Starmaker

By Milan Hain
Categories: Film Studies

David O. Selznick (1902–1965) was one of the most prominent film producers of the Hollywood studio era, responsible for such artistic and commercial triumphs as King Kong, David Copperfield, Anna Karenina ...

Christian Petzold

Edited by Marco Abel, Aylin Bademsoy, and Jaimey Fisher
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is the best-known filmmaker associated with the “Berlin School” of postunification German cinema. Identifying as an intellectual, Petzold self-consciously approaches his ...

Imperiled Whiteness

By Penelope Ingram
Categories: Film Studies

In Imperiled Whiteness: How Hollywood and Media Make Race in "Postracial" America, author Penelope Ingram argues that in the Obama-to-Trump era, a variety of media platforms, including film, television, ...

Abbas Kiarostami

Edited by Monika Raesch
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

The cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940–2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim ...

Bloodstained Narratives

Edited by Matthew Edwards & Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Categories: Popular Culture
Series: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

Contributions by Donald L. Anderson, Brian Brems, Eric Brinkman, Matthew Edwards, Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, Andrew Grossman, Lisa Haegele, Gavin F. Hurley, Mikel J. Koven, Sharon Jane Mee, Fernando ...

Visions of Invasion

By Michael Lechuga
Categories: Race And Ethnicity
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies explores how the US government mobilizes media and surveillance technologies to operate a highly networked, multidimensional ...

Sofia Coppola

Edited by Amy N. Monaghan
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Sofia Coppola (b. 1971) was baptized on film. After appearing in The Godfather as an infant, it took twenty-five years for Coppola to take her place behind the camera, helming her own adaptation of Jeffery ...

Children, Deafness, and Deaf Cultures in Popular Media

Edited by John Stephens & Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Cynthia Neese Bailes, Nina Batt, Lijun Bi, Hélène Charderon, Stuart Ching, Helene Ehriander, Xiangshu Fang, Sara Kersten-Parish, Helen Kilpatrick, Jessica Kirkness, Sung-Ae Lee, Jann ...

Asghar Farhadi

Edited by Ehsan Khoshbakht & Drew Todd
Categories: Film Studies
Series: Conversations with Filmmakers Series

The winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film in only five years, Asghar Farhadi (b. 1972) has become Iran’s most prominent director since the late Abbas Kiarostami. Around the world, especially ...

After Midnight

Edited by Drew Morton
Foreword by Henry Jenkins
Afterword by Suzanne Scott
Categories: Popular Culture

Contributions by Apryl Alexander, Alisia Grace Chase, Brian Faucette, Laura E. Felschow, Lindsay Hallam, Rusty Hatchell, Dru Jeffries, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey SJ Kirchoff, Curtis Marez, James Denis McGlynn, ...