Film, Visual Culture, and Performing Arts

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Identity, Memory, and Diaspora

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

Reading Objects 2008

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

Negotiating Democracy

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

The Comedy of Philosophy

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

Religion without Belief

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

Beyond Representational Correctness

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

Exile Cinema

Offers a cross section of international fringe cinema.

Give and Go

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

Environmental Values in Christian Art

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

Seoul Searching

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

Taking on the Pledge of Allegiance

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.

Judy Pfaff

Explores the recent print work of Judy Pfaff, one of America’s leading sculptors, printmakers, installation artists, and set designers.

From Kung Fu to Hip Hop

Explores the revolutionary potential of Bruce Lee and hip hop culture in the context of antiglobalization struggles and transnational capitalism.

Paul Cushman

Overview of the life, work, times, and legacy of renowned Albany potter Paul Cushman (1767-1833)

Indian Ladder

Photographs by John Yang
Subjects: New York/regional

Beautiful landscape photographs of the Helderberg Escaprment in New York State by renowned photographer John Yang.

The Death of Classical Cinema

A study of three classical filmmakers and the films they made at the cusp of the modernist movement in cinema.

The Wind and the Source

Explores the role of a significant yet elusive feature of the French landscape in literature, philosophy, and art.

Reading the Beatles

Addresses the band’s resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music.

Women's Space

Art historical and literary perspectives on the place of women in the medieval church.

Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism

Examines the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement on art and literature around the world.

Reading Objects 2005

Offers innovative examples of how to approach art from a variety of academic disciplines and personal perspectives.

Rebel Without a Cause

Assesses the layered meanings and persistent global legacy of an American film classic.

Cavell on Film

Edited by William Rothman
Introduction by William Rothman
Subjects: Philosophy
Series: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.