Film theory & criticism books

This book is an interdisciplinary study of the human drama of replacement. On Replacement consists of 24 essays...  Read More >>

Undoubtedly the most notorious title in director Ken Russell s controversial filmography, this Devil s Advocate...  Read More >>

Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde filmmakers, and...  Read More >>

This book seeks to inform the practice of critical pedagogy both practically and theoretically, and also offers...  Read More >>

Uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class,...  Read More >>

Media in Mind surveys more than a century of media theory to illustrate the ways that conceptual divisions have...  Read More >>

In Person looks at the ways that documentary film is affected when people are cast to reenact their own stories...  Read More >>

Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde filmmakers, and...  Read More >>

From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have...  Read More >>

Uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class,...  Read More >>

'A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 18282017' is a cultural history of the bushranger...  Read More >>

Pixels to Premieres is a collection of over 50 essays by film critic Mark McPherson on the wild history of video...  Read More >>

Noël Carroll is one of the most prolific, widely-cited and distinguished philosophers of art, but how, specifically,...  Read More >>

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal...  Read More >>

Chronicles the genesis, production, box-office debacle, resurrection, near-canonization, and lasting influence of...  Read More >>

Draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, Joan Copjec, Michel...  Read More >>

From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have...  Read More >>

James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates that a contemporary form of political cinema has emerged, centered on the production of subjectivity...  Read More >>

Draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, Joan Copjec, Michel...  Read More >>

This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of ‘East’...  Read More >>

This book reveals how Spielberg utilises stylistic strategies that are both unique and innovative when considered...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment?...  Read More >>

During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant...  Read More >>

Adaptations in the Franchise Era re-evaluates adaptation’s place in a popular culture marked by the movement of...  Read More >>