Play Redux is an ambitious description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of
video game play, drawing on early twentieth-century formalist theory and models of …

Bodies in Suspense presents a powerful new way to think through postdigital cinema and
the affective turn in critical theory. According to Alanna Thain, suspense films allow us to …

Traumbühne Kino hinterfragt die metaphorische Gleichsetzung von Film und Traum, die
lange Zeit die Diskussion um das neue Medium beherrscht hat. In einem …

What we imagine can crush us or create us, destroy us or heal us; it can pitch us into battles
with demons or set us among the songs of angels. It has roots beneath consciousness and …

How might film reveal God? In its most basic form, film is a series of images displayed over
time. Of course, film has developed greatly since the Lumière brothers by adding …

Jonathan R. Olson 45 imagining the impossible consisted of defending the format in
interviews and resisting studio pressure to switch to digital photography on his own …

Although Joyce was losing his sight when he wrote Ulysses, Stephen's and Bloom's visual
experiences are extraordinarily rich and complex. Absorbing the influences of popular visual …

One of the significant transformations brought about by globalization is the
transnationalization of diasporic cinemas. A case in point is the growth of diasporic cinemas …

An aesthetics of anti-aesthetics does not imply a negation of aesthetics. Rather, it is intended
to refer to negation itself and an accompanying aesthetics of negation, or, alternatively, an …

Dreams in Television Narratives is the first comprehensive analysis of one of American
television's most frequently utilized tropes, the dream. From its beginning, television has …