Publisher: Columbia University Press - series: Film and Culture (114 books)

Man of Taste (2025)

The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger

by Rob King

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Director > Radley Metzger

Hollis Frampton (2023)

Navigating the Infinite Cinema

by Michael Zryd

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Director > Hollis Frampton

Maya Deren (2014)

Incomplete Control

by Sarah Keller

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Director > Maya Deren

American Showman (2012)

Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908–1935

by Ross Melnick

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Others persons > S.L. Rothafel

Katharine Hepburn (2003)

Star as Feminist

by Andrew Britton

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Actor > Katharine Hepburn

Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret (2019)

The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies

by Hunter Vaughan

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Economics

Cinema/Politics/Philosophy (2018)

by Nico Baumbach

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

Essays on the Essay Film (2017)

Dir. Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Theory

Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film (2016)

by Christian Metz

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Theory

The End of Cinema? (2015)

A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age

by Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: General

The Lumière Galaxy (2015)

Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come

by Francesco Casetti

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: General

Dreaming of Cinema (2014)

Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media

by Adam Lowenstein

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Theory

Must We Kill the Thing We Love? (2014)

Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

by William Rothman

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock

Hideous Progeny (2012)

Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema

by Angela Smith

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Horror

Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption (2010)

Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

by Sam B. Girgus

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Theory

Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies (1996)

Sexual Re-Orientation in Film and Video

by Chris Straayer

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

What Made Pistachio Nuts? (1992)

Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic

by Henry Jenkins

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor

The Cinema of Extractions (2025)

Film Materials and Their Forms

by Brian Jacobson

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Economics

George Cukor's People (2024)

Acting for a Master Director

by Joseph McBride

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Director > George Cukor

The Rebirth of Suspense (2024)

Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema

by Rick Warner

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Thriller

Death by Laughter (2024)

Female Hysteria and Early Cinema

by Maggie Hennefeld

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Silent Cinema

Perplexing Plots (2023)

Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder

by David Bordwell

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Mystery

Horror Film and Otherness (2022)

by Adam Lowenstein

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Horror

Hollywood's Embassies (2022)

How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World

by Ross Melnick

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Economics

Alluring Monsters (2021)

The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization

by Rosalind Galt

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > Southeast Asia

Music in Cinema (2021)

Dir. Michel Chion

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Music

Keep 'Em in the East (2021)

Kazan, Kubrick, and the Postwar New York Film Renaissance

by Richard Koszarski

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > United States

Bombay Hustle (2020)

Making Movies in a Colonial City

by Debashree Mukherjee

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > India

Hollywood's Artists (2020)

The Directors Guild of America and the Construction of Authorship

by Virginia Wright Wexman

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Economics

Absence in Cinema (2020)

The Art of Showing Nothing

by Justin Remes

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Experimental

Spaces Mapped and Monstrous (2020)

Digital 3D Cinema and Visual Culture

by Nick Jones

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Projection

Anxious Cinephilia (2020)

Pleasure and Peril at the Movies

by Sarah Keller

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Mystery

Play Time (2019)

Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism

by Malcolm Turvey

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: One Film > Playtime

On the Screen (2019)

Displaying the Moving Image, 1926–1942

by Ariel Rogers

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: History of Cinema

Rewriting Indie Cinema (2019)

Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay

by J. J. Murphy

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Independent cinema

Chromatic Modernity (2019)

Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s

by Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: History of Cinema

Post-Fordist Cinema (2019)

Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture

by Jeff Menne

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > United States

The Dynamic Frame (2019)

Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood

by Patrick Keating

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Cinematography

Attack of the Leading Ladies (2018)

Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema

by Rhona J. Berenstein

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Horror

Melodrama Unbound (2018)

Across History, Media, and National Cultures

Dir. Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Drama

Show Trial (2018)

Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist

by Thomas Doherty

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: History of Cinema

Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (2018)

by Maggie Hennefeld

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Silent Cinema

The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction (2018)

by Nora M. Alter

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Theory

After Uniqueness (2017)

A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation

by Erika Balsom

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Experimental

Cinema by Design (2017)

Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History

by Lucy Fischer

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Aesthetics

Words on Screen (2017)

Dir. Michel Chion

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Film Analysis

Exception Taken (2017)

How France Has Defied Hollywood's New World Order

by Jonathan Buchsbaum

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Economics

Reform Cinema in Iran (2016)

Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic

by Blake Atwood

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > Iran

Unspeakable Histories (2016)

Film and the Experience of Catastrophe

by William Guynn

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

Carceral Fantasies (2016)

Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America

by Alison Griffiths

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: On Films > Locations

When Movies Were Theater (2016)

Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film

by William Paul

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Economics

The Shape of Spectatorship (2015)

Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany

by Scott Curtis

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > Germany

Studios Before the System (2015)

Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space

by Brian R. Jacobson

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Silent Cinema

The Use and Abuse of Cinema (2015)

German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present

by Eric Rentschler

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: History of Cinema

Motion(less) Pictures (2015)

The Cinema of Stasis

by Justin Remes

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Experimental

Plastic Reality (2015)

Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics

by Julie A. Turnock

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Special effects

After the Silents (2014)

Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934

by Michael Slowik

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Music

Deathwatch (2014)

