Argues that Indian cinema’s deep nineteenth-century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty-first-century present.

Highlights Merleau-Ponty’s interest in film and connects it to his aesthetic theory.

Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.

Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.

Documents a volatile and productive moment in the development of film studies.

Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.

Everything you wanted to know about the Lacanian critique of deconstruction, but were afraid to ask the Coen Brothers.

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.

Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

How a collective of artists, storytellers, and activists exploited the new technology of portable video for creative and political purposes.

Traces the development of Indian cinema from the 1920s to the mid-1990s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage.

A range of approaches to the director's life and work.

Discusses both depictions of Buddhism in film and Buddhist takes on a variety of films.

Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.

Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.

A fresh look at the director’s career.

A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics.

Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.

Offers a new interpretation of the century-long relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.

Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou.

Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century

An expanded edition of a classic work of film criticism, with a provocative and eloquent new chapter on Marnie, Hitchcock's most heartfelt--and most controversial--film.

A wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the martial arts.

Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.

Considers the ways in which Alfred Hitchcock adapted and transformed a variety of literary works—novels, plays, and short stories—into film.

An American adventure in the Antonioni vein—visually rich and emotionally mysterious.

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to cinema’s first true blockbuster.

Ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009.

Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the “eating disordered culture” represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of celebrity life.

Examines the relationship of Spain’s 1960s tourist boom to Franco’s right-wing dictatorship.

The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.

Examines the variety of cinematic responses to the Holocaust as well as the Shoah’s impact on cinematic expression itself.

First collection of essays on cinematic motherhood.

Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.

Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.

Uncovers the queer nature of heterosexuality on film.

Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers’ philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.

Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.

Feminist and psychoanalytic analysis of spectatorship.

Ecocritical takes on popular film.

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

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

Offers a cross section of international fringe cinema.

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

How these two cinemas portray complex and changing notions of national and racial identity.

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.

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

The power and presence of dread in recent American cinema.

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

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

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.

Explores philosophical ideas through an examination of popular film.

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

Interviews with prominent filmmakers, actors, and others on the art, craft, and business of moviemaking.

Looks at how therapy and the "talking cure" have been portrayed in the movies.

Examines the many forms of cinematic "badness" over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Examines recent Austen remakes as well as other “post-heritage” films and television shows to show how the past is reshaped for a contemporary market.

A comprehensive look at a classic work of popular fiction and its hold on the American imagination.

Uses close readings of Hitchcock's films to combine an articulation of Lacan's theory of ethics with a discussion of recent theories of feminine subjectivity and queer textuality.

Examines photography and its contribution to changing notions of the body in modernity.

In this bold political rethinking of contemporary film theory, Zavarzadeh overturns the dominant concepts that fetishize film as a work of art or simple entertainment. He demonstrates how aesthetic notions ...