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

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