In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an
important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship …

What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? This is the key question for film
theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their …

Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the
perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? We …

Melodrama is not just a film or literary genre but a powerful political discourse that
galvanizes national sentiment to legitimate state violence. Finding virtue in national suffering …

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice
by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated …

This review article examines two recent publications that explore the relationship between
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and communication. Discussing Human–Machine Communication …

China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the
important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more …

Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced
under the auspices of Mussolini's government that took as their subjects or settings Italy's …

Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema
for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and …

With this system which consists, before going into a movie theatre, of never looking to see
what's playing–which, moreover, would scarcely do me any good, since I cannot remember …