AFI Film Readers

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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Landscape and Film

   Edited by Martin Lefebvre

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   Published May 29th 2006 by Routledge
9. East European Cinemas

   Edited by Anikó Imre

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   Published September 13th 2005 by Routledge
10. New Media

    Theories and Practices of Digitextuality

    Edited by Anna Everett, John T. Caldwell

    Series: AFI Film Readers

    Published February 27th 2003 by Routledge