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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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 ...
Eco-Teen Films
1st Edition
By Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann
September 06, 2024
Illuminating the impacts of environmental disasters and climate crises globally, this book examines the experiences of teens grappling with eco-disasters and issues in films of the twenty-first century. With an emphasis on teen activism, international settings and filmmakers, and marginalized ...
Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema: Screening Composite Spaces
1st Edition
By Jennifer Kirby
August 26, 2024
Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema examines how contemporary cinema has represented and engaged with the experience of simultaneously inhabiting digital and material spaces (i.e. "composite spaces") in the context of the growing ubiquitousness of digital media and culture. ...
Gender, Power, and Identity in The Films of Stanley Kubrick
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Dijana Metlić, Jeremi Szaniawski
August 26, 2024
This volume features a set of thought-provoking and long overdue approaches to situating Stanley Kubrick’s films in contemporary debates around gender, race, and age—with a focus on women’s representations. Offering new historical and critical perspectives on Kubrick’s cinema, the book asks how his...
African Documentary Cinema
1st Edition
By Alexie Tcheuyap
August 01, 2024
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 ...