Films, Cinema

This groundbreaking film study begins with a survey of American print humorists from eras leading up to and overlapping the advent of film--inclu...

This is the first English translation of Alain Bergala's seminal text on the potentials, possibilities, and problems of bringing film to schools an...

Dominik Graf, an exception in the film/television business, is a man of many parts. This is precisely what makes him so fascinating. He is a genre ...

In the often dreary landscape of Hollywood's blockbuster era, the cinema of Joe Dante has always stood out as a rare beacon of fearless originality...

The Cinema of Bela Tarr is a critical analysis of the work of Hungary's most prominent and internationally best known film director, written by a s...

Contemporary media seems incredibly unoriginal, as Hollywood produces an endless flood of remakes, sequels, reboots, and franchises. We watch as th...

Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema. Over the course of a f...

Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of Americas most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies ...

Black women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about film h...

In contemporary culture, existing audiovisual recordings are constantly reused and repurposed for various ends, raising questions regarding the eth...

There She Goes Again interrogates the representation of ostensibly powerful women in transmedia franchises, examining how presumed feminine traitsl...

How the creative use of pop music in filmthink Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Nowhas shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s Quick: Wh...

Posits a new, aesthetically and politically radical, transnational German cinema - transnational also in the sense of concerns with migration, the ...

A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of methodness to entrenched understandings of screen performance still d...

The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-work...

In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and many traveled west. Los Angele...

On Screen and Off shows that the making of Nazism was a local affair and the Nazi city a product of more than models and plans emanating from Berli...

An in-depth look at one of the film industry's most audacious working actors In 1982, a gangly teenager named Nicolas Coppola made his film debut ...

Since their beginnings in the 1930s, Hindi films and film songs have dominated Indian public culture in India, and have also made their presence fe...