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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Cinematic Starchitecture: The Celebrity Status of Urban Architectural Structures in Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Merrill Schleier, Paul Newland
November 03, 2025
Cinematic Starchitecture explores how examples of famous architecture have circulated throughout cinema history across diverse genres. Building on the term "starchitecture" – coined in 1997 for dramatic, monumental structures designed to gain international attention and economic advantage – the ...
Unveiling the Magic of Films
1st Edition
By Zhen Zhang
October 31, 2025
This book presents a comprehensive methodology for segmenting, transcribing, and analysing feature films, especially classical Hollywood films. It offers an in-depth study of three scenes from Roman Holiday (1953), each showcasing different combinations of verbal and non-verbal performance. Through...
Hybrid Documentary and Beyond
1st Edition
By Rachel Landers
May 27, 2025
Hybrid Documentary and Beyond explores the theories, production techniques, ethics, and impact of hybrid documentaries. Often described as simply a blend of fact and fiction, the author challenges this definition of hybrid documentary through an interrogative examination of not only why and how ...
Epidemic Cinema: The Rise of a Genre
1st Edition
By Julia Echeverría
May 06, 2025
This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease. As the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic materialised the anxieties and discourses of world risk that had long been portrayed in popular media, the book provides a novel definition of the epidemic film genre ...
American Masculinities in Contemporary Documentary Film: Up Close Behind the Mask
1st Edition
By Sara Martín
October 09, 2024
Most documentaries deal with men, but what do they actually say about masculinity? In this groundbreaking volume Sara Martín analyses more than forty 21st-century documentaries to explore how they represent American men and masculinity. From Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s The Mask You Live In to Raoul ...
Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York
1st Edition
By Cortland Rankin
October 08, 2024
Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient, adaptive...
Emotion Pictures: Movies and Feelings
1st Edition
By Lucy Fischer
October 08, 2024
This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion – be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety – to examine cinematic emotion in depth. Drawing on philosophical and psychological approaches, Fischer’s unique analysis offers unparalleled case studies ...
Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema: Screening Composite Spaces
1st Edition
By Jennifer Kirby
August 26, 2024
Digital Space and Embodiment in Contemporary Cinema examines how contemporary cinema has represented and engaged with the experience of simultaneously inhabiting digital and material spaces (i.e. "composite spaces") in the context of the growing ubiquitousness of digital media and culture. ...
Gender, Power, and Identity in The Films of Stanley Kubrick
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Dijana Metlić, Jeremi Szaniawski
August 26, 2024
This volume features a set of thought-provoking and long overdue approaches to situating Stanley Kubrick’s films in contemporary debates around gender, race, and age—with a focus on women’s representations. Offering new historical and critical perspectives on Kubrick’s cinema, the book asks how his...
Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen
1st Edition
By Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann
May 27, 2024
This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that ...
Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes
1st Edition
By Kenneth W. Harrow
May 27, 2024
This book is the first of its kind to bring basic notions of contemporary physics to bear on African cine-scapes. In this book, renowned African cinema scholar Kenneth W. Harrow presents unique new ways to think about space and time in film, with a specific focus on African and African diasporic ...
Love in Contemporary Cinema: Audiences and Representations of Romance
1st Edition
By Benjamín de la Pava Vélez
January 29, 2024
This book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic love today, and the touchpoints and disconnects between its representation on screen and the lived experiences of film ...