Routledge Advances in Film Studies

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1. Cinema and Language Loss

   Displacement, Visuality and the Filmic Image

   By Tijana Mamula

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Cinema and Language Loss provides the first sustained exploration of the relationship between linguistic displacement and visuality in the filmic realm, examining in depth both its formal expressions and theoretical implications. Combining insights from psychoanalysis, philosophy and film theory,...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film

   Plus Ultra Pluralism

   By Matthew J. Marr

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying a dual lens of film analysis and theory drawn from the allied fields of youth, age, and disability...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film

   Radical Projection

   By Jennifer Lynde Barker

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Through a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictator to Hiroshima mon amour to The Lives of Others, The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection explores the genesis and recurrence of antifascist aesthetics as it manifests in the WWII, Cold War and Post-Wall...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. European Civil War Films

   Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia

   By Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in...

   Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
5. Cinema and Inter-American Relations

   Tracking Transnational Affect

   By Adrián Pérez Melgosa

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). Pérez Melgosa analyzes the evolution of...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
6. Narratives of Gendered Dissent in South Asian Cinemas

   By Alka Kurian

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This book conducts a post-colonial, gendered investigation of women-centred South Asian films. In these films, the narrative becomes an act of political engagement and a site of feminist struggle: a map that weaves together multiple strands of subjectivity—gender, caste, race, class, religion, and...

   Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Theorizing Film Acting

   Edited by Aaron Taylor

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This comprehensive collection provides theoretical accounts of the grounds and phenomenon of film acting. The volume features entries by some of the most prominent scholars on film acting who collectively represent the various theoretical traditions that constitute the discipline of film studies....

   Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism

   Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's Italy

   By Ora Gelley

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   In this exciting new book, Gelley considers the collaboration between Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman in light of the neorealist aesthetic. This study re-examines the director's postwar works in relation to the contemporary discussion on Italian national identity: rather than marking a radical break...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Postwar Renoir

   Film and the Memory of Violence

   By Colin Davis

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir’s work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of trauma. The 1930s ended in catastrophe for both for Renoir and for France: La Règle du jeu was a...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Cinema, Memory, Modernity

    The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema

    By Russell J.A. Kilbourn

    Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

    Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a ‘reflection’ but an indispensable index of human experience – especially our experience of time’s passage, of the present moment, and, most importantly perhaps, of the past, in both collective and individual terms. In this volume, Kilbourn...

    Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge