Film theory & criticism books

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For decades, stuntwomen have faced institutional discrimination, unequal pay, and sexual harassment. Featuring sixty-five...  Read More >>

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How to Film Truth explores the history of documentary film as a search for truth by filmmakers, and a journey of...  Read More >>

The New Zealand Wars were defining events in the nations history. Filming the Colonial Past, an engaging new book...  Read More >>

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.  Read More >>

How to Film Truth explores the history of documentary film as a search for truth by filmmakers, and a journey of...  Read More >>

This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions.  Read More >>

Holly Martins. Harry Lime. Each is a half of the American Dream. But who are the gods inside of the American Dream?...  Read More >>

Wie lässt sich ein Zugang zu Erinnerung aufrechterhalten, wenn die letzten Zeitzeugen sterben und mit ihnen der...  Read More >>

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Charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film:...  Read More >>

Reassessing the unique qualities of Renoir's influential visual style by interpreting his films through Gilles Deleuze's...  Read More >>

Kendra Marston interrogates representations of melancholic white femininity in contemporary Hollywood cinema, arguing...  Read More >>

Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating...  Read More >>

This book is the first integrated study of Surrealist photography and film, assessing the impact of early experimental...  Read More >>

In February 1943 intermarried Germans gathered in the now famous Rosenstrasse to protest the feared deportation...  Read More >>

Between the 1920s and the 1960s, American mainstream cinematic architecture underwent a seismic shift. From the...  Read More >>

Offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since...  Read More >>

Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls percolated alongside literary...  Read More >>

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Offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since...  Read More >>

'The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory' offers readers a unique survey of the new horizons of film and media theory,...  Read More >>

Moving Pictures, Still Lives reframes and rediscovers the virtues and limitations of movies created during the late...  Read More >>

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