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Greasepaint Puritan

Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes

By Maya Cantu
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Recovers the life and art of Bradford Ropes, author of 42nd Street and chronicler of gay lives in early show business

Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind

Tampering with Myths

By Caryl Flinn
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Out of the Archives

A critical analysis of Alan Rudolph’s dreamy neo-noir

Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By Pavitra Sundar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Women's Studies

On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema

Bits and Pieces

Screening Animal Life and Death

By Sarah O'Brien
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies

How and why animals—especially dead animals—matter in film and television

Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist

The Films of Suzuki Seijun

By Peter A. Yacavone
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The definitive study of the pathbreaking and controversial Japanese film director who expanded the form, rhetoric, and philosophy of popular genre movies

Cinema Ann Arbor

How Campus Rebels Forged a Singular Film Culture

By Frank Uhle
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan, Art and Culture

A fascinating journey into the DIY spirit of a highly influential film community

Thirty-two New Takes on Taiwan Cinema

Edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, and Wenchi Lin
Subjects: Asian Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

A film-by-film introduction to Taiwan cinema and cultures

Méliès Boots

Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris

By Matthew Solomon
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Examines the work of pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès in relationship to Second Industrial Revolution's advances in technology, transportation, and chemistry

Magnificent Méliès

The Authorized Biography

By Madeleine Malthête-Méliès
Translated by Kel Pero
Edited by Matthew Solomon
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Biography of pioneer early filmmaker Georges Méliès, now in English

“A Great Wall”

A Learning Guide

Second Edition

By Jing-heng Ma
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Film Guides for Students of Chinese

A student guide for the critically acclaimed 1986 film A Great Wall

Anti-Heimat Cinema

The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape

By Ofer Ashkenazi
Subjects: German Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Jewish Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Jewish filmmakers inspire New German Cinema within the discursive landscape of the German “Heimat”

Rediscovering Korean Cinema

By Sangjoon Lee
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

The first comprehensive volume examining the state, stakes, and future direction of Korean cinema studies.
 

The Matter of Disability

Biopolitics, Materiality, Crip Affect

Edited by David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi, and Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Breaks new ground by exploring the limits and transformations of the social model of disability

The Matter of Disability

Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect

Edited by David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi, and Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Breaks new ground by exploring the limits and transformations of the social model of disability

Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China

Kaleidoscopic Histories

Edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Asian Studies, China

A pathbreaking collection of essays on early Chinese-language cinema

My Life as a Filmmaker

By Satsuo Yamamoto
Translated by Chia-ning Chang
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Biography
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A riveting autobiography of Yamamoto Satsuo (1910–83), one of the most important and critically acclaimed postwar Japanese film directors

Science Fiction in Argentina

Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse

By Joanna Page
Subjects: Latin American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Cultural Studies

An exploration of science fiction literature, cinema, theater, and comics from Argentina over the last 140 years.

In Permanent Crisis

Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema

By Ipek A. Celik
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Cultural Studies, European Studies

Dissects the ways filmmakers frame ethnic and racial Otherness in Europe as adornments of catastrophe

Religion and Spanish Film

Luis Buñuel, the Franco Era, and Contemporary Directors

By Elizabeth Scarlett
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, European Studies

How Spanish directors have handled religious themes, with their highly-charged political implications, from the historical avant-garde to 2010

Shipwrecked

Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World

By James Morrison
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 19th Century Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film

Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel

By Yaron Shemer
Subjects: Jewish Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Cultural Studies

A comprehensive examination of Mizrahi film and its relationship to the formulation of Mizrahi ethnic identity in contemporary Israeli cinema

The Imprint of Another Life

Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility

By Margaret Homans
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Philosophy

How adoption and its literary representations shed new light on notions of value, origins, and identity

Mex-Ciné

Mexican Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the Twenty-first Century

By Frederick Luis Aldama
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Race and Ethnicity

A multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema

Culture in the Anteroom

The Legacies of Siegfried Kracauer

By Johannes von Moltke & Gerd Gemunden
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, History, German History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

An interdisciplinary approach to Kracauer's body of work

The Problem of the Color[blind]

Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance

By Brandi Wilkins Catanese
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, African American Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How the debate on colorblind versus multicultural casting sheds light on on larger sociopolitical questions

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