Film theory & criticism books

In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward...  Read More >>

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50...  Read More >>

Erste umfassende Monographie über den Komponisten Franz Waxman (1906–1967)  Read More >>

This book is the first monograph to critically evaluate the work of the literary scholar René Girard from the perspectives...  Read More >>

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Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a...  Read More >>

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a...  Read More >>

Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1963) tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family adjusting...  Read More >>

Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror aims to examine why we...  Read More >>

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""A detailed and innovative book which examines weird, eerie and horrifying children's television and literature...  Read More >>

This work attempts a re-reading of Peckinpah's films by applying recent scholarship on the Gothic to understand...  Read More >>

This critical study engages with the films of the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, from his first feature Pusher...  Read More >>

Provides a historical account of motion picture websites from 1993 to 2008 and their marketing function as industrial...  Read More >>

""Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Scarface starring Al Pacino--Brian DePalma's 1983 gangster film that shook...  Read More >>

""Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Scarface starring Al Pacino--Brian DePalma's 1983 gangster film that shook...  Read More >>

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm'lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Wasn't...  Read More >>

By examining the book, the play and the film, Choose Life, Choose Leith both critically analyses the Trainspotting...  Read More >>

Widely considered to be English Canada's first queer film, Winter Kept Us Warm explores a romance between two young...  Read More >>

What distinguishes humanity from artificial beings? What do constructed creatures tell us about ourselves? From...  Read More >>

This book examines Chinese films made and shown abroad roughly between the 1920s and the 2020s, from the beginning...  Read More >>

A revelatory biography of Brando that tells its story the same way the man himself approached a role: from the inside...  Read More >>

Widely considered to be English Canada’s first queer film, Winter Kept Us Warm explores a romance between two young...  Read More >>

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear...  Read More >>

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