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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 …
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 …
Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice
From ""The Wizard of Oz"" to ""Lolita"", from ""Heathers"" to ""Spice Girls - The Movie"", images of girlhood have been projected on the silver screen in myriad ways. Films have …
Comic Venus
Examines the social and historical significance of women’s contributions to American silent film comedy.For many people the term “silent comedy” conjures up images of Charlie …