Film theory & criticism books

The first comprehensive history of Hollywood's high-flying career women during the studio era, Nobody's Girl Friday...  Read More >>

As stories on screens claim a more pervasive and influential presence in contemporary culture, Screen Stories argues...  Read More >>

This volume explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/or co-produced in Latin American countries...  Read More >>

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

Essays in this volume illustrate how shows such as Orange Is the New Black and Oz impact the public's perception...  Read More >>

Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias ""After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire...  Read More >>

Russia's provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation's cultural imagination. Lyudmila Parts looks at...  Read More >>

Traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s...  Read More >>

In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of...  Read More >>

This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject...  Read More >>

David Carter examines Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010) in terms of its blurring the distinctions between genres...  Read More >>

He Disagreed with Something that Ate Him analyses the two James Bond films starring Timothy Dalton made in 1987...  Read More >>

"The Cinema ""The Royal Cinema opened on July 15th 1938, replacing the Theatre Royal which had stood on the site...  Read More >>

A major cultural critic rethinks Creativity & the Cultural Imaginary  Read More >>

Monsters are a part of every society, and ours is no exception. They are deeply embedded in our history, our mythos,...  Read More >>

This book investigates the different ways gender and sexuality intersect with nationhood and national forms of belonging,...  Read More >>

With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the 'rogue cop' film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances,...  Read More >>

This book explores the Hollywood war film and its ways of staging the sensory experience of war as a corporeal apprehension...  Read More >>

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The sensual experience generated by the diegetic film allows the comprehension of the narrated event to frame the...  Read More >>

This book identifies new phenomena in the fields of complex narration, puzzle film, and transmedia storytelling....  Read More >>

""With a new introduction: Rethinking trancendental style""--Title page.  Read More >>

Over the years, Indigenous filmmakers have both challenged these representations and moved past them, offering their...  Read More >>

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