Performing Arts
Sundance to Sarajevo
Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun.
The Way Hollywood Tells It
Including the analyses of selected shots and sequences, this book discusses generational, technological, and economic factors leading to stability and change in Hollywood cinema.
Cinema 1
A revolutionary work in philosophy and a book about cinema that identifies three principal types of image-movement using examples from the work of a diverse group of filmmakers including Griffith, Eisenstein, Cassavetes, and Altman.
Cinema 2
Brings to completion Deleuze"s work on the implications of the cinematographic image. In Cinema 2, Deleuze explains why, since World War II, time has come to dominate film. Among the filmmakers discussed are Rossellini, Fellini, Godard, Resnais, Pasolini, and many others.
Citizen Spy
Looking at secret agents on television in the 1950s and 1960s, Michael Kackman explores how Americans see themselves in times of political and cultural crisis. From parodies such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness
Leading scholars address the myriad ways in which America"s attitudes about race informed the production of Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Cutting Edge
Joan Hawkins offers an original and provocative discussion of taste, trash aesthetics, and avant-garde culture of the 1960s and 1970s to reveal the subversiveness of the horror film as a genre.
Noir Anxiety
In Noir Anxiety, Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo interpret what has been called the "free-floating anxiety" of film noir as concrete apprehensions about race and sexuality.
Re-takes
A Choice Outstanding Academic TitleJohn Mowitt investigates the relationship between postcoloniality, national identity, ideology, and filmmaking.