Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films.

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.

Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.

Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Argues that Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s.

Explores Italian filmmakers' representations of China and the Chinese, both at home and abroad.

Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.

Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the unevenness of climate change consequences, and new ways of visualizing the world beyond the human.

The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking.