Film theory & criticism books

A minute-by-minute analysis of Gus Van Sant film, Gerry (2002). Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction,...  Read More >>

Distinguished literary and film theorists convene to engage with Garrett Stewart’s twenty books of inter-medial...  Read More >>

Intertextual readings of David Lynch’s films that reveal him as an artist in conversation with literature and popular...  Read More >>

This book provides a toolkit for unconventional practice—a comprehensive list of unconventional story shapes and...  Read More >>

A minute-by-minute analysis of Spike Lee's infamous film, BlacKkKlansman. Blending film criticism with creative...  Read More >>

""Women and Global Documentary answers the urgent need to re-evaluate not only the significance of women's documentary...  Read More >>

Queer for Fear analyses the relationship queer people have to horror film, building upon decades of theory that...  Read More >>

Brian Jacobson traces the surprising and inextricable connections between extractive industries and cinema, developing...  Read More >>

Sex on screen is unnecessary, gratuitous, and serves no purpose. This is the sentiment on the rise as cinema becomes...  Read More >>

From Norman Bates dressed as ""Mother"" in Psycho to the rouged cheeks of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,...  Read More >>

When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema—and his...  Read More >>

When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema—and his...  Read More >>

A master of subverting tropes with surgical precision, Elaine May forged a career in 1970s Hollywood with films...  Read More >>

Brian Jacobson traces the surprising and inextricable connections between extractive industries and cinema, developing...  Read More >>

From Norman Bates dressed as ""Mother"" in Psycho to the rouged cheeks of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,...  Read More >>

Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of cinematic blankness. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's philosophy...  Read More >>

Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality puts gender at the centre of cinematic...  Read More >>

Drawing on critical analysis of film, horror, the Gothic, and King scholarship, Burger considers Andy Muschietti's...  Read More >>

At the 1989 Sydney Film Festival, George Sluizer's little-known independent film, Spoorloos (The Vanishing), was...  Read More >>

For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has flourished as one of America's great cultural entities. Its...  Read More >>

The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a chronicle of the lives and work of the most influential film...  Read More >>

Operating from a clear understanding of the contemporary context, the book spans past, present, and future, offering...  Read More >>

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With the help of numerous textual and visual documents, this book recounts the imaginary surrounding female cinemagoers...  Read More >>

Contributors explore these films' transnational circuits of production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as...  Read More >>