Film, Visual Culture, and Performing Arts
Affectual Erasure
Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.
Liminal Sovereignty
Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.
Blood Circuits
Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.
Just My Type
The images and essays in this book explore the nuances of Angela Dufresne’s conceptual as well as material approaches to portraiture.
An Archive of the Catastrophe
Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.
In Celebration
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.
Fire and Snow
A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid's Tale and Game of Thrones.
Rx Hollywood
How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.
Anti-Music
Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
Queer Art Camp Superstar
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.
Adapting Gender
Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.
Echoes of a Queer Messianic
Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.
Immanent Frames
Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.
Hearts and Minds
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.
A Dream of Hitchcock
Explores the director's repeated voyages into the dreamlike.
The Trans List
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.
Steven Holl
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.
Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding
Phenomenological analysis of beauty and art across various aspects of lived experience and culture.
Are You Watching Closely?
Identifies a new genre—misdirection films—and explains its appeal to contemporary producers and audiences.
Affective Images
Explores intervisual case studies in relation to migration, xenophobia, and gender.
Imagination, Music, and the Emotions
Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content.
Beyond Beauty
Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.
Ripping England!
Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.
Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes
Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.
Marking Time
Addresses an understudied yet highly significant aspect of the work of the influential artist Andy Warhol: his exploration of anniversaries.