Routledge Advances in Film Studies
About the Book Series
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.
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The Disaster Film as Social Practice
1st Edition
By Joseph Zornado, Sara Reilly
December 25, 2025
Surveying disaster films 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 ...
Place and the Moving Image: Experimental Film Practice as Topography
1st Edition
By Elisabeth Brun
November 06, 2025
Place and the Moving Image offers a rethinking of how experimental, essayistic film, engages with spatial knowledge and environmental awareness. At its heart is the concept of Moving Image Topography - a critical and artistic framework of thinking through the camera about the relationship between ...
Cinematic Starchitecture: The Celebrity Status of Urban Architectural Structures in Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Merrill Schleier, Paul Newland
November 03, 2025
Cinematic Starchitecture explores how examples of famous architecture have circulated throughout cinema history across diverse genres. Building on the term "starchitecture" – coined in 1997 for dramatic, monumental structures designed to gain international attention and economic advantage – the ...
Unveiling the Magic of Films
1st Edition
By Zhen Zhang
October 31, 2025
This book presents a comprehensive methodology for segmenting, transcribing, and analysing feature films, especially classical Hollywood films. It offers an in-depth study of three scenes from Roman Holiday (1953), each showcasing different combinations of verbal and non-verbal performance. Through...
Ominous Homelands in World Cinema: Moving Images of (In)Security and the Rise of Neo-Nationalisms
1st Edition
By Susana Araújo
September 19, 2025
Winner of the 2026 Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra International Publications Prize (Prémio Publicações Internacionais da FLUC) Ominous Homelands in World Cinema examines contemporary films from a range of national settings that expose and critically engage with ...
Translating Silent Cinema: Film History, National Culture, and The Roaring Twenties
1st Edition
By Dror Abend-David
September 17, 2025
Translating Silent Cinema examines closely the translation, adaptation, and reception of three silent films in English, German, and Yiddish to argue that the study of film translation should extend beyond textual translation to a wide selection of primary materials and the consideration of ...
A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary
1st Edition
By Lorena Cervera Ferrer
August 28, 2025
A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary provides a new lens through which to revisit the history of Latin American cinema and proposes three approximations to the study of women’s documentary produced between the early 1970s and the mid-1990s. With a focus on documentaries with ...
Exploring Film through Bad Cinema
1st Edition
By David C. Wall
August 08, 2025
Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of “bad” cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts. Providing a wide-ranging discussion of film from multiple perspectives, including history, ...
Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema
1st Edition
By Zoran Samardzija
July 18, 2025
Negative Aesthetics and Political Collapse in Eastern European and Balkan Cinema examines the theme of political collapse in select contemporary Eastern European and Balkan art cinema and documentaries from the late eighties to the present. Engaging with debates in Marxism and contemporary film ...
Worlding Tamil Cinema
1st Edition
By Amrutha Kunapulli
July 10, 2025
Worlding Tamil Cinema is a simultaneous intervention in the study of world cinema and the cinemas of India.With a focus on the globalising impulses of twenty-first-century Tamil cinema, the book explores the relationship between cinema, state, nationhood, and world cinema in the twenty-first ...
Women Managers in American Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein
July 04, 2025
This book explores various portrayals of women managers in American culture from the late 1960s to the present. An analysis of iconic films and works of fiction and nonfiction reveals how the image of the woman manager has evolved over time, reflecting shifting societal attitudes. In early ...
The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema: Hollywood, D.C.
1st Edition
By Krešimir Bobaš
June 30, 2025
The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema examines how political thriller films (de)construct and reflect the sociopolitical realities of the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The book highlights the convergence between ...