Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies
About the Book Series
Routledge/FACETS Advances in Face Studies offers a pioneering interdisciplinary collection of Open Access research. The series responds to the changing meaning of the human face: through the invention and diffusion of new visual technologies (digital photography, visual filters, as well as software for automatic face recognition); through the creation and establishment of novel genres of face representation (the selfie); and through new approaches to face perception, reading, and memorization (the ‘scrolling’ of faces on Tinder).
Offering an interdisciplinary but focused approach in the fields of communication studies, visual history, semiotics, phenomenology, visual anthropology, but also face perception studies and collection, analysis, and social contextualization of big data, the series will concentrate on the cultural and technological causes of these changes and their effects in terms of alterations in self-perception and communicative interaction.
The series will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the fields of communication studies, digital cultures studies, digital humanities, visual communication, linguistic anthropology, semiotic anthropology, cognitive linguistics, semiotics, ethnomethodology, cultural theory, cultural studies, visual studies, performance studies, and, to a more limited extent, philosophy of culture, hermeneutics, and ritual studies.
The Visage, Voice and Void in the Community: Art, Senses and (e-)Spaces of Contemporary Semiosis
1st Edition
By Silvia Barbotto
April 14, 2026
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the face, defined not only as the human physical constitution, but in a metaphorical and cultural sense, and its connection with society. Bridging the analogue and the digital, the face is examined, step by step, from multiple perspectives and ...
Faces and the City: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Facial Presence in Urban Space
1st Edition
By Federico Bellentani
March 31, 2026
Faces and the City advances the understanding of the role of faces and face representations, their meanings and interpretations, in physical and digital urban space. The comprehensive study builds a typology of biological, represented and digital faces within urban space and presents an ...
Masks and Faces: Critical Perspectives Across Disciplines
1st Edition
Edited
By Lior Levy, Massimo Leone
February 17, 2026
Focusing on masks and faces as figures and objects that carry ethical and political meanings, this volume examines the scientific, cultural, visual, and philosophical histories and traditions in which they are imbricated and which allow them to gather force and to become central to how human ...
The Hybrid Face: Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Massimo Leone
May 05, 2025
This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face. The book semiotically delves into the ...