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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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