World Cinema Books

New and Published Books

1. Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

   Asia in Flight

   By Sheng-mei Ma

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples...

   Published April 14th 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 April 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

   Edited by K. Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake

   India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalisation by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the centre of the world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together...

   Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
4. Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India

   Entertaining the Raj

   By Babli Sinha

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   Through the lens of cinema, this book explores the ways in which the United States, Britain and India impacted each other politically, culturally and ideologically. It argues that American films of the 1920s posited alternative notions of whiteness and the West to that of Britain, which stood for...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Bollywood

   A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema, 2nd Edition

   By Tejaswini Ganti

   Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks

   'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office success and...

   Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge
6. Film Censorship in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia Compared

   By Saw Tiong Guan

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   Film censorship has always been a controversial matter, particularly in jurisdictions with restrictive state-based censorship systems. This book reviews the film censorship system in the Asia-Pacific by comparing the systems used in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia. It identifies the key issues...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
7. East Asia Beyond the History Wars

   Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

   By Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Morris Low, Leonid Petrov, Timothy Y. Tsu

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   East Asia is now the world’s economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan’s military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. Chinese Cinema

   Edited by Chris Berry

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Chinese cinema is the only non-English language cinema to have a significant global presence. From multiplex blockbusters like Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to festival hits such as Jia Zhangke’s Still Life, Chinese cinema succeeds like no other foreign-language cinema. The...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. Women and Turkish Cinema

   Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation

   By Eylem Atakav

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle East Film and Media

   Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military’s intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender politics,...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
10. Bollywood and Globalization

    The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema

    Edited by David Schaefer, Kavita Karan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    The field of Bollywood studies has remained predominantly critical, theoretical and historical in focus. This book brings together qualitative and quantitative approaches to tackle empirical questions focusing on the relationship between soft power, hybridity, cinematic texts, and audiences....

    Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge