Film theory & criticism books

Through a textual analysis of six filmmakers (Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, Alfonso Cuarn, Guillermo del Toro, Fernando...  Read More >>

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This first full-length scholarly study about animal horror cinema defines the popular subgenre and describes its...  Read More >>

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This book explores television's current fascination with the Edwardian era. By exploring popular period dramas such...  Read More >>

This book is the first to explore ‘old age’ in cinema at the intersection of gender, ageing, celebrity and genre...  Read More >>

For Field, the budding screenwriter needs a clear screenplay structure, one which includes two well-crafted plot...  Read More >>

The volume offers a broad range of academic approaches to contemporary and historical Irish filmmaking and representations...  Read More >>

This book is a thought-provoking study that expands on film scholarship on noir and feminist scholarship on postfeminism,...  Read More >>

This study provides the first book-length critical history of storyboarding, from the birth of cinema to the present...  Read More >>

Spectatorship, Embodiment and Physicality in the Contemporary Mutilation Film explores 'physical spectatorship':...  Read More >>

Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film fills a broad scholastic gap by analysing the elements of narrative...  Read More >>

What does popular culture's relationship with cyborgs, robots, vampires and zombies tell us about being human? Insightful...  Read More >>

Drawing primarily on selected filmic texts from former-Yugoslavia, the book examines key social and political events...  Read More >>

How does film affect the way we understand crises of the body and mind and how does it manifest other kinds of crises...  Read More >>

This book explores connections between the diverse ideas of Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman....  Read More >>

Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen is a scholarly collection that provides expansive exploration of the...  Read More >>

Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the shifts in our emotional...  Read More >>

Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s. This study delineates recurrent travel tropes in films...  Read More >>

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, The Visual Music Film explores the concept and expression of musicality...  Read More >>

Hybrid Heritage on Screen provides a long overdue thorough analysis of the 1980s 'Raj Revival'. It examines imperial...  Read More >>

An ambitious interpretation of the critically celebrated and widely popular crime drama Breaking Bad , this book...  Read More >>

The chapters investigate how watching film and television from neighbouring countries can be regarded as a special...  Read More >>

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Hye Jean Chung challenges the widespread tendency among audiences and critics to disregard the material conditions...  Read More >>