Film theory & criticism books

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Carl Theodor Dreyer was a visionary director whose films were based less on his screenplays than on his preconceptions,...  Read More >>

This is the budget version of CATS ON FILM, with black and white photos instead of colour ones. What is a Catguffin?...  Read More >>

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers...  Read More >>

ALT 36 turns a ""queer eye"" on Africa, offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased...  Read More >>

Marking 40 years since the film’s commercial release, the book presents original interview transcripts with the...  Read More >>

Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers...  Read More >>

This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides...  Read More >>

Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and...  Read More >>

With case studies of high-profile stars like Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, this ground-breaking book examines...  Read More >>

ALT 36 turns a ""queer eye"" on Africa, offering provocative (re-)readings of texts to position formerly erased...  Read More >>

This book argues that the periodic ceremonial intrusion into the everyday lives of people across the Ottoman Empire,...  Read More >>

Filthy Material brings together media theory, close reading, and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist...  Read More >>

This book puts forward a more considered perspective on 3D, which is often seen as a distracting gimmick at odds...  Read More >>

This pioneering study of postwar feature films set in San Francisco tracks the transformation of Hollywood filmmaking...  Read More >>

With case studies from the film industries of Turkey, India and the Philippines, The Hollywood Meme is the first...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive scholarly study of Spanish erotic cinema, this book covers a significant part of the history...  Read More >>

In Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, Dale Hudson explores the movement of transnational Hollywood's...  Read More >>

This study argues that the contingencies of translation are vital to screen media's global storytelling. Through...  Read More >>

This book offers a new interpretation of Ozu Yasujiro's career, from his earliest work in the 1920s up to his death...  Read More >>

From Hollywood to Bollywood, from China to Italy, and from Poland to Mexico, this collection revisits the definitions...  Read More >>

Troubled Everyday offers the first detailed examination of the relationship between violence and the everyday in...  Read More >>

Lana and Lilly Wachowski have redefined the technically and topically possible while joyfully defying audience expectations....  Read More >>

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Utilising film musicals ranging from those by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000),...  Read More >>