Film Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. The Film Handbook

   By Mark de Valk, Sarah Arnold

   Series: Media Practice

   The Film Handbook examines the current state of filmmaking and how film language, technique and aesthetics are being utilised for today’s ‘digital film’ productions. It reflects on how critical analysis’ of film underpins practice and story, and how developing an autonomous ‘vision’ will best aid...

   Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. Race, Philosophy, and Film

   Edited by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, Dan Flory

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would thinking in philosophy and film be transformed if race were formally incorporated moved from its margins to the center? The collection’s contributors anchor their discussions of race...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Cinema as Weather

   Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change

   By Kristi McKim

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   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...

   Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
6. A Philosophy of the Screenplay

   By Ted Nannicelli

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies—have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay. To this end, this volume addresses the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Media Authorship

   Edited by Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   Contemporary media authorship is frequently collaborative, participatory, non-site specific, or quite simply goes unrecognized. In this volume, media and film scholars explore the theoretical debates around authorship, intention, and identity within the rapidly transforming and globalized culture...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Color and the Moving Image

   History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive

   Edited by Simon Brown, Sarah Street, Liz Watkins

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implications of color on the...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Construction of Drawings and Movies

   Models for Architectural Design and Analysis

   By Thomas Forget

   The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner. Most students and practitioners understand linear perspective and cinema to be examples of architectural presentation tools. This book asks you to consider drawings and movies to be...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Ecocinema Theory and Practice

    Edited by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Sean Cubitt

    Series: AFI Film Readers

    Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind—an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema’s intersections with environmental understandings. It references...

    Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge