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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Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film: Framing Fatherhood
1st Edition
By Hannah Hamad
February 07, 2017
This book interrogates representations of fatherhood across the spectrum of popular U.S. film of the early twenty-first century. It situates them in relation to postfeminist discourse, identifying and discussing dominant paradigms and tropes that emerge from the tendency of popular cinema to ...
Crossover Cinema: Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception
1st Edition
Edited
By Sukhmani Khorana
November 08, 2016
Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic forms that do not bear allegiance to a single nation in terms of conceptualization, content, finance ...
Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: Gender as Genre
1st Edition
By John Alberti
November 08, 2016
This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified...
Spanish Cinema in the Global Context: Film on Film
1st Edition
By Samuel Amago
November 08, 2016
Across a broad spectrum of media, markets, and national contexts, self-reflexivity continues to be a favored narrative mode with wide ranging functions. In this book Amago argues that, in addition to making visible industry and production concerns within the film text, reflexive aesthetics have a ...
Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship
1st Edition
Edited
By Jinhee Choi, Mattias Frey
October 10, 2016
This volume looks at the significance and range of ethical questions that pertain to various film practices. Diverse philosophical traditions provide useful frameworks to discuss spectators’ affective and emotional engagement with film, which can function as a moral ground for one’s connection to ...
Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film: Cinema Year Zero
1st Edition
By Giuliana Minghelli
October 10, 2016
This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural ...
Postwar Renoir: Film and the Memory of Violence
1st Edition
By Colin Davis
May 31, 2016
This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir’s work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of trauma. The 1930s ended in catastrophe for both for Renoir and for France: La Règle du jeu was a ...
The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection
1st Edition
By Jennifer Lynde Barker
May 31, 2016
Through a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictator to Hiroshima mon amour to The Lives of Others, The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection explores the genesis and recurrence of antifascist aesthetics as it manifests in the WWII, Cold War and Post-Wall ...
Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal: Public Daydreams
1st Edition
By Anna Siomopoulos
May 10, 2016
While many critics have analyzed the influence of the FDR administration on Hollywood films of the era, most of these studies have focused either on New Deal imagery or on studio interactions with the federal government. Neither type of study explores the relationship between film and the ...
European Civil War Films: Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia
1st Edition
By Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou
January 29, 2016
This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in ...
Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes
1st Edition
By Valerie Wee
January 29, 2016
The Ring (2002)—Hollywood’s remake of the Japanese cult success Ringu (1998)—marked the beginning of a significant trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s of American adaptations of Asian horror films. This book explores this complex process of adaptation, paying particular attention to the various...
Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism: Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's Italy
1st Edition
By Ora Gelley
January 29, 2016
In this exciting new book, Gelley considers the collaboration between Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman in light of the neorealist aesthetic. This study re-examines the director's postwar works in relation to the contemporary discussion on Italian national identity: rather than marking a radical break ...