As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It is up to each generation to commemorate the victims...

Izharuddin explores the development of the Islamic film genre with a specific focus on gender representation...

What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling?

Past studies a complex of issues surrounding on-location films made in Italy and the way their production leaves lasting, material traces on the environment...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

"Black Freedom" features the work of writers, artists, and activists, as they imagine gender justice through the framework of Wakanda...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Issacs uses cinema as an analytical tool to demonstrate the constructed and contested nature of Kazakh national identity...

Lena charts the history of American arts and cultural policy, interrogating the institutions, practices, and technologies underpinning the development of American Art...

Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...

Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...

The black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas...

Using many examples of Hollywood movies, Resnick analyzes the way movies perform in a variety of formal and informal educational settings...

Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics...

Steir-Livny analyzes 19 prominent films that reflect the key tendencies of third-generation Holocaust documentaries...

Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...

Gilburd looks at the perfect cultural and social storm created by the combination of more liberal politics, foreign culture and the technology to make it accessible to 11 time zones...

German lawmakers drafted a constitution in 1919 legalizing the censorship of movies and pulp fiction, and prioritizing social rights over individual rights...

The television comedies of the 1960s set in the American South epitomize American innocence...

Cremins explores the history of Billy Batson, a boy who met a wizard that allowed him to transform into a superhero. When Billy says, “Shazam!” he becomes Captain Marvel...

McClanahan's book is a masterful exploration of the cultural politics of the financial crisis and a powerful mediation on how to make sense of an era of unrepayable debts...

Dai interrogates the truly historic events unfolding in today’s China to ask what these mean for history itself...

Golding examines the current status of Star Wars, as well as the similarities and differences between the old and the new...

We all have images that we find unwatchable...

The U.S. Constitution is often depicted in popular films, teaching lessons about what this founding document means and what it requires...