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
A rich history of underwater filmmaking and how it has profoundly influenced the aesthetics of movies and public perception of the oceans
A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human Flow
A bold new account of how celebrity works
How creative freedom, race, class, and gender shaped the rebellion of two visionary artists
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
A leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period
How New York’s Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing America
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism
From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition...
The History of Italian Cinema is the most comprehensive guide to Italian film ever published. Written by the foremost scholar of Italian cinema and presented here for the first time in English, this landmark book traces the complete...
How war trauma haunted the films of Weimar Germany
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year ban on...
In An Accented Cinema, Hamid Naficy offers an engaging overview of an important trend--the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. How their personal experiences of exile or diaspora...
This book examines the representation of blackness on television at the height of the southern civil rights movement and again in the aftermath of the Reagan-Bush years. In the process, it looks carefully at how television's ideological...
Gone with the Wind an inspiration for the American avant-garde? Mickey Mouse a crucial source for the development of cutting-edge intellectual and aesthetic ideas? As Greg Taylor shows in this witty and provocative book, the idea is not...
In this, the first comprehensive book on Liliana Cavani, Gaetana Marrone redraws the map of postwar Italian cinema to make room for this extraordinary filmmaker, whose representations of transgressive eroticism, spiritual questing, and...
Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world today, yet his films are still largely unknown to the American public. In the first book in English to focus on...
The Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, who died at the age of 88, has been internationally acclaimed as a giant of world cinema. Rashomon, which won both the Venice Film Festival's grand prize and an Academy Award for best...
Famous for their stunts, gags, and images, Buster Keaton's silent films have enticed everyone from Hollywood movie fans to the surrealists, such as Dalí and Buñuel. Here Robert Knopf offers an unprecedented look at the wide-ranging...