World Cinema Books

New and Published Books

1. Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia

   Shocking Chic

   Edited by Helena Goscilo, Vlad Strukov

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality. The book demonstrates how the process of ‘celebrification’ in...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Bollywood Travels

   Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema

   By Rajinder Dudrah

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. South Asian Transnationalisms

   Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century

   Edited by Babli Sinha

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Postcommunist Film - Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture

   Moving Images of Postcommunism

   Edited by Lars Kristensen

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   A post-communist condition has arisen from the fall of the Berlin Wall and later the Soviet Empire: this book looks at how this condition has manifested itself globally in the production of post-communist film. It argues post-communism is a shared experience on a geopolitical level, unlimited by...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Documenting Taiwan on Film

   Issues and Methods in New Documentaries

   Edited by Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Tze-Lan Deborah Sang

   Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

   To date, there is but a handful of articles on documentary films from Taiwan. This volume seeks to remedy the paucity in this area of research and conduct a systematic analysis of the genre. Each contributor to the volume investigates the various aspects of documentary by focusing on one or two...

   Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Multiplex in India

   A Cultural Economy of Urban Leisure

   By Adrian Athique, Douglas Hill

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   During the decade of its existence in India, the multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times – both a symptom and a symbol of new social values. Indicative of a consistent push to create a ‘globalised’ consuming middle class and a new urban environment, multiplex theatres have thus...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
7. World Cinema, Theology, and the Human

   Humanity in Deep Focus

   By Antonio Sison

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Film

   Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience, World Cinema, Theology, and the Human offers fresh portals of insight for the interdisciplinary area of Theology and Film....

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Film in Contemporary Southeast Asia

   Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention

   Edited by David C. L. Lim, Hiroyuki Yamamoto

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
10. South Asian Cinemas

    Widening the Lens

    Edited by Sara Dickey, Rajinder Dudrah

    This path-breaking collection explores the breadth and depth of South Asia’s many vibrant cinemas. It extends well beyond Bollywood to Nepali, Sri Lankan, Pakistani Panjabi, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Kannada, and early Tamil cinemas, while unpacking the category of 'Bollywood' itself. The coverage of...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge