Cinema & Media Studies
How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TV
How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influence
A historical and theoretical investigation of the unexpected ways screen-based media protect and excite viewers’ fears and anxieties of the world
Essays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual culture
How a modern radio works, told through mathematics, history, and selected puzzles
An arresting illustrated history of twins in mythology, science, and visual culture
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard
"A revelation."—Marc Weingarten, Washington Post
How the urban spectator became the archetypal modern viewer and a central subject in late nineteenth-century French art
A groundbreaking examination of the “double” in modern and contemporary art
A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film
A rich history of underwater filmmaking and how it has profoundly influenced the aesthetics of movies and public perception of the oceans
A powerful portrait of the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time, from the director of Human Flow
A bold new account of how celebrity works
How creative freedom, race, class, and gender shaped the rebellion of two visionary artists
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
A leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period
How New York’s Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing America
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism
From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition...
The History of Italian Cinema is the most comprehensive guide to Italian film ever published. Written by the foremost scholar of Italian cinema and presented here for the first time in English, this landmark book traces the complete...
How war trauma haunted the films of Weimar Germany