Cinema Studies

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Screening Precarity

Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India

By Megha Anwer & Anupama Arora
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Cultural Studies

Framing post-millennial Hindi films as cinema of precarity

Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building

By Kwai-Cheung Lo
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

A comprehensive study of China’s ethnic minority cinema from the Republican Era to the present

Down Syndrome Culture

Life Writing, Documentary, and Fiction Film in Iberian and Latin American Contexts

By Benjamin Fraser
Subjects: Disability Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Latinx Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Looking at Down syndrome representation from a global perspective

The South Korean Film Industry

Edited by Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin, and Junhyung Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Art, Art History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A multifaceted exploration of the South Korean film industry

Bateson's Alphabet

The ABC's of Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind

By Jacob Smith
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, American Studies

Connecting Bateson’s ecology of mind with the environmental humanities

Legal Stories

Narrative-Based Property Development in the Modern Copyright Era

By Gregory Steirer
Subjects: Law, Intellectual Property, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature

How copyright law and the practice of narrative-based property development influenced each other before 1978

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

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