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Flamboyant Fictions
Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from the advent of literary and filmic modernism to the present day.
Film and Everyday Resistance
Series: Superimpositions
Taking Václav Havel’s concept of “living within the truth” as a throughline, Marguerite La Caze’s reading of international cinema reveals how ordinary people can enact their own philosophies of defiance in the face of authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
Negative Life
Series: Superimpositions
How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanityNegative Life: The Cinema of Extinction brings cinema studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis into novel configuration around the concept...
Intermedialities
Series: Superimpositions
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
Series: 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
Series: Diaeresis
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.
Flamboyant Fictions
Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from the advent of literary and filmic modernism to the present day.
Film and Everyday Resistance
Series: Superimpositions
Taking Václav Havel’s concept of “living within the truth” as a throughline, Marguerite La Caze’s reading of international cinema reveals how ordinary people can enact their own philosophies of defiance in the face of authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
Negative Life
Series: Superimpositions
Intermedialities
Series: Superimpositions
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
Precarious Intimacies
Only Among Women
Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Hitchcock's People, Places, and Things
Cinema of Confinement
Series: Diaeresis