Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked

By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Usef

The vast, and vastly influential, American military machine has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium. The US military realized

The human sciences—including psychology, anthropology, and social theory—are widely held to have been born during the eighteenth century. This first full-le

With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images and sounds,