American Film, Technology, and the End of Life

by C. Scott Combs

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

New Tunisian Cinema (2014)

Allegories of Resistance

by Robert Lang

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > Maghreb

Continental Strangers (2014)

German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951

by Gerd Gemünden

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: History of Cinema

Cinematic Appeals (2013)

The Experience of New Movie Technologies

by Ariel Rogers

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Projection

Hollywood and Hitler 1933-1939 (2013)

by Thomas Doherty

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

Where Film Meets Philosophy (2013)

Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking

by Hunter Vaughan

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: History of Cinema

The Utopia of Film (2013)

Cinema and Its Futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik

by Christopher Pavsek

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Theory

Hollywood's Copyright Wars (2012)

From Edison to the Internet

by Peter Decherney

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Economics

Chinese Women's Cinema (2011)

Transnational Contexts

Dir. Lingzhen Wang

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > China

Film and Stereotype (2011)

A Challenge for Cinema and Theory

by Jörg Schweinitz

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

Pretty (2011)

Film and the Decorative Image

by Rosalind Galt

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Aesthetics

Indie (2011)

An American Film Culture

by Michael Z. Newman

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Independent cinema

Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir (2009)

by Patrick Keating

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Lighting

Film, a Sound Art (2009)

by Michel Chion

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Sound

African Film and Literature (2009)

Adapting Violence to the Screen

by Lindiwe Dovey

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > Africa

Weimar Cinema (2009)

An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era

Dir. Noah Isenberg

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > Germany

Shivers Down Your Spine (2008)

Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View

by Alison Griffiths

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: General

Intelligence Work (2008)

The Politics of American Documentary

by Jonathan Kahana

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Documentary

Eye of the Century (2008)

Film, Experience, Modernity

by Francesco Casetti

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: History of Cinema

Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (2007)

by Richard Allen

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock

Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films (2007)

Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility

by Rey Chow

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > China

The Impossible David Lynch (2007)

by Todd McGowan

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Director > David Lynch

Electric Sounds (2007)

Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media

by Steve J. Wurtzler

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Sound

China on Screen (2006)

Cinema and Nation

by Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > China

The New European Cinema (2006)

Redrawing the Map

by Rosalind Galt

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > Europe

Shocking Representation (2005)

Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film

by Adam Lowenstein

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Horror

Taiwan Film Directors (2005)

A Treasure Island

by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh and Darrell William Davis

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > Taiwan

Hollywood and the Culture Elite (2005)

How the Movies Became American

by Peter Decherney

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

Silent Film Sound (2004)

by Rick Altman

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Silent Cinema

Home in Hollywood (2004)

The Imaginary Geography of Cinema

by Elisabeth Bronfen

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

Designing Women (2003)

Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form

by Lucy Fischer

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Set Design

Masculine Interests (2002)

Homoerotics in Hollywood Film

by Robert Lang

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

Special Effects (2002)

Still in Search of Wonder

by Michele Pierson

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Special effects

Wondrous Difference (2002)

Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture

by Alison Griffiths

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

Hearst Over Hollywood (2002)

Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies

by Louis Pizzitola

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

Melodrama and Modernity (2001)

Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts

by Ben Singer

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Silent Cinema

Sound Technology and the American Cinema (2000)

Perception, Representation, Modernity

by James Lastra

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Sound

Projections of War (1999)

Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II, revised and updated edition

by Thomas Doherty

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

Pre-Code Hollywood (1999)

Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934

by Thomas Doherty

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Studio > Hollywood

Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture (1998)

by Michael Anderegg

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Director > Orson Welles

The Sounds of Commerce (1998)

Marketing Popular Film Music

by Jeff Smith

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Technique > Music

Sexual Politics and Narrative Film (1998)

Hollywood and Beyond

by Robin Wood

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

Laughing Hysterically (1996)

American Screen Comedy of the 1950s

by Ed Sikov

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor

This Mad Masquerade (1996)

Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age

by Gaylyn Studlar

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Silent Cinema

Picturing Japaneseness (1996)

Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film

by Darrell William Davis

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > Japan

Brazilian Cinema (1995)

third edition

Dir. Randal Johnson and Robert Stam

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > Brazil

Black Women as Cultural Readers (1995)

by Jacqueline Bobo

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Sociology

The Cinema of Max Ophuls (1995)

Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman

by Susan M. White

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Director > Max Ophüls

Primitive Passions (1995)

Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema

by Rey Chow

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Countries > China

Laughing Screaming (1995)

Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy

by William Paul

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Horror

It's the Pictures That Got Small (2014)

Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age

Dir. Anthony Slide

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Director > Billy Wilder

Electric Dreamland (2012)

Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity

by Lauren Rabinovitz

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Economics

Counter-Archive (2010)

Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète

by Paula Amad

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Genre > Documentary

George Gallup in Hollywood (2006)

by Susan Ohmer

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Economics

Astaire and Rogers (2004)

by Edward Gallafent

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture

Subject: Actor > Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers

Film Studies (2020)

An Introduction

by Ed Sikov

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture
2nd edition

Subject: Technique > All techniques

Movie Journal (2016)

The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971

by Jonas Mekas

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Series: Film and Culture
2nd edition

Subject: Director > Jonas Mekas