Film theory & criticism books

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

Drawing on media sociology and group interviews, this book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed...  Read More >>

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

White feminists performing to maintain privilege Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic,...  Read More >>

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

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

Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The ‘Public Be Damned’ provides a unique and ground-breaking analysis of corporate...  Read More >>

"""Movie Publicity Showcase - Volume 27"" places the Hal Roach Streamliner ""All American Co-Ed"""" into its historical...  Read More >>

New Screen Ecology in India is an open access book that provides an in depth exploration of the digital transformation...  Read More >>

"""Movie Publicity Showcase - Volume 24"" places the Hal Roach fantasy film ""Topper Takes a Trip"" into its historical...  Read More >>

"""The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting...  Read More >>

In recent years, the Arab world and Iran have been afflicted by cataclysmic events, among them brutal state crackdowns...  Read More >>

What is opera cinema -- The history of opera cinema -- What makes it opera cinema -- The Opera Virgins Project --...  Read More >>

"""A critical analysis of the depiction of vigilantism in 1970s American cinema""--"  Read More >>

Women and Indian Shakespeares explores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare...  Read More >>

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"""An investigation of psychological disorders through several key cinematic texts, pulling together dialectically...  Read More >>

Jess Conrad is a name that will be instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with 1960s pop culture. Emerging from...  Read More >>

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This collection examines the relationship between illustration and adaptation from an intermedial and transcultural...  Read More >>

Blending biography with critical analysis of more than twenty-five films, What Price Hollywood? tells the story...  Read More >>

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This Handbook offers new and previously unexplored comparative approaches to the field of New Cinema History.  Read More >>