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 Cinema 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 Edited by 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
Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939 Thomas Doherty
Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies Ariel Rogers
Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933–1951 Gerd Gemünden
Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life C. Scott Combs
After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926–1934 Michael Slowik
“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 Sarah Keller
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media Adam Lowenstein
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis Justin Remes
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 Christian Metz
When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film William Paul
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America Alison Griffiths
Unspeakable Histories: Film and the Experience of Catastrophe William Guynn
Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic Blake Atwood
Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood’s New World Order Jonathan Buchsbaum
After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation Erika Balsom
Words on Screen Michel Chion
Essays on the Essay Film Edited by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan
The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction Nora Alter
Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes Maggie Hennefeld
Melodrama Unbound: Across History, Media, and National Cultures Edited by Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams
Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist Thomas Doherty
Cinema/Politics/Philosophy Nico Baumbach
The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood Patrick Keating
Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies Hunter Vaughan