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.
Special Effects and German Silent Film: Techno-Romantic Cinema
1st Edition
By Katharina Loew
December 01, 2025
In recent decades, special effects have become a major new area of research in cinema studies. For the most part, they have been examined as spectacles or practical tools. In contrast, Special Effects and German Silent Film, foregrounds their function as an expressive device and their pivotal role ...
The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films
1st Edition
By Asli Özgen
December 01, 2025
The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective experience of walking in the city. Drawing from literature in urban studies, film theory, and aesthetic ...
The Digital Image and Reality: Affect, Metaphysics and Post-Cinema
1st Edition
By Daniel Strutt
December 01, 2025
The media technologies that surround and suffuse our everyday life profoundly affect our relation to reality. Philosophers since Plato and Aristotle have sought to understand the complex influence of apparently simple tools of expression on our understanding and experience of the world, time, space...
The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium
1st Edition
By Paula Albuquerque
December 01, 2025
All the world’s a stage - literally so, given the ubiquitous presence of webcams recording daily life in cities. This footage, allegedly documentary, recreates cities as cinematic environments as people interact with the multitudes of cameras and screens around them. Paula Albuquerque’s original ...
The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema
1st Edition
By Gabriella Blasi
December 01, 2025
The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin's notion of the turn of time. Current work on Malick's films emphasizes the spatial dynamics of his cinema, particularly as it pertains, from within a phenomenological ...
Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By Jill Murphy, Laura Rascaroli
December 01, 2025
As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into its physical components within the gallery space. How to read these reformulations of the cinematic ...
Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film
1st Edition
By Sulgi Lie
December 01, 2025
Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that certain films, or the cinema as an institution, might play in political consciousness, the book asks a different question: how ...
Visions of Vienna: Narrating the City in 1920s and 1930s Cinema
1st Edition
By Alexandra Seibel
December 01, 2025
Vienna, with its stunning architecture and unforgettable streetscape, has long provided a backdrop for filmmakers. Visions of Vienna offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls made use of the city, and how the nostalgic glorification of the ...
Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology
1st Edition
By Temenuga Trifonova
December 01, 2025
Warped Minds explores the transformation of psychopathologies into cultural phenomena in the wake of the transition from an epistemological to an ontological approach to psychopathology. Trifonova considers several major points in this intellectual history: the development of a dynamic model of the...
Farocki/Godard: Film as Theory
1st Edition
By Volker Pantenburg
October 01, 2025
There is a tension between the requirements of theoretical abstraction and the capacities of the film medium, where everything that we see on screen is concrete: A train arriving at a station, a tree, bodies, faces. Since the complex theories of montage in Soviet cinema, however, there have ...
The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning
1st Edition
By Nanna Verhoeff
October 01, 2025
Verhoeff investigates the emergence of the western genre, made in the first two decades of cinema (1895-1915). By analyzing many unknown and forgotten films from international archives she traces the relationships between films about the American West, their surrounding films, and other popular ...
Post-Yugoslav Cinema and the Shadows of War: A Study of Non-Representation in Film
1st Edition
By Asja Makarevic
September 03, 2025
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 ...