Cinema's Urge to Explore
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2026
Documentary is at the core of André Bazin’s powerful views of cinema. This collection, curated by renowned film scholar Dudley Andrew, brings to English-language readers sixty-two articles in which Bazin interrogated films about geography, history, animals, painting, and, especially, distant lands and peoples.
How Debility Reshapes Our Bodies
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2025
In Interface Frictions, Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms reshape, condition, and break our bodies. She shows that while features such as refresh, playback speed, autoplay, and night mode are convenient, they can lead to “digital debility”—the slow and often invisible ways that technologies may harm human bodies. These features all assume an able-bodied user and at the same time push users to ignore their bodily limitations like the need for rest,...
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Year: 2025
The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction.
Publisher: Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Co-authored by Ido Lewit
Publisher: Princton University Press
Publication Year: 2023
Francesco Casetti advances a provocative hypothesis: instead of being prostheses that expand or extend our perceptions, modern screen-based media are in fact apparatuses that shelter and protect us from exposure to the world. Rather than bringing us closer to external reality, dominant forms of visual media function as barriers or enclosures that defend against the apparent threats and dangers that seem increasingly to surround us.
Publisher: University if Calafornia
Publication Year: 2022
By Andre Bazin, Dudley Andrew (Editor), Deborah Glassman (Translator),
Post-War German Culture 1960–1995
Publisher: Koenigshausen & Neumann
Publication Year: 2021
Beginning in the 1960s, the belief in landscape’s degradation provides a kind of rallying cry for psychoanalysts and cultural critics attempting to diagnose the state of contemporary society.
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Year: 2021
Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s (“Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!”) to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes through an ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other gear. But the more Bechdel tries...
Edited by Roy Grundmann, Fatima Naqvi, and Colin Root
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication Year: 2020
Spanning five decades and twenty-four films, director Michael Haneke’s career is one of the most significant in the history of European art cinema. However, critical reception has long lagged behind his output. By the time Haneke (b. 1942) emerged into the international spotlight as a cinematic visionary with the 1989 Cannes premiere of The Seventh Continent, he had worked in filmmaking for two decades, producing seven feature-length films.
Publisher: Yale Unversity Press
Publication Year: 2020
A wide-ranging study of the painted panorama’s influence on art, photography, and film
