Routledge Focus on Film Studies
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 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...
Migrants in Contemporary Spanish Film
1st Edition
By Clara Guillén Marín
December 10, 2019
During the last two decades Spain has undergone an unprecedented transformation from being a country of emigrants to receiving a significant number of migrants from all around the world. This book focuses on the analysis of documentaries and fiction films representing migrants in Spain in the first...
Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity: Cultural Memory and the Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch
1st Edition
By Mason Kamana Allred
December 10, 2019
In its retrieval and (re)construction, the past has become interwoven with the images and structure of cinema. Not only have mass media—especially film and television—shaped the content of memories and histories, but they have also shaped their very form. Combining historicization with close ...
Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film
1st Edition
By J. P. Telotte
April 25, 2018
This book offers the first specific application in film studies of what is generally known as ecology theory, shifting attention from history to the (in this case media) environment. It takes the robot as its subject because it has attained a status that resonates not only with some of the key ...