Investigates the cultural value of film violence.

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

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

Proposes that cinematic time is not a fixed idea, but a dynamic exchange between film and viewer.

Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.

How Hollywood biopics both showcase and modify various notions of what it means to be an American.

A wide-ranging and accessible approach to Godard’s later work, and a major intervention in the study of film and ethics.

Assesses the range and magnitude of Robert Gardner’s achievements as a filmmaker, photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema.

Argues that Indian cinema’s deep nineteenth-century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty-first-century present.

Documents a volatile and productive moment in the development of film studies.

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.

Traces the development of Indian cinema from the 1920s to the mid-1990s, before "Bollywood" erupted onto the world stage.

A range of approaches to the director's life and work.

Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.

A fresh look at the director’s career.

Offers a new interpretation of the century-long relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.

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.

Considers the ways in which Alfred Hitchcock adapted and transformed a variety of literary works—novels, plays, and short stories—into film.

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to cinema’s first true blockbuster.

The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.

Examines the variety of cinematic responses to the Holocaust as well as the Shoah’s impact on cinematic expression itself.

Uncovers the queer nature of heterosexuality on film.

Uses new critical approaches to demonstrate deep affinities in these vastly different filmmakers’ philosophies on film, fantasy, and reality.

Ecocritical takes on popular film.

Locates the origins of the mass audience and the emergence of everyday moviegoing in the culture of cities.