Considers how sign-reading fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times.

The first book-length study to address the impact of the legacies of slavery on Spanish cultural representations and institutions.

Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.

Original essays on Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics and philosophy of art, written by some of the most important authors in this field, disclosing the possibility of a renewed understanding of Gadamer's thinking in the context of current aesthetic debates.

Three generations of famous movie soundtrack composers reveal the secrets of their art and success.

An engaging analysis of the catastrophic ways capital perverts market dynamics by a leading scholar of Deleuze.

A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock.

Explores experimental cinema and alternative film formats from across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic, from the 1960s to the present.

The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.

Shows the surprising ways T. S. Eliot's work sheds light on—and proves useful to—the contemporary struggle for a freer and more just world.

Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.

Offers a comprehensive and nuanced treatment on the topic of reincarnation in Judaism, covering a wide range of kabbalistic and philosophical sources.

Dispels the idea that postwar British comedies were apolitical, arguing instead that they presented subversive, iconoclastic, queer experiments in living for a country that was rebuilding and reimagining itself after years of conflict.

Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

Offers both theoretical and practical insights into the dialogue between adults and children as a democratic model for schooling.

Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

Develops a theoretical and methodological focus on Blackness to rethink ideas about humanity underpinning the field of student development.

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.

Offers a thorough, multidisciplinary picture of the informational challenges of our media ecosystem, as well as collaborative strategies for addressing them.

Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future.

Elevates in systematic ways the importance of organizational thinking about sustainability and emphasizes the importance of cultural organizations in facilitating societal sustainability goals.

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.