Provides a reading of Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms in the context of contemporary continental philosophy.

Contemplates the future of cinema in light of emerging digital technologies and new systems of distribution.

New essays by prominent film scholars address recent developments in American genre filmmaking.

Explores diverse cultural identities, both theoretically and through concrete, specific interpretations of selected major texts from former British colonies.

Offers a multidisciplinary examination of Star Trek, religion, and American culture.

Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.

Offers a new interpretation of “sympathy” as an instrument for investigating contemporary culture, gender, and visual technique.

Examines performance art and the powerful implications it holds for teaching in the schools.

Examines the psychological, cultural, and political implications of Gothic fiction, and helps to explain why horror writers and filmmakers have found such large and receptive audiences eager for the experience of being scared out of their wits.

Provides the most comprehensive analysis of the rise of citizenship conflict in contemporary France.

Assesses the impact of romanticism on the thought of Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig.

An erudite and wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and romanticism in twentieth-century art and philosophy.

Offers new perspectives on the work of a major filmmaker while making a significant contribution to the study of American cinema.

Explores Paris as a desired and imagined place in Latin American postcolonial identity, uncovering the city's class, gender, political, and aesthetic resonances for Latin America

Examines the film industry's fascination with bondage and captivity.

For vegetarians seeking the historical roots of vegetarianism, for animal rights activists and the environmentally concerned, and for those questioning their consumption of meat, here's a book that provides ...

Six internationally renowned intellectuals are brought together in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that addresses rhetoric, writing, race, feminist theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.

Examines the work and aspirations of women filmmakers in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, as well as in marginalized communities within the United States, with particular attention to issues of gender, race, nation, and aesthetics.

Provides a comprehensive assessment of the political environment and the state of old-age policy and politics and discusses specific, realistic policy options for the future.

Combining case studies and critical analysis, this book examines how the electronic and print media's representation of cultural groups such as African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and Chicanos contribute to the understanding (and misunderstanding) of this country's cultural experience.

Examines popular films made in Hollywood by European directors, offering a fresh take on the much-debated issue of the "great divide" between modernism and mass culture.

Traces Western ideas of corporeal bodies from Plato to contemporary feminist and postructuralist writings, with the purpose of reexamining the good, identified in Plato as that which gives authority to knowledge and truth.

Focusing on the political movements of the 1950s and 1960s, this book argues that the arts can strengthen democracy by politically educating citizens.

This original interdisciplinary book combines autobiographical reflections with a scholarly analysis of a diary the author kept while learning Japanese in Hiroshima.

Explores the relationship between eating and culture from a variety of perspectives, including anthropology, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, race studies, architecture, and AIDS discourse.