Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.

Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.

The influence of photography and visual culture on the French poet, journalist, and critic.

Uncovers the queer nature of heterosexuality on film.

An overview of an innovative and influential arts organization of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Explores the spiritual vision of Van Gogh’s painting The Night Café.

New York's fascinating history as presented in song.

Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers’ philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.

Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.

Explores the relationship between philosophy and art through the work of Cuban American artist Carlos Estévez.

Feminist and psychoanalytic analysis of spectatorship.

The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.

Offers a detailed picture of the lives of Cuban Americans through interviews with artists, writers, and philosophers.

Ecocritical takes on popular film.

Poems, short stories, and other personal reactions to works in the permanent collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.

Explores the relationship between media and democracy against the broader background of globalization.

Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.

Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

Argues that representational correctness can cause critics to miss the positive work that films and television shows can perform in reducing prejudice.

Offers a cross section of international fringe cinema.

A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.

Discusses the expression of environmental values in Christian art as it displaced pagan aesthetics from the third century to the Reformation.

Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product.

Explores atheist Michael Newdow’s constitutional challenge and how the news media marginalized him from the moment the Ninth Circuit handed down its controversial ruling that the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional.