Film Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Organs without Bodies

   On Deleuze and Consequences

   By Slavoj Zizek

   Series: Routledge Classics

   With a new introduction by the author In this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions

   By Warren Buckland

   In Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions, Warren Buckland asks a series of questions about how film theory gets written in the first place: How does it select its objects of study and its methods of inquiry? How does it make discoveries and explain filmic phenomena? And, How does it formulate...

   Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Westerns

   The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Collection

   Edited by Gary Edgerton, Michael Marsden

   For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre. Creators and consumers alike have utilized this story form in literature, painting, film, radio and television to explore questions of national identity and purpose. Westerns: The Essential Collection...

   Published March 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Persistence of Hollywood

   By Thomas Elsaesser

   While Hollywood’s success – its persistence – has remained constant for almost one hundred years, the study of its success has undergone significant expansion and transformation. Since the 1960s, Thomas Elsaesser’s research has spearheaded the study of Hollywood, beginning with his...

   Published December 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. New Documentary

   A Critical Introduction

   New Documentary: A Critical Introduction provides a comprehensive account of the last two decades of documentary filmmaking in Britain, the US and Europe. Stella Bruzzi's engaging textbook discusses key genres, filmmakers, and issues for the study of non-fiction film and television, including:* key...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
6. The Trickster in Contemporary Film

   By Helena Bassil-Morozow

   This book discusses the role of the trickster figure in contemporary film against the cultural imperatives and social issues of modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters always reflect psychological, economic and social change in society. It covers a range of films, from...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Multimodal Film Analysis

   How Films Mean

   By John Bateman, Karl-Heinrich Schmidt

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the current state of the art in multimodal theory—including accounts of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes of organisation,...

   Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
8. After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image

   Edited by Julia Vassilieva, Constantine Verevis

   In the wake of the debates over high/low culture distinction spilling into the effective dismantling of the boundary that once separated them, the past decade has seen the explosion of ‘bad taste’ production on screen. Starting with paracinema or ‘badfilm’ – a movement that has grown up around...

   Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge
9. Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets

   Cinemajazzamatazz

   By Morris Holbrook

   Series: Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research

   Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets focuses on macromarketing-related aspects of film music in general and on the cinemusical role of ambi-diegetic jazz in particular. The book examines other work on music in motion pictures which has dealt primarily with the traditional distinction between...

   Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
10. Westerns

    By John White

    Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks

    It is a common assertion that the history of America is written in its Westerns, but how true is this? In this guidebook John White discusses the evolution of the Western through history and looks at theoretical and critical approaches to Westerns such as genre analysis, semiotics,...

    Published November 24th 2010 by Routledge