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...

Michael Benson talks about the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey...

Audrey Hepburn was justly known for her long acting career, yet her early life is largely unknown...

Gates interrogates understandings of African-American representations on screen...

What goes into producing a work of historical fiction—especially in a dictatorship where the wrong choice, or even the right choice at the wrong moment, can send the unwitting author to the Gulag?

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

In the early days of film, female comedians appeared in films that included both strange activities and slapstick....

Phillips explores the emergence of the horror film genre before it was horror and a post-Civil War national American identity...

The so-called Urban Crisis of the 1970s continues to loom large in narratives of US urban politics and history...

A perennially popular theme in Thai cinema is that of haunting by a female ghost...

What might Levi-Strauss and structuralism have to offer to psychoanalysis beyond the incest prohibition and the Oedipus complex?

When "Dirty Harry" first premiered in 1971, it was both praised and condemned for its portrayal of a rogue policeman fighting crime by ignoring many of the rules and procedures of the profession...

Films that feature war as a theme have been made almost since the beginning of the industry...

While most every live-action film takes place in a specific location, the role of these places has not often been studied...

Perhaps no form of popular art has appeared as poised to resist subversive sexual themes as the television situation comedy...