Film Theory & Criticism eTextbooks

The Governator

From Muscle Beach to His Quest for the White House, the Improbable Rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr.

The Nightmares of Presence

Space and Place in Spanish Gothic and Horror Film

The Contemporary American Survival Film

Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes

Settler Colonialism in Horror

Caught on Screen

Australia's Convict History in Film and Television

Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8

Movies Minute by Minute

Distribution Evolution

On-Demand and the Relocation of Specialized Film

Generation Tarantino

The Last Wave of Young Turks in Hollywood

Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema

Trash, Horror, and the Hemispheric Sixties

June Mathis

The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary

Horses of Hollywood

The Colonial Screen

Early Cinema in Hong Kong

Critical Social Science Perspectives on Indian Cinema

The Film Auteur

Angles of Vision

The First Movie Studio in Texas

Gaston Melies's Star Film Ranch

The Cinema of Converging Lives

Complex Films and Intersecting Stories in an Isolated World

Cinema Studies

6th Edition - The Key Concepts

The Story of Looking

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

Alfred Hitchcock

The Legacy of Victorianism

The Method

How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

Charles Boyer

The French Lover

City of Dreams

The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures

The Wild Bunch

Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film

Eco-Theory and Annihilation

Film History

2025 Release ISE

The Nightmare Before Christmas

South African Horror Cinema

From Apartheid to District 9 and Beyond

Network Theory and Nashville

Film Theory in Practice

You Can't Kill the Boogeyman

The Ongoing Halloween Saga—13 Movies and Counting

The Cinematic Enfant Terrible

Rule Breaking Children and Teenagers in French Cinema

Poison and the Popular Imagination

Representations, Iconographies, and Meanings in Media and Culture

War Faces on Screen

Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation

Light Thoughts

Image, Reverie, Memory

Paul Verhoeven's Cinema of Violence

Network Theory and Nashville

Microutopias and Everyday Hope

Gilles Deleuze's Structuralist Cinema-World

Poison and the Popular Imagination

Representations, Iconographies, and Meanings in Media and Culture

Performing Stragismo and Counterspectacularisation

Italian Right-Wing Terrorism and Its Legacies

A Century in 16mm

The Remaking of Cinema

Critical Perspectives on Dario Argento

Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors

Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema

Trash, Horror, and the Hemispheric Sixties

French Sports Films

Visions of Masculinity

Film Museum Practice and Film Historiography

The Case of the Nederlands Filmmuseum (1946-2000)

List Cultures

Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to BuzzFeed

Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940

Operational Detection

Screen Space Reconfigured

MediaMatters

Film Societies in Germany and Austria 1910-1933

Tracing the Social Life of Cinema

Subjectivity

Filmic Representation and the Spectator's Experience

Images of Dutchness

Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliche, 1800-1914

Stories

Screen Narrative in the Digital Era

The Red Years of Cahiers du cinema (1968-1973)

Volume I, Ideology and Politics

The Red Years of Cahiers du cinema (1968-1973)

Volume II, Aesthetics and Ontology

Inventing Cinema

Machines, Gestures and Media History

Films that Work

Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media

Realist Cinema as World Cinema

Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema

Labour in a Single Shot

Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki's Global Video Project

War Faces on Screen

Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation

Popcorn Disabilities

The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies

The Cinema of Social Death

Blackhood At-Large

The Filmmaker as Historian

The Age of Liberal Revolution on Screen

Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Culture, Capital and Carnival

Modern Media and the Representation of Work

From Victimhood to Empowerment

Representing Women in 1920s Soviet Georgian Cinema

Light Thoughts

Image, Reverie, Memory

Microutopias and Everyday Hope

Gilles Deleuze's Structuralist Cinema-World

The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature

Representations from 1932 to 2024

Transformation and Metamorphosis in Popular Culture

Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies

Paul Verhoeven's Cinema of Violence

Lyric Personhood

On the Aesthetics of Being Someone in the West

Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema

Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts

Political Theory and Film

From Adorno to Žižek

A Companion to D. W. Griffith

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

Searching for New Frontiers

Hollywood Films in the 1960s

The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects

Hollywood's Coming of Age

Free and Easy?

A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre

A Companion to Italian Cinema

Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas

Film Theory

An Introduction

Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia

Amnesia, Nostalgia and Heritage

Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema

Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts

Rex Ingram

Visionary Director of the Silent Screen

The X-Men Films

A Cultural Analysis

Projecting 9/11

Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Recent Hollywood Films

Cinematography in the Weimar Republic

Lola Lola, Dirty Singles, and the Men Who Shot Them

Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics

African Spirituality in American Cinema

Hunting Girls

Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape

Love in the Afterlife

Underground Religion at the Movies

Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg

The Art of Classical Hollywood

Early Cinema in Asia

New Directions in National Cinemas

The Star Trek Universe

Franchising the Final Frontier

The Musicality of Narrative Film

Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

A Companion to Robert Altman

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

A Companion to Fritz Lang

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora

A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film

Film Studies For Dummies

American Film History

Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present