Film theory & criticism books

Provides the first comprehensive history of the politics of film finance in Britain from the end of the Second World...  Read More >>

Examines the face on screen from a variety of critical and historical perspectives  Read More >>

Provides an in-depth study of Hong Kong directors' participation in Chinese 'main-melody' blockbusters in the 2010s....  Read More >>

Explores the relationship between literature and film, what is involved in adaptation, and how best to judge films...  Read More >>

""An investigation into how Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) significantly contributes to the Body Horrors of mainstream...  Read More >>

This book offers an original analysis of early westerns and travel pictures through the lens of settler colonialism,...  Read More >>

HITCHOLOGY considers how Hitchcock used narrative tropes and formal flourishes to create some of cinema's most unforgettable...  Read More >>

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Why are big budget films typically made across an array of seemingly dissociated sites? Supply Chain Cinema shows...  Read More >>

Develops a program for undertaking figural analysis of narrative film by drawing on the work of Bernard Stiegler...  Read More >>

""An exploration of non-verbal communication, shown primarily through the acting of Ryan Gosling, to provide an...  Read More >>

A master of gritty horror, Tobe Hooper captured on-screen an America in constant crisis and upended myths of prosperity...  Read More >>

A new look at a beloved classic film that explores the philosophical dynamics of Casablanca Celebrating its eightieth...  Read More >>

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A new critical study of the Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975).  Read More >>

The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls, a 1995 drama...  Read More >>

A new look at a beloved classic film that explores the philosophical dynamics of Casablanca Celebrating its eightieth...  Read More >>

The aim of this edited collection is to contribute to the identification of a new film festival period which has...  Read More >>

A look into and behind the magic of what's on the big and little screen.  Read More >>

Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and...  Read More >>

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This book offers an original analysis of early westerns and travel pictures through the lens of settler colonialism,...  Read More >>

Argues that contemporary slasher films embody a turn towards the metamodern sensibility  Read More >>

Examines the mental health interventions that changed 1960s British and American cinema  Read More >>