Film Theory

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book investigates the construction of national identity in films of the New German Cinema using – for the first time – an explicitly cultural studies methodology...

New Documentary provides a contemporary look at documentary and fresh and challenging ways of theorising the non-fiction film. As engaging as the original, this second edition features thorough updates to the existing chapters, as well as a brand new chapter on contemporary cinema release documentar..

With the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the latest return to silent film alongside the larger historical f..

With the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the latest return to silent film alongside the larger historical f..

This book explores the cultural, intellectual, and artistic fascination with camera-eye metaphors in film culture of the twentieth century...

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory makes explicit the implicit assumptions behind each film theory by defining and contextualising the theory’s terminology, in clear ‘everyday’ language that students will find accessible...

Documents the major stages in the debate about film authorship...

Thinking On Screen: Film as Philosophy is an accessible and thought-provoking examination of the way films raise and explore complex philosophical ideas...

This book develops a compelling framework from which to understand the mobility of color in art and mind, where color impressions are seen through, and even governed by, patterns of ordinary language use, schemata, memories, and narrative...