Film theory & criticism books

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have...  Read More >>

""Makes an excellent case for Parrott as an unjustly forgotten historical figure.""—The New Yorker ""Remind[s]...  Read More >>

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A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema—the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre—from...  Read More >>

A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema—the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre—from...  Read More >>

The fourth edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides new critical material on reenactments, encounter,...  Read More >>

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

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Given the USA’s long-held...  Read More >>

""An amazing number of the stars have been sucked into Communist and Communistic-run subversive organizations. Investigators...  Read More >>

In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer...  Read More >>

In their third and final screen teaming, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly starred together in the MGM musical Summer...  Read More >>

Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism’s emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection,...  Read More >>

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

Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in cinema and television and...  Read More >>

Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism’s emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection,...  Read More >>

A collection of critical chapters on Larisa Shepitko, one of the most significant Soviet (Ukrainian born) filmmakers...  Read More >>

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Examines modes of resistance within contemporary Indian documentary culture and films.  Read More >>

The first book-length academic study of the work of Norwegian director, Joachim Trier  Read More >>

Historical Turns reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the ""crisis of historicism"" widely diagnosed by German philosophers...  Read More >>

Examines Polish director Agnieszka Holland's films and television works from the perspective of transnational screen...  Read More >>

Surrealism and Film after 1945 is the first collection devoted to the vibrant culture of transnational surrealist...  Read More >>

Examines the affective response to rape-revenge films, and how this response can be harnessed to work through complex...  Read More >>