An engaging analysis of the catastrophic ways capital perverts market dynamics by a leading scholar of Deleuze.

Dispels the idea that postwar British comedies were apolitical, arguing instead that they presented subversive, iconoclastic, queer experiments in living for a country that was rebuilding and reimagining itself after years of conflict.

Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.

Alters the landscape of Lacanian film theory by revealing an “emancipatory drive” in transnational cinema.

Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.

Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.

A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.

Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema.

Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication.

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.

Explores the “torture” of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema.

Brings together Ana M. López's field-defining essays on Latin American film and media in one indispensable volume.

Extensive meditations on silence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

Explores the figure of the detective as a pursuer of knowledge in four noir films.

The definitive philosophical exploration of the work of pioneering filmmaker Terrence Malick.

Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life.

Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.

Uses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan’s postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.

Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.

Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Argues that Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s.