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.
The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema
1st Edition
By Gabriella Blasi
December 01, 2025
The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin's notion of the turn of time. Current work on Malick's films emphasizes the spatial dynamics of his cinema, particularly as it pertains, from within a phenomenological ...
Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By Jill Murphy, Laura Rascaroli
December 01, 2025
As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into its physical components within the gallery space. How to read these reformulations of the cinematic ...
Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film
1st Edition
By Sulgi Lie
December 01, 2025
Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that certain films, or the cinema as an institution, might play in political consciousness, the book asks a different question: how ...
Visions of Vienna: Narrating the City in 1920s and 1930s Cinema
1st Edition
By Alexandra Seibel
December 01, 2025
Vienna, with its stunning architecture and unforgettable streetscape, has long provided a backdrop for filmmakers. Visions of Vienna offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls made use of the city, and how the nostalgic glorification of the ...
Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology
1st Edition
By Temenuga Trifonova
December 01, 2025
Warped Minds explores the transformation of psychopathologies into cultural phenomena in the wake of the transition from an epistemological to an ontological approach to psychopathology. Trifonova considers several major points in this intellectual history: the development of a dynamic model of the...
Post-Yugoslav Cinema and the Shadows of War: A Study of Non-Representation in Film
1st Edition
By Asja Makarevic
September 03, 2025
Bosnia-Herzegovina is still considered a post-war country. The concept of post-war implies that the country and its people are tied more strongly to the past than they are oriented towards the future. Paradoxically, as long as the future is kept at bay and the post-war condition kept alive, Bosnia ...
Caro and Jeunet: Crafting French Cinema
1st Edition
By Michelle Scatton-Tessier
July 15, 2025
The first book to fully focus on French cult filmmakers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Caro & Jeunet: Crafting French Cinema brings a scholarly perspective to the filmmakers’ collaborative and solo artistic projects as outliers in approach and content. Studying from their beginning passion for ...
Precarity in Western European Cinema
1st Edition
By Temenuga Trifonova
June 17, 2025
This book explores the new European cinema of precarity, with a particular focus on Western European films, by revisiting some of its most important precursors, including 1930s Popular Front films and 1990s French New Realism, Italian neorealism, and the British New Wave. It identifies dominant ...
Shaping Film Festivals In a Changing World: Practice and Methods
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorota Ostrowska, Tamara Falicov
January 23, 2025
This volume is a collective attempt on the part of a community of academics, film festival curators, and archivists to come to terms with practical and intellectual challenges of the pandemic and post-pandemic realities affecting cultures of film festivals. The collection draws contours of critical...
African Media in an Age of Extraction: Nollywood Geographies
1st Edition
By Noah Tsika
January 21, 2025
African Media in an Age of Extraction takes a fresh, site-specific look at the relationship between moving images and the mining of natural resources, arguing that where we “place” Nollywood and other industries has important practical and conceptual consequences. Such locations are not just ...
The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973): Volume II, Aesthetics and Ontology
1st Edition
By Daniel Fairfax
October 25, 2021
The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant turn that would govern the journal's work over the next five years. Inspired by ...
The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973): Volume I, Ideology and Politics
1st Edition
By Daniel Fairfax
October 03, 2021
The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant turn that would govern the journal's work over the next five years. Inspired by ...