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Routledge Advances in Film Studies


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This series is our home for innovative research in the field of film studies. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this important and evolving subject area.

 

To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
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African Documentary Cinema

African Documentary Cinema

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Alexie Tcheuyap
August 01, 2024

African Documentary Cinema investigates the inception and trajectory of contemporary documentary filmmaking in sub-Saharan African countries and their diasporas. The book challenges critical paradigms that have long prevailed in African film criticism, shedding light on the diverse discourses and ...

The Disaster Film as Social Practice

The Disaster Film as Social Practice

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Joseph Zornado, Sara Reilly
July 26, 2024

Surveying disaster film from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, this book explores the disaster film genre from its initial appearance in 1933 (The Grapes of Wrath, 1933) to its present-day form (Don’t Look Up!, 2021), laying bare the ideological unconscious at work within the genre. The book ...

Film, Environment, Comedy Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen

Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann
May 27, 2024

This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that ...

Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes

Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Kenneth W. Harrow
May 27, 2024

This book is the first of its kind to bring basic notions of contemporary physics to bear on African cine-scapes. In this book, renowned African cinema scholar Kenneth W. Harrow presents unique new ways to think about space and time in film, with a specific focus on African and African diasporic ...

Love in Contemporary Cinema Audiences and Representations of Romance

Love in Contemporary Cinema: Audiences and Representations of Romance

1st Edition

By Benjamín de la Pava Vélez
January 29, 2024

This book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic love today, and the touchpoints and disconnects between its representation on screen and the lived experiences of film ...

Epidemic Cinema The Rise of a Genre

Epidemic Cinema: The Rise of a Genre

1st Edition

By Julia Echeverría
December 08, 2023

This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease. As the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic materialised the anxieties and discourses of world risk that had long been portrayed in popular media, the book provides a novel definition of the epidemic film genre ...

Hybrid Documentary and Beyond

Hybrid Documentary and Beyond

1st Edition

By Rachel Landers
November 24, 2023

Hybrid Documentary and Beyond explores the theories, production techniques, ethics, and impact of hybrid documentaries. Often described as simply a blend of fact and fiction, the author challenges this definition of hybrid documentary through an interrogative examination of not only why and how ...

Breaking Down Joker Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy

Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy

1st Edition

Edited By Sean Redmond
September 25, 2023

Breaking Down Joker offers a compelling, multi-disciplinary examination of a landmark film and media event that was simultaneously both celebrated and derided, and which arrived at a time of unprecedented social malaise. The collection breaks down Joker to explore its aesthetic and ideological ...

Philosophical Theories of Political Cinema

Philosophical Theories of Political Cinema

1st Edition

By Angelo Emanuele Cioffi
September 25, 2023

This book utilizes philosophical tools to build up a framework for the classification, analysis and assessment of political cinema. The author first maps the category of political cinema, clarifying what it means for a film to be ‘political’, and then analyzes the relation between the value of a ...

Australian Genre Film

Australian Genre Film

1st Edition

Edited By Kelly McWilliam, Mark David Ryan
May 31, 2023

Australian Genre Film interrogates key genres at the core of Australia’s so-called new golden age of genre cinema, establishing the foundation on which more sustained research on film genre in Australian cinema can develop. The book examines what characterises Australian cinema and its output in ...

Horror Franchise Cinema

Horror Franchise Cinema

1st Edition

Edited By Mark McKenna, William Proctor
May 31, 2023

This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film’s role in the history of franchising and serial fiction. Comprising 12 chapters written by established and emerging scholars in the field, Horror Franchise Cinema redresses ...

Trans New Wave Cinema

Trans New Wave Cinema

1st Edition

By Akkadia Ford
May 31, 2023

This book presents a critical cultural study of the Trans New Wave as a cinematic genre and explores its emergence in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a diverse range of texts, the cultural, social, aesthetic and ethical implications of the genre are placed within the context of rapidly ...

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