Film theory & criticism books

Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers...  Read More >>

Shows how movement became, in the traditional visual arts, a central factor with the advent of the cinema: gone...  Read More >>

Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star brings together 15 years work by Thomas Gladysz, the Director of the Louise Brooks...  Read More >>

This is the first and only book to position what are called """"Soundies"""" within the broader cultural and technological...  Read More >>

Offers readers a series of original essays by prominent cinema scholars that explore the actor-director's extensive...  Read More >>

A fascinating examination of 13 key films from one of the most highly regarded and most widely debated periods in...  Read More >>

The first decades of the twenty-first century saw a resurgence of the biblical epic film, such as Noah and Exodus:...  Read More >>

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

This book focuses on the re-invigoration of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp persona in America from the point at...  Read More >>

This book, written from the perspective of a designer and educator, brings to the attention of media historians,...  Read More >>

This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film...  Read More >>

Explores the representation of obsolescence, particularly of labour, in film and literature during a historical...  Read More >>

Positions what are called """"Soundies"""" within the broader cultural and technological milieu of the 1940s. Examining...  Read More >>

A fascinating examination of 13 key films from one of the most highly regarded and most widely debated periods in...  Read More >>

Explores the representation of obsolescence, particularly of labour, in film and literature during a historical...  Read More >>

Traces a new aesthetic history of the World War II combat genre by looking back at it through the lens of contemporary...  Read More >>

Joseph McBride analyzes Ernst Lubitsch’s films in rich detail in the first in-depth critical study to consider the...  Read More >>

This book is a multi-disciplinary anthology about the role of female figures in dystopian narratives.  Read More >>

Traces a new aesthetic history of the World War II combat genre by looking back at it through the lens of contemporary...  Read More >>

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Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970) was the first aesthetic theorist of the cinema. An outstanding figure in the “montage”...  Read More >>

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Looks at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in...  Read More >>

Looks at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in...  Read More >>