Film theory & criticism books

The third and final volume of Ken Hollings' personal reflections on Trash Aesthetics. The third and final volume...  Read More >>

This is a study of the Appleseed manga by Masamune Shirow (real name Masanori Ota, born in 1961, Kobe, Japan), and...  Read More >>

THE TAKING OF NEW YORK CITY: CRIME ON THE SCREEN AND IN THE STREETS IN THE 1970S BIG APPLE  Read More >>

World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and...  Read More >>

Since the late 19th century, film has been the ultimate medium by which to express and illuminate the darker, wilder...  Read More >>

Encore dans les années 1910 à 1915, aller au cinéma constituait un acte un peu honteux, presque dégradant, à l'accomplissement...  Read More >>

Parfois un enfant remarque à l'écran les images d'une voiture qui avance d'un mouvement régulier, mais dont les...  Read More >>

Terrence Malick is the most enigmatic film director currently working. Since the early seventies, his work has won...  Read More >>

Terrence Malick is the most enigmatic film director currently working. Since the early seventies, his work has won...  Read More >>

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A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock....  Read More >>

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A detailed analysis of the early film and dramatic works of celebrated Iranian filmmaker and playwright Bahram Beyzaie...  Read More >>

""A focused study on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's cinematic contributions to the war effort, arguing...  Read More >>

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Adventurous Film Making (1980) looks at some more ambitious and interesting techniques and shows how these serve...  Read More >>

Cine Craft (1974) is an ideal guide to the world of amateur film making, a treasure-house of authoritative information....  Read More >>

The analysis of the corpus formed by Christopher Nolan's works allows us to derive its poetics. The key to this...  Read More >>

Thus, Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance demonstrates its premise through close readings considering how performance...  Read More >>

In this first book in the new series Žižek’s Essays, Slavoj Žižek asks readers to disrupt fake notions of progress...  Read More >>

A concise guide to global performances of Shakespeare, this volume combines methodologies of dramaturgy, film and...  Read More >>