Film Theory Products

Edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Frances A. Kamm

Gothic Heroines on Screen explores the translation of the literary Gothic heroine on screen, the potential consequences of these adaptations and contemporary interpretations of the form. 　 Each chapter illuminates the significance of this moving image mediation, relating its screen topics to their…

Paperback – 2019-05-14 
Routledge

By Moritz Schramm, Sten Pultz Moslund, Anne Ring Petersen, Mirjam Gebauer, Hans Christian Post, Sabrina Vitting-Seerup, Frauke Wiegand

This book offers a compelling study of contemporary developments in European migration studies and the representation of migration in the arts and cultural institutions. It introduces scholars and students to the new concept of ‘postmigration’, offering a review of the origin of the concept (in…

Hardback – 2019-04-30 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Art and Politics

Edited by Johannes Riis, Aaron Taylor

Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on archival material, interviews, philosophical inquiry, and conceptual analysis in order to give new, thought-provoking answers to these queries. Providing…

Hardback – 2019-04-01 
Routledge
AFI Film Readers

By Paul Crowther

This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered—by adapting ourselves to what creation in the different art forms makes possible. Paul Crowther argues that the great political task in aesthetics is no longer…

Hardback – 2019-03-29 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Aesthetics

By Robert Stam

With extraordinary transnational and transdisciplinary range, World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media comprehensively explores the genealogies, vocabularies, and concepts orienting the fields within literature, cinema, and media studies. Orchestrating a layered conversation…

Paperback – 2019-02-27 
Routledge

Edited by Leanne Dawson

Queer European Cinema commences with an overview of LGBTQ representation throughout cinematic history, interwoven with socio-political reality in Europe and beyond, to consider trends including the boarding school film, the gay road movie, and queer horror such as the lesbian vampire tale, before…

Paperback – 2019-02-14
Routledge

By Peter Turner

This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental processes that are elicited and triggered by found footage horror films. Through analysis of key films, the book explores the effects that the diegetic camera technique used in such films can have on the cognition of…

Hardback – 2019-02-11
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Film Studies

By Mathias Bonde Korsgaard

Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos. However, in academia, music videos do not currently share this popularity. Music Video After MTV gives music video its due academic credit by exploring the changing…

Paperback – 2019-02-07
Routledge

By Nathan Andersen

Film, Philosophy, and Reality: Ancient Greece to Godard is an original contribution to film-philosophy that shows how thinking about movies can lead us into a richer appreciation and understanding of both reality and the nature of human experience. Focused on the question of the relationship…

Paperback – 2019-01-08
Routledge

Edited by Filipa Rosário, Iván Villarmea Álvarez

New Approaches to Cinematic Space aims to discuss the process of creation of cinematic spaces through moving images and the subsequent interpretation of their purpose and meaning. Throughout seventeen chapters, this edited collection will attempt to identify and interpret the formal strategies used…

Hardback – 2018-12-14
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Film Studies

By Francesco Sticchi

This work outlines a new methodology for film analysis based on the radical materialist thought of Baruch Spinoza, re-evaluating contemporary cognitive media theory and philosophical theories on the emotional and intellectual aspects of film experience. Sticchi’s exploration of Spinozian…

Hardback – 2018-12-13
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Film Studies

By Michael Betancourt

In his latest book, Michael Betancourt explores the nature and role of typography in motion graphics as a way to consider its distinction from static design using the concept of the ‘reading-image’ to model the ways that motion typography dramatizes the process of reading and audience recognition…

Hardback – 2018-11-29
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Media Theory and Practice