Routledge Advances in Film Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of film studies. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this important and evolving subject area.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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E-Bollywood: Popular Hindi Cinema in the Age of New Media
1st Edition
By Rajinder Dudrah
March 11, 2027
E-Bollywood offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding Hindi popular cinema through its expanded media ecology, encompassing films, stars, streaming platforms, social media, memes, AI content, and audience engagement in the digital age. This book equips readers with the innovative '...
Ominous Homelands in World Cinema: Moving Images of (In)Security and the Rise of Neo-Nationalisms
1st Edition
By Susana Araújo
December 28, 2026
Winner of the 2026 Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra International Publications Prize (Prémio Publicações Internacionais da FLUC) Ominous Homelands in World Cinema examines contemporary films from a range of national settings that expose and critically engage with ...
Translating Silent Cinema: Film History, National Culture, and The Roaring Twenties
1st Edition
By Dror Abend-David
December 28, 2026
Translating Silent Cinema examines closely the translation, adaptation, and reception of three silent films in English, German, and Yiddish to argue that the study of film translation should extend beyond textual translation to a wide selection of primary materials and the consideration of ...
Social Connection through Film and Natural Environments: Cinematic Atmospheres of Integration
1st Edition
By Azadeh Fatehrad
December 18, 2026
Social Connection through Film and Natural Environments explores the intersection of cinema, natural environments, and multimodal storytelling as key tools for fostering social connection, cultural integration, and community resilience. Moving beyond an essentialist division between nature and ...
A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary
1st Edition
By Lorena Cervera Ferrer
November 24, 2026
A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary provides a new lens through which to revisit the history of Latin American cinema and proposes three approximations to the study of women’s documentary produced between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s. With a focus on documentaries with ...
Exploring Film through Bad Cinema
1st Edition
By David C. Wall
November 24, 2026
Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of “bad” cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts. Providing a wide-ranging discussion of film from multiple perspectives, including history, ...
Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema
1st Edition
By Zoran Samardzija
October 16, 2026
Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema examines the theme of political collapse in select contemporary Eastern European and Balkan art cinema and documentaries from the late eighties to the present. Engaging with debates in Marxism and contemporary film ...
The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema: Hollywood, D.C.
1st Edition
By Krešimir Bobaš
October 16, 2026
The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema examines how political thriller films (de)construct and reflect the sociopolitical realities of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The book highlights the convergence between ...
Women Managers in American Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein
October 16, 2026
This book explores various portrayals of women managers in American culture from the late 1960s to the present. An analysis of iconic films and works of fiction and nonfiction reveals how the image of the woman manager has evolved over time, reflecting shifting societal attitudes. In early ...
Worlding Tamil Cinema
1st Edition
By Amrutha Kunapulli
October 16, 2026
Worlding Tamil Cinema is a simultaneous intervention in the study of world cinema and the cinemas of India.With a focus on the globalising impulses of twenty-first-century Tamil cinema, the book explores the relationship between cinema, state, nationhood, and world cinema in the twenty-first ...
Animal Advocacy Documentaries in the Twenty-first Century
1st Edition
By Claudia Alonso Recarte
September 01, 2026
Animal Advocacy Documentaries in the Twenty-first Century is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the study of this subgenre. The book explores how the plasticity of nonfiction film engages with nonhuman otherness and with the rhetorical discourses of advocates and activists, while ...
River Space in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Home, Locality, and Waterbodies
1st Edition
By Mei Yang
August 28, 2026
River Space in Contemporary Chinese Cinema examines how filmmakers use river imagery to explore themes of home, displacement, and belonging in an era of rapid modernization. Using the term “river space” to describe geographical areas created by rivers or existing alongside them, the author shows ...