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B Is for Bad Cinema
(March 2014)
Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value
Claire Perkins - Editor
Constantine Verevis - Editor
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Male Beauty
(March 2014)
Postwar Masculinity in Theater, Film, and Physique Magazines
Kenneth Krauss - Author
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Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.
In the decades that followed World War II, Americans searched for and often founds signs of a new masculinity that was younger, sensitive, and sexually ambivalent. Male Beauty examines the theater, film, and magazines of the time in order to illuminate how each one put forward a version of male gendering that de...(Read More) |
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Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground
(February 2014)
Nicholas Ray in American Cinema
Steven Rybin - Edited and with an introduction by
Will Scheibel - Edited and with an introduction by
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Lost in Transition
(June 2013)
Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China
Yiu-Wai Chu - Author
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Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.
In this timely and insightful book, Yiu-Wai Chu takes stock of Hong Kong’s culture since its transition to a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China in 1997. Hong Kong had long functioned as the capitalist and democratic stepping stone to China for much of the world. Its highly original popular culture was w...(Read More) |
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Being, Time, Bios
(May 2013)
Capitalism and Ontology
A. Kiarina Kordela - Author
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A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics.
Although both share a focus on human life as it is inscribed by power, Foucauldian biopolitics and Lacanian psychoanalysis have remained isolated from and even opposed to one another. In Being, Time, Bios, A. Kiarina Kordelaaims to overcome this divide, formulating a historical ontology that draws from Spinoza, Marx, Heidegger, and Sartre to theorize the changed character of &l...(Read More) |
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Hollywood's New Yorker
(April 2013)
The Making of Martin Scorsese
Marc Raymond - Author
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A fresh look at the director’s career.
When Martin Scorsese finally won an Academy Award in 2007, for The Departed, it was widely viewed as the crowning achievement of a remarkable film career. But what it also represented was an acceptance by Hollywood of a man who became a prestigious auteur precisely because of his status as an outsider from New York. For someone with a high-culture reputation like Scorsese&rs...(Read More) |
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Native Recognition
(December 2012)
Indigenous Cinema and the Western
Joanna Hearne - Author
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Offers a new interpretation of the century-long relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.
In Native Recognition, Joanna Hearne persuasively argues for the central role of Indigenous image-making in the history of American cinema. Across the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries, Indigenous peoples have been involved in cinema as performers, directors, writers, consultants, crews,...(Read More) |
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Body as Evidence
(October 2012)
Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender
Janell Hobson - Author
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Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century.
In Body as Evidence, Janell Hobson challenges postmodernist dismissals of identity politics and the delusional belief that the Millennial era reflects a “postracial” and “postfeminist” world. Hobson points to diverse examples in cultural narratives, which suggest that new media...(Read More) |
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Hitchcock, Second Edition
(August 2012)
The Murderous Gaze
William Rothman - Author
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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.
First published in 1982, William Rothman’s Hitchcock is a classic work of film criticism. Written in an engaging style that is philosophically sophisticated yet free of jargon, and using over nine hundred images from the ...(Read More) |
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