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 feature 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.
Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula
1st Edition
By Steffen Hven
December 01, 2025
Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento. This book sets those films and others in context with earlier works that tried new narrative ...
Color and Empathy: Essays on Two Aspects of Film
1st Edition
By Christine Brinckmann
December 01, 2025
The collection of essays brings together texts from two decades, documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poetics of colour in film as well as affective viewer responses. Employing a bottom-up approach as a basis for theoretical exploration, each of the essays concentrates on ...
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub: Objectivists in Cinema
1st Edition
By Benoît Turquety
December 01, 2025
Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European literature by authors including Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hölderlin, Pierre Corneille, ...
Disaster Cinema in Historical Perspective: Mediations of the Sublime
1st Edition
By Nikita Mathias
December 01, 2025
How do we experience disaster films in cinema? And where does disaster cinema come from? The two questions are more closely related than one might initially think. For the framework of the cinematic experience of natural disasters has its roots in the mid-eighteenth century when the aesthetic ...
Ephemeral Cinema Spaces: Stories of Reinvention, Resistance and Community
1st Edition
By Maria Vélez-Serna
December 01, 2025
With changing technologies and social habits, the communal cinema experience would seem to be a legacy from another era. However, the 2010s saw a surge in interest for screening films in other temporary public settings. This desire to turn ruins, pubs, galleries, parks, village halls, and even ...
Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Teri Higgins, Catherine Fowler
December 01, 2025
This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication—the email, blog, text message, tweet—are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary. By examining the omnipresence of writing across a variety of media, the collection adds the category of ...
Film Phenomenology and Adaptation: Sensuous Elaboration
1st Edition
By David Evan Richard
December 01, 2025
Film Phenomenology and Adaptation: Sensuous Elaboration argues that in order to make sense of film adaptation, we must first apprehend their sensual form. Across its chapters, this book brings the philosophy and research methodology of phenomenology into contact with adaptation studies, examining ...
Finance and the World Economy in Weimar Cinema
1st Edition
By Owen Lyons
December 01, 2025
After the First World War, the effects of financial crisis could be felt in all corners of the newly formed Weimar Republic. The newly interconnected world economy was barely understood and yet it was increasingly made visible in the films of the time. The complexities of this system were reflected...
Futurist Cinema: Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Rossella Catanese
December 01, 2025
Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions in order to create a...
Hands on Film: Actants, Aesthetics, Affects
1st Edition
By Barry Monahan
December 01, 2025
Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its birth to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers have framed the hand for a variety of effects, from stylistic to thematic, and for the development ...
Hollywood in Cannes: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship
1st Edition
By Christian Jungen
December 01, 2025
Conjuring up all the glamour of the event, Jungen recounts the history of the Cannes Film Festival from an American perspective surveying the complex interplay of talent, money and corporate clout. He traces the growing influence of the Hollywood studios on the festival's rise to the key film event...
Hollywood is Everywhere: Global Directors in the Blockbuster Era
1st Edition
By Melis Behlil
December 01, 2025
Hollywood has a long tradition of bringing in emigre directors from around the world, dating back to the silent era. Today, as the film industry is ever more global, the people who make blockbuster movies seemingly reflect this tradition, hailing from many countries across the world. But that fact ...