Film Culture in Transition
About the Book Series
Film Culture in Transition is committed to a diverse range of approaches and to stimulating cutting-edge debates on the complex interdependence of cinema, other media and screen culture at large. While putting the emphasis on current work in film theory and media history, the series also feature studies on new forms of authorship, image politics and media art. With a strong tradition in European and North American cinema, we are welcoming innovative book projects on the diversity of film cultures in a global perspective.
Women Filmmakers and the Welfare State: Transnational Film Cultures During the Long 1970s in Canada and Sweden
1st Edition
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By Anna Stenport, Maria Jansson, Mariah Larsson, Scott MacKenzie
June 29, 2026
Women Filmmakers and the Welfare State compares conditions for diverse women filmmakers in relation to cultural movements, politics, and welfare state policy during the long 1970s. The book examines the expansion of women’s filmmaking and transnational collaboration across a range of genres, ...
The Situationist International and the Social Space of Cinema: With and Against Cinema
1st Edition
By Jennifer Stob
June 15, 2026
This book explores the Situationist International's paradoxical relationship with cinema from 1957 to 1972. The SI was a postwar avant-garde that condemned representation’s erosion of social life. Yet its membership cared deeply for cinema, the epitome of capitalist representation for that era. How...
Restitution and the Moving Image: Global Film Heritage Between Return, Access, and Archival Reparation
1st Edition
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By Nikolaus Perneczky, Cecilia Valenti
June 03, 2026
As global demands grow for the restitution of looted artifacts from Western museums and ethnological collections, what about the displaced and sequestered moving-image heritage of the Global Majority? This book examines restitutive practices in audiovisual archives worldwide, addressing pressing ...
The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema: Sight, Sound, Touch
1st Edition
By Nonie May
February 17, 2026
The Sensory Child: Sight, Sound, Touch examines a poetic film form evident in contemporary cinema that seems intent on capturing the textures, the materials, and the sensations of childhood. These films foreground the child’s point of view, construct a child’s gaze, and mobilise an aesthetic that ...
Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia
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By Marijke de Valck
January 15, 2026
Film festivals are hugely popular events that attract lovers of cinema worldwide. Focusing on the world’s most famous festivals – Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Rotterdam – Film Festivals tells the story of a phenomenon that began in the midst of geopolitical disputes in war-torn Europe. De Valck shows...
German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism
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By Hester Baer
January 10, 2026
This book presents a new history of German film from 1980-2010, a period that witnessed rapid transformations, including intensified globalization, a restructured world economy, geopolitical realignment, and technological change, all of which have affected cinema in fundamental ways. Rethinking the...
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe: Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space
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By Lucie Cesalkova, Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Perrine Val, Paolo Villa
January 10, 2026
After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings. Seen today, documentaries and newsreels, as well as the amateur production, show the kaleidoscopic portrait of a changing Europe. How did these cinematic ...
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
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By Jessica Balanzategui
January 10, 2026
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential body of transnational horror films, largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and the US, Jessica ...
Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940: Operational Detection
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By Ilka Brasch
January 09, 2026
Before the advent of television, cinema offered serialized films as a source of weekly entertainment. This book traces the history from the days of silent screen heroines to the sound era's daring adventure serials, unearthing a thriving film culture beyond the self-contained feature. Through ...
Film Societies in Germany and Austria 1910-1933: Tracing the Social Life of Cinema
1st Edition
By Michael Cowan
January 09, 2026
This study traces the evolution of early film societies in Germany and Austria, from the emergence of mass movie theaters in the 1910s to the turbulent years of the late Weimar Republic. Examining a diverse array of groups, it approaches film societies as formations designed to assimilate and ...
Films That Work Harder: The Circulation of Industrial Film
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By Vinzenz Hediger, Florian Hoof, Yvonne Zimmermann, Scott Anthony
January 09, 2026
What unleashed the forces of global capitalism which continue to shape the world that we live in? Economists and economic historians variously point to innovations in logistics and trade, the emergence of a new set of business-friendly values and the emergence of new forms of applied knowledge in ...
How Film Histories Were Made: Materials, Methods, Discourses
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By Malte Hagener, Yvonne Zimmermann
January 09, 2026
This book is specifically dedicated to film history’s own history: It provides insights into the fabrication of film histories and the discourses on their materials and methods in the past in order to better understand and reconsider film history today. The interventions unpack unspoken assumptions...