Filmteori & kritik

Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr focuses on a classic by one of America’s greatest silent film geniuses whose films still delight and amaze audiences worldwide. Written specially for …

"This is the first extended study I know of what the author calls a "Holocaust performative," . . . .[The author] asks what a "holocaust performative" might look like and how such …

The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.Leaving a promising career in academic philosophy to embark on a career in film, …

This indispensable collection offers 51 chapters, each focused on a distinct American independent film. Screening American Independent Film presents these films chronologically, …

From the fleetingly captured street scenes of the city symphony, to the meticulously reconstructed studio city of musical comedies; from the propagandistic Popular Front …

Romeo and Juliet is not only one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays, it is one of the most popular stories in the world. Yet while the play has rarely been off the stage, …

Many of the movies we love are best captured in their final scenes, from the Tracy-Hepburn love fest in Adam's Rib to the image of Dorothy back in her bed in Kansas. Turning the …

This book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and practices of women and cinema from 1973 …

Queer European Cinema commences with an overview of LGBTQ representation throughout cinematic history, interwoven with socio-political reality in Europe and beyond, to consider …