Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.

Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.

Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.

Investigates the cultural value of film violence.

A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.

Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.

Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.

Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.

Explores how political activism, art, and popular culture challenge the discrimination and injustice faced by “illegal” and displaced peoples.

An interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary Confucian revival.

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.

Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.

A collection of student essays that captures the passionate engagement their generation brings to the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Passionate and rollicking personal and intellectual essays by philosopher Crispin Sartwell.

Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.

A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.

Surveys the fifty-year career of the avant-garde artist Ushio Shinohara.

Essays on the politics of everyday style.

Considers the ways in which Alfred Hitchcock adapted and transformed a variety of literary works—novels, plays, and short stories—into film.

Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to cinema’s first true blockbuster.

A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.

Tales of the sometimes rich, sometimes famous, but always quirky residents of one of America’s best-known summer colonies, as told by the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers, the area’s free weekly newspaper.