Forthcoming Film History Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Early Cinema

   Edited by Richard Abel

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until 3 months after publication) Especially over the past thirty years, serious research on early cinema has blossomed as never before. This rapid growth has included the establishment of international organizations such as Domitor (founded in 1987), with its...

   To Be Published August 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. British Cinema

   Edited by Robert Murphy

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Serious scholarly writing and research on British cinema has burgeoned to a dizzying degree in recent decades, and this new four-volume collection from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative reference work to enable users to navigate and make sense of the subject’s large body of scholarship,...

   To Be Published November 5th 2013 by Routledge
3. French Cinema

   Edited by Phil Powrie

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Of all European cinema, the most important is French. France annually produces more films than any other European nation, and throughout its history it has been the key competitor to Hollywood; it is Cannes that matters most after the Oscars. Moreover, the study of film as an academic discipline...

   To Be Published November 18th 2013 by Routledge
4. Japanese Cinema

   Edited by Nikki J. Y. Lee, Julian Stringer

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Japanese cinema is historically one of the world’s most important national film industries and one that continues to have a significant global influence. From the Golden Age of the 1930s and the 1950s art-house success of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu to the 1960s New Wave of Imamura and Oshima and...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Changing Face of Korean Cinema

   Planet Hallyuwood

   By Brian Yecies, Ae-Gyung Shim

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This book examines the ways in which South Korean cinema has undergone a transformation from an antiquated local industry in the 1960s into a thriving international cinema in the 21st century. Yecies and Shim propose the notion of a 'cinema of perseverance', paying attention to the...

   To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films

   Edited by Sabine Haenni, Sarah Barrow, John White

   The Routledge Encyclopedia of Films comprises 200 essays by leading film scholars analysing the most important, influential, innovative and interesting films of all time. Arranged chronologically, each entry explores why each film is significant for those who study film and explores the social,...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Badmington: Alfred Hitchcock, 4-vol. set

   Edited by Neil Badmington

   Series: Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers

   To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
8. Postcolonial Film

   History, Empire, Resistance

   Edited by Rebecca Weaver-Higtower, Peter Hulme

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance examines films of the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries from postcolonial countries around the globe. In the mid twentieth century, the political reality of resistance and decolonization lead to the creation of dozens of new states,...

   To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Concise History of Literature and Film

   By Karin Littau

   Series: Routledge Concise Histories of Literature

   The Routledge Concise History of Literature and Film is a comprehensive introduction to the interrelated subjects of Literature and Film. Taking a historical perspective, this book is not a simple story about adaptation, but about the ways in which the two media have adapted to each other: how film...

   To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
10. Sport Documentaries

    By Ian McDonald

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

    Sport has become a dominant global cultural form and therefore, with increasing frequency, a cinematic subject. This ground-breaking book is the first to focus on sport in documentary film as a significant aspect of sport in culture and to argue for the importance of the sports documentary as a...

    To Be Published May 14th 2014 by Routledge