Filmteori & kritik

Derived from the XXL book that explored the vast Charlie Chaplin archive, this edition follows the making of Chaplinâ??s films with letters, sketches, storyboards, posters, on-set …

Could you really use a bullwhip to swing across a chasm? Or rip out a man's heart without killing him? At last, here is the book that finally answers the Indiana Jones-related …

In 1974, The Wall Street Journal called this movie "e;grotesque, sadistic, irrational, obscene, incompetent,"e; while New York Magazine declared it "e;a …

Drawing together 18 contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema’s century-long relationship to modes of exploration …

This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, and institutional linkages between the US, Europe, and Asia …

In The Screenwriters Taxonomy, award-winning screenwriter and educator Eric R. Williams offers a new collaborative approach for creative storytellers to recognize, discuss and …

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, …

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