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European Film Theory

Edited by Temenuga Trifonova

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…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96044-1 (Routledge)

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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…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97555-1 (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…

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2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97268-0 (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…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93996-6 (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…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93994-2 (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.…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92424-5 (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…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92324-8 (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…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92810-6 (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…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91947-0 (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…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92042-1 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

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