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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 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
ROSALIND GALT
George Gallup in Hollywood
SUSAN OHMER
Electric Sounds: Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media
STEVE J. WURTZLER
The Impossible David Lynch
TODD MCGOWAN
Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility
REY CHOW
Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony
RICHARD ALLEN
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
NOAH ISENBERG
African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen
LINDIWE DOVEY
Film, A Sound Art
MICHEL CHION
Film Studies: An Introduction
ED SIKOV
Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir
PATRICK KEATING
Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine
SAM B. GIRGUS
Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn’s Archives de la Planète
PAULA AMAD
Indie: An American Film Culture
MICHAEL Z. NEWMAN
Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image
ROSALIND GALT
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
HUNTER VAUGHAN
The Utopia of Film: Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik
CHRISTOPHER PAVSEK