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

Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.

Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America.

Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.

Lively analysis of how Henry James's fiction anticipates later filmmakers' concerns with what we can see and what we can know.

Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence.

Traces the giallo mystery/horror genre from its genesis in Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s to its contemporary place in the global cult-film canon.

Engaging essays on a wide spectrum of Hollywood directors and the films they created.

An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

Demonstrates that slapstick film comedies display a canny and sometimes profound understanding of their medium.

Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor works.

Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music’s original subversive energy.

Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship.

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.

Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.

Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood.

Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require.

Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.

Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.

Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.

Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.