Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series

Studies Honoré as an auteur who intervenes in French filmmaking practices and culture with a queer "caméra-stylo."

Examines how uncanny films of the Weimar Republic engage with and respond to changing gender norms and women’s emancipation.

Explores the popular cultural phenomenon of "bromance" in film and television and its oppositions between homosexual and homosocial behavior.

Considers Montgomery Clift's star persona, film roles, and performances through the lens of queer theory.

Employs the foodways paradigm to analyze the ideological dimensions of food imagery and food behavior in fiction and documentary films.

Fascinating explorations of dark, strange, unpredictable, and non-comedic laughter.

Examines male representation in films released at the turn of the twenty-first century, from 1990 to present.

Investigates the relationship between Jewish identity and American film from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Contributors examine the early days of video game history before the industry crash of 1983 that ended the medium’s golden age.