Forthcoming Film Genre Books

Forthcoming Books

1. 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
2. A Critical Guide to Horror Film Series

   By Ken Hanke

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   In this book the author takes a fresh look at horror film series as series and presents an understanding of how the genre thrived in this format for a large portion of its history. It sheds light on older films such as the Universal and the Hammer series films on Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. At a Theater or Drive-in Near You

   The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film

   By Randall Clark

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   Millions of Americans have been thrilled, scared, titillated, and shocked by exploitation movies, low budget films with many scenes of sex, violence, and other potentially lurid elements. The term derives from the fact that promoters of such films exploit the contents in advertising that plays up...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Swordsmen of the Screen

   From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York

   By Jeffrey Richards

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assesses the contributions to the genre of directors, designers and fencing masters, as well as of the stars themselves, and devotes several chapters to...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Epic Film

   Myth and History

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   As Charlton Heston put it: ‘There’s a temptingly simple definition of the epic film: it’s the easiest kind of picture to make badly.’ Derek Elley goes beyond that definition to show how the film epic has taken up one of the most ancient art-forms and propelled it into the present day, covered in...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. The Road to Romance and Ruin

   Teen Films and Youth Culture

   By Jon Lewis

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   Youth culture can be understood as both incoherent and ahistorical. Riddled with continuities and contradictions, this phenomenon betrays any attempt to render is single or concrete. This book analyses the teen film as the rare medium able to represent the otherwise chaotic and conflicting...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Visions of Yesterday

   By Jeffrey Richards

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   Film is an important source of social history, as well as having been an important popular art form from the early twentieth century. This study shows how a society, consciously or unconsciously, is mirrored in its cinema. It considers the role of the cinema in dramatizing popular beliefs and myths...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture

   Edited by Tom Brown, Belen Vidal

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   The biographical film or "biopic" is a staple of film production in all major international film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture fills this gap, reconceptualizing the...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
9. Science Fiction Television

   By Jay P Telotte

   Series: Routledge Television Guidebooks

   Science Fiction Television focuses on the dominant form that science fiction has taken on American television: the extended series that has been offered on network, cable, or satellite broadcast from 1949 to the present, from shows like Captain Video and His Video Rangers to today’s Fringe, Eureka,...

   To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge