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Major Works: Film Studies

You are currently browsing 1–10 of 15 new and published major works in the subject of Film Studies — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.

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New and Published Books

  1. Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    By Various

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    Reissuing works originally published between 1968 and 1993, Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature offers a selection of scholarship covering the crossover of novels and the movies. Volumes on Shakespearean and Greek Tragedy films among others round this out to be an interesting compact...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Novel Images

    Literature in Performance

    Edited by Peter Reynolds

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    Written specifically with the student in mind and focusing on a number of well-known texts, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nicholas Nickleby, Nice Work and The Color Purple, the contributions in this book demonstrate how we can look critically at literary adaptations and learn to distinguish...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Greek Tragedy into Film

    By Kenneth MacKinnon

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    If Greek tragedy is sometimes regarded as a form long dead and buried, both theatre producers and film directors seem slow to accept its interment. Originally published in 1986, this book reflects the renewed interest in questions of staging the Greek plays, to give a comprehensive account and...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Filming Literature

    The Art of Screen Adaptation

    By Neil Sinyard

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and considers the contribution to the cinema made by important literary figures as Harold...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Shakespeare on Silent Film

    A Strange Eventful History

    By Robert Hamilton Ball

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors

    By Peter S. Donaldson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  7. 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

  8. Documentary Film

    Edited by Ian Aitken

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Documentary film is cinema’s oldest form, dating back to the medium’s invention at the turn of twentieth century. From cinema’s earliest days, important documentary films and film-makers have emerged continuously and, today, interest in documentary film remains substantial, and is rapidly growing....

    Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Hollywood

    Edited by Thomas Schatz

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    'Hollywood' as a concept applies variously to a particular film style, a factory-based mode of film production, a cartel of powerful media institutions and a national (and increasingly global) 'way of seeing'. It is a complex social, cultural and industrial phenomenon and is arguably the single...

    Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge

  10. Film Theory

    Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Edited by K. J. Shepherdson, Philip Simpson, Andrew Utterson

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    This major new collection: identifies the critical and theoretical concepts which have been most significant in the study of film presents chronologically the most influential and important writing on these concepts provides an historical and intellectual context for the material presented. New...

    Published November 26th 2003 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Chinese Media
    Edited by Michael Keane, Wanning Sun
    To Be Published August 1st 2013
  2. Early Cinema
    Edited by Richard Abel
    To Be Published August 22nd 2013
  3. Rachael Low's History of British Film
    By Rachael Low
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  4. The History of British Film (Volume 3): The History of the British Film 1914 - 1918
    Edited by Rachael Low
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  5. The History of British Film (Volume 2): The History of the British Film 1906 - 1914
    Edited by Rachael Low
    To Be Published September 29th 2013

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