During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music....

Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue to be, disrupted and challenged...

KIlbourn offers the first comprehensive study published in the English-speaking world on one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first century European film...

Bryne examines the technologically-mediated interactions that developed between live performances and their circulating images during this fraught period...

An interview with Joel West

Gomer illustrates the myriad of ways that Hollywood relied on and helped solidify an emerging ideology of colorblindness in the wake of the civil rights movement...

Arendell creates a revolutionary fusion of disability studies and performance studies...

A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military..,.

Leonard examines the music and musicians that accompanied silent movies that she calls “spirit films”...

The book examines how TV impacts our expectations of leadership, organizational life, and pedagogy.

Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?

Brown engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature...

Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...

Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...

This book examines what is at stake in deploying humor in representing the Holocaust...

Black presents an insightful and hugely entertaining exploration of the political and cultural context of the Bond books and films...

Each chapter in Filmed Thought treats a film in-depth, including works by Hitchcock, Ray, Malick, Sirk, Almodovar, Polanski, and the Dardenne brothers...

Wilkman offers a a widescreen view of how American “truth” has been discovered, defined, projected, televised, and streamed,,,

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Crim explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty years...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

“In the game of thrones you either win or you die."

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Hara explores the collaboration between Hisaishi and Miyazaki Hayao, the film’s creator and director...

Hoerl explores the construction of “the sixties” in Hollywood media, from Family Ties and The Wonder Years to Law and Order, arguing that these texts have proved dismissive, if not adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social change...