Media and Communication Research

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal

Public Daydreams

By Anna Siomopoulos

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

While many critics have analyzed the influence of the FDR administration on Hollywood films of the era, most of these studies have focused either on New Deal imagery or on studio interactions with the federal government. Neither type of study explores the relationship between film and the...

Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge

Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas

The Reel Asian Exchange

Edited by Philippa Gates, Lisa Funnell

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, texts that exhibit what Mette Hjort refers to as, "marked transnationality," and on the other, the...

Published October 20th 2011 by Routledge

Korea’s Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948

The Untold History of the Film Industry

By Brian Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Korea’s Occupied Cinemas, 1893-1948 compares and contrasts the development of cinema in Korea during the Japanese occupation (1910-1945) and US Army Military (1945-1948) periods within the larger context of cinemas in occupied territories. It differs from previous studies by drawing links between...

Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge

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

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 April 10th 2011 by Routledge

Distributing Silent Film Serials

Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation

By Rudmer Canjels

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Tracing the international consumption, distribution, and cultural importance of silent film serials in the 1910s and 1920s, Canjels provides an exciting new understanding of the cultural dimension and the cultural transformation and circulation of media forms. Specifically, he demonstrates that the...

Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge

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 May 16th 2010 by Routledge

Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers

The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear

By Julian Hanich

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Why can fear be pleasurable? Why do we sometimes enjoy an emotion we otherwise desperately wish to avoid? And why are the movies the predominant place for this paradoxical experience? These are the central questions of Julian Hanich’s path-breaking book, in which he takes a detailed look at the...

Published March 25th 2010 by Routledge

Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America

Edited by Victoria Ruétalo, Dolores Tierney

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Exploring the much neglected area of Latin American exploitation cinema, this anthology challenges established continental and national histories and canons which often exclude exploitation cinema due to its perceived ‘low’ cultural status. It argues that Latin American exploitation cinema...

Published April 19th 2009 by Routledge

Post-War Italian Cinema

American Intervention, Vatican Interests

By Daniela Treveri Gennari

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Through a comparative approach of current theories developed on ideology and an analysis of official documents from the Vatican and the United States Department of State, the book investigates the decisive role that American production companies played in the development of the Italian film...

Published December 16th 2008 by Routledge

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 November 3rd 2008 by Routledge

Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema

Homeless at Home

By Inga Scharf

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

In this original study, Scharf investigates issues of national identity in films of the New German Cinema. Using a cultural studies analysis, Scharf argues that the conflict between this generation of critical filmmakers and their ‘German-ness’ translate into feature films that...

Published June 23rd 2008 by Routledge

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...

To Be Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge

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...

To Be Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge

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...

To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge

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...

To Be Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge

Cine-Ethics

Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice and Spectatorship

Edited by Jinhee Choi, Mattias Frey

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

This volume looks at the significance and range of ethical questions that pertain to various film practices. Diverse philosophical traditions provide useful frameworks to discuss spectators’ affective and emotional engagement with film, which can function as a moral ground for one’s connection to...

To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge

Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film

Framing Fatherhood

By Hannah Hamad

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Popular cinema in the early twenty-first century is rife with representations of fatherhood. With hindsight it now seems that the summer of 2002 marked a watershed moment in Hollywood in terms of the pronounced paternalization of its output, as it witnessed the release of a small but significant...

To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge

Popular Music and Masculinity in Action Films

By Amanda Howell

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

This book is a study of how popular music has participated in the cinematic construction of gender, with a special focus on the action genre and films that share action cinema's interest in spectacularly violent masculinities. Particularly concerned with the aesthetic and ideological work of...

To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge

Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes

By Valerie Wee

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

The Ring (2002)—Hollywood’s remake of the Japanese cult success Ringu (1998)—marked the beginning of a significant trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s of American adaptations of Asian horror films. This book explores this complex process of adaptation, paying particular attention to the various...

To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge