Film theory & criticism books

Today's media, cinema and TV screens are host to new manifestations of myth, their modes of storytelling radically...  Read More >>

The first book-length study of Trecartin's artistic genealogy, evolving aesthetics, radical approach to digital...  Read More >>

This volume uses the metaphor of schooling to highlight the conviction that the widespread attention given to moving...  Read More >>

Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate...  Read More >>

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This fascinating examination of a revolutionary work foregrounds issues of race, class, and social inequality that...  Read More >>

Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine...  Read More >>

For more than forty years, readers of Melbourne newspapers and journals and radio listeners have learned about...  Read More >>

Before his death in 2016, Abbas Kiarostami wrote or directed more than thirty films in a career that mirrored Iranian...  Read More >>

A treatment of cinema's long and fraught relations with the monstrous symbols of Soviet communism  Read More >>

This fascinating examination of a revolutionary work foregrounds issues of race, class, and social inequality that...  Read More >>

Surveying adaptations of Stephen King's work across four decades, this volume links the evolution of King's ""brand""...  Read More >>

Everyone watches movies. Whether you're at the midnight premier of a trilogy or wrapped up in a blanket watching...  Read More >>

Environmental themes are present in cinema more than ever before. But the relationship between film and the natural...  Read More >>

Surveying adaptations of Stephen King's work across four decades, this volume links the evolution of King's ""brand""...  Read More >>

David Peace is an emerging author who is widely read and taught, and whose novels are increasingly translated into...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Violence and Women in Film is a highly readable and timely analysis of the intersection of two recent...  Read More >>

In the contemporary political sphere, the need to address the complex interactions between colonization, past and...  Read More >>

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Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history....  Read More >>

For fans of the Black Panther American superhero featured in the movie by the same name, consider this defining...  Read More >>

Literature and film generate symbolic as well as economic capital. As such, aesthetic productions exist in various...  Read More >>

Nordic Genre Film offers a transnational approach to studying contemporary genre production in Nordic cinema.  Read More >>

The first comprehensive collection on the subject of Hong Kong neo-noir cinema, this book examines the way Hong...  Read More >>

Contemporary Spanish Gothic is the first book to study how the Gothic mode intersects with cultural production in...  Read More >>