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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Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film
1st Edition
By Deborah Lynn Porter
August 14, 2020
Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film advances a methodological line of inquiry based on a fresh insight into the ways in which cinematic meaning is generated and can be ascertained. Premised on a critical reading strategy informed by a metapsychology of secrets, the...
Melodrama, Self and Nation in Post-War British Popular Film
1st Edition
By Johanna Laitila
August 14, 2020
This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film and melodrama. By focussing on these genres, and looking at the concept of melodrama as an analytical tool apt for the analysis of both sexuality and nation, the book offers insight ...
Emotion in Animated Films
1st Edition
Edited
By Meike Uhrig
June 30, 2020
Ranging from blockbuster movies to experimental shorts or documentaries to scientific research, computer animation shapes a great part of media communication processes today. Be it the portrayal of emotional characters in moving films or the creation of controllable emotional stimuli in scientific ...
Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood: The New Independent Cinema Revolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
June 30, 2020
This is the first edited volume on new independent Indian cinema. It aims to be a comprehensive compendium of diverse theoretical, philosophical, epistemological and practice-based perspectives, featuring contributions from multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners across the world. This edited ...
Early Race Filmmaking in America
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Lupack
December 10, 2019
The early years of the twentieth century were a formative time in the long history of struggle for black representation. More than any other medium, movies reflected the tremendous changes occurring in American society. Unfortunately, since they drew heavily on the nineteenth-century theatrical ...
Ecocinema in the City
1st Edition
By Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann
December 10, 2019
In Ecocinema in the City, Murray and Heumann argue that urban ecocinema both reveals and critiques visions of urban environmentalism. The book emphasizes the increasingly transformative power of nature in urban settings, explored in both documentaries and fictional films such as Children ...
Film Comedy and the American Dream
1st Edition
By Zach Sands
December 10, 2019
Film Comedy and the American Dream is an examination of national identity in the era of the American superpower as projected in popular comedic films that center on issues of upward mobility. It is the story of what made audiences laugh and why, and what this says about the changing shape of the ...
Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning
1st Edition
Edited
By Janina Wildfeuer, John A. Bateman
December 10, 2019
This book examines film as a multimodal text and an audiovisual synthesis, bringing together current work within the fields of narratology, philosophy, multimodal analysis, sound as well as cultural studies in order to cover a wide range of international academic interest. The book provides new ...
Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action: A Different Tune
1st Edition
By Amanda Howell
December 10, 2019
Amanda Howell offers a new perspective on the contemporary pop score as the means by which masculinities not seen—or heard—before become a part of post-World War II American cinema. Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action addresses itself to an eclectic mix of film, from Elvis and Travolta ...
Surveillance in Asian Cinema: Under Eastern Eyes
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Fang
December 10, 2019
Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollywood-dominated global media has long promulgated a geopoliticized east-west axis of freedom vs. ...
The Camera-Eye Metaphor in Cinema
1st Edition
By Christian Quendler
December 10, 2019
This book explores the cultural, intellectual, and artistic fascination with camera-eye metaphors in film culture of the twentieth century. By studying the very metaphor that cinema lives by, it provides a rich and insightful map of our understanding of cinema and film styles and shows how cinema ...
The Cinematic Eighteenth Century: History, Culture, and Adaptation
1st Edition
Edited
By Srividhya Swaminathan, Steven W. Thomas
December 10, 2019
This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The Martian) to historical fiction on the ...