Film Studies
Bombay before Bollywood
Traces the development of Indian cinema from the 1920s to the mid-1990s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage.
Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground
A range of approaches to the director's life and work.
Buddhism and American Cinema
Discusses both depictions of Buddhism in film and Buddhist takes on a variety of films.
B Is for Bad Cinema
Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.
The Transatlantic Gaze
Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.
Lost in Transition
Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.
Being, Time, Bios
A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics.
Hollywood's New Yorker
A fresh look at the director’s career.
Native Recognition
Offers a new interpretation of the century-long relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.
The Structures of Love
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.
Body as Evidence
Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century
Hitchcock, Second Edition
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.
Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge
A wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the martial arts.
Queer Times, Queer Becomings
Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.
Hitchcock at the Source
Considers the ways in which Alfred Hitchcock adapted and transformed a variety of literary works—novels, plays, and short stories—into film.
The Sadness of Antonioni
An American adventure in the Antonioni vein—visually rich and emotionally mysterious.
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination
An authoritative and comprehensive guide to cinema’s first true blockbuster.
Detecting Women
Ambitious and comprehensive history of the female detective in Hollywood film from 1929 to 2009.
Body Shots
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.
Destination Dictatorship
Examines the relationship of Spain’s 1960s tourist boom to Franco’s right-wing dictatorship.
Second Takes
The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.
Cinema and the Shoah
Examines the variety of cinematic responses to the Holocaust as well as the Shoah’s impact on cinematic expression itself.
Motherhood Misconceived
First collection of essays on cinematic motherhood.
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.
Burning Darkness
Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.