The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies

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Series editors: Annie van den Oever, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Anna Backman Rogers, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Nicholas Baer, University of California, Berkeley
Ian Christie, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
Dominique Chateau, University of Paris I: Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Sarah Leperchey, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
José Moure, University of Paris I: Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Geographical Scope: Europe
Chronological Scope: 19th to 21st centuries
Advisory Board: Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
Roger Odin, University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
Laurent Creton, University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
Francesco Casetti, Yale University, United States, Catholic University Milan, Italy
Jane Gaines, Columbia University, United States
Miriam Hansen, ✝
Frank Kessler, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
András Bálint Kovás, Etövös Loránd University, Hungary
Vivian Sobchack, University of California at Los Angeles, United States
Janet Staiger, Texas University, Austin, Texas
Eric de Kuyper, Cinematek Brussel
Emile Poppe, Cinematek Brussel
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The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies

Discipline:Film, Media, and Communication

The Key Debates is an academic book series focusing on the mutation and appropriation of key concepts as well as premises and research practices by the key debates in European film studies. This series analyses how a number of key problems in this field were tackled and have functioned within the various epistemological traditions in Europe in the past and in the present.

“There are very few book series that fully keep to what they promised, as "The Key Debates" does. An incredible effort in critically covering wide regions of our field -- with their traditional assets and their sudden innovations. Visual storytelling poses puzzling questions: the seventh volume of the series tries to answer them.” — Francesco Casetti, Yale University

"Since its creation in 2010, the Key Debates series ... has rapidly become a landmark collection of film studies, a field that is both ubiquitous and, paradoxically perhaps, in crisis. ... The Key Debates series is an important contribution to the redefinition and repositioning of the field and, as such, a vital plea for the central position of film studies in the expanded field." — Jan Baetens, Leonardo Reviews

"The Key Debates represents a welcome film studies publication, especially given the specific European connotation. ... a promising contribution to the current theoretical debate among film scholars in Europe and beyond." — Pietro Bianchi, NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies

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