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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Philosophical Theories of Political Cinema
1st Edition
By Angelo Emanuele Cioffi
September 25, 2023
This book utilizes philosophical tools to build up a framework for the classification, analysis and assessment of political cinema. The author first maps the category of political cinema, clarifying what it means for a film to be ‘political’, and then analyzes the relation between the value of a ...
Australian Genre Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Kelly McWilliam, Mark David Ryan
May 31, 2023
Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop. The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in ...
Horror Franchise Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark McKenna, William Proctor
May 31, 2023
This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction. Comprising 12 chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cinema redresses ...
Trans New Wave Cinema
1st Edition
By Akkadia Ford
May 31, 2023
This book presents a critical cultural study of the Trans New Wave as a cinematic genre and explores its emergence in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a diverse range of texts, the cultural, social, aesthetic and ethical implications of the genre are placed within the context of rapidly ...
Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Tracy, Michaela Schrage-Früh
December 30, 2022
This volume offers a unique exploration of how ageing masculinities are constructed and represented in contemporary international cinema. With chapters spanning a range of national cinemas, the primarily European focus of the book is juxtaposed with analysis of the social and cultural constructions...
Why We Remake: The Politics, Economics and Emotions of Film and TV Remakes
1st Edition
By Lauren Rosewarne
August 29, 2022
This examination of film and television remakes focuses explicitly on why – since the dawn of cinema – studios have remade films over and over again. Each chapter provides insight into the business of Hollywood, the motivations of filmmakers and also the pleasures for audiences, and offers a ...
Film Noir and Los Angeles: Urban History and the Dark Imaginary
1st Edition
By Sean W. Maher
August 01, 2022
This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles. Configured through the dark lens of noir, the author examines an alternate urban history of Los Angeles forged by the fictional modes of detective fiction, film noir and neo noir. Dark ...
Hollywood Remembrance and American War
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Rayment, Paul Nadasdy
August 01, 2022
Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. Subjecting the notion that war films ought to be considered ʻthe war memorials of today’ to critical scrutiny, the book develops a theoretical understanding of how ...
Ethics of Cinematic Experience: Screens of Alterity
1st Edition
By Orna Raviv
September 30, 2021
Ethics of Cinematic Experience: Screens of Alterity deals with the relationship between cinema and ethics from a philosophical perspective, finding an intrinsic connection between film spectatorship and the possibility of being open to different modes of alterity. The book’s main thesis is that ...
Re-reading the Monstrous-Feminine: Art, Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Chare, Jeanette Hoorn, Audrey Yue
September 30, 2021
This book provides a critical reappraisal of Barbara Creed’s ground-breaking work of feminist psychoanalytic film scholarship, The Monstrous-Feminine, which was first published in 1993. The Monstrous-Feminine married psychoanalytic thinking with film analysis in radically new ways to provide ...
Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming-Animated
1st Edition
By Sylvie Bissonnette
September 30, 2020
This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies from animation, video games, and virtual worlds.As we interact more and more with animated characters and avatars in everyday media ...
Classical Hollywood Film Cycles
1st Edition
By Zoe Wallin
September 30, 2020
This book explores the ways in which Hollywood film cycles from the 1930s to the 1960s were shaped by their surrounding industrial contexts and market environments, to build an inclusive conception of the form, operation, and function of film cycles.By foregrounding patterns of distribution, spaces...