Film history, theory or criticism

Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed.

In The Hypersexuality of Race, Celine Parrenas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions.

While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886-1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), in the early twentieth century he was an internationally renowned silent film star, as recognizable as Charlie Chaplin or Douglas Fairbanks.

Few movie stars have meant as many things to as many different audiences as the iconic Marlene Dietrich.

Why were theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and object relations bypassed in favor of a Lacanian linguistically oriented psychoanalysis in feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1990s?

In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage.

Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France's leading feminist film scholars.

In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles-based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many "e;below-the-line"e; laborers, including gaffers, editors, and camera operators.

In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe.

One of the most prolific and respected directors of Japanese cinema, Naruse Mikio (1905-69) made eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967.

Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies.

For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies.

In Cupboards of Curiosity Amelie Hastie rethinks female authorship within film history by expanding the historical archive to include dollhouses, scrapbooks, memoirs, cookbooks, and ephemera.

Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema.

Some women attack and harm men who abuse them.

How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire's loss of moral authority and political cohesion?

In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A.

Performance in America demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.

A timely contribution to the fields of film history, visual cultures, and globalization studies, Cinematic Prophylaxis provides essential historical information about how the representation of biological contagion has affected understandings of the origins and vectors of disease.

Holden Caulfield, the beat writers, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and James Dean-these and other avatars of youthful rebellion were much more than entertainment.

Novelist, television personality, political candidate, and maverick social commentator, Gore Vidal is one of the most innovative, influential, and enduring American intellectuals of the past fifty years.

Over the past two decades, the renowned political theorist William E.

With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem today to epitomize camp.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole People-they stalked and oozed into audiences' minds during the era that followed Boris Karloff's Frankenstein and preceded terrors like Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Chucky (Child's Play).

With hair slicked back and shirt collar framing her young patrician face, Katherine Hepburn's image in the 1935 film Sylvia Scarlett was seen by many as a lesbian representation.

The headlong rush, the rapid montage, the soaring superhero, the plunging roller coaster-Matters of Gravity focuses on the experience of technological spectacle in American popular culture over the past century.

Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "e;performative realism,"e; a realism that does not simply represent a given reality but enacts actual social tensions.

From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical.

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship.

What does camp have to do with capitalism?

The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality.

Black Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France.

Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin.

Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iran's film industry, in conforming to the Islamic Republic's system of modesty, had to ensure that women on-screen were veiled from the view of men.

From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience.

For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies.

Latent Destinies examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread in this century.

In the postwar years, Italy underwent a far-reaching process of industrialization that transformed the country into a leading industrial power.

The image of the movie-obsessed gay man is a widely circulating and readily recognizable element of the contemporary cultural landscape.

Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay audiences?

In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s.

This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism.

In Empty Moments, Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as "e;drift"e;-the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present.

In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial motion picture theaters.

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "e;postmodernism"e;.

During the 1960s and early 1970s, Japanese avant-garde filmmakers intensely explored the shifting role of the image in political activism and media events.

D-Passage is a unique book by the world-renowned filmmaker, artist, and critical theorist Trinh T.

In The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956, Noel Burch and Genevieve Sellier adopt a sociocultural approach to films made in France before, during, and after World War II, paying particular attention to the Occupation years (1940-44).

By developing the concept of the "e;digital effects emblem,"e; Kristen Whissel contributes a new analytic rubric to cinema studies.

In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C.