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Forthcoming World Cinema Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. 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...

    To Be Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge

  2. 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...

    To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes

    By Valerie Wee

    Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

    The Ring (2002)—Hollywood’s remake of the Japanese cult success Ringu (1998)—marked the beginning of a significant trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s of American adaptations of Asian horror films. This book explores this complex process of adaptation, paying particular attention to the various...

    To Be Published September 10th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Transnational Horror Across Visual Media

    Fragmented Bodies

    Edited by Dana Och, Kirsten Strayer

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts....

    To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge

  5. International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies

    "This World is My Place"

    Edited by Catherine Leen, Niamh Thornton

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain. For this reason, the volume includes contributions by a range of international scholars and takes the concept of place as a unifying paradigm. As a...

    To Be Published October 7th 2013 by Routledge

  6. The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema

    By Gönül Dönmez-Colin

    This book is a comprehensive dictionary of Turkish cinema, which offers reliable, up-to-date and independent information from a critical and analytical point of view regarding prominent filmmakers, films, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, editors, producers, significant themes, genres,...

    To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge

  7. The Global Film Book

    By Roy Stafford

    This introductory study of global film examines film production modes around the world and the ways in which they combine and overlap with each other, and with Hollywood, in a dynamic global film market. Roy Stafford considers examples of production, distribution and exhibition from Europe, Africa...

    To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

  8. Security, Socialisation and Affect in Indian Families

    Unfamiliar Ground

    Edited by Ira Raja

    Sociological studies on the Indian family have been mainly preoccupied with quantitative and morphological aspects of household form/composition, to the neglect of the more 'ineffable' dimensions of family life and relationships. The present volume brings together ten chapters with an...

    To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Transnational Cinema and Ideology

    By Milja Radovic

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Film

    Increasingly, as the production, distribution and audience of films cross national boundaries, film scholars have begun to think in terms of ‘transnational’ rather than national cinema. This book is positioned within the emerging field of transnational cinema, and offers a groundbreaking study of...

    To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

  10. The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film

    Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness

    Edited by Diana Dimitrova

    This book focuses on South Asian religion, literature and film. It analyses various aspects of the cultural phenomenon of being ‘the other" of the process of "othering" and of the representation of "otherness" and its religious, cultural, and ideological implications. Closely examining the...

    To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge