Film theory & criticism books

"""Movie Publicity Showcase - The Serials Volume 1"" places the Bela Lugosi's film ""The Return of Chandu"" into...  Read More >>

Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran’s leading playwrights and auteur filmmakers. This book examines several of Beyzaie’s...  Read More >>

Film history columns by prolific film historian, Tim Lucas.  Read More >>

An exploration of the treatment of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in popular art and culture, this book examines adaptations...  Read More >>

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Jess Conrad is a name that will be instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with 1960s pop culture. Emerging from...  Read More >>

Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. Puzzling Stories offers the first comprehensive,...  Read More >>

You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, “You should know more about how...  Read More >>

A richly illustrated collection, structured along chronological, geographical and thematic lines, this book offers...  Read More >>

Attention Spans’ chronological review of Garrett Stewart’s critical approach tracks and maps the evolution of intersecting...  Read More >>

""The first academic work to examine the Japanese World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku Gekijão, 1969-2009),...  Read More >>

Film history columns by prolific film historian, Tim Lucas.  Read More >>

Explores the significance of postwar German representations of violence in other places and times.  Read More >>

EASTERN HEROES 'THE CLONES OF BRUCE LEE' SPECIAL EDITION The authors of THE NEW ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO HONG KONG MOVIES...  Read More >>

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Here at last is the complete story of Dana Andrews (1909–1992): a great actor who struggled to overcome alcoholism...  Read More >>

This collection of essays celebrates the work of international feminist filmmakers from the 1950s to the present....  Read More >>

In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches,...  Read More >>

This book uses popular films to understand the convergence of crime control and the ideology of repression in contemporary...  Read More >>

Collects critical essays on the influential Argentine director Lucrecia Martel  Read More >>

A theoretical, interdisciplinary reading of French film and literary texts inspired by the 2008 global financial...  Read More >>

Explores the huge commercial success of contemporary superhero blockbusters and develops a critical theory of digital-era...  Read More >>

An exploration ofthe films of Joo Pedro Rodrigues and Joo Rui Guerra da Mata.  Read More >>

In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches,...  Read More >>

Utilises women's independent cinema to explore Simone de Beauvoir's notion of ambiguity in film experience  Read More >>