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.
Ephemeral Cinema Spaces: Stories of Reinvention, Resistance and Community
1st Edition
By Maria Vélez-Serna
December 01, 2025
With changing technologies and social habits, the communal cinema experience would seem to be a legacy from another era. However, the 2010s saw a surge in interest for screening films in other temporary public settings. This desire to turn ruins, pubs, galleries, parks, village halls, and even ...
Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Teri Higgins, Catherine Fowler
December 01, 2025
This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication—the email, blog, text message, tweet—are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary. By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of media, the collection adds the category of ...
Film Phenomenology and Adaptation: Sensuous Elaboration
1st Edition
By David Evan Richard
December 01, 2025
Film Phenomenology and Adaptation: Sensuous Elaboration argues that in order to make sense of film adaptation, we must first apprehend their sensual form. Across its chapters, this book brings the philosophy and research methodology of phenomenology into contact with adaptation studies, examining ...
Finance and the World Economy in Weimar Cinema
1st Edition
By Owen Lyons
December 01, 2025
After the First World War, the effects of financial crisis could be felt in all corners of the newly formed Weimar Republic. The newly interconnected world economy was barely understood and yet it was increasingly made visible in the films of the time. The complexities of this system were reflected...
Futurist Cinema: Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Rossella Catanese
December 01, 2025
Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions in order to create a...
Hands on Film: Actants, Aesthetics, Affects
1st Edition
By Barry Monahan
December 01, 2025
Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its birth to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers have framed the hand for a variety of effects, from stylistic to thematic, and for the development ...
Hollywood in Cannes: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship
1st Edition
By Christian Jungen
December 01, 2025
Conjuring up all the glamour of the event, Jungen recounts the history of the Cannes Film Festival from an American perspective surveying the complex interplay of talent, money and corporate clout. He traces the growing influence of the Hollywood studios on the festival's rise to the key film event...
Hollywood is Everywhere: Global Directors in the Blockbuster Era
1st Edition
By Melis Behlil
December 01, 2025
Hollywood has a long tradition of bringing in emigre directors from around the world, dating back to the silent era. Today, as the film industry is ever more global, the people who make blockbuster movies seemingly reflect this tradition, hailing from many countries across the world. But that fact ...
LGBTQ Film Festivals: Curating Queerness
1st Edition
By Antoine Damiens
December 01, 2025
While scholars have theorized major film festivals, they have ignored smaller, ephemeral, events. In taking seriously minor European and North-American LGBTQ festivals which often only exist as traces within archival collections, this book revisits festival studies' methodological and theoretical ...
Late Bresson and the Visual Arts: Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment
1st Edition
By Raymond Watkins
December 01, 2025
The color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) have largely been neglected, despite the fact that Bresson himself considered them to be more fully realized reflections of his aspirations for the cinema. This study presents a revised and revitalized Bresson, comparing his late ...
Melodrama After the Tears: New Perspectives on the Politics of Victimhood
1st Edition
Edited
By Jörg Metelmann, Scott Loren
December 01, 2025
Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying practices and interpretive codes for meaning-making that help determine the parameters of identification and subject formation. From the public staging...
Modern Ghost Melodramas: 'What Lies Beneath'
1st Edition
By Michael Walker
December 01, 2025
The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countries, including the United ...