Book interviews tagged Film
Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and Silent Cinema
- ISBN: 978 0 8223 4201 4 paper
- featured in: Silent cinema makes visible the ambivalence around modern technologies and traffic in early twentieth century AmericaJanuary 9, 2009
Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (revised and updated edition)
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5494 9
- featured in: The line between culture and politics is exceptionally fluid—if it exists at allJanuary 20, 2009
Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media
- ISBN: 978 0 520 22897 9 hc
- featured in: How we experience a stylistically unpredictable, mass-mediated aural worldFebruary 20, 2009
Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments
- ISBN: 978 0 295 98833 7
- featured in: Challenging the idea of theme space as an essentially American phenomenonMay 4, 2009
The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession
- ISBN: 978 0803224599
- featured in: About turning the judgment of truth-telling over to a machineJuly 13, 2009
The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
- ISBN: 978 0520255388 pb
- featured in: The history of comedy is that of the changing social patterns that produce and permit laughterAugust 14, 2009
Embodied Visions: Evolution, Emotions, Culture, and Film
- ISBN: 978 0195371314 hb
- featured in: How we process films by means of what I call the mental PECMA flowAugust 21, 2009
The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies
- ISBN: 978 0231145664
- featured in: Bertolucci called us a kind of wild cinema universityNovember 27, 2009
The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience
- ISBN: 978 0520258426
- featured in: Intrigued by the carnal resonance between the film’s body and the viewer’sDecember 11, 2009
Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood
- ISBN: 978 1405126359
- featured in: She is the literary equivalent of the Mona Lisa’s smile: absence is her essenceMarch 17, 2010
Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque
- ISBN: 978 0253221285 pb
- featured in: The aesthetic of racial difference on the cusp of modernityMarch 24, 2010
