Major Works: Forthcoming Film Studies

Forthcoming Books

1. Chinese Media

   Edited by Michael Keane, Wanning Sun

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   From an area of specialist research a decade ago China’s media has become now an important element of research and teaching worldwide, not only in specific Chinese cultural studies courses at the university level but increasingly in post-graduate research and in the domain of business consultancy....

   To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Early Cinema

   Edited by Richard Abel

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE! (Valid until 3 months after publication) Especially over the past thirty years, serious research on early cinema has blossomed as never before. This rapid growth has included the establishment of international organizations such as Domitor (founded in 1987), with its...

   To Be Published August 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   Reissuing works originally published between 1926 and 2001, Routledge Library Editions: Cinema offers a selection of scholarship covering the movies. Volumes range from film propaganda to the epic film genre, women in cinema to Soviet cinema, Chaplin to Disney, and touch on acting, screenwriting...

   To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Film and Gender

   Edited by Sue Thornham, Niall Richardson

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Since at least the early 1970s, when Claire Johnston observed that despite ‘the enormous emphasis placed on woman as spectacle in the cinema … woman as woman is largely absent’, the relationship of cinema to the construction of gender identities and gendered pleasures has been a central concern...

   To Be Published October 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. British Cinema

   Edited by Robert Murphy

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Serious scholarly writing and research on British cinema has burgeoned to a dizzying degree in recent decades, and this new four-volume collection from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative reference work to enable users to navigate and make sense of the subject’s large body of scholarship,...

   To Be Published November 5th 2013 by Routledge
6. French Cinema

   Edited by Phil Powrie

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Of all European cinema, the most important is French. France annually produces more films than any other European nation, and throughout its history it has been the key competitor to Hollywood; it is Cannes that matters most after the Oscars. Moreover, the study of film as an academic discipline...

   To Be Published November 18th 2013 by Routledge
7. Japanese Cinema

   Edited by Nikki J. Y. Lee, Julian Stringer

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Japanese cinema is historically one of the world’s most important national film industries and one that continues to have a significant global influence. From the Golden Age of the 1930s and the 1950s art-house success of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu to the 1960s New Wave of Imamura and Oshima and...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Badmington: Alfred Hitchcock, 4-vol. set

   Edited by Neil Badmington

   Series: Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers

   To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge