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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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...
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 ...
Flashbacks in Film: A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis
1st Edition
By Adriana Gordejuela
September 25, 2023
Flashbacks in Film examines film flashback as a rich multimodal narrative device, analyzing the cognitive underpinnings of film flashbacks and the mechanisms that lead viewers to successfully comprehend them. Combining a cognitive film theory approach with the theoretical framework proposed by ...
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 ...