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.
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Worlding Tamil Cinema
1st Edition
By Amrutha Kunapulli
July 10, 2025
Worlding Tamil Cinema is a simultaneous intervention in the study of world cinema and the cinemas of India.With a focus on the globalising impulses of twenty-first-century Tamil cinema, the book explores the relationship between cinema, state, nationhood, and world cinema in the twenty-first ...
Women Managers in American Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein
July 04, 2025
This book explores various portrayals of women managers in American culture from the late 1960s to the present. An analysis of iconic films and works of fiction and nonfiction reveals how the image of the woman manager has evolved over time, reflecting shifting societal attitudes. In early ...
The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema: Hollywood, D.C.
1st Edition
By Krešimir Bobaš
June 30, 2025
The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema examines how political thriller films (de)construct and reflect the sociopolitical realities of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The book highlights the convergence between ...
Hybrid Documentary and Beyond
1st Edition
By Rachel Landers
May 27, 2025
Hybrid Documentary and Beyond explores the theories, production techniques, ethics, and impact of hybrid documentaries. Often described as simply a blend of fact and fiction, the author challenges this definition of hybrid documentary through an interrogative examination of not only why and how ...
Epidemic Cinema: The Rise of a Genre
1st Edition
By Julia Echeverría
May 06, 2025
This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease. As the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic materialised the anxieties and discourses of world risk that had long been portrayed in popular media, the book provides a novel definition of the epidemic film genre ...
Dalit Representation in Popular Hindi Cinema
1st Edition
By Vishal Chauhan
March 31, 2025
This book explores the dynamics of caste in Bollywood and popular Hindi cinema through an examination of the representation of Dalits since the 1930s. Drawing on critical textual analysis and historical analyses of a number of key films, the author argues that popular Hindi cinema corroborates in ...
Cinema of/for the Anthropocene: Affect, Ecology, and More-Than-Human Kinship
1st Edition
Edited
By Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Andrea Ruthven
January 31, 2025
Cinema of/for the Anthropocene sheds new light on the question of how films can allow us to resituate ourselves within what is known today as the Anthropocene. The authors address this question through a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, from film and cultural studies, new ...
Cosmopolitan Aspirations in Contemporary Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By María del Mar Azcona, Julia Echeverría, Pablo Gómez-Muñoz
December 16, 2024
This book presents cosmopolitanism as a useful methodological approach to understand the transnational synergies present in contemporary cinema. In line with existing literature from the social sciences, the volume aims to contribute to the ‘cosmopolitan turn’ in cinema studies. It considers ...
Centring Women in Bollywood Biopics: Empowerment and Agency in Contemporary Indian Cinema
1st Edition
By Chandrava Chakravarty, Sneha Kar Chaudhuri
October 28, 2024
This book explores the dramatic rise in popularity of the women’s biopic in contemporary Bollywood, within the context of wider cultural shifts over the past decade. Delving into the societal shifts reflected in the genre, both on and off screen, the book explores the contours of individual agency ...
American Masculinities in Contemporary Documentary Film: Up Close Behind the Mask
1st Edition
By Sara Martín
October 09, 2024
Most documentaries deal with men, but what do they actually say about masculinity? In this groundbreaking volume Sara Martín analyses more than forty 21st-century documentaries to explore how they represent American men and masculinity. From Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s The Mask You Live In to Raoul ...
Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York
1st Edition
By Cortland Rankin
October 08, 2024
Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient, adaptive...
Emotion Pictures: Movies and Feelings
1st Edition
By Lucy Fischer
October 08, 2024
This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion – be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety – to examine cinematic emotion in depth. Drawing on philosophical and psychological approaches, Fischer’s unique analysis offers unparalleled case studies ...