Doing Time

Lee Carruthers

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Lee Carruthers is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Calgary. Lees meer

B Is for Bad Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Claire Perkins is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of American Smart Cinema and... Lees meer

Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives

Jason Jacobs

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films. Lees meer

Rumble and Crash

Milo Sweedler

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• At the beginning of the twenty-first century, as the contradictions of capitalism became more apparent than at any other time since the 1920s, numerou... Lees meer

Apocalyptic Dread

Kirsten Moana Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Kirsten Moana Thompson is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wayne State University and coeditor (with Terri Ginsberg) of Perspectives on German C... Lees meer

The Hard Sell of Paradise

Jason Sperb

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai'i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s. Lees meer

Ecology and Popular Film

Robin L Murray, Joseph K Heumann

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Ecology and Popular Film examines representations of nature in mainstream film while also looking at film itself as a form of nature writing. Consider... Lees meer

From El Dorado to Lost Horizons

Ken Windrum

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Investigates how musicals, war films, sex comedies, and Westerns dealt with contentious issues during a time of change in Hollywood. Lees meer

Race and the Suburbs in American Film

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the present... Lees meer

Funny How?

Alex Clayton

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• What makes something funny? This book shows how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayton argues that the brevity of a sketch or sk... Lees meer

Miraculous Realism

Niels Niessen

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first... Lees meer

The Holiday in His Eye

William Rothman

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably ... Lees meer

Doing Time

Lee Carruthers

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Doing Time addresses two areas of interest in recent film study--film temporality and film philosophy--to propose an innovative theorization of cinema... Lees meer

Queer Art Camp Superstar

Ricardo E Zulueta

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Hailed as "the most consequential artist to have emerged since the nineteen-eighties," American artist and filmmaker Ryan Trecartin has received numer... Lees meer

Passionate Detachments

Amy Rust

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Passionate Detachments investigates the rise of graphic violence in American films of the late 1960s and early 1970s and the popular aesthetics and cr... Lees meer

From El Dorado to Lost Horizons

Ken Windrum

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• The era known as the Hollywood Renaissance is celebrated as a time when revolutionary movies broke all the rules of the previous "classical" era as pa... Lees meer

Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives

Jason Jacobs

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films. Lees meer

Encountering the Impossible

Alexander Sergeant

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Shortlisted for the 2022 Best First Monograph Award presented by the British Association of Film, Television an... Lees meer

Tuitions and Intuitions

William Rothman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film. Lees meer

Funny How?

Alex Clayton

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele , to probe how humor works. Lees meer

Encounters with Godard

James S Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Encounters with Godard takes the reader on a personal voyage into the sensory pleasures and polyphonic rhythms of Jean-Luc Godard's multimedia work si... Lees meer

Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East

Nolwenn Mingant

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Traces the circulation of Hollywood films in North Africa and the Middle East from the early twentieth century to the present. Lees meer

Nietzsche in Hollywood

Matthew Rukgaber

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Argues that Nietzsche's idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s. Lees meer

Distancing Representations in Transgender Film

Lucy J Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and fo... Lees meer