The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies
About the Book Series
The Key Debates is an academic book series focusing on the mutation and appropriation of key concepts as well as premises and research practices by the key debates in European film studies. This series analyses how a number of key problems in this field were tackled and have functioned within the various epistemological traditions in Europe in the past and in the present.
Spaces: Exploring Spatial Experiences of Representation and Reception in Screen Media
1st Edition
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By Ian Christie
January 10, 2026
Film has long been defined as a temporal art, most famously by André Bazin and Andrei Tarkovsky. Yet more fundamentally it has always been a spatial art, transporting its audiences imaginatively to spaces and places other than those they literally inhabit. In the digital era, this spatial illusion ...
Technics: Media in the Digital Age
1st Edition
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By Nicholas Baer, Annie van den Oever
January 09, 2026
Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological interventions. The volume’s contributors explore the ideas of Walter Benjamin, Ursula Le Guin, Bernhard Siegert, ...
Post-cinema: Cinema in the Post-art Era
1st Edition
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By José Moure, Dominique Chateau
December 10, 2025
Post-cinema designates a new way of making films. It is time to ask whether this novelty is complete or relative and to evaluate to what extent it represents a unitary or diversified current. The book proposes to integrate the post-cinema question within the post-art question in order to study the ...
Stories: Screen Narrative in the Digital Era
1st Edition
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By Ian Christie, Annie van den Oever
June 18, 2018
Stories are perceived as central to modern life. Not only in narrative entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theater, but also in social media. Telling/having a story is widely deemed essential, in business as well as in social life. Does this mark an intensification of what has always ...
Screens
1st Edition
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By Dominique Chateau, José Moure
June 13, 2016
We live in an era of screens. No longer just the place where we view movies, or watch TV at night, screens are now ubiquitous, the source of the majority of information we consume daily, and a crucial component of our basic interactions with colleagues, friends, and family. This transformation has ...
Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures
1st Edition
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By Anna Backman Rogers, Laura Mulvey
May 18, 2015
This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering such topics as new experimental film, the ...
Audiences: Defining and Researching Screen Entertainment Reception
1st Edition
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By Ian Christie
November 06, 2012
This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, which was overtaken by ...