FILM AND CULTURE

A SERIES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

EDITED BY JOHN BELTON

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

Henry Jenkins

Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle

Martin Rubin

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

Thomas Doherty

Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy

William Paul

Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s

Ed Sikov

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

Rey Chow

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

Susan M. White

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

Gaylyn Studlar

Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond

Robin Wood

The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music

Jeff Smith

Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture

Michael Anderegg

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

Thomas Doherty

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

James Lastra

Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts

Ben Singer

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

Robert Lang

Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder

Michele Pierson

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

Lucy Fischer

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

Thomas Doherty

Katharine Hepburn: Star as Feminist

Andrew Britton

Silent Film Sound

Rick Altman

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