This dissertation brings together the work of a group of contemporary social theorists, art critics, and artists, including Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, …
This dissertation confronts the changing contours of what we call "cinema" through an examination of uses of the moving image and references to film history …
This dissertation examines the politics of intimacy in the New American Cinema (NAC), an independent film culture that emerged in the U.S. at the end …
We are often told that ours is a “late” age. Lateness—as in the “late work” or “late capitalism”—simultaneously suggests something that has survived beyond its …
This dissertation examines three films by the Italian horror-thriller director Dario Argento set in Rome during the period of social and historical transformation following 1968 …
How are we to qualify the “contemporary” in narrative cinema? One of the main purposes of this dissertation is to provide a problematization of broad …
Lewis Hine employed a variety of narrative strategies to create a persuasive and moving 'social photography' in the early twentieth century. Despite the longstanding supposition …