Film theory & criticism books

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

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¡Celebra con nosotros 100 años de Disney! Recorre 100 años de mágicas historias, personajes entrañables, películas...  Read More >>

Celebrates the variety and richness of Arabic-language cinema by analysing 28 films released between 1933 and 2021,...  Read More >>

From 1947 to 1955, Jean Peters (1926-2000) appeared in films opposite such Hollywood leading men as Tyrone Power,...  Read More >>

The influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly...  Read More >>

Critically examines the work of American filmmaker and screenwriter, Lawrence Kasdan  Read More >>

In a tour-de-force study of sixty years of cinematic entertainment, this volume traces the veins of Burmese popular...  Read More >>

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

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

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This fifth edition of Film, Form, and Culture offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects...  Read More >>

A behind-the-scenes guide to the National Trust locations in some of the most iconic film and TV moments. Fully...  Read More >>

An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology....  Read More >>

It was on Friday, May 6, 1988 that Bette Davis walked off the set of her last film Wicked Stepmother. Her exit for...  Read More >>

Christopher P. Hanscom questions common understandings of political art by examining four figures central to recent...  Read More >>

This book considers all of Jean-Luc Godard's works in cinema.  Read More >>

Christopher P. Hanscom questions common understandings of political art by examining four figures central to recent...  Read More >>

Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped...  Read More >>

Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped...  Read More >>

""This book is the most comprehensive account to date of the intellectual and artistic development of one of Hollywood's...  Read More >>

In this wide-ranging study, Erica Sheen explores the various ways in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare,...  Read More >>