'This book is a series of seventeen mediations that revolve around the notion of the viewer's pla...

An essay collection reckons with pop-cultural depictions of autism.

Mervyn Leroy Comes to Town

Mervyn Leroy Comes to Town

For critics, fans, and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comed...

Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, Th...

The development of young masculine sexuality is still a cultural taboo of sorts, and until now th...

Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political...

From the Wizard of Oz to Lolita, from the Heathers to the Spice Girls, images of girlhood have be...

Examines the many forms of cinematic 'badness' over the past one hundred years, from Nosferatu to...

Explores the director's repeated voyages into the dreamlike.

Extensive meditations on the theme of the voyage in six Hitchcock films: Psycho, The 39 Steps, Th...