Phenomenological analysis of beauty and art across various aspects of lived experience and culture.

Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.

Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content.

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.

Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.

Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.

Addresses an understudied yet highly significant aspect of the work of the influential artist Andy Warhol: his exploration of anniversaries.

Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.

Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.

Examines how the US media covers high-profile public policy issues in the context of competing claims about media bias.

Reconstructs how Ray became a “rebel auteur” in cinema culture.

Explores the influence of Bertolt Brecht’s ideas on the practice and study of cinema.

Argues that understanding Huston’s film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker.

Offers new and compelling perspectives on the deeply moral nature of Hitchcock’s films.

Art as yoga and meditation for artists, contemplative practitioners, art educators, and art therapists.

Investigates the cultural value of film violence.

Tells the story of Bavaria’s acquisition of ancient Greek sculptures that rivaled those acquired by England from the Parthenon.

Presents a major new interpretation of the Ashcan School of Art, arguing that these artists made the working class city at the turn of the century a subject for beautiful art.

Explores the rich history, collections, and significance of the only museum in the United States dedicated solely to the art form of dance.

A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.

Contends that the narrative and aesthetic qualities of the documentary genre enable new understandings of animals and animal/human relationships.

Considers film as a form of Buddhist ritual and contemplative practice.

Explores the philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic significance of film endings.

The first guidebook devoted exclusively to New York City’s Art Deco treasures.