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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

Develops a new kind of epistemological position that highlights virtue over more standard epistemological theories.

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.

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