Film history, theory or criticism

This collection of essays offers a pioneering analysis of the political and conceptual complexities of teaching transnational cinema in university classrooms around the world.

This collection of essays offers a pioneering analysis of the political and conceptual complexities of teaching transnational cinema in university classrooms around the world.

This book collates a comprehensive range of fascinating essays by leading authors on film from across the Muslim world.

This book collates a comprehensive range of fascinating essays by leading authors on film from across the Muslim world.

By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

This book, based on extensive, original research, details the changing lives of youth living in slum communities (bustees) in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).

This book, based on extensive, original research, details the changing lives of youth living in slum communities (bustees) in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).

This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation.

This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation.

This book examines music stores as sites of cultural production in contemporary India.

This book examines music stores as sites of cultural production in contemporary India.

This book is the first full-length critical study to explore the rapidly growing cadre of amateur-authored, independently-published, and niche-market picture books that have been released during the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

This book is the first full-length critical study to explore the rapidly growing cadre of amateur-authored, independently-published, and niche-market picture books that have been released during the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema offers an overview of the field of cult cinema - films at the margin of popular culture and art that have received exceptional cultural visibility and status mostly because they break rules, offend, and challenge understandings of achievement (some are so bad they're good, others so good they remain inaccessible).

The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema offers an overview of the field of cult cinema - films at the margin of popular culture and art that have received exceptional cultural visibility and status mostly because they break rules, offend, and challenge understandings of achievement (some are so bad they're good, others so good they remain inaccessible).

This book revisits the tradition of Western religious cinema in light of scholarship on St.

This book revisits the tradition of Western religious cinema in light of scholarship on St.

How do movies evoke and express ethical ideas?

How do movies evoke and express ethical ideas?

Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex education currently in schools.

Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex education currently in schools.

Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women's roles in public and private spheres.

Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women's roles in public and private spheres.

This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory.

This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory.

Typically, studies of early cinema's relation to literature have focused on the interactions between film and modernism.

Typically, studies of early cinema's relation to literature have focused on the interactions between film and modernism.

Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in these worlds.

Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in these worlds.

With the chick flick arguably in decline, film scholars may well ask: what has become of the woman's film?

With the chick flick arguably in decline, film scholars may well ask: what has become of the woman's film?

First published in 1988.

First published in 1988.

This book offers the first specific application in film studies of what is generally known as ecology theory, shifting attention from history to the (in this case media) environment.

This book offers the first specific application in film studies of what is generally known as ecology theory, shifting attention from history to the (in this case media) environment.

Interpretations of manhood have unfolded in India within a middle class cultural milieu shaped by an assertive self-confidence fuelled by liberalisation, a process by which India has been integrated into the global political economy and the prominence of Hindutva or Hindu nationalist politics.

The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor.

The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor.

Drawing on empirical research, this fascinating new book explores the embodied experiences of 'gym goers' and the fitness cultures that are constructed within gyms and fitness spaces.

Drawing on empirical research, this fascinating new book explores the embodied experiences of 'gym goers' and the fitness cultures that are constructed within gyms and fitness spaces.

Winner of the IAJS award for best edited book of 2018!

Winner of the IAJS award for best edited book of 2018!

Film Feminisms offers a global and updated overview of the history, present-day concerns, and future of feminist film and theory.

Film Feminisms offers a global and updated overview of the history, present-day concerns, and future of feminist film and theory.

This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives.

This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives.

Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos.

Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos.

The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema.