Compelling case studies of groups in Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, the United States, and Canada using the arts for education, community development, and social movement building.

Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.

Explores how Xu Bing and other contemporary Chinese artists use Western ideas within a Chinese cultural discourse.

Considers the ways in which Alfred Hitchcock adapted and transformed a variety of literary works—novels, plays, and short stories—into film.

An American adventure in the Antonioni vein—visually rich and emotionally mysterious.

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to cinema’s first true blockbuster.

Offers an ironic, upstate New York take on the Olympics, performance, and the risks and rewards of the creative life.

Ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009.

Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women’s incarcerated experiences.

Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the “eating disordered culture” represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of celebrity life.

A biography of one of America’s neglected grand masters.

Exhibition catalog featuring the work of Milton Avery, an artist who brought the sketch, with its spontaneity, movement, and fleetingness, to the status of a finished painting.

A cookbook for—and by—fans of the rock band Phish.

A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.

Examines the relationship of Spain’s 1960s tourist boom to Franco’s right-wing dictatorship.

Photographs and essays that explore the interconnections between the private and the public in the work of Andy Warhol.

Pulitzer Prize–winning photographs document a single mother's emotional and financial struggles as her son battles a rare form of childhood cancer.

The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.

Over forty works spanning the career of pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann.

Uses image and text to explore boundaries and points of contact between video and photography.

Examines the variety of cinematic responses to the Holocaust as well as the Shoah’s impact on cinematic expression itself.

Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.

Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.

Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.

A photographic documentary of both sides of the river, from New York Harbor to Albany, updating and reprinting the classic 1910 Panorama of the Hudson.