Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Studios Before the System
Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
By 1915, Hollywood had become the epicenter of American filmmaking, with studio "dream factories" structuring its vast production. Filmmakers designed Hollywood studios with a distinct artistic and industrial mission in mind, which in turn influenced the form, content, and business of the...
by Michel Chion
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Michel Chion is well known in contemporary film studies for his innovative investigations into aspects of cinema that scholars have traditionally overlooked. Following his work on sound in film in Audio-Vision and Film, a Sound Art, Words on Screen is Chion's survey of everything the seventh art gives...
Our Savage Art
Poetry and the Civil Tongue
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New Criterion, among other journals, Logan's eloquent,...
In Translation
Translators on Their Work and What It Means
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan, Peter Cole, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, Clare Cavanagh, David Bellos, and José Manuel...
Imaginary Ethnographies
Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Through readings of iconic figures such as the cannibal, the child, the alien, and the posthuman, Gabriele Schwab analyzes literary explorations at the boundaries of the human. Treating literature as a dynamic medium that "writes culture"—one that makes the abstract particular and local,...
The Use and Abuse of Cinema
German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar and postwall epochs and into the new millennium. These journeys afford rich panoramas and nuanced...
by Toby Talbot
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
The nation didn't know it, but 1960 would change American film forever, and the revolution would occur nowhere near a Hollywood set. With the opening of the New Yorker Theater, a cinema located at the heart of Manhattan's Upper West Side, cutting-edge films from around the world were screened for...
by Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1986
This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects, such as the Harlem Renaissance. From their first...
Counter-Archive
Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world memory through the privileged lens of everyday life, and Counter-Archive situates this project in its...
by Joseph McBride
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Orson Welles called Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947) “a giant” whose “talent and originality are stupefying.” Jean Renoir said, “He invented the modern Hollywood.” Celebrated for his distinct style and credited with inventing the classic genre of the Hollywood romantic comedy and helping to...
Firestorm
American Film in the Age of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed. While the production of these films did ebb, the full impact of the attacks on Hollywood's creative output...
Thinking Clearly
Cases in Journalistic Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2003
Written by leading professional journalists and classroom-tested at schools of journalism, Thinking Clearly is designed to provoke conversation about the issues that shape the production and presentation of the news in the twenty-first century. These case studies depict real-life moments when people...
Assuming a Body
Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
We believe we know our bodies intimately-that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering...
Coming Out, Coming Home
Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she's raised her son; a father will worry that his daughter will experience discrimination. From the child's perspective, gay and lesbian youth fear their families will reject them and that...