Film Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India

   The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal’s Films

   By Anuradha Needham

   Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

   Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history. The book examines the filmmaker’s focus on women by highlighting his...

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. Neoliberalism and Global Cinema

   Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique

   Edited by Jyotsna Kapur, Keith Wagner

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   In cinema studies today, rarely do we find a direct investigation into the culture of capitalism and how it has been refracted and fabricated in global cinema production under neoliberalism. However, the current economic crisis and the subsequent Wall Street bailout in 2008 have brought about a...

   Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image

   Edited by Julia Vassilieva, Constantine Verevis

   In the wake of the debates over high/low culture distinction spilling into the effective dismantling of the boundary that once separated them, the past decade has seen the explosion of ‘bad taste’ production on screen. Starting with paracinema or ‘badfilm’ – a movement that has grown up around...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Grotesque

   By Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Grotesque provides an invaluable and accessible guide to the use (and abuse) of this complex literary term. Justin D. Edwards and Rune Graulund explore the influence of the grotesque on cultural forms throughout history, with particular focus on its representation in literature, visual art and film...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Spanish Cinema in the Global Context

   Film on Film

   By Samuel Amago

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Across a broad spectrum of media, markets, and national contexts, self-reflexivity continues to be a favored narrative mode with wide ranging functions. In this book Amago argues that, in addition to making visible industry and production concerns within the film text, reflexive aesthetics have a...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
6. Crossover Cinema

   Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception

   Edited by Sukhmani Khorana

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic forms that do not bear allegiance to a single nation in terms of conceptualization, content, finance...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers

   By Stuart Sim

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be diverse and difficult to understand. Fifty Postmodern Thinkers critically examines the work of fifty of the most important theorists within the...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
8. Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy

   Gender as Genre

   By John Alberti

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti creates a unified...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
9. Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

   Reissuing works originally published between 1968 and 1993, Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature offers a selection of scholarship covering the crossover of novels and the movies. Volumes on Shakespearean and Greek Tragedy films among others round this out to be an interesting compact...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
10. Novel Images

    Literature in Performance

    Edited by Peter Reynolds

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    Written specifically with the student in mind and focusing on a number of well-known texts, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nicholas Nickleby, Nice Work and The Color Purple, the contributions in this book demonstrate how we can look critically at literary adaptations and learn to distinguish...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge