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 features 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.
Please contact Dorothea Schaefter, Publisher at Routledge [[email protected]] if you have any questions about the series or wish to submit a book proposal.
Cinema and Poetry: Expressive Alternatives for the Moving Image
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Papazian, Eric Zakim
February 24, 2027
Cinema and Poetry: Expressive Alternatives for the Moving Image critically examines a variety of cinematic traditions and histories and reveals how poetic form opens up new identifications and communities, critical positions, and possibilities for personal expression, while remaining conscious of ...
Post-Yugoslav Cinema and the Shadows of War: A Study of Non-Representation in Film
1st Edition
By Asja Makarevic
November 24, 2026
Bosnia-Herzegovina is still considered a post-war country. The concept of post-war implies that the country and its people are tied more strongly to the past than they are oriented towards the future. Paradoxically, as long as the future is kept at bay and the post-war condition kept alive, Bosnia ...
Caro and Jeunet: Crafting French Cinema
1st Edition
By Michelle Scatton-Tessier
September 28, 2026
The first book to fully focus on French cult filmmakers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Caro & Jeunet: Crafting French Cinema brings a scholarly perspective to the filmmakers’ collaborative and solo artistic projects as outliers in approach and content. Studying from their beginning passion for ...
Precarity in Western European Cinema
1st Edition
By Temenuga Trifonova
September 28, 2026
This book explores the new European cinema of precarity, with a particular focus on Western European films, by revisiting some of its most important precursors, including 1930s Popular Front films and 1990s French New Realism, Italian neorealism, and the British New Wave. It identifies dominant ...
Restitution and the Moving Image: Global Film Heritage Between Return, Access and Archival Reparation
1st Edition
Edited
By Nikolaus Perneczky, Cecilia Valenti
June 27, 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 ...
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...
The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973): Volume I, Ideology and Politics
1st Edition
By Daniel Fairfax
June 11, 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 11, 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 ...
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 26, 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 genres, styles...
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...