Critical Visions in Film Theory is a new book for a new generation, embracing groundbreaking approaches in the field without ignoring the history of classical film theory. The study of film theory has changed dramatically over the past 30 years with innovative ways of looking at classic debates in areas like film form, genre, and […]

James Monaco’s How To Read A Film is a triumph in bringing together a very wide range of theoretical, social, aesthetic, political, economic, historical, and technical information and ideas about film. He has also addressed the broader range of media in general. It has been considered the “bible” by many on film history and theory […]

Film Theory and Criticism is an excellent piece of discourse on film history as well as a true anthology. It is all you need to get an in-depth understanding. Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen’s Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology […]

Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses might be described as a neo-Deleuzian examination of film and visual media. It’s a good book, using metaphors to look at film, such as “film as a window” or “cinema as brain” and this seems a Deleuzian way of going about it. The book is mostly a phenomenological […]