"Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies. From The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was stran…
Introduction -- Early cinema 1896-1932. Melodrama and avant-la-lettre documentary in Alcides Greca's El último malón (the last "Indian" raid, 1917) -- Kitsch and exoticism in Nelo Cosimi's La quena de la muerte (Death kena, 1929) -- Classical cinema 1933-1956. Femme fatale in Lu…
Reaches : the national and transnational coordinates of Argentine horror film culture -- Telling carnage : spectacles and spaces of neoliberalism -- Cinematic body snatching : English-language Argentine horror cinema and systems of paranoia -- Where punk and horror meet : Argent…
The first major social revolution of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase (1910-21) and the subsequent years of reconstruction (1921-40). Offering a sweep…
The first major social revolution of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase (1910-21) and the subsequent years of reconstruction (1921-40). Offering a sweep…
"The first major social revolution of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase (1910-21) and the subsequent years of reconstruction (1921-40). Offering a swee…
The first major social revolution of the twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution was visually documented in technologically novel ways and to an unprecedented degree during its initial armed phase (1910-21) and the subsequent years of reconstruction (1921-40). Offering a sweep…
There have been few efforts to overcome the binary of China versus the West. The recent global political environment, with a deepening confrontation between China and the West, strengthens this binary image. Post-Chineseness boldly challenges the essentialized notion of Chinesen…
Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.
Free-thinking poet, grammarian, social critic, and satirist, Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī (973-1057 CE) remains one of the more celebrated and intriguing personalities in the history of Arab Islamic civilization. Although the controversies surrounding his skepticism, cynicism, and an…
