Routledge Focus on Film Studies
Reframing Faith in Balkan Documentary Film: History and Religion in Yugoslav Space
1st Edition
By Milja Radovic
October 09, 2025
Reframing Faith in Balkan Documentary Film presents the first systematic study of the cinematic representations of religion in the early documentary film on the Balkan Peninsula from 1896 to 1939. By looking at faith through the concept of frame, the book sheds new light on the historical ...
Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics: A Cinematic Exploration
1st Edition
By Patrick D. Anderson
September 26, 2025
Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film in a subtextual conversation. Synthesizing Algirdas Greimas’ semiotic square with Frantz Fanon’s anticolonial philosophy, Anderson reconstructs an anticolonial social ontology ...
Jürgen Böttcher and Documentary Film: Documentaries, Contemporaries, History
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Daggett Matar
May 27, 2025
Jürgen Böttcher and Documentary Film introduces the reader to this east-German filmmaker who, despite having made 40 films from the east side of the Berlin Wall, is practically unknown. Through the comparison of films made in the same year, one by an American and one by Böttcher, the author ...
The Body in Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave Films
1st Edition
By Francesca Minnie Hardy
January 30, 2025
This original study examines the representation of the body in French New Wave films through discussion of a series of films by Jean-Luc Godard, perhaps the central figure of the French New Wave. Through analysis of À bout de souffle, Une femme est une femme, Le Mépris and Alphaville, alongside ...
Con Artists in Cinema: Self-Knowledge, Female Power, and Love
1st Edition
By Joseph Kupfer
December 19, 2024
This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it. The volume explores three diverse themes of the con artist film: edification, self-awareness, and liberation through con games; the femme fatale as con artist; and romantic ...
Migration and Identity in British East and Southeast Asian Cinema
1st Edition
By Wing-Fai Leung
October 09, 2024
An emerging interest in a British East and Southeast Asian identity after decades of political and social exclusion has coincided with periods of economic and political challenges in the UK. In Migration and Identity in British East and Southeast Asian Cinema, Leung Wing-Fai argues that this ...
Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze
1st Edition
By Martin Blumenthal-Barby
June 03, 2024
Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze shows how key modern filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation between film and surveillance, medium and message. Assembling readings of films by Harun Farocki, Michael Haneke, and Fritz Lang, the book considers surveillance in such different domains...
Indian Indies: A Guide to New Independent Indian Cinema
1st Edition
By Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
May 27, 2024
This book offers a concise and cutting-edge repository of essential information on new independent Indian films, which have orchestrated a recent renaissance in the Bollywood-dominated Indian cinema sphere. Spotlighting a specific timeline, from the Indies’ consolidated emergence in 2010 across a ...
Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video: Postnational and Feminist Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Kristin Lené Hole
April 24, 2024
Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video focuses on an underexamined group of female Palestinian filmmakers, highlighting their relevance for thinking through a diverse set of issues relating to decolonial aesthetics, post-nationalism and gender, non-Western ecologies, ...
Unproduction Studies and the American Film Industry
1st Edition
By James Fenwick
May 31, 2023
This book makes the case for unproduction studies, the study of films left unmade, unseen, or unreleased, as a radical discipline with the potential to uncover a shadow history of the American film industry. Exploring the archival methods that can be utilised in this endeavour, James Fenwick argues...
Virtue and Vice in Popular Film
1st Edition
By Joseph H. Kupfer
May 31, 2023
This book addresses a prominent group of virtues and vices as portrayed in popular films to further our understanding of these moral character traits. The discussions emphasize the interplay between the philosophical conception of the virtues and vices and the cinematic representations of character...