In April of 2021, a small theatre in Philadelphia took a big risk: The Wilma premiered a new play called Fat Ham by a th......more
With just eight feature films to date, Sofia Coppola has crafted a distinctive hyper-feminine aesthetic, establishing he......more
Through a geographically expansive series of case studies, tracking film performers from the United States, the Americas......more
Portraying Power follows the recent trend toward using popular culture and entertainment as a vehicle for explaining pol......more
Portraying Power follows the recent trend toward using popular culture and entertainment as a vehicle for explaining pol......more
Exploring the encounter between feminism, film theory, and the psychoanalysis of Melanie Klein, this book argues for the......more
The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Cinemas is the first collection of original contributions to comprehensively analy......more
Mainstream media’s relationship with mental illness is fraught. Deemed to misrepresent and sensationalise non-normative ......more
Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is the first major critical study of international naturalist cin......more
AI in the Movies analyses film representations of artificial intelligence, from their first emergence in the 1950s up to......more
What is the relationship between filmmaking and mapping? Accounting for the unique characteristics of Taiwan’s cinema fr......more
This book focuses on the most significant and dominant characteristic of Thai cinema throughout its history: the Thai in......more
In the 1960s, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprece......more
Theatricality and the Arts presents a series of investigations of the notion of ’theatricality’. Primarily, theatricalit......more
The Rwandan genocide is the second most audio-visually recreated genocide after the Holocaust, with approximately 200 fi......more
The production of films that may be called both ’French’ and ’western’ spans the history of cinema, and includes the fil......more
The decades following the independences from colonialism saw a pioneering generation of realist novels and films emerge ......more
Since broadcast television first emerged as a serious alternative to the cinema, more people have seen films on TV than ......more
End-of-life documentaries have proliferated in the 21st century as various organisations, institutions, journalists, ind......more
Anita Ekberg was a major international star now chiefly remembered for her half-hour appearance in La dolce vita. She wa......more
Interactive Fiction in Cinematic Virtual Reality offers a narrative model that combines live-action 360 video with an in......more
Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institut......more
Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in animated cinema and television and......more
Exploring the dynamic genres of animation and comic book films, this book examines the transmedia role of Spider-Man: In......more
Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze shows how key modern filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation between ......more
African Documentary Cinema investigates the inception and trajectory of contemporary documentary filmmaking in sub-Sahar......more
Building on a growing body of literature, this Handbook provides an up-to-date and authoritative survey of Arab cinema....more
Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929 focuses on fifty-three silent film ad......more
This book explores the theological power of film and seeks to render a properly theological account of cinematic art. It......more
This book explores how modern Russian cinema is part of the international information war that has unfolded across a var......more
Surveying disaster films from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, this book explores the disaster film genre from its......more
Discover the secrets of the incredible special effects that have brought the planet of Pandora unforgettably to life. Th......more
This book addresses the growing awareness of the historical collections of film and media devices in film archives and m......more
The multimodal study on the experience of suspense and fear in horror films is part of a collaborative project funded by......more
The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions offers an original rethinking of early European cinema through the le......more
An exploration of the political thriller genre and its context in Latin American politics and entertainment. For the pas......more
This book is a field guide for students and storytellers interested in the realm of social impact documentary. It explor......more
This book is a field guide for students and storytellers interested in the realm of social impact documentary. It explor......more
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In Fantasies of Singledom, Kate R. Gilchrist examines how the representation of the single woman manifests itself in con......more
In Razzle Dazzle ’Em, John Lahr, the lead theatre critic for The New Yorker for 21 years and a multi-award-winning biogr......more
A guide to exploring James Bond’s literary and film locations across Britain, revealing Ian Fleming’s inspirations. The ......more
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This volume takes a fresh look at the various aesthetics emerging globally in the early sound film era, with a focus on ......more
Film archives are fast spreading around the world, and with them issues surrounding archival digitisation, artistic appr......more
This book presents a new history of German film from 1980-2010, a period that witnessed rapid transformations, including......more
This book tells the troubled story of a period in Hungarian cinematic history during which audiences, filmmakers, critic......more
A walk suspended in mid-air, a fall at breakneck speed towards a fatal impact with the ground, an upside-down flip into ......more
Screening the Art World explores the ways in which artists and the art world more generally have been represented in cin......more
Film has long been defined as a temporal art, most famously by André Bazin and Andrei Tarkovsky. Yet more fundamentally ......more
The media technologies that surround and suffuse our everyday life profoundly affect our relation to reality. Philosophe......more
Combining theoretical reflections with materials from European case studies, the authors offer intriguing new methods fo......more
This book opens with examinations of moving images in Albania from the Ottoman period, through those captured under inde......more
This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication-the email, blog, text message, tweet-are......more
This text offers pertinent theoretical insights and a new methodology for the study of film festivals and identifies key......more
Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history......more
Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary in......more
The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to a......more
Featuring 28 leading international media scholars, Technics rethinks technology for the contemporary digital era, with c......more
This book offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and aff......more
We’ve all had the experience of watching a film and feeling like we’ve been in a trance. This book takes that experience......more
Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism offers a novel conception of political aesthetics in the discipline of film studies whic......more
This book documents contemporary practices of pop-up and site specific cinema exhibition in the UK (with a focus on Scot......more
Film festivals are hugely popular events that attract lovers of cinema worldwide. Focusing on the world’s most famous fe......more
What unleashed the forces of global capitalism which continue to shape the world that we live in? Economists and economi......more
The book creates an innovative theoretical framework to introduce the concept of an ’alternative economy’ as a way to un......more
Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema portrays a group of important contemporary women filmmakers working across th......more
After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains, museums,......more
Consists of eleven essays that explore how artists have imaginatively engaged with this monumental human drama, examinin......more
Spaces of Communication offers a concise introduction to semiopragmatics and condenses the intellectual trajectory of on......more
Tracing the recent changes to the technology of film editing, this book offers an account of the aesthetics of digital m......more
Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained tracks how women and gay male entrepreneurs were central to the production, distributio......more
Sound/Space in Film: Craft, Aesthetics, Theory brings together two expanding fields in contemporary film studies: soundt......more
The Natural History of Film Form argues that, more than simply ingredients in film stock, gelatin, silver and celluloid ......more
The Natural History of Film Form argues that, more than simply ingredients in film stock, gelatin, silver and celluloid ......more
Explores the work of amateur and independent filmmakers working in Northern Ireland between 1929-1989....more
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SAY GOODBYE TO HOLLYWOOD Scandal, Sin, Spirits & The Rise and Fall of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle On Labor Day 1921, Roscoe ......more
All generations are shaped by narratives and artifacts, but Gen Z was born into in a golden age of media. This book pair......more
This book reads Alfred Hitchcock as a philosopher of what constitutes the erotic. The author argues that Hitchcock is do......more
This book deals with an emerging subgenre of films made in a variety of countries that make critical references to Ameri......more
The animated films that have featured prominently at the world box office in the early 21st century have a different sty......more
Leading military historians analyse the changing depiction of the British army and its role in nineteenth- and early twe......more
An exclusive look inside the surprising history and contentious future of Hollywood’s most unlikely blockbuster--the Fas......more
The year 1939 went down in history as the iconic year of what has come to be known as the golden age of Hollywood. It wa......more
ReVisions examines speculative fiction, film, and television created by artists in Canada and reflecting their distinct ......more
This book traces the intertextual genealogy behind Netflix’s new series Ripley, directed by Steve Zaillian, and offers a......more
This book examines the recurring phenomenon in film and television where two strikingly similar productions are released......more
THE SACRED CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY By Jeremy Robinson A major new study of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1......more
This open-access volume is the first English-language study of the vibrant contemporary landscape of Italian youth-orien......more
All generations are shaped by narratives and artifacts, but Gen Z was born into in a golden age of media. This book pair......more
This edited volume examines mass media portrayals of women leaders and other powerful women in popular culture. Contribu......more
How have feelings, presumptions, and preconceptions concerning racialized Blackness intersected with film noir? Dan Flor......more
This book delves into the vibrant and dynamic cultural landscape of Latin America, exploring the creative frictions that......more
The official art and making of book for Legendary’s upcoming The Toxic Avenger re-boot movie, starring Peter Dinklage. A......more