Film theory & criticism books

Lon Davis was one lucky young film buff. Growing up in Southern California in the 1970s, he was able to spend...  Read More >>

This strikingly original study of Bresson and his cinematic afterlives his influence in the work of French filmmakers...  Read More >>

"""Movie Publicity Showcase - Volume 25"" places the Hal Roach fantasy comedy ""Turnaabout"" into its historical...  Read More >>

Lon Davis was one lucky young film buff. Growing up in Southern California in the 1970s, he was able to spend...  Read More >>

This perceptive, entertaining book celebrates a century of genre films, everything from comedies and musicals to...  Read More >>

The Art of the Filmmaker: The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen explores the filmmaker's intention and method,...  Read More >>

People Best New Book The inside story of the making of Mean Girls – and our enduring 20-year...  Read More >>

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“A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it...  Read More >>

A love letter to women-led comedies. Based on Elizabeth Teets's program series called ""Isn't She Great"" at...  Read More >>

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Go beyond the iconic quotes and buried statues, Who Said Apes Have No Tales! reveals the untold stories behind the...  Read More >>

Stories of cutting-edge production facilities, generous tax incentives, and lavish film festivals often dominate...  Read More >>

In the early days of moving pictures, filmmakers learned that the montage could be an effective tool to show changes...  Read More >>

The Nabokov Effect attends to the ‘lettrocalamity’ that occurs when literature and cinema collide in Vladimir Nabokov’s...  Read More >>

Author Donald Brackett—whose grandfather was Charles Brackett’s cousin—delves into family lore, correspondence,...  Read More >>

Stories of cutting-edge production facilities, generous tax incentives, and lavish film festivals often dominate...  Read More >>

A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of ""methodness"" to entrenched understandings...  Read More >>

El género superheroico está viviendo un momento de máximo esplendor. Sus éxitos de taquilla y la madurez de sus...  Read More >>

Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American...  Read More >>

Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American...  Read More >>

The first scholarly monograph dedicated to the French Western film  Read More >>

Anthologises key works from the oeuvre of Colin McArthur, a pioneering critic within Anglophone film and Scottish...  Read More >>

One of the first academic books devoted to vampires in silent cinema.  Read More >>

Examines the ways in which the Rwandan genocide has been portrayed, used, and re-created in international film and...  Read More >>