Routledge Advances in Film Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of film studies. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this important and evolving subject area.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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Posthumanism, Cognition, and Cyborg Spectatorship: Amalgamated Cinema
1st Edition
By Anna Batori
March 30, 2026
This book argues that contemporary digital blockbusters function as laboratories for posthuman cognition that transform spectatorship into a cyborg mode in which perception, memory, and agency are distributed across the cinematic canvas, the diegetic bodies of characters, the formal operations of ...
Narratives of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Arab Cinema: Voices from the Margins
1st Edition
By Hania A.M. Nashef
March 12, 2026
Narratives of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Arab Cinema examines emerging cinema from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and recent diasporic/transnational productions from the Levant. Although several books have been written on Arab cinema, there remains a need to consider the role of emerging...
African Documentary Cinema
1st Edition
By Alexie Tcheuyap
December 26, 2025
African Documentary Cinema investigates the inception and trajectory of contemporary documentary filmmaking in sub-Saharan African countries and their diasporas. The book challenges critical paradigms that have long prevailed in African film criticism, shedding light on the diverse discourses and ...
The Disaster Film as Social Practice
1st Edition
By Joseph Zornado, Sara Reilly
December 25, 2025
Surveying disaster films from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, this book explores the disaster film genre from its initial appearance in 1933 (The Grapes of Wrath, 1933) to its present-day form (Don’t Look Up!, 2021), laying bare the ideological unconscious at work within the genre. The ...
Place and the Moving Image: Experimental Film Practice as Topography
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Brun
November 06, 2025
Place and the Moving Image offers a rethinking of how experimental, essayistic film, engages with spatial knowledge and environmental awareness. At its heart is the concept of Moving Image Topography - a critical and artistic framework of thinking through the camera about the relationship between ...
Cinematic Starchitecture: The Celebrity Status of Urban Architectural Structures in Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Merrill Schleier, Paul Newland
November 03, 2025
Cinematic Starchitecture explores how examples of famous architecture have circulated throughout cinema history across diverse genres. Building on the term "starchitecture" – coined in 1997 for dramatic, monumental structures designed to gain international attention and economic advantage – the ...
Unveiling the Magic of Films
1st Edition
By Zhen Zhang
October 31, 2025
This book presents a comprehensive methodology for segmenting, transcribing, and analysing feature films, especially classical Hollywood films. It offers an in-depth study of three scenes from Roman Holiday (1953), each showcasing different combinations of verbal and non-verbal performance. Through...
Ominous Homelands in World Cinema: Moving Images of (In)Security and the Rise of Neo-Nationalisms
1st Edition
By Susana Araújo
September 19, 2025
Ominous Homelands in World Cinema examines contemporary films from a range of national settings that expose and critically engage with representations of “Homeland” – a term that resurfaced with renewed intensity in the United States through the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security ...
Translating Silent Cinema: Film History, National Culture, and The Roaring Twenties
1st Edition
By Dror Abend-David
September 17, 2025
Translating Silent Cinema examines closely the translation, adaptation, and reception of three silent films in English, German, and Yiddish to argue that the study of film translation should extend beyond textual translation to a wide selection of primary materials and the consideration of ...
A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary
1st Edition
By Lorena Cervera Ferrer
August 28, 2025
A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary provides a new lens through which to revisit the history of Latin American cinema and proposes three approximations to the study of women’s documentary produced between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s. With a focus on documentaries with ...
Exploring Film through Bad Cinema
1st Edition
By David C. Wall
August 08, 2025
Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of “bad” cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts. Providing a wide-ranging discussion of film from multiple perspectives, including history, ...
Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema
1st Edition
By Zoran Samardzija
July 18, 2025
Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema examines the theme of political collapse in select contemporary Eastern European and Balkan art cinema and documentaries from the late eighties to the present. Engaging with debates in Marxism and contemporary film ...