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.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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Social Connection through Film and Natural Environments: Cinematic Atmospheres of Integration
1st Edition
By Azadeh Fatehrad
December 18, 2026
Social Connection through Film and Natural Environments explores the intersection of cinema, natural environments, and multimodal storytelling as key tools for fostering social connection, cultural integration, and community resilience. Moving beyond an essentialist division between nature and ...
Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema
1st Edition
By Zoran Samardzija
October 16, 2026
Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema examines the theme of political collapse in select contemporary Eastern European and Balkan art cinema and documentaries from the late eighties to the present. Engaging with debates in Marxism and contemporary film ...
The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema: Hollywood, D.C.
1st Edition
By Krešimir Bobaš
October 16, 2026
The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema examines how political thriller films (de)construct and reflect the sociopolitical realities of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The book highlights the convergence between ...
Women Managers in American Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein
October 16, 2026
This book explores various portrayals of women managers in American culture from the late 1960s to the present. An analysis of iconic films and works of fiction and nonfiction reveals how the image of the woman manager has evolved over time, reflecting shifting societal attitudes. In early ...
Worlding Tamil Cinema
1st Edition
By Amrutha Kunapulli
October 16, 2026
Worlding Tamil Cinema is a simultaneous intervention in the study of world cinema and the cinemas of India.With a focus on the globalising impulses of twenty-first-century Tamil cinema, the book explores the relationship between cinema, state, nationhood, and world cinema in the twenty-first ...
Animal Advocacy Documentaries in the Twenty-first Century
1st Edition
By Claudia Alonso Recarte
September 01, 2026
Animal Advocacy Documentaries in the Twenty-first Century is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the study of this subgenre. The book explores how the plasticity of nonfiction film engages with nonhuman otherness and with the rhetorical discourses of advocates and activists, while ...
River Space in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Home, Locality, and Waterbodies
1st Edition
By Mei Yang
August 28, 2026
River Space in Contemporary Chinese Cinema examines how filmmakers use river imagery to explore themes of home, displacement, and belonging in an era of rapid modernization. Using the term “river space” to describe geographical areas created by rivers or existing alongside them, the author shows ...
Cinema and the Dream of the Living Machine
1st Edition
By Joseph Zornado, Sara Reilly
August 12, 2026
Cinema and the Dream of the Living Machine offers a comprehensive critical history of artificial intelligence (AI) in Western cinema, tracing how films from Metropolis to contemporary science fiction transform technological anxiety into cultural fantasy. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, ...
Cinema of/for the Anthropocene: Affect, Ecology, and More-Than-Human Kinship
1st Edition
Edited
By Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Andrea Ruthven
July 20, 2026
Cinema of/for the Anthropocene sheds new light on the question of how films can allow us to resituate ourselves within what is known today as the Anthropocene. The authors address this question through a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, from film and cultural studies, new ...
Cosmopolitan Aspirations in Contemporary Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By María del Mar Azcona, Julia Echeverría, Pablo Gómez-Muñoz
July 20, 2026
This book presents cosmopolitanism as a useful methodological approach to understand the transnational synergies present in contemporary cinema. In line with existing literature from the social sciences, the volume aims to contribute to the ‘cosmopolitan turn’ in cinema studies. It considers ...
Dalit Representation in Popular Hindi Cinema
1st Edition
By Vishal Chauhan
July 20, 2026
This book explores the dynamics of caste in Bollywood and popular Hindi cinema through an examination of the representation of Dalits since the 1930s. Drawing on critical textual analysis and historical analyses of a number of key films, the author argues that popular Hindi cinema corroborates in ...
India’s Women Filmmakers in the Age of Netflix: Female Lead
1st Edition
By Zeltzyn Rubi Sanchez Lozoya
July 13, 2026
This book uncovers the history of exclusion and erasure of women's work within the Mumbai film industry and highlights the challenges women face at every stage of filmmaking, from pre-production to distribution. Drawing on semistructured interviews with women and men working in the Mumbai film ...