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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Cinema as Weather: Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change
1st Edition
By Kristi McKim
June 23, 2015
How do cinematic portrayals of the weather reflect and affect our experience of the world? While weatherly predictability and surprise can impact our daily experience, the history of cinema attests to the stylistic and narrative significance of snow, rain, wind, sunshine, clouds, and skies. Through...
The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
1st Edition
By Raz Yosef
June 23, 2015
The last decade has marked the growing visibility and worldwide interest in Israeli cinema. Films such as Walk on Water, Or, My Treasure, Beaufort and Waltz with Bashir have been commercially and critically successful both in Europe and the United States and have won a number of prestigious ...
Theorizing Film Acting
1st Edition
Edited
By Aaron Taylor
June 23, 2015
This comprehensive collection provides theoretical accounts of the grounds and phenomenon of film acting. The volume features entries by some of the most prominent scholars on film acting who collectively represent the various theoretical traditions that constitute the discipline of film studies. ...
Cinema and Inter-American Relations: Tracking Transnational Affect
1st Edition
By Adrián Pérez Melgosa
September 11, 2014
Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). Pérez Melgosa analyzes the evolution of...
Narratives of Gendered Dissent in South Asian Cinemas
1st Edition
By Alka Kurian
March 19, 2014
This book conducts a post-colonial, gendered investigation of women-centred South Asian films. In these films, the narrative becomes an act of political engagement and a site of feminist struggle: a map that weaves together multiple strands of subjectivity—gender, caste, race, class, religion, and ...
Korea’s Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948: The Untold History of the Film Industry
1st Edition
By Brian Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim
November 08, 2013
Korea’s Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948 compares and contrasts the development of cinema in Korea during the Japanese occupation (1910-1945) and US Army Military (1945-1948) periods within the larger context of cinemas in occupied territories. It differs from previous studies by drawing links between ...
Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique
1st Edition
Edited
By Jyotsna Kapur, Keith Wagner
June 07, 2013
In cinema studies today, rarely do we find a direct investigation into the culture of capitalism and how it has been refracted and fabricated in global cinema production under neoliberalism. However, the current economic crisis and the subsequent Wall Street bailout in 2008 have brought about a ...
Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema
1st Edition
By Russell J.A. Kilbourn
March 16, 2012
Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a ‘reflection’ but an indispensable index of human experience – especially our experience of time’s passage, of the present moment, and, most importantly perhaps, of the past, in both collective and individual terms. In this volume, Kilbourn ...
Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear
1st Edition
By Julian Hanich
March 15, 2012
Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? And why are the movies the predominant place for this paradoxical experience? These are the central questions of Julian Hanich’s path-breaking book, in which he takes a detailed look at the ...
Lesbianism, Cinema, Space: The Sexual Life of Apartments
1st Edition
By Lee Wallace
August 15, 2011
In this cutting edge volume, Wallace identifies a unique trend in post-Production Code films that deal with lesbian content: stories of lesbianism invariably engage with an apartment setting, a spatial motif not typically associated with lesbian history or cultural representation. Through the ...
Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria Ruétalo, Dolores Tierney
July 01, 2011
Exploring the much neglected area of Latin American exploitation cinema, this anthology challenges established continental and national histories and canons which often exclude exploitation cinema due to its perceived ‘low’ cultural status. It argues that Latin American exploitation cinema ...
Post-War Italian Cinema: American Intervention, Vatican Interests
1st Edition
By Daniela Treveri Gennari
November 10, 2010
Through a comparative approach of current theories developed on ideology and an analysis of official documents from the Vatican and the United States Department of State, the book investigates the decisive role that American production companies played in the development of the Italian film ...