Book Series
AFI Film Readers
New & Published Titles:
European Film Theory
European Film Theory explores the ‘Europeanness’ of European film theory, its philosophical origins, the ‘culture wars’ between ‘Continental’ and ‘Analytical’ film theory and philosophy, the…
read moreOctober 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96044-1 (Routledge)
Landscape and Film
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… read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97555-1 (Routledge)
East European Cinemas
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… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97268-0 (Routledge)
New Media
Theories and Practices of Digitextuality
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… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93996-6 (Routledge)
Authorship and Film
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… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93994-2 (Routledge)
Westerns
Films through History
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.… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92424-5 (Routledge)
Masculinity
Bodies, Movies, Culture
Lehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze trends… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92324-8 (Routledge)
Violence and American Cinema
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… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92810-6 (Routledge)
Home, Exile, Homeland
Film, Media, and the Politics of Place
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… read more1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91947-0 (Routledge)
Black Women Film and Video Artists
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… read more1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92042-1 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Arnheim for Film and Media Studies
Edited by Scott Higgins
To be published January 1st 2010
Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies
Edited by Warren Buckland
To be published May 6th 2009
World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives
Edited by Natasa Durovicova, Kathleen E. Newman
To be published May 1st 2009
Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering
Edited by Bhaskar Sarkar, Janet Walker
To be published May 1st 2009