The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Cinemas is the first collection of original contributions to comprehensively analy......more

Interactive Fiction in Cinematic Virtual Reality offers a narrative model that combines live-action 360 video with an in......more

Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is the first major critical study of international naturalist cin......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

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

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

Mainstream media’s relationship with mental illness is fraught. Deemed to misrepresent and sensationalise non-normative ......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

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

Surveying disaster films from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, this book explores the disaster film genre from its......more

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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 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

A guide to exploring James Bond’s literary and film locations across Britain, revealing Ian Fleming’s inspirations. The ......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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This book reads Alfred Hitchcock as a philosopher of what constitutes the erotic. The author argues that Hitchcock is do......more

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The animated films that have featured prominently at the world box office in the early 21st century have a different sty......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 examines the recurring phenomenon in film and television where two strikingly similar productions are released......more

This open-access volume is the first English-language study of the vibrant contemporary landscape of Italian youth-orien......more

THE SACRED CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY By Jeremy Robinson A major new study of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1......more

How have feelings, presumptions, and preconceptions concerning racialized Blackness intersected with film noir? Dan Flor......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 delves into the vibrant and dynamic cultural landscape of Latin America, exploring the creative frictions that......more

A deluxe, fully illustrated look at the making of the first chapter of the sequel trilogy, the 2015 blockbuster, Star Wa......more

Explore the world of James Bond like never before with Darker Than the Sun, a visually rich travelogue charting 007’s jo......more

This book offers a new perspective on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger through its examination of their engagement ......more

In The 1970s: Hollywood in times of disenchantment, Ricardo Luiz de Souza analyzes films linked to black exploitation an......more

Place and the Moving Image offers a rethinking of how experimental, essayistic film, engages with spatial knowledge and ......more

The main purpose of the research project "Dreamy Eyes" was to develop an audiovisual artistic work co-authored and colla......more