Film theory & criticism books

A journey through the archive of BAFTA award-winning curator and film programmer, June Givanni. It contains thousands...  Read More >>

Rob King uses Radley Metzger’s work to explore what taste means and how it works, tracing the evolution of the adult...  Read More >>

How Star Trek's twenty-first-century reinventions illuminate the unique challenges and opportunities of franchise-style...  Read More >>

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Kenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role...  Read More >>

How Star Trek's twenty-first-century reinventions illuminate the unique challenges and opportunities of franchise-style...  Read More >>

Volatile Whiteness illuminates how popular film genres from the 1960s to the 1980s sought to dismantle the racialized...  Read More >>

From the beginning, Rambo was more than a character in a 1972 novel by David Morrell. He was the culmination of...  Read More >>

From the beginning, Rambo was more than a character in a 1972 novel by David Morrell. He was the culmination of...  Read More >>

A deeply reported, perceptive, and celebratory biography of beloved actor James Gandolfini, from a prominent critic...  Read More >>

A deeply reported, perceptive, and celebratory biography of beloved actor James Gandolfini, from a prominent critic...  Read More >>

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Movie critic Naser Mojtahed invites readers on an inspiring journey into the world of film analysis Second Takes...  Read More >>

Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the...  Read More >>

Now that cinema is offline and online, the capacity of cinema to relate to philosophy and science has increased....  Read More >>

""Places posthumanism and feminist theory into direct conversation with contemporary science fiction film and media...  Read More >>

""Structured by critical comparisons to Spain's masterworks in meta-art - Don Quixote, Las meninas, and Un chien...  Read More >>

""This timely collection looks at Annie Hall as a multi-authored text, looking at its visible and invisible influence...  Read More >>

Critical analysis of the representations of mixed-race couples in popular comedies – honing the French universalist...  Read More >>

Explore the art of visual storytelling with Victor Oscar Freeburg's ""Pictorial Beauty on the Screen,"" a foundational...  Read More >>

""That Marvel--The Movie: A Glance at Its Past, Its Promising Present and Its Significant Future,"" by Edward S....  Read More >>

""Moving Pictures: How They Are Made and Worked"" by Frederick A. Talbot offers a fascinating glimpse into the early...  Read More >>

Out of print for years and newly retitled and expanded, this deluxe new edition of Gifford's celebrated handbook...  Read More >>

Explore the art of visual storytelling with Victor Oscar Freeburg's ""Pictorial Beauty on the Screen,"" a foundational...  Read More >>