Books in the Culture And The Moving Image series

Argues that Communism produced a complex culture with a dialectical relation to both modernism and itself. Offering examples ranging from the Stalinist show trial to Franz Kafka's posthumous career as a dissident writer, this book says that Communism was an aesthetic project.

Contains a study of the complex ways movies have been shaped in the years since the demise of the Hays Production Code and covers a wide range of movies, protests, and government actions. This book provides a contemporary history of controversial movies and a timely discussion of how cultural politics continues to affect the movie industry.

Weaving together film and political history, this work traces the connections between Depression Era Hollywood and the popularity of F D Roosevelt, asserting that politics transformed its public into spectators while the movie industry transformed its spectators into a public.

Draws on discourses of art history, film theory, queer studies, and cultural studies to situate Warhol's work at the nexus of Pop art, portrait painting, avant-garde film, and mainstream cinema. This book presents Warhol art and Ed Wallowitch photographs along with publicity shots of James Dean.