Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.

Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.

A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid's Tale and Game of Thrones.

How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social ones.

The first book-length study of Trecartin’s artistic genealogy, evolving aesthetics, radical approach to digital and Internet culture, and impact on contemporary art, film, and media.

Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.

Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

Explores the director's repeated voyages into the dreamlike.

Identifies a new genre—misdirection films—and explains its appeal to contemporary producers and audiences.

Explores intervisual case studies in relation to migration, xenophobia, and gender.

Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.

Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.

Investigates the cultural value of film violence.

Reconstructs how Ray became a “rebel auteur” in cinema culture.

Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue.

Explores the influence of Bertolt Brecht’s ideas on the practice and study of cinema.

Offers new and compelling perspectives on the deeply moral nature of Hitchcock’s films.

Argues that understanding Huston’s film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker.

A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.

Contends that the narrative and aesthetic qualities of the documentary genre enable new understandings of animals and animal/human relationships.