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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Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Lilian Chee, Edna Lim
February 05, 2018
Asian cinemas are connected to global networks and participate in producing international film history while at the same time influenced and engaged by spatial, cultural, social and political transformations. This interdisciplinary study forwards a productive pairing of Asian cinemas and space, ...
Eco-Trauma Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By Anil Narine
February 05, 2018
Film has taken a powerful position alongside the global environmental movement, from didactic documentaries to the fantasy pleasures of commercial franchises. This book investigates in particular film’s complex role in representing ecological traumas. Eco-trauma cinema represents the harm we, as ...
Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Peter Hulme
February 05, 2018
Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, ...
The Western in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, Dayna Oscherwitz
February 05, 2018
The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how ...
Spaces of the Cinematic Home: Behind the Screen Door
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleanor Andrews, Stella Hockenhull, Fran Pheasant-Kelly
December 08, 2017
This book examines the ways in which the house appears in films and the modes by which it moves beyond being merely a backdrop for action. Specifically, it explores the ways that domestic spaces carry inherent connotations that filmmakers exploit to enhance meanings and pleasures within film. ...
Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art: Cinema Beyond Europe
1st Edition
By Nilgun Bayraktar
October 12, 2017
Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art explores cinematic and artistic representations of migration and mobility in Europe since the 1990s. Drawing on theories of migrant and diasporic cinema, moving-image art, and mobility studies, Bayraktar provides historically situated close ...
American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Funnell, Man-Fung Yip
June 16, 2017
Critics frequently describe the influence of "America," through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction does not address, however, the counter-flows of Chinese-language films into the American film market or the influence ...
Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory
1st Edition
By Nick Jones
April 11, 2017
"This is a timely and pertinent contribution to the study of action cinema. Drawing insights from human geographers, sociologists and philosophers as well as film theorists, Jones offers a stimulating account of the ways the action sequence speaks to our interactions with the built environment and ...
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 ...