Film theory & criticism books

Moving Pictures examines the Hollywood career of Karl Struss (1886-1981), a pioneering artist of both still and...  Read More >>

An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbreaking film it...  Read More >>

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 There are many miles from the business school and basketball...  Read More >>

Complete in English for the first time, a major philosopher’s most personal work and the source of an acclaimed...  Read More >>

Based on new interviews with people connected to the book and the film, Hollywood historian A. Ashley Hoff explores...  Read More >>

The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia...  Read More >>

For the last fifty years, in the very epicenter of Hollywood, has existed a haven where over 70,000 artifacts, physically...  Read More >>

The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia...  Read More >>

Complete in English for the first time, a major philosopher’s most personal work and the source of an acclaimed...  Read More >>

A proud Armenian who claimed a distant link to nobility, born in what was then part of czarist Russia, Rouben Mamoulian...  Read More >>

Round our way combines stills, essays and archive photography to document the work of Sam Hanna, the 'Lowry of filmmaking',...  Read More >>

For the first time, author Quentin Schultze, who taught storytelling with screenwriter Jean Shepherd, reveals the...  Read More >>

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Ah, the nineties. Movies were something in those days. We're talking about a decade that began with GoodFellas and...  Read More >>

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Blending biography with critical analysis of more than twenty-five films, What Price Hollywood? tells the story...  Read More >>

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR...  Read More >>

Ken Loach's 1969 drama Kes, considered one of the finest examples of British social realism, tells the story of...  Read More >>

Xala (1974) by the pioneering Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, was acclaimed on its release for its scorching...  Read More >>

PRAISE FOR TIM LUCAS ""One of the pioneers of serious genre film criticism."" - Barry Forshaw, CrimeTime.co.uk...  Read More >>

PRAISE FOR TIM LUCAS ""One of the pioneers of serious genre film criticism."" - Barry Forshaw, CrimeTime.co.uk...  Read More >>

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Nineteen essays by an experimental/avant-garde filmmaker.  Read More >>

A thorough, definitive guide to 50 years of Czech film history, sourced from the nation's archives Published with...  Read More >>

Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that showcases women’s agency and desire...  Read More >>