Film theory & criticism books

Bringing together scholarship on film, narrative identity, and the philosophy of meaning in life, this book is a...  Read More >>

This book shows that screens don’t just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's...  Read More >>

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

A wide-ranging study of the star personae and cinematic and cultural contexts of Hong Kong's most influential martial...  Read More >>

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Richard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright - from obscurity....  Read More >>

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‘All art is propaganda,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘but not all propaganda is art.’ Moving from World War I to the ‘War...  Read More >>

John Schlesinger’s 1969 drama, Midnight Cowboy, follows the story of naïve would-be hustler Joe Buck (Jon Voight)...  Read More >>

Movies under the Influence charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and mind-altering substances from early...  Read More >>

Movies under the Influence charts the entangled histories of moviegoing and mind-altering substances from early...  Read More >>

1974 was a busy year for Mel Brooks. Although still recovering after a series of failed projects threatened his...  Read More >>

1974 was a busy year for Mel Brooks. Although still recovering after a series of failed projects threatened his...  Read More >>

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‘All art is propaganda,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘but not all propaganda is art.’ Moving from World War I to the ‘War...  Read More >>

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An in-depth exploration of the history of representations of the indigenous 'Peoples of the North' in the Soviet...  Read More >>

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary...  Read More >>

Richard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright - from obscurity....  Read More >>

JEAN-LUC GODARD: THE PASSION OF CINEMA VOLUME 2: 1968 ONWARDS By Jeremy Mark Robinson There's no one...  Read More >>

A cinematic survey of the Christmas movies of the 1960s and 1970s, considering the themes and conventions to emerge...  Read More >>

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library...  Read More >>

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Dispels the idea that postwar British comedies were apolitical, arguing instead that they presented subversive,...  Read More >>