Warped Minds explores the transformation of psychopathologies into cultural phenomena in the wake of the transition from an epistemological to an ontological approach to psychopathology. Trifonova con
Vienna, with its stunning architecture and unforgettable streetscape, has long provided a backdrop for filmmakers. Visions of Vienna offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Er
In Cinema’s Baroque Flesh, Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct aesthetic category of film and a unique cinema of the senses: baroque cinema. Combining
Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the "death of cinema" debate,Film History, Media Archaeology and the Poetics of Obsolesc
Critics have largely neglected the color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901–99). To correct that oversight, this study presents a revised and revitalized Bresson, comparing his s
An early practitioner of experimental film, Walter Ruttmann made his well-known Berlin: Symphony of a Great City in 1927 and later worked as an assistant to director Leni Riefenstahl during the produc
Abel Gance’s silent masterpiece, Napoleon, was given a limited run on its debut in 1927, but soon afterwards distributors in France and America, unwilling to deal with its nine-hour running time, subj
An early practitioner of experimental film, Walter Ruttmann made his well-knownBerlin: Symphony of a Great City in 1927 and later worked as an assistant to director Leni Riefenstahl during the product
