Film Theory and Criticism

Discussion of international culture and politics in Hollywood films from the mid-1930s to 1960s.

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.

Examines how psychological and physical suffering, as portrayed on screen and experienced in personal lives, has affected the images, performances, and fortunes of stars from the 1940s to the present.

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.

Analyzes the complicated gender histories of male comedians of the early Classic Hollywood era.

An in-depth, multidisciplinary examination of the cultural phenomenon of Dirty Dancing.

An expanded version of Robin Wood's influential study of Ingmar Bergman, including more recent essays on the director.