Routledge Advances in Film Studies

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1. Neoliberalism and Global Cinema

   Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique

   Edited by Jyotsna Kapur, Keith Wagner

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   In cinema studies today, rarely do we find a direct investigation into the culture of capitalism and how it has been refracted and fabricated in global cinema production under neoliberalism. However, the current economic crisis and the subsequent Wall Street bailout in 2008 have brought about a...

   Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Spanish Cinema in the Global Context

   Film on Film

   By Samuel Amago

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Across a broad spectrum of media, markets, and national contexts, self-reflexivity continues to be a favored narrative mode with wide ranging functions. In this book Amago argues that, in addition to making visible industry and production concerns within the film text, reflexive aesthetics have a...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Crossover Cinema

   Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception

   Edited by Sukhmani Khorana

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic forms that do not bear allegiance to a single nation in terms of conceptualization, content, finance...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy

   Gender as Genre

   By John Alberti

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
5. Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film

   Cinema Year Zero

   By Giuliana Minghelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Cinema as Weather

   Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change

   By Kristi McKim

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   How do cinematic portrayals of the weather reflect and affect our experience of the world? While weatherly predictability and surprise can impact our daily experience, the history of cinema attests to the stylistic and narrative significance of snow, rain, wind, sunshine, clouds, and skies. Through...

   Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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 October 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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