Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960.

Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety.

The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.

A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.

A unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking from cinema’s ultimate insiders.

Studies the force of action, motion, and vision in the early cinema of Hollywood director Raoul Walsh.

Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present.

The incredible, true story of the twentieth century's greatest performing sea lion and the man who trained him.

Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.

Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.

A powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of “film imagination” to our lives as human beings in the world.

A novel fusing of multiple approaches and range of examples exploring the dimensions, objects, and import of aesthetic encounters.

Presents sculpture, painting, drawings, prints, and photographs from throughout the artist's illustrious career.

The critical biography of a dynamic and under-represented figure who produced and starred in some of the most innovative works of her day.

Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema.

Uses extensive archival research to explore the manifold contributions of foreign film workers to emerging film industries in Latin America from the 1930s to early 1940s.

Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.

Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy's most famous postwar film directors.

Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.

Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion.

Examines representations of religion in Mexican film from the Golden Age to the early twenty-first century.

Offers both a production history and a close analysis, with a chapter for each of the film's eleven shots.

Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York.

Provides a new way of thinking about film's relation to theatre.