When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and The Evolution of American Film

FILM AND CULTURE

A series of Columbia University Press

EDITED BY JOHN BELTON

What Made Pistachio Nuts? Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic

Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle

Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II

Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy

Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s

Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema

The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman

Black Women as Cultural Readers

Jacqueline Bobo

Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film

Darrell William Davis

Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema

Rhona J. Berenstein

This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age

Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond

The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music

Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture

Michael Anderegg

Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934

Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity

Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts

Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture

Alison Griffiths

Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies

Louis Pizzitola

Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film

Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder

Michele Pierson

Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form

Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture

Katharine Hepburn: Star as Feminist

Silent Film Sound

Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood

Elisabeth Bronfen

Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American

Peter Decherney

Taiwan Film Directors: A Treasure Island

Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell William Davis

Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film

Adam Lowenstein

China on Screen: Cinema and Nation

Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar

The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map

George Gallup in Hollywood

Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media

Steve J. Wurtzler

The Impossible David Lynch

Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility

Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony

Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary

Jonathan Kahana

Eye of the Century: Film, Experience, Modernity

Francesco Casetti

Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View

Alison Griffiths

Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era

Edited by Noah Isenberg

African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen

Film, A Sound Art

Film Studies: An Introduction

Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir

Patrick Keating

Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn’s Archives de la Planète

Indie: An American Film Culture

Michael Z. Newman

Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image

Film and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory

Jörg Schweinitz

Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts

Edited by Lingzhen Wang

Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema

Angela M. Smith

Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet

Peter Decherney

Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity

Lauren Rabinovitz

Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking

The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik

Christopher Pavsek

Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939

Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies

Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933–1951

Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life

After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926–1934

“It’s the Pictures That Got Small”: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age

Edited by Anthony Slide

Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics

Julie A. Turnock

Maya Deren: Incomplete Control

Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media

Adam Lowenstein

Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis

The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come

Francesco Casetti

The End of Cinema? A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age

André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion

Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space

Brian R. Jacobson

Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film