Cinema & Media Studies
How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TV
How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influence
A historical and theoretical investigation of the unexpected ways screen-based media protect and excite viewers’ fears and anxieties of the world
Essays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual culture
How a modern radio works, told through mathematics, history, and selected puzzles
An arresting illustrated history of twins in mythology, science, and visual culture
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard
"A revelation."—Marc Weingarten, Washington Post
How the urban spectator became the archetypal modern viewer and a central subject in late nineteenth-century French art
A groundbreaking examination of the “double” in modern and contemporary art
A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film