In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She

By developing the concept of the "digital effects emblem," Kristen Whissel contributes a new analytic rubric to cinema studies. An "effects emblem" is a spectac

"Zurier vividly locates the Ashcan School artists within the early twentieth-century crosscurrents of newspaper journalism, literary realism, illustration, soci

Picturing home examines the depiction of domestic life in British feature films made and released in the 1940s. It explores how pictorial representations of hom

Auerbach places the body at the center of cinema's first decade of emergence and challenges the idea that for early audiences, the new medium's fascination rest