Film Studies

This book explores the breadth of British sci-fi films through readings of key films, examining the factors that shaped them, and the concerns they reflect, through the postwar boom years to the more sporadic production of recent times...

This books traces the inscription of nation across Canada's film history, from early films of colonisation and white settlement to contemporary Canada's diverse multicultural output...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

With an interdisciplinary, comparative examination of stars and stardom in Chinese cinema from the silent period to the current era of globalization, this volume offers exemplary readings of the historically, geographically and aesthetically multifaceted star phenomena in China.  ..

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Cinema and Language Loss provides the first sustained exploration of the relationship between linguistic displacement and visuality in the filmic realm, examining in depth both its formal expressions and theoretical implications. In tracing the encounter between cinema and language loss across a wid..

Judith Mayne her examines and assesses the major theories of spectatorship as they have developed over the last fifteen years, to explore how the analysis of a genuine dialogue between history and theory can show us how cinema engages its viewers...

First Published in 1964. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the cultural politics of contemporary Taiwan film that goes beyond the auterist mode, the nation-state argument and vestiges of the New Cinema...

During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. This book, originally published in 1987, examines how two of the most sig..

Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a ‘reflection’ but an indispensable index of human experience – especially our experience of time’s passage, of the present moment, and, most importantly perhaps, of the past, in both collective and individual terms. In this volume, Kilbourn pr..

Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a ‘reflection’ but an indispensable index of human experience – especially our experience of time’s passage, of the present moment, and, most importantly perhaps, of the past, in both collective and individual terms. In this volume, Kilbourn pr..