Film & Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Heritage in the Digital Era

   Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause

   By Rodanthi Tzanelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? ‘Heritage’ usually involves intergenerational transmission of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and so serves to reproduce national communities over time. However, media industries have the power to...

   Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film

   Radical Projection

   By Jennifer Lynde Barker

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Through a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictator to Hiroshima mon amour to The Lives of Others, The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection explores the genesis and recurrence of antifascist aesthetics as it manifests in the WWII, Cold War and Post-Wall...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. European Civil War Films

   Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia

   By Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This book examines the ways in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in...

   Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
4. Cinema and Inter-American Relations

   Tracking Transnational Affect

   By Adrián Pérez Melgosa

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   Cinema and Inter-American Relations studies the key role that commercial narrative films have played in the articulation of the political and cultural relationship between the United States and Latin America since the onset of the Good Neighbor policy (1933). Pérez Melgosa analyzes the evolution of...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge