Woman-Centered Brazilian Cinema
(October 2022)
Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century Jack A. Draper III - Editor Cacilda M. Rêgo - Editor
Nietzsche in Hollywood
(September 2022)
Images of the Übermensch in Early American Cinema Matthew Rukgaber - Author
No Jurisdiction
(July 2022)
Legal, Political, and Aesthetic Disorder in Post-9/11 Genre Cinema Fareed Ben-Youssef - Author
A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.
No Jurisdiction interweaves autobiography and analysis to explore how a disabled American of French-Arab descent justifies his love for the (super)heroes who destroy brown people like himself. Framing Hollywood genr...(Read More)
White Cottage, White House
(July 2022)
Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema Tony Tracy - Author
Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960.
White Cottage, White House examines how Classical Hollywood cinema developed and deployed Irish American masculinities to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in midcentury America. Largely confined to disc...(Read More)
Studies the force of action, motion, and vision in the early cinema of Hollywood director Raoul Walsh.
Director of over 150 films from 1912 to 1964, Raoul Walsh was a core figure in Hollywood from its beginnings to the end of the studio system. Perhaps best known for such films as The Big Trail (starring John Wayne in his first leading role), High Sierra, and White...(Read More)
Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present.
Drawing on a broad range of primary sources, from trade and government publications to interviews, Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East traces the circulation of Hollywood films across the region from the early twentieth century to the...(Read More)
The Cinematographer's Voice
(April 2022)
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)
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
A powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of “film imagination” to our lives as human beings in the world.
This eloquent book draws on the author's responses to a wide range of extraordinary films—"long takes" on Altman's Nashville, Godard's Hail Mary, Makavejev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism, and von Sternberg's Blon...(Read More)
