Hidden Light

Dan Chyutin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Contemporary Israeli cinema's engagement with Judaism as cultural identity and mystical tradition. Over the past several decades, the prevailing attit... Lees meer

Warriors, Witches, Whores

Rachel S Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Feminist reading of women's representation and activism in Israeli cinema. Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema is a feminist study of I... Lees meer

Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic

Anjeana Hans

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Examines how uncanny films of the Weimar Republic engage with and respond to changing gender norms and women's emancipation. The Weimar period in Germ... Lees meer

Shadows of Doubt

Barry Keith Grant

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Considers representations of masculine identity and sexuality in popular film across the work of several American directors and genres. In Shadows of ... Lees meer

Zones of Anxiety

Vicki Callahan

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• A feminist analysis of the "cinema of uncertainty" through an examination of the crime serials of Louis Feuillade and the work of actress Musidora. Th... Lees meer

New Latin American Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Volume One explores the formation of the New Latin American Cinema movement, its national and continental implications (including the diasporic/exilic... Lees meer

Blackness Is Burning

Treaandrea M Russworm

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Blackness Is Burning critiques the way the politics of recognition and representation appear in popular culture as attempts to "humanize" black identi... Lees meer

Reading Cavell's the World Viewed

Marian Keane, William Rothman

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• A philosophical reexamination of Stanley Cavell's The World Viewed. In their thoughtful study of one of Stanley Cavell's greatest yet most neglected b... Lees meer

Im Kwon-Taek

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema is a collection of essays written about Im Kwon-Taek, better known as the father of New Korean Ci... Lees meer

Virgin Territory

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• A critical and in-depth investigation of how virginity is represented in film. In Virgin Territory contributors consider virginity as it is produced a... Lees meer

From Tinseltown to Bordertown

Celestino Deleyto

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Close readings that look for "the real Los Angeles" in a selection of contemporary movies. Los Angeles is a global metropolis whose history and social... Lees meer

Jane Campion

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• An innovative collection of original essays on Jane Campion, renowned female auteur filmmaker. In Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity a diverse gro... Lees meer

Crowds, Power, and Transformation in Cinema

Lesley Brill

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• A noted critic brings crowd theory to Film Studies, offering a bold new analysis of the pervasive cinematic themes of transformation and power. From I... Lees meer

Montgomery Clift, Queer Star

Elisabetta Girelli

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Considers Montgomery Clift's star persona, film roles, and performances through the lens of queer theory. Strikingly beautiful and exceptionally talen... Lees meer

Imitations of Life

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• This collection of important essays examines melodrama from a variety of perspectives--chronological, theoretical, international, and feminist. Marcia... Lees meer

Britton on Film

Andrew Britton

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Collects all published film criticism by Andrew Britton, a singular voice in film studies whose promising career was cut short by his untimely death. ... Lees meer

The Best Laid Plans

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Explores the significance of the heist film genre. The heist--a carefully organized robbery of a financial institution or other lucrative business--ha... Lees meer

Parables of the Posthuman

Pa

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• A philosophical reading of video gaming that focuses on what it means to be a player. In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works ... Lees meer

Cinema at the Periphery

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Highlights the industries, markets, identities, and histories that distinguish cinema beyond the traditional hubs of mainstream Western cinema. From I... Lees meer

Hidden Light

Dan Chyutin

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Contemporary Israeli cinema's engagement with Judaism as cultural identity and mystical tradition. Over the past several decades, the prevailing attit... Lees meer

Film and Risk

Mette Hjort

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• An interdisciplinary collection exploring the many ways risk plays a role in film. The phenomenon of risk has been seriously neglected in connection w... Lees meer

Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• This volume addresses the influence of Italian neorealist films on world cinema well beyond the post-World War II period associated with the movement.... Lees meer

The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Germany's most important filmmaking movement in conversation with its peers across the globe. The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts: A Transnation... Lees meer

Beyond Blaxploitation

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
• Beyond Blaxploitation is a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movement to ... Lees meer