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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.

Paintings by contemporary American realist Don Nice, with emphasis on recent works relating to the Hudson Valley.

Explores philosophical ideas through an examination of popular film.

A son’s coming to terms with his mother’s decision to abandon her career as a concert pianist in order to raise her children.

The first comprehensive survey of the work of the Uruguayan printmaker and graphic artist Rimer Cardillo, presented in both English and Spanish.

Provides insight into the ritual lures and effects of mass media spectatorship, especially regarding the pleasures, risks, and purposes of violent display.

Argues for a new kind of criticism, one that mediates between literal and allegorical modes of interpretation.

Documents the influence of Jewish music on American popular song.