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.
LGBTQ Film Festivals: Curating Queerness
1st Edition
By Antoine Damiens
December 01, 2025
While scholars have theorized major film festivals, they have ignored smaller, ephemeral, events. In taking seriously minor European and North-American LGBTQ festivals which often only exist as traces within archival collections, this book revisits festival studies' methodological and theoretical ...
Late Bresson and the Visual Arts: Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment
1st Edition
By Raymond Watkins
December 01, 2025
The color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) have largely been neglected, despite the fact that Bresson himself considered them to be more fully realized reflections of his aspirations for the cinema. This study presents a revised and revitalized Bresson, comparing his late ...
Melodrama After the Tears: New Perspectives on the Politics of Victimhood
1st Edition
Edited
By Jörg Metelmann, Scott Loren
December 01, 2025
Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying practices and interpretive codes for meaning-making that help determine the parameters of identification and subject formation. From the public staging...
Modern Ghost Melodramas: 'What Lies Beneath'
1st Edition
By Michael Walker
December 01, 2025
The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countries, including the United ...
Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History
1st Edition
By Patricia Emison
December 01, 2025
Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas – not least the idea of the power of visual art – across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History examines the early flourishing of ...
Mysteries of Cinema: Reflections on Film Theory, History and Culture 1982-2016
1st Edition
By Adrian Martin
December 01, 2025
The major essays of the distinguished and prolific Australian-born film critic Adrian Martin have long been difficult to access, so this anthology, which collects highlights of his work in one volume, will be welcomed throughout film studies. Martin offers indepth analysis of many genres of films ...
Neorealist Film Culture, 1945-1954: Rome, Open Cinema
1st Edition
By Francesco Pitassio
December 01, 2025
Unique, truthful, brutal... Neorealism is often associated with adjectives stressing its peculiarities in representing the real, its lack of antecedents, and its legacy in terms of film style. While this is useful when confronting auteurs such as De Sica, Rossellini or Visconti, it becomes ...
New Approaches to Ernst Lubitsch: A Light Touch
1st Edition
Edited
By Brigitte Peucker, Ido Lewit
December 01, 2025
This exciting collection of unpublished essays on Ernst Lubitsch addresses multiple gaps in scholarly and critical engagement with the director. His understudied early German films shed light on Jewish culture, on the relation of comedy to gender and the influence of theatre on his filmmaking. The ...
Performative Images: A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France
1st Edition
By Anaïs Nony
December 01, 2025
Performative Images draws upon the work of video artists and activists in France between the 1970s and the early 2020s and focuses on significant practices with technology. Video art and video activism are analysed together in the book to revaluate key concepts in media studies and foreground a ...
Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz
1st Edition
By Laleen Jayamanne
December 01, 2025
Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers. It examines theoretical ideas, including Maori anthropology of the gift and Sufi philosophy of the image, to conceive film as abundant gift. ...
Post-war Industrial Media Culture in Sweden, 1945-1960: New Faces, New Values
1st Edition
By Mats Björkin
December 01, 2025
During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication. Ideas regarding cybernetics, systems analysis, new accounting practices, and budgetary principles as well as theories of information, communication, marketing, public relations...
Screening the Art World
1st Edition
Edited
By Temenuga Trifonova
December 01, 2025
Screening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art world more generally have been represented in cinema. Contributors address a rarely explored subject – art in cinema, rather than the art of cinema – by considering films across genres, historical periods, and national cinemas ...