Film theory & criticism books

Explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters...  Read More >>

In 2012, a book debuted that would go on to canonical status and usher in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La...  Read More >>

Das erste Buch über populäre, mediale Jugendkultur jenseits junger »troublemaker« und »cool kids«  Read More >>

David Fincher's Seven (1995) follows two detectives, David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset (Morgan Freeman),...  Read More >>

From the editor of Empire magazine, this is the behind-the-scenes story of the larger-than-life action stars who...  Read More >>

What can a study of international film contribute to our understanding of education in a globalized context? How...  Read More >>

An in depth consideration of sociopolitical shifts in Indian culture and their effects on, and representations in,...  Read More >>

Identifies key – and in some cases previously overlooked – cult horror films from around the world and reappraises...  Read More >>

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Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970) was the first aesthetic theorist of the cinema. An outstanding figure in the ""montage""...  Read More >>

This 280-page hardcover delves into approximately fifty of the 245 films associated with Kamal Haasan, analyzing...  Read More >>

This volume explores the political life of rage as it has been experienced and mobilized in France since 1968. The...  Read More >>

Public and government attitudes to the role of the public sector in Egyptian cinema In 1957 the public sector in...  Read More >>

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The Ethnographic Optic traces the surprising role of ethnography in French cinema in the 1960s and examines its...  Read More >>

An exploration of the unauthorized world of Doctor Who creations, fan films, stage plays, animations, audio adventures...  Read More >>

Joan Crawford: the name has an enduring fascination. Forty-five years after her death, Crawford remains a familiar...  Read More >>

Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic's collusion with taxidermy....  Read More >>

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This book’s treatment of the extensive circulation of European silent features and stars in Australasia reveals...  Read More >>

This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. His use of political gesture is...  Read More >>

Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance...  Read More >>

Rethinking the discussion of sport and cinema, Sport, Film, and the Modern World takes an inter-disciplinary approach...  Read More >>

Investigates the intertwining of fiction, documentary and memory in film  Read More >>

Investigates how film noir has been received, adapted and developed in Greece, from the 1940s to the present  Read More >>