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War Primer

by Bertolt Brecht

A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II

9 posts
The BBC

by Tom Mills

The BBC: The mouthpiece of the Establishment?

4 posts
The View from the Train

by Patrick Keiller

Essays by the iconic British filmmaker on the relationship between film, cities and landscape

18 posts
Desire Unlimited

by Paul Julian Smith
New and fully updated edition
3 posts

St. Paul

by Pier Paolo Pasolini

"Mingles an intellectual leftism with a Franciscan Catholicism." – New Statesman

10 posts
Film After Film

by J. Hoberman
"Perceptive, lively, and packed with verbal fireworks.” – The Independent
10 posts
In Broad Daylight

by Gabriele Pedulla
The metamorphosis of the spectator and the arts in the age of YouTube.
7 posts
The Emancipated Spectator

by Jacques Rancière

The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking.

18 posts

A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma

by Emilie Bickerton
An unique account of cinema's most influential journal.
5 posts
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)

Edited by Slavoj Žižek
Hitchcock gets onto the analyst’s couch in this extraordinary volume of case studies.
5 posts
Filming Pancho

by Margarita de Orellana
An absorbing look at how early twentieth-century Hollywood shaped the US’s conception of Mexico.
1 post
War and Cinema

by Paul Virilio

A rich and suggestive analysis of military “ways of seeing”

3 posts

The Future of the Image

by Jacques Rancière

A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film.

8 posts
Red Velvet Seat

Edited by Antonia Lant
A compendious anthology of women's writing on film.
4 posts
Dreams of a Nation

Edited by Hamid Dabashi
A lively celebration of the genius and power of Palestinian cinema.
3 posts
Sexuality in the Field of Vision

by Jacqueline Rose
Feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.
9 posts

Hollywood Flatlands

by Esther Leslie
Brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.
8 posts
Screening the City

Edited by Tony Fitzmaurice and Mark Shiel
A diverse collection of essays considering film and the urban experience.
Paris Hollywood

by Peter Wollen

Peter Wollen's book is based on the premise that there are no fixed ways of writing about film.

1 post
Cinema and Desire

Edited by Tani E. Barlow and Jing Wang

Dal Jinhau's commentary on Chinese cinema, culture and politics.

7 posts

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