Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series

Examines the political cinema of 1968 in relation to global events.

Explores the methodologies and influence of acting teacher Stella Adler on her male students.

Focuses on the critical and theoretical implications of adapting the Harry Potter novels to films and media.

Explores the significance of the heist film genre.

Feminist reading of women’s representation and activism in Israeli cinema.

Close readings that look for "the real Los Angeles" in a selection of contemporary movies.

Beyond Blaxploitation is a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movement to demonstrate the richness, depth, and complexity of this intriguing period in motion picture history.

Blackness Is Burning critiques the way the politics of recognition and representation appear in popular culture as attempts to "humanize" black identity through stories of suffering and triumph or tales of destruction and survival.

A philosophical reading of video gaming that focuses on what it means to be a player.