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.
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Iranian Cinema in a Global Context: Policy, Politics, and Form
1st Edition
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By Peter Decherney, Blake Atwood
February 06, 2018
Iranian films have been the subject of much critical and scholarly attention over the past several decades, and Iranian filmmakers are mainstays of international film festivals. Yet most of the attention has been focused on a small segment of Iranian film production: auteurist art cinema. Iranian ...
Moralizing Cinema: Film, Catholicism, and Power
1st Edition
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By Daniel Biltereyst, Daniela Treveri Gennari
February 06, 2018
This volume is part of the recent interest in the study of religion and popular media culture (cinema in particular), but it strongly differs from most of this work in this maturing discipline. Contrary to most other edited volumes and monographs on film and religion, Moralizing Cinema will not ...
The Woman's Film of the 1940s: Gender, Narrative, and History
1st Edition
By Alison L. McKee
February 06, 2018
This book explores the relationship among gender, desire, and narrative in 1940s woman’s films which negotiate the terrain between public history and private experience. The woman’s film and other form of cinematic melodrama have often been understood as positioning themselves outside history, and ...
American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age: Depictions of War in Burns, Moore, and Morris
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By Lucia Ricciardelli
February 05, 2018
American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. During the twentieth century, the invention of new technologies of audiovisual ...
Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Lilian Chee, Edna Lim
February 05, 2018
Asian cinemas are connected to global networks and participate in producing international film history while at the same time influenced and engaged by spatial, cultural, social and political transformations. This interdisciplinary study forwards a productive pairing of Asian cinemas and space, ...
Eco-Trauma Cinema
1st Edition
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By Anil Narine
February 05, 2018
Film has taken a powerful position alongside the global environmental movement, from didactic documentaries to the fantasy pleasures of commercial franchises. This book investigates in particular film’s complex role in representing ecological traumas. Eco-trauma cinema represents the harm we, as ...
Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance
1st Edition
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By Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Peter Hulme
February 05, 2018
Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states, ...
The Western in the Global South
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By MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, Dayna Oscherwitz
February 05, 2018
The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how ...
Spaces of the Cinematic Home: Behind the Screen Door
1st Edition
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By Eleanor Andrews, Stella Hockenhull, Fran Pheasant-Kelly
December 08, 2017
This book examines the ways in which the house appears in films and the modes by which it moves beyond being merely a backdrop for action. Specifically, it explores the ways that domestic spaces carry inherent connotations that filmmakers exploit to enhance meanings and pleasures within film. ...
Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art: Cinema Beyond Europe
1st Edition
By Nilgun Bayraktar
October 12, 2017
Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art explores cinematic and artistic representations of migration and mobility in Europe since the 1990s. Drawing on theories of migrant and diasporic cinema, moving-image art, and mobility studies, Bayraktar provides historically situated close ...
American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows
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By Lisa Funnell, Man-Fung Yip
June 16, 2017
Critics frequently describe the influence of "America," through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction does not address, however, the counter-flows of Chinese-language films into the American film market or the influence ...
Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory
1st Edition
By Nick Jones
April 11, 2017
"This is a timely and pertinent contribution to the study of action cinema. Drawing insights from human geographers, sociologists and philosophers as well as film theorists, Jones offers a stimulating account of the ways the action sequence speaks to our interactions with the built environment and ...