Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s
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"Movie criticism's Dostoyevsky ...Taylor reveals a national identity forged from the innocence we...
Imperial Affects: Sensational Melodrama and the Attractions of American Cinema
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In American culture and history, a feeling of national identity and belonging have often derived...
Signs and Images. Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography: Essays and Interviews, Volume 4
Roland Barthes and Chris Turner
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Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and...
Screen Presence: Cinema Culture and the Art of Warhol, Rauschenberg, Hatoum and Gordon
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Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media and contemporary art through the...
Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress: The Golden Age of Italian Cult Cinema, 1970-1985
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In recent years, there has been an explosion of critical interest in the icons, genres and...
Making Sense of Cinema: Empirical Studies into Film Spectators and Spectatorship
Christopher J. Olson and CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
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There are a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to researching how film spectators...
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Beauvoirian Perspective
Jean-Pierre Boule and Ursula Tidd
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Simone de Beauvoir's work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical...
Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity
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In Uplift Cinema, Allyson Nadia Field recovers the significant yet forgotten legacy of African...
Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks: Gender, Genre and Film Sound in American Cinema
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The representation of gender in film remains an intensely debated topic, particularly in academic...
Girls Will be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
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Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions with the cinematic...