Examines the filmic representation of whiteness as indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.
The White Indians of Mexican Cinema theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of whiteness as indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s. Adopting a broad decolonial perspective whil...(Read More)
Writ on Water
(April 2022)
The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination Charles Warren - Author
Screening #MeToo
(March 2022)
Rape Culture in Hollywood Lisa Funnell - Editor Ralph Beliveau - Editor
Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.
Screening #MeToo offers an important and timely discussion of the pervasive nature of rape culture in Hollywood. Essays in the collection examine films released from the 1960s onward, a broad period that coincides with the end of the Motion Picture Producti...(Read More)
The Coming Death
(February 2022)
Traces of Mortality across East Asia Richard F. Calichman - Author
Mexico Unmanned
(December 2021)
The Cultural Politics of Masculinity in Mexican Cinema Samanta Ordóñez - Author
Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.
Iconic images of machismo in Mexico’s classic cinema affirm the national film industry’s historical alignment with the patriarchal ideology intrinsic to the post-revolutionary state’s political culture. Filmmakers gradually turned away from the cultural nationalism of...(Read More)
The Cinematographer's Voice
(December 2021)
Insights into the World of Visual Storytelling Lindsay Coleman - Editor Roberto Schaefer - Editor
A unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking from cinema’s ultimate insiders.
The Cinematographer's Voice is a unique exploration of contemporary filmmaking and cinematography. The distillation of more than one-hundred interviews with cinematographers from around the world, and the product of a decade's worth of scholarship, the book is not only a collection of interviews...(Read More)
Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.
As one of the first countries to implement a neoliberal state apparatus, Mexico serves as a prime example of the effects of neoliberal structural economic reform on our sensibility. Irgmard Emmelhainz argues that, in addition to functioning as a form of politi...(Read More)
The Holiday in His Eye
(October 2021)
Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and Philosophy William Rothman - Author
Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.
From The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell's philosophical work. Cavell was one of the first philosop...(Read More)
Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, Rich and Strange, and Suspicion.
Following from An Eye for Hitchcock and A Dream for Hitchcock, this third volume of reflections upon Alfred Hitchcock’s work gives extensive meditations on six films: ...(Read More)
