Film theory & criticism books

This comprehensive history of Japanese animation draws on Japanese primary sources and testimony from industry professionals...  Read More >>

Cinema Memories brings together and analyses the memories of almost a thousand people of going to the cinema in...  Read More >>

""Examining political walls as screened media and media screens through the artworks and films they inspire, Walled...  Read More >>

""A study of the Italian horror director Mario Bava, exploring issues in authorship, genre, and film style, and...  Read More >>

Longlisted for the Kraszna-Krauz Foundation's Moving Image Book Award 2024 In Black Boys: The Aesthetics of British...  Read More >>

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

Explores films and filmmaking through the thoughts and poetics of filmmakers themselves, drawing on primary sources...  Read More >>

Longlisted for the Kraszna-Krauz Foundation's Moving Image Book Award 2024 In Black Boys: The Aesthetics of British...  Read More >>

""Explores films of the long 60s that were assigned an ""X"" certificate by the British Board of Film Censors alongside...  Read More >>

""Places posthumanism and feminist theory into direct conversation with contemporary science fiction film and media...  Read More >>

""This timely collection looks at Annie Hall as a multi-authored text, looking at its visible and invisible influence...  Read More >>

""Structured by critical comparisons to Spain's masterworks in meta-art - Don Quixote, Las meninas, and Un chien...  Read More >>

The inside story of how A League of Their Own-one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time-developed from...  Read More >>

Rob Ryder worked on The Warriors as a location scout and stuntman, and barely lived to tell the tale. Purple Fury...  Read More >>

A penetrating new reading of Murnau's classic silent film that shows its transitional status, both historically...  Read More >>

Examines the star persona of Argentine actor Ricardo Darn.  Read More >>

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With an introduction that establishes the multiple critical contexts for Irish cinema, literature, and their adaptive...  Read More >>

Beyond Human probes Spanish cultural production across hundreds of years to query the damaging ideologies and ecological...  Read More >>

Acknowledging the iconic, but with plenty of room for the rare and unfamiliar, The Art of Classic Sci-Fi Movies...  Read More >>

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Innovative and intense, Cloverfield was blockbuster filmmaking at its best. The film’s franchising followed the...  Read More >>

In the early 1980s, Walt Disney Productions was struggling, largely bolstered by its theme parks. Within fifteen...  Read More >>

Maurice (1987), a British film based on the novel by E.M. Forster, follows an Edwardian man’s journey to self-acceptance...  Read More >>

Maurice (1987), a British film based on the novel by E.M. Forster, follows an Edwardian man’s journey to self-acceptance...  Read More >>