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 Contemporary Femme Fatale: Gender, Genre and American Cinema
1st Edition
By Katherine Farrimond
December 10, 2019
The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the sexy deadly woman in ways which traverse boundaries of genre and narrative. This book charts the articulations of ...
US Youth Films and Popular Music: Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency
1st Edition
By Tim McNelis
December 10, 2019
This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation. McNelis includes case studies of Hollywood and independent US youth films that...
Film and the American Presidency
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeff Menne, Christian B. Long
January 03, 2019
The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary. This volume surveys the partnership in its longevity, placing stress on especially iconic presidents...
India’s New Independent Cinema: Rise of the Hybrid
1st Edition
By Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
June 28, 2018
This is the first-ever book on the rise of the new wave of independent Indian films that is revolutionising Indian cinema. Contemporary scholarship on Indian cinema so far has focused asymmetrically on Bollywood—India’s dominant cultural export. Reversing this trend, this book provides an in-depth ...
Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership
1st Edition
By Xavier Aldana Reyes
April 27, 2018
This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s – abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies – to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in...
The Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema: Imagining a New Europe?
1st Edition
By Guido Rings
April 27, 2018
As a rapidly aging continent, Europe increasingly depends on the successful integration of migrants. Unfortunately, contemporary political and media discourses observe and frequently also support the development of nationalist, eurosceptic and xenophobic reactions to immigration and growing ...
Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies
1st Edition
Edited
By Blair Davis, Robert Anderson, Jan Walls
April 16, 2018
Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life’s work as a whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon has become one of the best-known Japanese...
Spectacle in Classical Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s
1st Edition
By Tom Brown
February 13, 2018
Spectacle is not often considered to be a significant part of the style of ‘classical’ cinema. Indeed, some of the most influential accounts of cinematic classicism define it virtually by the supposed absence of spectacle. Spectacle in ‘Classical’ Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s ...
Iranian Cinema in a Global Context: Policy, Politics, and Form
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Decherney, Blake Atwood
February 06, 2018
Iranian films have been the subject of much critical and scholarly attention over the past several decades, and Iranian filmmakers are mainstays of international film festivals. Yet most of the attention has been focused on a small segment of Iranian film production: auteurist art cinema. Iranian ...
Moralizing Cinema: Film, Catholicism, and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Biltereyst, Daniela Treveri Gennari
February 06, 2018
This volume is part of the recent interest in the study of religion and popular media culture (cinema in particular), but it strongly differs from most of this work in this maturing discipline. Contrary to most other edited volumes and monographs on film and religion, Moralizing Cinema will not ...
The Woman's Film of the 1940s: Gender, Narrative, and History
1st Edition
By Alison L. McKee
February 06, 2018
This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman’s films which negotiate the terrain between public history and private experience. The woman’s film and other form of cinematic melodrama have often been understood as positioning themselves outside history, and ...
American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age: Depictions of War in Burns, Moore, and Morris
1st Edition
By Lucia Ricciardelli
February 05, 2018
American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. During the twentieth century, the invention of new technologies of audiovisual ...