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Negative Life
How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism’s emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection, Negative Life:...
Intermedialities
Understanding democracy through film philosophy and political theory
Four of the Three Musketeers
Four of the Three Musketeers is the definitive history of the Marx Brothers’ hardscrabble early years honing their act in front of live audiences on the vaudeville circuit.
The Hygienic Apparatus
The Hygienic Apparatus traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. The book analyzes classic films, documentaries, cinema architecture, and studio practices.
Precarious Intimacies
This book interrogates the politics and aesthetics of intimacy in European cinema through the lens of precarity.
Only Among Women
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Only Among Women investigates the idea of women’s community—a utopian women’s sphere ostensibly free from the taint of money, sex, or self-interest—in Russian literature and culture from the age of the classic Russian novel to socialist realism and Stalinist film.
Hitchcock's People, Places, and Things
Hitchcock’s People, Places, and Things traces the complex relations of human and nonhuman agents in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Cinema of Confinement
Drawing on Lacan's notion of the gaze, Cinema of Confinement argues that the transformation of space within confined locations in cinema is a result of how the filmmaker articulates and visualizes the excess of the image.
Kafka and Noise
A series of disruptive, unnerving sounds haunts the fictional writings of Franz Kafka. These include the painful squeak in Gregor Samsa's voice, the indeterminate whistling of Josefine the singer,...
Mapping Warsaw
An interdisciplinary study that analyzes photobooks, newsreels, feature films, and fiction from 1945 to 1956, Mapping Warsaw: The Spatial Poetics of a Postwar City by Ewa Wampuszyc demonstrates how the postwar Polish capital was rebuilt discursively in the aftermath of its near-complete destruction during World War II.
Negative Life
How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism’s emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection, Negative Life:...
Intermedialities
Understanding democracy through film philosophy and political theory
Four of the Three Musketeers
Four of the Three Musketeers is the definitive history of the Marx Brothers’ hardscrabble early years honing their act in front of live audiences on the vaudeville circuit.
The Hygienic Apparatus
The Hygienic Apparatus traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. The book analyzes classic films, documentaries, cinema architecture, and studio practices.
Precarious Intimacies
This book interrogates the politics and aesthetics of intimacy in European cinema through the lens of precarity.
Only Among Women
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Only Among Women investigates the idea of women’s community—a utopian women’s sphere ostensibly free from the taint of money, sex, or self-interest—in Russian literature and culture from the age of the classic Russian novel to socialist realism and Stalinist film.
Hitchcock's People, Places, and Things
Hitchcock’s People, Places, and Things traces the complex relations of human and nonhuman agents in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Cinema of Confinement
Drawing on Lacan's notion of the gaze, Cinema of Confinement argues that the transformation of space within confined locations in cinema is a result of how the filmmaker articulates and visualizes the excess of the image.
Kafka and Noise
A series of disruptive, unnerving sounds haunts the fictional writings of Franz Kafka. These include the painful squeak in Gregor Samsa's voice, the indeterminate whistling of Josefine the singer,...
Mapping Warsaw
An interdisciplinary study that analyzes photobooks, newsreels, feature films, and fiction from 1945 to 1956, Mapping Warsaw: The Spatial Poetics of a Postwar City by Ewa Wampuszyc demonstrates how the postwar Polish capital was rebuilt discursively in the aftermath of its near-complete destruction during World War II.