A complete introduction to musical theater from its roots in the eighteenth century through today, written by a master historian.

Rock on Record shows students how to listen to and enjoy the rich repertory of rock records made between the 1950s and 1980s.

Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion.

Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.

The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking.

Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.

Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.

Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York.

Examines representations of religion in Mexican film from the Golden Age to the early twenty-first century.

Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy's most famous postwar film directors.

Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.

Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the unevenness of climate change consequences, and new ways of visualizing the world beyond the human.

Provides a new way of thinking about film's relation to theatre.

Uses extensive archival research to explore the manifold contributions of foreign film workers to emerging film industries in Latin America from the 1930s to early 1940s.

Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film's eleven shots.

Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema.

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.

Presents sculpture, painting, drawings, prints, and photographs from throughout the artist's illustrious career.

A powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of “film imagination” to our lives as human beings in the world.

A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.

The incredible, true story of the twentieth century's greatest performing sea lion and the man who trained him.

Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.

Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.

Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present.

A unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking from cinema’s ultimate insiders.