Technique: Aesthetics (39 books)

A Companion to Experimental Film (2025)

Dir. Federico Windhausen

Subject: Genre > Experimental

The Interactive Documentary Form (2025)

Aesthetics, Practice and Research

by Stefano Odorico

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Films That Spill (2025)

Beyond the Cinema of Transgression

by Marie Sophie Beckmann

Subject: Genre > Experimental

Hybrid Documentary and Non-Binary Cinema (2025)

by Luke W. Moody

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Cavell on Film (2025)

by Stanley Cavell and William Rothman

Subject: Theory

Bodies of Water (2025)

Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

by Geoffrey Maguire

Subject: Countries > Latin America

Screens and Illusionism (2024)

Alternative Teleologies of Mediation

Dir. Peter Bloom and Dominique Jullien

Subject: Theory

Through a Noir Lens (2024)

Adapting Film Noir Visual Style

by Sheri Chinen Biesen

Subject: Genre > Film Noir

Cinema and Machine Vision (2024)

Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship

by Daniel Chávez Heras

Subject: Theory

Documentary Aesthetics in the Long 1960s in Eastern Europe and Beyond (2023)

Dir. Clemens Gnther and Matthias Schwartz

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Depth Effects (2023)

Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

by Brooke Belisle

Subject: Theory

The Art of the Filmmaker (2023)

The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen

by Peter Markham

Subject: Technique > Direction

Black Boys (2023)

The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film

by Clive Chijioke Nwonka

Subject: Countries > Great Britain

Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television (2023)

Dir. Ted Nannicelli and Héctor J. Pérez

Subject: Genre > TV Series

The Eye of the Cinematograph (2023)

Lévinas and Realisms of the Body

by Keyvan Manafi

Subject: Theory

Contemporary Hollywood Animation (2023)

Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s

by Noel Brown

Subject: Genre > Animation

Chinese Cinema (2023)

Identity, Power, and Globalization

Dir. Jeff Kyong-McClain, Russell Meeuf and Jing Jing Chang

Subject: Countries > China

The Holiday in His Eye (2022)

Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and Philosophy

by William Rothman

Subject: Theory

A Modernist Cinema (2021)

Film Art from 1914 to 1941

Dir. Scott W. Klein and Michael Valdez Moses

Subject: Sociology

Deep Mediations (2021)

Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures

Dir. Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible

Subject: Theory

Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures (2021)

A Critical Anthology

by Scott MacKenzie

Subject: Film Analysis

Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art (2020)

Expanding Cinema

Dir. Jill Murphy and Laura Rascaroli

Subject: Theory

Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema (2020)

The Politics of Beauty

by James S. Williams

Subject: Countries > Africa

Architecture Filmmaking (2020)

Dir. Igea Troiani and Hugh Campbell

Subject: Technique > Set Design

Neorealist Film Culture, 1945-1954 (2019)

Rome, Open Cinema

by Francesco Pitassio

Subject: Countries > Italy

Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics (2019)

by Ryan Pierson

Subject: Genre > Animation

The Eloquent Screen (2019)

A Rhetoric of Film

by Gilberto Perez

Subject: Theory

Popular Hindi Cinema (2019)

Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen

by Ronie Parciack

Subject: Countries > India

Border Cinema (2019)

Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics

Dir. Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan

Subject: Genre > Experimental

The Dynamic Frame (2019)

Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

by Patrick Keating

Subject: Technique > Cinematography

Sofia Coppola (2018)

The Politics of Visual Pleasure

by Anna Backman Rogers

Subject: Director > Sofia Coppola

The Arts of Cinema (2018)

by Martin Seel

Subject: Theory

Transcendental Style in Film (2018)

Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer

by Paul Schrader

Subject: Theory

Inhospitable World (2018)

Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene

by Jennifer Fay

Subject: Sociology

Grasping Shadows (2017)

The Dark Side of Literature, Painting, Photography, and Film

by William Chapman Sharpe

Subject: Sociology

Indefinite Visions (2017)

Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty

Dir. Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron and Arild Fetveit

Subject: Theory

Improving Passions (2017)

Sentimental Aesthetics and American Film

by Charles Burnetts

Subject: Genre > Drama

Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity (2017)

by Victoria L. Evans

Subject: Director > Douglas Sirk

Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar (2017)

by Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla

Subject: Director > Pedro Almodóvar

Hollywood Aesthetic (2017)

Pleasure in American Cinema

by Todd Berliner

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

After Uniqueness (2017)

A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation

by Erika Balsom

Subject: Genre > Experimental

Slow Cinema (2015)

Dir. Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge

Subject: Technique > Direction

Film Light (2015)

Meaning and Emotion

by Lara Thompson

Subject: Technique > Lighting

Visible Fictions (2015)

Cinema - Television - Video

by John Ellis

Subject: Theory

The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics (2015)

Dir. John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman and Carol Vernallis

Subject: Theory

Art Direction & Production Design (2015)

Dir. Lucy Fischer

Subject: Technique > Set Design

B Is for Bad Cinema (2015)

Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value

Dir. Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis

Subject: General

Film Worlds (2014)

A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema

by Daniel Yacavone

Subject: Theory

Dreaming of Cinema (2014)

Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media

by Adam Lowenstein

Subject: Theory

Improvising Cinema (2014)

by Gilles Mouëllic

Subject: Theory

Cinematography (2014)

Dir. Patrick Keating

Subject: Technique > Cinematography

Incorporating Images (2014)

Film and the Rival Arts

by Brigitte Peucker

Subject: Theory

A Cinema of Poetry (2014)

Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film

by Joseph Luzzi

Subject: Countries > Italy

Slow Movies (2014)

Countering the Cinema of Action

by Ira Jaffe

Subject: Technique > Direction

Between the Black Box and the White Cube (2014)

Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art

by Andrew V. Uroskie

Subject: History of Cinema

Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (2013)

by Peter Wollen

Subject: Theory

Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema (2013)

by Lisa Purse

Subject: General

Action Movies (2012)

The Cinema of Striking Back

by Harvey O'Brien

Subject: Genre > Action

Digital Visual Effects in Cinema (2012)

The Seduction of Reality

by Stephen Prince

Subject: Technique > Special effects

Great Flicks (2011)

Scientific Studies of Cinematic Creativity and Aesthetics

by Dean Keith Simonton

Subject: Film Analysis

Horror Film Aesthetics (2010)

Creating the Visual Language of Fear

by Thomas M. Sipos

Subject: Genre > Horror

Screen Writings (2010)

Volume2: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics

by Bert Cardullo

Subject: Film Analysis

Film and Philosophy (2008)

Taking Movies Seriously

by Daniel C. Shaw

Subject: Theory

Visconti (2008)

Insights into Flesh and Blood

by Alexander García Düttmann

Subject: Director > Luchino Visconti

Italian Locations (2008)

Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema

by Noa Steimatsky

Subject: Countries > Italy

David Cronenberg (2007)

Author or Filmmaker?

by Mark Browning

Subject: Director > David Cronenberg

The Solaris Effect (2006)

Art And Artifice in Contemporary American Film

by Steven Dillon

Subject: Theory

Art In The Cinematic Imagination (2006)

by Susan Felleman

Subject: Theory

Cavell on Film (2005)

by Stanley Cavell and William Rothman

Subject: Theory

Derek Jarman and Lyric Film (2004)

The Mirror and the Sea

by Steven Dillon

Subject: Director > Derek Jarman

Cinematic Landscapes (2000)

Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan

Dir. Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser

Subject: Countries > Asia

China into Film (2000)

Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema

by Jerome Silbergeld

Subject: Countries > China

Pretty Pictures (1998)

Production Design and the History Film

by C. S. Tashiro

Subject: Theory

Allegories of Underdevelopment (1997)

Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema

by Ismail Xavier

Subject: Countries > Brazil

Transcendental Style In Film (1988)

Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer

by Paul Schrader

Subject: Theory