Film theory & criticism books

What do Vincent Price, Harrison Ford, Jackie Chan, and Uma Thurman all have in common with Frank Lloyd Wright? Answer:...  Read More >>

This book tells the remarkable story of Mariska Hargitay, a woman whose strength, compassion and courage go far...  Read More >>

Aston Martin is more than a car manufacturer-it is a symbol of British elegance, cinematic glamour, and high-octane...  Read More >>

Martinis, Make-up . . . and Murder Martinis, makeup .... and murder? It's 1950 and Loretta Darling is living the...  Read More >>

A Director’s Method for Film and Television (1992) presents the ‘cinematic language’ approach to directing for film...  Read More >>

Released in 1969, Battle of Britain became one of the most iconic war films ever made. Featuring a stellar cast...  Read More >>

This is the first scholarly collection to focus on the special importance of British cinema to folk horror. The...  Read More >>

Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors working from the 1950s onwards whose films contain...  Read More >>

Global London on screen presents a melange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday...  Read More >>

What can Aboriginal filmmaking reveal about Indigenous presence and futures? The product of years of embedded...  Read More >>

Explores experimental cinema and alternative film formats from across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic, from the 1960s...  Read More >>

The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.  Read More >>

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This book explores the Toronto New Wave, a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and...  Read More >>

How the Star Wars trilogies and their fandoms have engaged with and mirrored American beliefs about race and gender....  Read More >>

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The 1930s was a magical age in Hollywood, with Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney, Bette Davis and Clark Gable lighting...  Read More >>

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Situates the remake as one of the primary responses to Bollywood's globalization and corporatization.  Read More >>

Explores the background of how the history of the American Southwest influenced a movie genre that became a worldwide...  Read More >>

Explores the work and legacy of feminist documentary filmmaker, Habiba Djahnine.  Read More >>

Analyses the cultural exchange of two important and highly entangled European film nations of the silent era.  Read More >>

Explores the influence of the graphic user interface on contemporary screen media  Read More >>

Examines the work of Turkish director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan  Read More >>

Considers the remake from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives and positions it alongside other serialized...  Read More >>