Popular Culture
Age of Shōjo
Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.
Immanent Frames
Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.
Ripping England!
Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.
Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes
Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.
Gestures of Love
Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.
Passionate Detachments
Investigates the cultural value of film violence.
Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries
A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.
Ghost Faces
Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.
Lessons Learned from Popular Culture
Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.
The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition
Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.
Immigrant Protest
Explores how political activism, art, and popular culture challenge the discrimination and injustice faced by “illegal” and displaced peoples.
The Sage Returns
An interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary Confucian revival.
Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors
Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.
B Is for Bad Cinema
Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.
A Wizard of Their Age
A collection of student essays that captures the passionate engagement their generation brings to the Harry Potter phenomenon.
How to Escape
Passionate and rollicking personal and intellectual essays by philosopher Crispin Sartwell.
The Transatlantic Gaze
Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.
Endtimes?
A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.
Shinohara Pops!
Surveys the fifty-year career of the avant-garde artist Ushio Shinohara.
Fashion Talks
Essays on the politics of everyday style.
Hitchcock at the Source
Considers the ways in which Alfred Hitchcock adapted and transformed a variety of literary works—novels, plays, and short stories—into film.
Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions
Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.
Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination
An authoritative and comprehensive guide to cinema’s first true blockbuster.
Roman Candle
A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.
In the Hamptons Too
Tales of the sometimes rich, sometimes famous, but always quirky residents of one of America’s best-known summer colonies, as told by the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers, the area’s free weekly newspaper.