AFI Film Readers

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1. Media Authorship

   Edited by Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Color and the Moving Image

   History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive

   Edited by Simon Brown, Sarah Street, Liz Watkins

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implications of color on the...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Ecocinema Theory and Practice

   Edited by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Sean Cubitt

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind—an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema’s intersections with environmental understandings. It references...

   Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. Arnheim for Film and Media Studies

   Edited by Scott Higgins

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a pioneering figure in film studies, best known for his landmark book on silent cinema Film as Art. He ultimately became more famous as a scholar in the fields of art and art history, largely abandoning his theoretical work on cinema. However, his later aesthetic...

   Published September 26th 2010 by Routledge
5. The Epic Film in World Culture

   Edited by Robert Burgoyne

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   With the recent release of spectacular blockbuster films from Gladiator to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the epic has once again become a major form in contemporary cinema. This new volume in the AFI Film Readers series explores the rebirth of the epic film genre in the contemporary period, a...

   Published July 5th 2010 by Routledge
6. Slapstick Comedy

   Edited by Tom Paulus, Rob King

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   From Chaplin’s tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This collection of fourteen essays by prominent film scholars challenges longstanding critical dogma and offers new...

   Published April 18th 2010 by Routledge
7. Documentary Testimonies

   Global Archives of Suffering

   Edited by Bhaskar Sarkar, Janet Walker

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   Documentary Testimonies examines documentary films that compel us to bear witness, move us to anger or tears, and possibly mobilize us to action. Comprising ten new essays and a substantive introduction, this interdisciplinary volume examines audiovisual testimonial practices, forms, and...

   Published November 10th 2009 by Routledge
8. World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives

   Edited by Nataša Durovicová, Kathleen E. Newman

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection" The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of...

   Published August 31st 2009 by Routledge
9. Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies

   Edited by Warren Buckland

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   Film theory no longer gets top billing or plays a starring role in film studies today, as critics proclaim that theory is dead and we are living in a post-theory moment. While theory may be out of the limelight, it remains an essential key to understanding the full complexity of cinema, one that...

   Published May 25th 2009 by Routledge
10. European Film Theory

    Edited by Temenuga Trifonova

    Series: AFI Film Readers

    European Film Theory explores the ‘Europeanness’ of European film theory, its philosophical origins, the ‘culture wars’ between ‘Continental’ and ‘Analytical’ film theory and philosophy, the major discursive and epistemological shifts in the history of Continental film theory, the relationship...

    Published October 27th 2008 by Routledge