Routledge Advances in Film Studies – serie
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Cinema as Weather
Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change
Av Kristi McKim
Häftad, 2015
750 kr
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How do cinematic portrayals of the weather reflect and affect our experience of the world? While weatherly predictability and surprise can impact our daily experience, the history of cinema attests to the stylistic and narrative significance of snow, rain, wind, sunshine, clouds, and skies. Through …
Philosophical Theories of Political Cinema
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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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 …
Dalit Representation in Popular Hindi Cinema
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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This book explores the dynamics of caste in Bollywood and popular Hindi cinema through an examination of the representation of Dalits since the 1930s.Drawing on critical textual analysis and historical analyses of a number of key films, the author argues that popular Hindi cinema corroborates in …
Horror Franchise Cinema
Av Mark McKenna, William Proctor
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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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 …
Classical Hollywood Film Cycles
Av Zoe Wallin
Inbunden, 2019
2915 kr
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This book explores the ways in which Hollywood film cycles from the 1930s to the 1960s were shaped by their surrounding industrial contexts and market environments, to build an inclusive conception of the form, operation, and function of film cycles.By foregrounding patterns of distribution, spaces …
Why We Remake
The Politics, Economics and Emotions of Film and TV Remakes
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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This examination of film and television remakes focuses explicitly on why – since the dawn of cinema – studios have remade films over and over again. Each chapter provides insight into the business of Hollywood, the motivations of filmmakers and also the pleasures for audiences, and offers a …
Philosophical Theories of Political Cinema
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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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 …
Hollywood Remembrance and American War
Av Andrew Rayment, Paul Nadasdy
Inbunden, 2020
2588 kr
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Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. Subjecting the notion that war films ought to be considered ʻthe war memorials of today’ to critical scrutiny, the book develops a theoretical understanding of how …
Hollywood Remembrance and American War
Av Andrew Rayment, Paul Nadasdy
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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Hollywood Remembrance and American War addresses the synergy between Hollywood war films and American forms of war remembrance. Subjecting the notion that war films ought to be considered ʻthe war memorials of today’ to critical scrutiny, the book develops a theoretical understanding of how …
Film Noir and Los Angeles
Urban History and the Dark Imaginary
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles. Configured through the dark lens of noir, the author examines an alternate urban history of Los Angeles forged by the fictional modes of detective fiction, film noir and neo noir. Dark …
Trans New Wave Cinema
Av Akkadia Ford
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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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 …
Trans New Wave Cinema
Av Akkadia Ford
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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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 …
Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood
The New Independent Cinema Revolution
Av Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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This is the first edited volume on new independent Indian cinema. It aims to be a comprehensive compendium of diverse theoretical, philosophical, epistemological and practice-based perspectives, featuring contributions from multidisciplinary scholars and practitioners across the world. This edited …
Emotion in Animated Films
Av Meike Uhrig
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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Ranging from blockbuster movies to experimental shorts or documentaries to scientific research, computer animation shapes a great part of media communication processes today. Be it the portrayal of emotional characters in moving films or the creation of controllable emotional stimuli in scientific …
Melodrama, Self and Nation in Post-War British Popular Film
Häftad, 2020
734 kr
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This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film and melodrama. By focussing on these genres, and looking at the concept of melodrama as an analytical tool apt for the analysis of both sexuality and nation, the book offers insight …
Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film
Häftad, 2020
672 kr
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Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film advances a methodological line of inquiry based on a fresh insight into the ways in which cinematic meaning is generated and can be ascertained. Premised on a critical reading strategy informed by a metapsychology of secrets, the …
Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation
Becoming-Animated
Häftad, 2020
672 kr
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This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies from animation, video games, and virtual worlds.As we interact more and more with animated characters and avatars in everyday media …
Classical Hollywood Film Cycles
Av Zoe Wallin
Häftad, 2020
842 kr
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This book explores the ways in which Hollywood film cycles from the 1930s to the 1960s were shaped by their surrounding industrial contexts and market environments, to build an inclusive conception of the form, operation, and function of film cycles.By foregrounding patterns of distribution, spaces …
Found Footage Horror Films
A Cognitive Approach
Av Peter Turner
Häftad, 2020
672 kr
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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 …
New Approaches to Cinematic Space
Av Filipa Rosário, Iván Villarmea Álvarez
Häftad, 2020
734 kr
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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 …
Post-Production and the Invisible Revolution of Filmmaking
From the Silent Era to Synchronized Sound
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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Post-Production and the Invisible Revolution of Filmmaking studies the discourses surrounding post-production, as well as the aesthetic effects of its introduction during the 1920s and 1930s, by exploring the philosophies and issues faced by practitioners during this transitional, transformative …
Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema
A Spinozian Analysis of Film Experience
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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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 philosophy …
Flashbacks in Film
A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis
Häftad, 2023
630 kr
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Flashbacks in Film examines film flashback as a rich multimodal narrative device, analyzing the cognitive underpinnings of film flashbacks and the mechanisms that lead viewers to successfully comprehend them.Combining a cognitive film theory approach with the theoretical framework proposed by …
Flashbacks in Film
A Cognitive and Multimodal Analysis
Inbunden, 2021
2442 kr
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Flashbacks in Film examines film flashback as a rich multimodal narrative device, analyzing the cognitive underpinnings of film flashbacks and the mechanisms that lead viewers to successfully comprehend them.Combining a cognitive film theory approach with the theoretical framework proposed by …
Australian Genre Film
Av Kelly McWilliam, Mark David Ryan
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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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 …
Love in Contemporary Cinema
Audiences and Representations of Romance
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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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 …
Love in Contemporary Cinema
Audiences and Representations of Romance
Häftad, 2024
688 kr
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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 …
Breaking Down Joker
Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy
Av Sean Redmond
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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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 …
Breaking Down Joker
Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy
Av Sean Redmond
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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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 …
Hybrid Documentary and Beyond
Inbunden, 2023
2513 kr
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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 they …
