Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.

Everything you wanted to know about the Lacanian critique of deconstruction, but were afraid to ask the Coen Brothers.

Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

How a collective of artists, storytellers, and activists exploited the new technology of portable video for creative and political purposes.

A philosophical perspective on the relation between Paul Klee’s art and his thought.

Traces the development of Indian cinema from the 1920s to the mid-1990s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage.

A range of approaches to the director's life and work.

Discusses both depictions of Buddhism in film and Buddhist takes on a variety of films.

Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.

Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American modernism.

Passionate and rollicking personal and intellectual essays by philosopher Crispin Sartwell.

Contemporary work by artists of color from the Center for Photography at Woodstock.

Explores the significant impact that the metallurgist Dick Polich and his foundry, Tallix, have had on contemporary art.

An innovative approach to teaching Chinese language and culture, using folk and popular songs.

A transformative look at a popular instrument and a hidden chapter of American history.

Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.

Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future.

Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

Explores how contemporary artists use gifts, barter, and other forms of nonmonetary exchange as a means and medium of artistic production.

Celebrates the first exhibition devoted to the finely crafted and researched costumes, objects, and drawings that Mary Reid Kelley creates for her visually and intellectually stimulating videos made in collaboration with Patrick Kelley.

Incisive exploration of the work of Cuban-American artist Alberto Rey.

The first scholarly exhibition catalogue of the work of Eugene Speicher (1883-1962), one of the foremost American realists of his generation, who was closely associated with George Bellows, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, and Rockwell Kent.

Uses autobiographical and cultural narratives related to art research and practice to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among learners’ own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others.

A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.