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

A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics.

A fresh look at the director’s career.

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.

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

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

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.