Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. During the twentieth century, the invention of new technologies of audiovisual representation such as cinema, television, video, and digital media have transformed the modes of historical narration. This...

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 provides a comparative theorisation of the representation of memory in both mainstream Hollywood and international art...

Narratives of Cultural Identity in Contemporary Arab Cinema examines emerging cinema from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and recent diasporic/transnational productions from the Levant. Although several books have been written on Arab cinema, there remains a need to consider the role of the emerging film industry in the GCC countries, or states in which cinema production is relatively scant. Academic...