issue is finally here! It's another trade paperback formatted issue...  Read More >>

Ground-breaking in its study of translation of subtitling and dubbing of silent films, The Translation of Films,...  Read More >>

This is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand's national...  Read More >>

Jeff Menne rewrites the history of the New Hollywood boom of the late 196s and 197s, arguing that auteur theory...  Read More >>

Examining eighteenth century 'moral sense' philosophy as a neglected but important intellectual area for film theory,...  Read More >>

After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production...  Read More >>

A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and...  Read More >>

This edited collection looks closely at the range and scope of contemporary film musicals, from stage adaptations...  Read More >>

This book is a historical account, written in a lively fashion, describing the four-year period in the history of...  Read More >>

Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate...  Read More >>

Jeff Menne rewrites the history of the New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s, arguing that auteur theory...  Read More >>

After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production...  Read More >>

A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and...  Read More >>

An accessible introduction to the world of The Walking Dead, this book looks across platforms and analytical frameworks...  Read More >>

"In the comics, seven distinct characters were called Captain Marvel, while Carol Danvers began as Mar-Vell's rather...  Read More >>

""Richard Butsch's expansive historical synthesis integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a...  Read More >>

""Richard Butsch's expansive historical synthesis integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a...  Read More >>

In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks...  Read More >>

Considers over sixty Hollywood films set in Austria, examining the film industry, the influence of domestic factors...  Read More >>

Movement as Meaning in Experimental Cinema offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers...  Read More >>

Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try and...  Read More >>

Drawing on new archival research into Hollywood production history and detailed textual analysis of individual films,...  Read More >>