Gender & Cinema Books

New and Published Books

1. Westerns

   The Essential 'Journal of Popular Film and Television' Collection

   Edited by Gary Edgerton, Michael Marsden

   For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre. Creators and consumers alike have utilized this story form in literature, painting, film, radio and television to explore questions of national identity and purpose. Westerns: The Essential Collection...

   Published March 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Women's Narrative and Film in 20th Century Spain

   Edited by Kathleen Glenn

   Women's Narrative and Film in 20th Century Spain examines the development of the feminine cultural tradition in spain and how this tradition reshaped and defined a Spanish national identity. Each chapter focuses on representation of autobiography, alienation and exile, marginality, race, eroticism...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
3. In The Space Of A Song

   The Uses of Song in Film

   By Richard Dyer

   Songs take up space and time in films. Richard Dyer's In the Space of a Song takes off from this perception, arguing that the way songs take up space indicates a great deal about the songs themselves, the nature of the feelings they present, and who is allowed to present feelings how, when and...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
4. Feminism at the Movies

   Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema

   Edited by Hilary Radner, Rebecca Stringer

   Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today’s changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary...

   Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge
5. Lesbianism, Cinema, Space

   The Sexual Life of Apartments

   By Lee Wallace

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   In this cutting edge volume, Wallace identifies a unique trend in post-Production Code films that deal with lesbian content: stories of lesbianism invariably engage with an apartment setting, a spatial motif not typically associated with lesbian history or cultural representation. Through the...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
6. Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture

   Edited by Stacy Gillis, Joanne Hollows

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   The relationship between feminism and domesticity has recently come in for renewed interest in popular culture. This collection makes an intervention into the debates surrounding feminism’s contentious relationship with domesticity and domestic femininities in popular culture. It offers an...

   Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Politics of Loss and Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema

   By Raz Yosef

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   The last decade has marked the growing visibility and worldwide interest in Israeli cinema. Films such as Walk on Water, Or, My Treasure, Beaufort and Waltz with Bashir have been commercially and critically successful both in Europe and the United States and have won a number of prestigious...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
8. Neo-Feminist Cinema

   Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture

   By Hilary Radner

   What lies behind current feminist discontent with contemporary cinema? Through a combination of cultural and industry analysis, Hilary Radner’s Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture shows how the needs of conglomerate Hollywood have encouraged an emphasis on...

   Published October 24th 2010 by Routledge
9. Everyday Pornography

   Edited by Karen Boyle

   Public and academic debate about ‘porn culture’ is proliferating. Ironically, what is often lost in these debates is a sense of what is specific about pornography. By focusing on pornography’s mainstream – contemporary commercial products for a heterosexual male audience – Everyday Pornography...

   Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
10. Media Convergence

    The Three Degrees of Network, Mass and Interpersonal Communication

    By Klaus Bruhn Jensen

    The development of digital media presents a unique opportunity to reconsider what communication is, and what individuals, groups, and societies might hope to accomplish through new as well as old media. At a time when digital media still provoke both utopian and dystopian views of their likely...

    Published January 11th 2010 by Routledge