Books by Faculty

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Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism

The Screenwriter’s Workshop: Creative Exploration Through Meaningful Critique

Technics: Media in the Digital Age

Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form

Special issue on “Medium/Environment,” Critical Inquiry 49: 3, 2023

Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema

Special issue on “Climate/Media,” Representations 157, February 2022

Media Hot and Cold

Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media

Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics

Unwatchable

Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies

None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life

The Matter of Photography in the Americas

Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy 1860-1920

Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment

The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907–1933

Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures

Ibsen’s Houses: Architectural Metaphor and the Modern Uncanny

The Undersea Network

Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945

Depois da Fotografia: Uma literatura fora de si

Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema

Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant Garde

Fotografia e Império: Paisagens para um Brasil moderno

Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War

Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return

POSTWAR: The Films of Daniel Eisenberg

Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology and the Silent Cinema

Screening Sex

Y todo el resto es literatura: ensayos sobre Osvaldo Lamborghini

Savage Junctures: Sergei Eisenstein and the Shape of Thinking

Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005

Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film

Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique

Porn Studies

The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession

The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive

Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums and Modernity

“Playing The Race Card:” Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson

Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism

Re-inventing Film Studies

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The Weimar Republic Sourcebook

The Nickel Was for the Movies: Film in the Novel Pirandello to Puig

Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film

Geschichte des Deutschen Films

From Hitler to Heimat: The Return of History as Film

Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis

Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the “Frenzy of the Visible”

The Desire to Desire: The Woman’s Film of the 1940s

Deutschlandbilder: Die Wiederkehr der Geschichte als Film

Re-vision: Essays in Feminist Film Criticism

Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film

Kino-Debatte: Texte zum Verhältnis von Literatur und Film

Expressionismus in Amerika: Rezeption Und Innovation