Film Studies
Bodies of Water
Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.
From Havana to Hollywood
Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.
Through a Nuclear Lens
Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.
Listening to Others
A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.
Is Harpo Free?
Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.
The Biggest Thing in Show Business
A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.
The Human Figure on Film
Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.
Yiddish Cinema
Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.
Bay Lodyans
Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.
Torturous Etiquettes
Explores the “torture” of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema.
Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives
Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films.
Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity
Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.
A Silence from Hitchcock
Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Life Above the Clouds
The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.
Ana M. López
Brings together Ana M. López's field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume.
Distancing Representations in Transgender Film
Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life.
Cinema of Discontent
Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan’s postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.
Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema
Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.
The Hard Sell of Paradise
Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Orienting Italy
Explores Italian filmmakers' representations of China and the Chinese, both at home and abroad.
Nietzsche in Hollywood
Argues that Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Tyranny of Common Sense
Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.
The Holiday in His Eye
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.
White Cottage, White House
Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960.
No Jurisdiction
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.