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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

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.

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

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

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

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

Combining photography and essay, presents a speculative portrait of a Jewish immigrant living out the end of his days in New York's midcentury mental health system.

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.

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.

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

Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require.

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