Film theory & criticism books

Examines the films of Shirley Clarke using theory from creative practice and distributed cognition.  Read More >>

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary...  Read More >>

As a medium that aims to connect people through the communication and interpretation of experiences, cinema is uniquely...  Read More >>

Examines the films of Shirley Clarke using theory from creative practice and distributed cognition.  Read More >>

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

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This book explores the practice of artist filmmaker William Raban from 1970 to the present.  The trajectory from...  Read More >>

Established in 1955, the Leipzig Film Festival’s location in the GDR deeply implicated it in the cultural and political...  Read More >>

Shows that Rosten, Schulberg, and others created movies that were both entertaining and politically expeditious...  Read More >>

Explores German-American filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch's engagement with and expressions of historicity throughout his...  Read More >>

A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema.  Read More >>

This book offers a rich exploration of the intersections between animation, video games, and music and sound, bringing...  Read More >>

A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema.  Read More >>

This book examines Black Panther not only as a film grounded in Afro-futurism, but also as an invitation for viewers...  Read More >>

A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices,...  Read More >>

An exacting reassessment of the relationship between culture and ideology within the Cold War period, Rethinking...  Read More >>

An exacting re-examination of Ingmar Bergman’s cultural heritage, Ingmar Bergman Out Of Focus digs into the perceived...  Read More >>

Exposes a stylistic tradition of flamboyantly failed passing in queer literature and film. This book posits formal...  Read More >>

From a semio-pragmatic perspective and drawing on an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach, this book analyses...  Read More >>

Since 2001, Trevor Lynch has garnered a fervent following for his frankly Right-wing treatment of philosophical,...  Read More >>

Cinematically Rendering Confucius marks the first book-length enquiry into China’s first two big screen treatments...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking study that uses newly-declassified internal Metropolitan Police and Home Office correspondence...  Read More >>

""An Atonal Cinema theorises contemporary Palestinian cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance...  Read More >>

""An investigation of psychological disorders through several key cinematic texts, pulling together dialectically...  Read More >>

An in-depth exploration of the ways in which the contemporary live UK comedy industry simultaneously encourages...  Read More >>