The Death of Classical Cinema

Joe McElhaney

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• A study of three classical filmmakers and the films they made at the cusp of the modernist movement in cinema. The Death of Classical Cinema uncovers ... Lees meer

Rebel Without a Cause

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Assesses the layered meanings and persistent global legacy of an American film classic. Five decades after the production and initial release of Rebel... 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

Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• A range of approaches to the director's life and work. The director of such classic Hollywood films as In a Lonely Place , Johnny Guitar , and Rebel W... Lees meer

Seoul Searching

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product. Seoul Searching is a collection of fourteen provocative essays about contemporary South Kor... Lees meer

RX Hollywood

Michael Deangelis

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• How films of the 1960s and early 1970s framed therapeutic issues as problems of human communication, and individual psychological problems as social o... Lees meer

Immanent Frames

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief. For some time now, thinkers across... Lees meer

Apocalyptic Dread

Kirsten Moana Thompson

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• The power and presence of dread in recent American cinema. In Apocalyptic Dread, Kirsten Moana Thompson examines how fears and anxieties about the fut... Lees meer

Seoul Searching

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product. Seoul Searching is a collection of fourteen provocative essays about contemporary South Kor... Lees meer

Writ on Water

Charles Warren

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• 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. Thi... Lees meer

Was It Yesterday?

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. Bringing together prominent transatlantic film and media scholars, Was It Yest... Lees meer

The Holiday in His Eye

William Rothman

• Paperback | 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

B Is for Bad Cinema

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics. B Is for Bad Cinema continues and extends, but does not li... Lees meer

Was It Yesterday?

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television. Bringing together prominent transatlantic film and media scholars, Was It Yest... 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. Nietzsche in Hollywood offers a compelling ... Lees meer

Welcome to Fear City

Nathan Holmes

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis. 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Th... Lees meer

Hitchcock, Second Edition

William Rothman

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• An expanded edition of a classic work of film criticism, with a provocative and eloquent new chapter on Marnie, Hitchcock's most heartfelt--and most c... Lees meer

Regarding Life

Belinda Smaill

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Contends that the narrative and aesthetic qualities of the documentary genre enable new understandings of animals and animal/human relationships. As i... Lees meer

Rumble and Crash

Milo Sweedler

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism's precarious state in the early twenty-first century. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, as ... Lees meer

Encountering the Impossible

Alexander Sergeant

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking. 202... 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. The Hard Sell of ... Lees meer

Orienting Italy

Mary Ann McDonald Carolan

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Explores Italian filmmakers' representations of China and the Chinese, both at home and abroad. Winner of the 2022 Book Award for Performance and Visu... Lees meer

Seeing Symphonically

Erica Stein

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York. Can t... Lees meer

Luchino Visconti and the Alchemy of Adaptation

Brendan Hennessey

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema
• Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy's most famous postwar film directors. Since the beginning, much of Italian cinema has b... Lees meer