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Justice on Demand
Justice on Demand: True Crime in the Digital Streaming Era offers a theoretical rumination on the question asked in countless blogs and opinion pieces of the last decade: Why are …
Resetting the Scene
More than a century after its emergence, classical Hollywood cinema remains popular today with cinephiles and scholars alike. Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited, …
New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation
In New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation, editor Betty Kaklamanidou defiantly claims that "all films are adaptations". The wide-ranging chapters included in this book highlight …
The Films of Hal Ashby
This title analyzes the films and filmmaking career of director Hal Ashby, placing his work in the cultural context of filmmaking in the 1970s. Hal Ashby directed eleven feature …
Before the Crash
Contributors examine the early days of video game history before the industry crash that ended the medium’s golden age.
Where the Boys are
The development of young masculine sexuality is still a cultural taboo of sorts, and until now there has been little scholarship available that discusses aspects of boyhood and its …
Framing Hitchcock
In its history the ""Hitchcock Annual"" has established itself as a key source of historical information and critical commentary on one of the central figures in film history and …
Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters
This title considers the history of the American blockbuster - the large-scale, high-cost film - as it evolved from the 1890s to today. The pantheon of big-budget, commercially …
Reading Cavell's the World Viewed
In their study of one of Stanley Cavell's greatest yet most neglected books, William Rothman and Marian Keane address this eminent philosopher's many readers, from a variety of …
Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order
In spite of the difficulty of most American avant-garde films, one can read volumes and find almost no mention of how to view these films. Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order …
Representing the Rural
Although the urban setting in film has received much critical attention, little has been written about the use of land, or the rural, in the cinema - despite its equally prolific …
Millennial Masculinity
In virtually every aspect of culture—health, marriage, family, morals, politics, sex, race, economics—American men of the past two decades have faced changing social conditions and …