Film history, theory or criticism

As criticism continues to mount over Israel's violation of Palestinian human rights and of international law, campaigns to silence and repress those who speak out against Israeli apartheid have grown alarmingly.

From The Artist to The White Ribbon, from Oscar to Palme d'Or-winning productions, European filmmaking is more prominent, world-wide, than ever before.

Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique.

Noël Carroll is one of the most prolific, widely-cited and distinguished philosophers of art, but how, specifically, has cinema impacted his thought?

Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value.

French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart.

We live in a secular world and cinema is part of that secular edifice.

Engaging with fiction films devoted to heroic tales from the decade and a half between 1949 and 1966, this book reconceives state propaganda as aesthetic experiments that not only radically transformed acting, cinematography and screenwriting in socialist China, but also articulated a new socialist film theory and criticism.

There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved.

Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth.

Oriental dancers, ballerinas, actresses and opera singers the figure of the female performer is ubiquitous in the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia.

'The critic is dead.

In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity.

The pioneering film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein is known for the unequalled impact his films have had on the development of cinema.

Art cinema occupies a space in the film landscape that is accorded a particular kind of value.

This is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversion on screen.

The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film.

Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes.

The history of Greek cinema post-1945 is best understood through the stories of its most internationally celebrated and influential directors.

What happens when we listen to a film?

Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impact.