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Landscape and Film

Edited by Martin Lefebvre

Landscape is everywhere in film, but it has been largely overlooked in theory and criticism. This volume of new work will address fundamental questions: What...

ISBN: 978-0-415-97555-1 | Published May 30th 2006 by Routledge.

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East European Cinemas

Edited by Anikó Imre

Eastern Europe has produced rich and varied film cultures--Czech, Hungarian, and Serbian among them-whose histories have been intimately tied to the transition from Soviet domination...

ISBN: 978-0-415-97268-0 | Published September 14th 2005 by Routledge.

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New Media

Theories and Practices of Digitextuality

Edited by Anna Everett, John T. Caldwell

The mushroom-like growth of new media technologies is radically challenging traditional media outlets. The proliferation of technologies like DVDs, MP3s and the Internet has freed...

ISBN: 978-0-415-93996-6 | Published February 28th 2003 by Routledge.

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Authorship and Film

Edited by David A. Gerstner, Janet Staiger

Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume of new work revitalizes the question of authorship by...

ISBN: 978-0-415-93994-2 | Published November 8th 2002 by Routledge.

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Westerns

Films through History

Edited by Janet Walker

The "cowboys and Indians," sheriffs and outlaws, schoolmarms and barkeeps of Western films have wholly transformed our ideas about the reality of the American frontier....

ISBN: 978-0-415-92424-5 | Published October 12th 2001 by Routledge.

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Masculinity

Bodies, Movies, Culture

Edited by Peter Lehman

Lehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze trends...

ISBN: 978-0-415-92324-8 | Published May 2nd 2001 by Routledge.

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Violence and American Cinema

Edited by J. David Slocum

American cinema has always been violent, and never more so than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, racial attacks, and general...

ISBN: 978-0-415-92810-6 | Published December 5th 2000 by Routledge.

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Home, Exile, Homeland

Film, Media, and the Politics of Place

Edited by Hamid Naficy

Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community, leaving redrawn territories and globalized...

ISBN: 978-0-415-91947-0 | Published December 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Black Women Film and Video Artists

Edited by Jacqueline Bobo

Black women film and video makers have been producing shorts, documentaries and films since the early part of this century. Unfortunately, not only has their...

ISBN: 978-0-415-92042-1 | Published April 9th 1998 by Routledge.

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The Revolution Wasn't Televised

Sixties Television and Social Conflict

Edited by Lynn Spigel, Michael Curtin

Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular...

ISBN: 978-0-415-91122-1 | Published April 4th 1997 by Routledge.

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The Persistence of History

Cinema, Television and the Modern Event

Edited by Vivian Sobchack

The Persistence of History examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film...

ISBN: 978-0-415-91084-2 | Published December 27th 1995 by Routledge.

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Classical Hollywood Comedy

Edited by Henry Jenkins, Kristine Brunovska Karnick

Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works...

ISBN: 978-0-415-90640-1 | Published October 19th 1994 by Routledge.

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Disney Discourse

Producing the Magic Kingdom

Edited by Eric Smoodin

Hirohito and his Mickey Mouse watch, Goofy and Donald as our "Goodwill Ambassadors:" Disney Discourse is an interdisciplinary examination of the founder and his...

ISBN: 978-0-415-90616-6 | Published March 22nd 1994 by Routledge.

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Black American Cinema

Edited by Manthia Diawara

This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood...

ISBN: 978-0-415-90397-4 | Published August 18th 1993 by Routledge.

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Theorizing Documentary

Edited by Michael Renov

A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional...

ISBN: 978-0-415-90382-0 | Published May 10th 1993 by Routledge.

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Film Theory Goes to the Movies

Cultural Analysis of Contemporary Film

Edited by Jim Collins, Ava Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner

Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume,...

ISBN: 978-0-415-90576-3 | Published December 21st 1992 by Routledge.

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Sound Theory/Sound Practice

Edited by Rick Altman

Dramatically broadening the previous field of research on sound, Sound Theory/Sound Practice promises to renew the debate over the importance of sound to cinema, from...

ISBN: 978-0-415-90457-5 | Published June 5th 1992 by Routledge.

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Psychoanalysis and Cinema

Edited by E. Ann Kaplan

These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory...

ISBN: 978-0-415-90029-4 | Published December 28th 1989 by Routledge.

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Forthcoming Titles:

World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives
Edited by Natasa Durovicova, Kathleen E. Newman
August 1st 2008

European Film Theory
Edited by Temenuga Trifonova
September 2nd 2008

Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies
Edited by Warren Buckland
November 1st 2008