Film Studies Books

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   Fantasy

   By Jacqueline Furby, Claire Hines

   Fantasy addresses a previously neglected area within Film Studies. The book looks at the key aesthetics, themes, debates and issues at work within this increasingly popular genre and examines influential films and franchises that illustrate these concerns. Recent case study film series discussed...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-48688-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Sport Documentaries

   By Ian McDonald

   Sport has become a dominant global cultural form and therefore, with increasing frequency, a cinematic subject. This ground-breaking book is the first to focus on sport in documentary film as a significant aspect of sport in culture and to argue for the importance of the sports documentary as a...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-58093-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal: Public Daydreams

   By Anna Siomopoulos

   While historians and critics have pointed out the influence of the New Deal on Hollywood film of the 1930s and early 40s, these examinations have frequently begun and ended with a catalog of Rooseveltian iconography in the Hollywood films of the period. In contrast to these studies, this book...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-88293-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook

   Edited by James Wierzbicki, Nathan Platte, Colin Roust

   The Routledge Film Music Source Book is an annotated, thematically organized collection of approximately eighty source readings pertaining to film music dating from its beginnings to the present, from the US and other select countries around the globe. The documents represent a wide variety of...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-88873-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema

   By Rajinder Dudrah

   This book offers a cultural and social analysis of contemporary Bollywood films over the past decade. Using the author’s analysis of a sociological imagination, it is developed here as one that is concerned with the private and public issues of the day through the silver screen and popular...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-44740-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Jung and Film II. The Return: New Post-Jungian Reflections on Film

   Edited by Chris Hauke, Luke Hockley

   Since Jung and Film was first published in 2001, Jungian writing on the moving image in film and television has accelerated. Jung and Film II: The Return provides new contributions from authors across the globe willing to tackle the broader issues of film production and consumption, the audience...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-48897-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity: In Search of the Modern?

   By Zakir Hossain Raju

   This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh. It investigates the roles of a non-western ‘national’ film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments. The political and economic forces and the cultural...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-46544-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Thoughts on Shorts: Reflections on Writing the Short Film

   By Charlie Moritz

   Thoughts on Shorts takes a detailed look at a variety of short film scripts by award-winning writers including: Cup and Lip by Smita Bhide (2002) For the Love of God by Joe Tucker (2007) Ela by Silvana Aguirre (2007) La Virgine degli Angeli by Charles Sturridge from Aria (1987)...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-54973-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Science Fiction Film and Television: Adaptation Across the Screens

   Edited by Jay Telotte, Gerald Duchovnay

   In this volume, contributors consider intermedia adaptation, using science fiction television programs and films as their point of reference. Their analyses are organized into four sections: basic adaptation dynamics, case studies of film to television adaptation, case studies of television to...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88719-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    Understanding Animation, 2nd Edition

    By Paul Wells

    This new edition of Paul Wells’ introduction to animation as a genre and a form, has been updated in response to developments in academic debate and the recent flourishing of the genre in cinema, on TV and in videogames. Film examples discussed include features such as The...

    May 2011 | 978-0-415-39730-8 | Paperback (Routledge)