Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.

Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

Offers a sustained analysis of both high and low queer culture and its connections to cultural and political processes in Spain.

Critically examines diagnostic and popular discourses on eating disorders.

Essays explore the contemporary contexts, activism, and cultural productions of queer youth and their communities.

A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.

Contributors explore the relationship between food and the production of ideology.

Defends political philosophy and social science against the rival claims of literature and literary criticism.

Explores the trope of modernity in García Ponce’s writings.

Explores the moral and philosophical underpinnings of Vonnegut’s work.

Connects theories of sexual difference to race and queer theories through a focus on “in-between” bodies.

Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product.

New and expanded edition of the now classic study in the phenomenology of sound.

Looks at contemporary sports talk radio and its relations to both traditional and newer forms of masculinity.

A revealing look at gender issues in contemporary sport.

The power and presence of dread in recent American cinema.

Explores the revolutionary potential of Bruce Lee and hip hop culture in the context of antiglobalization struggles and transnational capitalism.

Illuminates the emergence of race as a central concept in philosophy and the social sciences.

Brings etiquette into dialogue with ethics.

A fascinating consideration of the work of life models and the models’ own perspectives on their craft.

Explores the cultural significance of androids.

Looks at how detective films have reflected and shaped our ideas about masculinity, heroism, law and order, and national identity.

An ontology of bodily being featuring Plato, Nietzsche, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Foucault.

Explores the unique and volatile relationship of these two nations and cultures over the past two centuries, as expressed in literature, film, and philosophy.

Recovers a dynamic women’s tradition of vision and sexuality, challenging Darwinian and Freudian accounts of women as nonvisual sexual agents.