Film theory & criticism books

This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to discussing Easy A, the last significant box-office success in...  Read More >>

Featuring essays from both recognized and up-and-coming scholars in Scandinavian, transnational and feminist film...  Read More >>

This book discusses the collapse and transformation of the Hollywood movie machine in the twenty-first century,...  Read More >>

This book presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory.  Read More >>

Based on the premise that a society's sense of commonality depends upon media practices, this study examines how...  Read More >>

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Hi, I'm a film director / writer / producer and publisher. I've published SPFX (Special Effects Magazine) since...  Read More >>

This issue of CCR includes an interview with Jerry London, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, who has worked with...  Read More >>

Inspired by Bad Boys and The Monster Squad, the hilarious and offensive Destruction Kings caused the director to...  Read More >>

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The untold story of the innovative pioneers who helped make movies the preeminent art form of the twentieth century....  Read More >>

In recent years, environmental and human rights advocates have suggested that we have entered the first new geological...  Read More >>

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"Surveys a number of the ""public classics"" - fictional films whose critical acclaim, awards of box office appeal...  Read More >>

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"Surveys a number of the ""public classics"" - fictional films whose critical acclaim, awards of box office appeal...  Read More >>

This book explores the idiosyncratic effects generated as fairytale and gothic horror join, clash or merge in cinema....  Read More >>

Written by experienced Film Studies authors and teachers, this key resource provides you with the core knowledge...  Read More >>

Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This definitive biography...  Read More >>

Avengers Assemble! explores the cinematic and televisual branches of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from a diverse...  Read More >>

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O'Meara highlights how speech can be central to cinema without overshadowing its medium-specific components, and...  Read More >>

With an influence felt on directors like Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis and John Waters, this volume reappraises Castle's...  Read More >>

Reconceptualising Almodvar's films as theoretical and political resources, this innovative book examines a neglected...  Read More >>