Film theory & criticism books

Twenty years after its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about...  Read More >>

Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions...  Read More >>

Ziel der Studie ist demzufolge, das Motiv der Androgynie und seine filmischen Darstellungsweisen durch einen dichten...  Read More >>

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy classic Airplane!...  Read More >>

Since 2016, acclaimed writer and poet Nathan Nicolau has written passionately about cinema and jazz music. No Sense,...  Read More >>

Thelma & Louise, the 1991 film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, has been described...  Read More >>

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Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns...  Read More >>

Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns...  Read More >>

Fifty years since its opening, Super Fly remains a powerful influence in American pop culture.  Read More >>

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

"Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special...  Read More >>

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Breaking Down Joker offers a compelling, multi-disciplinary examination of a landmark film and media event that...  Read More >>

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This book examines film flashback as a rich multimodal narrative device, analyzing the cognitive underpinnings of...  Read More >>

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Global London on screen presents a melange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday...  Read More >>

Softcover edition contains over 100 NEW BONUS PAGES and more than 50 ADDITIONAL IMAGES about Sleepaway Camp II and...  Read More >>

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

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

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Jim Tully describes the hardscrabble life of an Irish American storyteller, from his immigrant roots, rural childhood,...  Read More >>