Film theory & criticism books

A retelling of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope featuring stunning development art from the original Lucasfilm concept...  Read More >>

Shining new light on our understanding of cinema’s ways of political thinking, this volume places modern political...  Read More >>

My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Phillip Lopate’s selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century,...  Read More >>

The golden age of the world's most popular weekly photography magazine (1936-1972) coincided with Hollywood's most...  Read More >>

Focuses on 25 selected examples of the Hollywood ‘sex comedy’, released between 1953 and 1964. The films are documented,...  Read More >>

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Who can know what is in the past? Is it what historians can tell us? Should we also trust what we can remember?...  Read More >>

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Discusses the ways in which post-independence novels and films understand the relationship between subjectivity...  Read More >>

""Hollywood boldly went where it hadn't gone before and Nashawaty chronicles the journeys."" --Los Angeles Times...  Read More >>

A history and analysis of how films have figured in TV programming in the UK and the role that British television...  Read More >>

How James Bond Saved My Life is a unique self-help memoir. The author takes you on a journey through cinema, delving...  Read More >>

The primary purpose of 'Psychedelic Modernism: Literature and Film' is to trace the development of ideas and perspectives...  Read More >>

Winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) 2023 Award for Best First Monograph....  Read More >>

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This collection offers close readings on Hammer’s cycle of horror films, analysing key films and placing particular...  Read More >>

""Offers new and insightful perspectives on Ingmar Bergman's work as a film and theatre director as well as writer...  Read More >>

An important examination of fine art's impact upon filmmaking that grapples with the question of authenticity.  Read More >>

""An engaging account of the controversies generated by horror that examines some of the most high-profile media...  Read More >>

This book offers an original theory and set of cinematic case studies to examine how we contend with “wicked problems,”...  Read More >>

Operating between film theory, media philosophy, archival practice, and audiovisual research, Jiri Anger focuses...  Read More >>

Nightmares of Contemporary Horror Cinema addresses collections of comprehensive studies on horror within selective...  Read More >>

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This groundbreaking book is an incisive and comprehensive analysis of Harun Farocki’s oeuvre, shedding new light...  Read More >>