Film theory & criticism books

Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy...  Read More >>

The book is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions...  Read More >>

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""An in-depth study of several films and television shows to demonstrate the difficulties of conveying the experience...  Read More >>

""This book explores the star image of Austrian born actress Romy Schneider (1938-1982), with her evolving cinema...  Read More >>

""Addresses the evolutions undergone by the animated documentary throughout the decades, in order to re-position...  Read More >>

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

Develops a theory of cinecepts: a new framework for how philosophy can proceed in and through film/video/audiovisual...  Read More >>

The tale of twins being reunited after a long separation is a trope that has been endlessly repeated and reworked...  Read More >>

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How the creative use of pop music in film-think Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Now-has shaped and shifted music...  Read More >>

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

A visionary who was ahead of his time, the book presents Francis Ford Coppola's great adventure in film-making....  Read More >>

By combining close analyses of five films made between 1947 and 1988 with extensive archival research, this book...  Read More >>

Stories between Tears and Laughter strikes new ground in the history of Czech cinema focusing on the historically...  Read More >>

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Howdy Partners, welcome to Spaghetti Westerns! Ride Again! In this first issue, I have collected, corrected, expanded,...  Read More >>

Hybrid Documentary and Beyond focusses on the theories, production techniques, ethical implications and impact of...  Read More >>

"""Horror means something revolting. Anybody can show you a pailful of innards. But the object of the roles I played...  Read More >>

The story of Charlie Chaplin's years of self-imposed exile from the United States, when he had become a pariah during...  Read More >>

Far more than mere eye candy, these in-control, hard-working, and pioneering ladies were an early and earnest manifestation...  Read More >>

March of the Wooden Soldiers, the 1934 Laurel and Hardy film originally titled Babes in Toyland, has been a holiday...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Film festivals, once seen as only a matter for journalism, are increasingly a subject of attention within scholarly...  Read More >>

Through a vast array of case studies, from the silent era to recent years, Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and...  Read More >>