Routledge Focus on Film Studies
Gay Men in Egyptian Cinema: Censorship, Visibility, and Stereotypes
1st Edition
By Haytham Fathy
May 06, 2026
This book offers the first comprehensive study of the representation of gay men in Egyptian cinema, tracing how these portrayals have emerged, shifted, and been contested across different historical and political moments. Through close analysis of several key films, it examines how gay male ...
The Cinema of Agnieszka Holland: Anger and Ethics
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Piotrowska
February 24, 2026
The Cinema of Agnieszka Holland: Anger and Ethics uniquely combines academic film analysis, biographical detail and personal interviews with the filmmaker, conducted over the course of a year, to trace the development of Agnieszka Holland’s female characters and how they have been reshaped across ...
Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze
1st Edition
By Martin Blumenthal-Barby
December 26, 2025
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...
The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions: Rethinking the Films of Lumière Brothers and Méliès through Pictorial Paradigms and Cultural Filters
1st Edition
By Sabrina Francesca Crivelli
December 17, 2025
The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions offers an original rethinking of early European cinema through the lens of its visual and cultural entanglements. Focusing on the works of the Lumière brothers and Georges Méliès, this book situates their films within the cinema of attractions, ...
Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video: Postnational and Feminist Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Kristin Lené Hole
October 27, 2025
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, ...
Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics: A Cinematic Exploration
1st Edition
By Patrick D. Anderson
October 02, 2025
Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics places anticolonial theory, semiotic analysis, and contemporary Hollywood film into conversation. Synthesizing Algirdas Greimas’ semiotic square with the theories of anticolonial philosophers like Frantz Fanon, Eldridge Cleaver, and Sylvia Wynter, Anderson ...
Reframing Faith in Balkan Documentary Film: History and Religion in Yugoslav Space
1st Edition
By Milja Radovic
September 24, 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, this book sheds new light on the historical ...
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 ...
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 ...