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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Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action: A Different Tune
1st Edition
By Amanda Howell
December 10, 2019
Amanda Howell offers a new perspective on the contemporary pop score as the means by which masculinities not seen—or heard—before become a part of post-World War II American cinema. Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action addresses itself to an eclectic mix of film, from Elvis and Travolta ...
Surveillance in Asian Cinema: Under Eastern Eyes
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Fang
December 10, 2019
Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollywood-dominated global media has long promulgated a geopoliticized east-west axis of freedom vs. ...
The Camera-Eye Metaphor in Cinema
1st Edition
By Christian Quendler
December 10, 2019
This book explores the cultural, intellectual, and artistic fascination with camera-eye metaphors in film culture of the twentieth century. By studying the very metaphor that cinema lives by, it provides a rich and insightful map of our understanding of cinema and film styles and shows how cinema ...
The Cinematic Eighteenth Century: History, Culture, and Adaptation
1st Edition
Edited
By Srividhya Swaminathan, Steven W. Thomas
December 10, 2019
This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (The Martian) to historical fiction on the ...
The Contemporary Femme Fatale: Gender, Genre and American Cinema
1st Edition
By Katherine Farrimond
December 10, 2019
The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the sexy deadly woman in ways which traverse boundaries of genre and narrative. This book charts the articulations of ...
US Youth Films and Popular Music: Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency
1st Edition
By Tim McNelis
December 10, 2019
This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation. McNelis includes case studies of Hollywood and independent US youth films that...
Film and the American Presidency
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeff Menne, Christian B. Long
January 03, 2019
The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary. This volume surveys the partnership in its longevity, placing stress on especially iconic presidents...
India’s New Independent Cinema: Rise of the Hybrid
1st Edition
By Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
June 28, 2018
This is the first-ever book on the rise of the new wave of independent Indian films that is revolutionising Indian cinema. Contemporary scholarship on Indian cinema so far has focused asymmetrically on Bollywood—India’s dominant cultural export. Reversing this trend, this book provides an in-depth ...
Horror Film and Affect: Towards a Corporeal Model of Viewership
1st Edition
By Xavier Aldana Reyes
April 27, 2018
This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s – abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies – to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in...
The Other in Contemporary Migrant Cinema: Imagining a New Europe?
1st Edition
By Guido Rings
April 27, 2018
As a rapidly aging continent, Europe increasingly depends on the successful integration of migrants. Unfortunately, contemporary political and media discourses observe and frequently also support the development of nationalist, eurosceptic and xenophobic reactions to immigration and growing ...
Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies
1st Edition
Edited
By Blair Davis, Robert Anderson, Jan Walls
April 16, 2018
Akira Kurosawa is widely known as the director who opened up Japanese film to Western audiences, and following his death in 1998, a process of reflection has begun about his life’s work as a whole and its legacy to cinema. Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon has become one of the best-known Japanese...
Spectacle in Classical Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s
1st Edition
By Tom Brown
February 13, 2018
Spectacle is not often considered to be a significant part of the style of ‘classical’ cinema. Indeed, some of the most influential accounts of cinematic classicism define it virtually by the supposed absence of spectacle. Spectacle in ‘Classical’ Cinemas: Musicality and Historicity in the 1930s ...