Film Culture in Transition
About the Book Series
Film Culture in Transition is committed to a diverse range of approaches and to stimulating cutting-edge debates on the complex interdependence of cinema, other media and screen culture at large. While putting the emphasis on current work in film theory and media history, the series also feature studies on new forms of authorship, image politics and media art. With a strong tradition in European and North American cinema, we are welcoming innovative book projects on the diversity of film cultures in a global perspective.
The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film: With and Against Cinema
1st Edition
By Jennifer Stob
June 15, 2026
This book explores the Situationist International’s paradoxical relationship with cinema from 1957 to 1972. The SI was a postwar avant-garde that condemned representation’s erosion of social life. Yet its membership cared deeply for cinema, the epitome of capitalist representation for that era. How...
African Media in an Age of Extraction: Nollywood Geographies
1st Edition
By Noah Tsika
June 10, 2026
African Media in an Age of Extraction takes a fresh, site-specific look at the relationship between moving images and the mining of natural resources, arguing that where we “place” Nollywood and other industries has important practical and conceptual consequences. Such locations are not just ...
Shaping Film Festivals In a Changing World: Practice and Methods
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorota Ostrowska, Tamara Falicov
June 10, 2026
This volume is a collective attempt on the part of a community of academics, film festival curators, and archivists to come to terms with practical and intellectual challenges of the pandemic and post-pandemic realities affecting cultures of film festivals. The collection draws contours of critical...
The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973): Volume I, Ideology and Politics
1st Edition
By Daniel Fairfax
June 10, 2026
The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant turn that would govern the journal's work over the next five years. Inspired by ...
The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973): Volume II, Aesthetics and Ontology
1st Edition
By Daniel Fairfax
June 10, 2026
The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant turn that would govern the journal's work over the next five years. Inspired by ...
Restitution and the Moving Image: Global Film Heritage Between Return, Access, and Archival Reparation
1st Edition
Edited
By Nikolaus Perneczky, Cecilia Valenti
June 03, 2026
As global demands grow for the restitution of looted artifacts from Western museums and ethnological collections, what about the displaced and sequestered moving-image heritage of the Global Majority? This book examines restitutive practices in audiovisual archives worldwide, addressing pressing ...
Women Filmmakers and the Welfare State: Transnational Film Cultures During the Long 1970s in Canada and Sweden
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Stenport, Maria Jansson, Mariah Larsson, Scott MacKenzie
May 29, 2026
Women Filmmakers and the Welfare State compares conditions for diverse women filmmakers in relation to cultural movements, politics, and welfare state policy during the long 1970s. The book examines the expansion of women’s filmmaking and transnational collaboration across a range of ...
The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema: Sight, Sound, Touch
1st Edition
By Nonie May
February 18, 2026
The Sensory Child: Sight, Sound, Touch examines a poetic film form evident in contemporary cinema that seems intent on capturing the textures, the materials, and the sensations of childhood. These films foreground the child’s point of view, construct a child’s gaze, and mobilise an aesthetic that ...
Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia
1st Edition
By Marijke de Valck
January 15, 2026
Film festivals are hugely popular events that attract lovers of cinema worldwide. Focusing on the world’s most famous festivals – Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Rotterdam – Film Festivals tells the story of a phenomenon that began in the midst of geopolitical disputes in war-torn Europe. De Valck shows...
German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Hester Baer
January 10, 2026
This book presents a new history of German film from 1980-2010, a period that witnessed rapid transformations, including intensified globalization, a restructured world economy, geopolitical realignment, and technological change, all of which have affected cinema in fundamental ways. Rethinking the...
Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe: Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space
1st Edition
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By Lucie Cesalkova, Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Perrine Val, Paolo Villa
January 10, 2026
After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums, and political meetings. Seen today, documentaries and newsreels, as well as the amateur production, show the kaleidoscopic portrait of a changing Europe. How did these cinematic ...
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
1st Edition
By Jessica Balanzategui
January 10, 2026
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential body of transnational horror films, largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and the US, Jessica ...