Film, Visual Culture, and Performing Arts
Second Takes
The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.
Carolee Schneemann
Over forty works spanning the career of pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann.
Superstructure
Uses image and text to explore boundaries and points of contact between video and photography.
Cinema and the Shoah
Examines the variety of cinematic responses to the Holocaust as well as the Shoah’s impact on cinematic expression itself.
Cuban-American Literature and Art
Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.
Aesthetics of Anxiety
Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.
Non-discursive Rhetoric
Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.
Panorama of the Hudson River
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.
Motherhood Misconceived
First collection of essays on cinematic motherhood.
The Suffering Will Not Be Televised
Explores how the suffering of African American women has been minimized and obscured in U.S. culture.
Eva Watson-Schütze
An overview of the career of Eva Watson-Schütze (1867–1935), one the foremost American women photographers of the early twentieth century.
The Hudson River to Niagara Falls
A stunning selection of paintings by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John W. Casilear, George Inness, and others, depicting landscapes, historic sites, natural wonders, and waterways of New York State.
Woodstock
The definitive oral history of the Woodstock rock festival.
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.
Burning Darkness
Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.
Frameworks for Mallarmé
The influence of photography and visual culture on the French poet, journalist, and critic.
Hetero
Uncovers the queer nature of heterosexuality on film.
Taking a Different Tack
An overview of an innovative and influential arts organization of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Mystery of The Night Café
Explores the spiritual vision of Van Gogh’s painting The Night Café.
New York Sings
New York's fascinating history as presented in song.
Three Documentary Filmmakers
Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers’ philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.
Digital Diaspora
Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.
Images of Thought
Explores the relationship between philosophy and art through the work of Cuban American artist Carlos Estévez.
Feminine Look
Feminist and psychoanalytic analysis of spectatorship.
Decadent Culture in the United States
The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.