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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The Disaster Film as Social Practice
1st Edition
By Joseph Zornado, Sara Reilly
July 26, 2024
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 ...
Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen
1st Edition
By Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann
May 27, 2024
This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that ...
Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes
1st Edition
By Kenneth W. Harrow
May 27, 2024
This book is the first of its kind to bring basic notions of contemporary physics to bear on African cine-scapes. In this book, renowned African cinema scholar Kenneth W. Harrow presents unique new ways to think about space and time in film, with a specific focus on African and African diasporic ...
Love in Contemporary Cinema: Audiences and Representations of Romance
1st Edition
By Benjamín de la Pava Vélez
January 29, 2024
This book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic love today, and the touchpoints and disconnects between its representation on screen and the lived experiences of film ...
Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy
1st Edition
Edited
By Sean Redmond
September 25, 2023
Breaking Down Joker offers a compelling, multi-disciplinary examination of a landmark film and media event that was simultaneously both celebrated and derided, and which arrived at a time of unprecedented social malaise. The collection breaks down Joker to explore its aesthetic and ideological ...
Philosophical Theories of Political Cinema
1st Edition
By Angelo Emanuele Cioffi
September 25, 2023
This book utilizes philosophical tools to build up a framework for the classification, analysis and assessment of political cinema. The author first maps the category of political cinema, clarifying what it means for a film to be ‘political’, and then analyzes the relation between the value of a ...
Australian Genre Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Kelly McWilliam, Mark David Ryan
May 31, 2023
Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop. The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in ...
Horror Franchise Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark McKenna, William Proctor
May 31, 2023
This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction. Comprising 12 chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cinema redresses ...
Trans New Wave Cinema
1st Edition
By Akkadia Ford
May 31, 2023
This book presents a critical cultural study of the Trans New Wave as a cinematic genre and explores its emergence in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a diverse range of texts, the cultural, social, aesthetic and ethical implications of the genre are placed within the context of rapidly ...
Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Tracy, Michaela Schrage-Früh
December 30, 2022
This volume offers a unique exploration of how ageing masculinities are constructed and represented in contemporary international cinema. With chapters spanning a range of national cinemas, the primarily European focus of the book is juxtaposed with analysis of the social and cultural constructions...
Film Noir and Los Angeles: Urban History and the Dark Imaginary
1st Edition
By Sean W. Maher
August 01, 2022
This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles. Configured through the dark lens of noir, the author examines an alternate urban history of Los Angeles forged by the fictional modes of detective fiction, film noir and neo noir. Dark ...
Hollywood Remembrance and American War
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Rayment, Paul Nadasdy
August 01, 2022
Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. Subjecting the notion that war films ought to be considered ʻthe war memorials of today’ to critical scrutiny, the book develops a theoretical understanding of how ...