Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.

A walking tour and history of Bob Dylan's life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock.

A Philosophy of Music Education is considered the classic text on the relation of aesthetics to the practical teaching and performing of music.

A new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author’s experience as a performer.

Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.

Argues that Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s.

Contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically, revealing how it expresses a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern.

Explores Italian filmmakers' representations of China and the Chinese, both at home and abroad.

Shows how punk rock shaped modern culture around the world.

Analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used the internal musical controversies of the turn-of-the-millennium Worship Wars to negotiate their shifting position within the nation's diversifying religious and sociopolitical ecosystems.

Highlights the original cast members—both the well-known and the (until now) wholly unknown—who staged the duo's comic operas in Britain and in America.

Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique.

Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.

Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety.

A visual and narrative memoir of a lifetime's encounters with 112 trendsetters, musicians, politicians, writers, and ordinary people by a noted folklorist-photographer.

A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.

Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960.

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

Studies the force of action, motion, and vision in the early cinema of Hollywood director Raoul Walsh.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.

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

Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.

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

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

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.

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.

Introduces both undergraduate students and general readers to the exploratory mindset and hands-on skills essential to the cultivation of creativity.

Embraces the problems and solutions posed by the dynamic dance of digital technology with the traditions of craftsmanship and perceived value in jewelry.

Shares the unique story of a Christmas tree farm in Poughkeepsie, New York, where, for over four decades, women artists boldly built a space where they could create community and art together.

Lively analysis of how Henry James's fiction anticipates later filmmakers' concerns with what we can see and what we can know.

Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.

Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence.

Examines the role that images of Palestine played in the construction of prewar Jewish American identity.

Traces the giallo mystery/horror genre from its genesis in Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s to its contemporary place in the global cult-film canon.

Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.

Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America.

A dynamic dialogue of poetry and art that reimagines the ancient, biblical concept of sacrifice.

Explores the through-lines in the artist's work across painting, drawing, and sculpture; examining a mystic language that loops between disciplines, coasts, and generations.

Demonstrates that slapstick film comedies display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium.

Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.

Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor works.

A study of the significance of the visual arts in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics in relation to the work of five artists not known or discussed by him.

An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Explores how improv-based teaching and training methods can bridge differences and promote the communication, leadership, and civil skills our world urgently needs.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

Shows how Sawka’s experience as a political refugee, and his working method, which emphasized imagery drawn from memory, resulted in powerful works that speak of and to the universal human condition.

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.

An accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Sikh traditions.

Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music’s original subversive energy.

Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.

Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship.

Catalog of the first museum exhibition of Leonard Contino, a Brooklyn-born, self-taught abstract artist whose tenacious exploration of pictorial space spanned a fifty-year career.

Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

The illustrated nineteenth-century travel diaries of artist, educator, and architect Thomas Kelah Wharton, documenting his trips in the lower Hudson River Valley and New Orleans to Boston and back.

Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.

This book is published by Magazzino Italian Art Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition Paper Media: Boetti, Calzolari, Kounellis, curated by Francesco Guzzetti, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.

Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.

Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.

A rich intellectual encounter, revolving around the hands of the experimenter and those of the artist, highlighting the relation between the sciences and the arts.

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.

The images and essays in this book explore the nuances of Angela Dufresne’s conceptual as well as material approaches to portraiture.

Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.

Exhibition catalogue for the exhibition In Celebration: A Recent Gift from the Photography Collection of Marcuse Pfeifer held at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz from February 9–July 14, 2019.

Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.

Uses Israel’s public diplomacy efforts during the second intifada (2000–2005) as a prime example of interactions between state security, diplomacy, and the media.

How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.

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

The first book-length study of Trecartin’s artistic genealogy, evolving aesthetics, radical approach to digital and Internet culture, and impact on contemporary art, film, and media.

Explores the director's repeated voyages into the dreamlike.

Illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name, featuring forty portraits that explore the range of experiences lived by Americans who identify as transgender and features a new interview with the artist.

Examines Steven Holl’s intricate and distinctive process of making architecture through approximately one hundred models, related sketches and other studies created for nine recent projects.

Explores intervisual case studies in relation to migration, xenophobia, and gender.

Identifies a new genre—misdirection films—and explains its appeal to contemporary producers and audiences.